The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-02
Chat
ON Forging Our rivals.
BY RUTH EAMERoN.

And so Miss Margaret is going tc
buy an automobile. Well, 1 hope
she'll never have cause to regret it.
The tone of the speakers voice
especially the tone IN which she said
| Miss Margaret" was an unmistakable
contradiction of her words. She
didn't hope Miss Margaret wouldn't
have cause for regret. On the con-
traryI
Miss Margaret is the daughter OF
a neighbor. She is a highly success
full young business woman of about
the same age as the speakers daugh-
ter. and formerly a school friend The
latter, as you may already suspect, is
not a successful young business wom-
an. And that is why her mother
speaks with spiteful emphasis OF Miss
Margaret and charitably hopes for
the worst.
He'll may hold no fury to be COM
pared with that of the woman scorned,
but earth holds another resentment at
least as intense: and that is the re-
sentiment of failure for success.
When you can see no good in any
thing a certain person does,-
When you find your lip curling and
a tone of sarcasm creeping into your
voice as you speak of him.
When you feel depressed and re-
sentful at hearing of his good for
Look out!
Or rather, look in! Search your
heart and see If you are not letting
this deadly nightshade among emo
tons get root within it.
If you find it there, either make up
your mind that you are wiling to have
it choke out such good and gracious
growths as justice. friendliness and
generous admiration, or set your teeth
and pull it up by the roots
The bitterness of many humble
lot which is born with an emhlttered
heart is not in its, own humility, not in
it's deprivations, but in some one else's
grandeur, some pne else'sl possessions.
And this is especially true when the
some one else is one who has once
been a neighbor, schooimate or a
co-worker. hr
'I do admire Lucille some one
said to me the other day anenr a girl
who has married money. She is SO
generous and nice to all her old
friends She is continually inviting
them to her home or taking them out
in her machine"
Now without doubt Lucille is better
than the snobs who desert their old
friends in their struggle for advance
ment. And yet it does not seem to
me that the virtue Lucille shows is
such difficult one She has love-
ly home and a stunning auto. The old
friends whom she entertafns cannot
help envying and admiring, and envy
and admiration make a pleasant at
mosphere for their object.
1 do not think Lucille's virtue is
comparable to that of the man or
woman who can keep on friendly
terms with a successful rival, can
meet him without either cringing or
carrying a chip on his shoulder, can
praise his successes and never seek to
detract from them, can even keep
from harboring any feeling of resent
ment.
That is surely "a task for all a man
has of fortitude and delfcacy."
sQuestion-Do you think a girl is
of age to do what she chooses at
eighteen IL. B.
Answer-No, indeed 1 do not. Nor
at twenty-eight. Nor at eighty In
other words, we are never at liberty to
do what we choose without respect to
the wishes and happiness of those who
love US. A girl at eighteen is old
enough to have her wishes respected
by her parents and to respect theirs
in return.