Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
WHAT DO YOU
FNIDNTERESTING
Mans Character Can Be Told
From His Likes and
DiSlikeS
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Are YOU blase? Must you have
something new all the time to stim-
ulate you? Do you need excitement
and outside interest TO make your
life entertaining?
someone once wrote words to this
effect: Tell me whar IL man likes
and l will tell you what he is"
There is a great deal in that idea!
Mary Jones gets an honest good
time out of a walk up a country
lane. She likes to feast her eyes
on the landscape and to scuff along
cherrily in the lush grass of Sum
mer. the falling leaves of Autumn
or the crisp SHOWS of Winter The
minute you know that much about
Mary, you know also that she is a
simple soul-wholesome and sweet
and with enough imagination to
dream bit out in the open, enough
health to glory in walking and
enough respect for life to rejoice in
its clean beauty.
Tommie Smith likes cabarets-the
noisier, the more vividly lighted.
the more replete with cheap and
Garish song and dance, the better,
says Tommy. We'll, then, even if he
be g. husky young giant. who is ca
pable of knocking off a good days
work or a rattling game of tennis.
there is a weak spot in Tommy-a
love of cheap emotion, the longing
for hectic stimulation to his imagin-
alton. If. the weak spot widens
and deepens, it is going to be
nasty big spot. Some day Tommy
Will turn into the sort who can't
keep an honest job and who needs
spectacular excitement in business
as well as pleasure.
Kitty Smith loves to dance. She
doesn't want to talk seriously about
solemn things-why think about
of it in the world anyhow, and you
might as well have a good time.
And Kitty's good time is dancing,
rough housing" tearing around in
high powered automobiles and toss
| ing off a drink or two at a road
house and then swaying sinuously
to the lure of music. Kitty is pic
tured for you-now, isn't she? Light.
| frivolous. painted as to face and
sham as to feelings-what chance
is there for Kitty to grow and find
deep JOY in the tender. beautiful
things of life?
Another Instance
! Billy Mason likes books. He
wants to spend all his time reading
and studying He hates to be in
terrupted. He is groucny and irri-
table if any one tries to tear him
away from his studies and get him
to join a crowd of young people.
Billy is n student-he may be a
scholar and even a celebrated sa-
want some day; but do you feel that
! Billy is going to understand his fell
! low men? Isn't he likely to miss a
great deal and to scorn simple, prim-
itive, natural feelings and desires?
Take stock of yourself and dis
cover the thing that really gives you
] Joy. 1t will tell you a great deal
about yourself. For your longings
and desires are deep within you and
krow. Get them UP 10 the light OF
day and face them squarely.
/ | know a. rather austere. hard
business woman who is so bent on
success that she shoves aside all
thoughts of love and marriage. She
coIdly criticises sentimentaiistS. Re
Gently my attention was directed to
the fact that she has softly lighted
lamps in her home; tnat her clothes
| are always of beautiful soft colors
! That indicated a strain of sentiment
underneath a hard, forbidding anC
and almost morbid nature.
/ 4 suggestion that she come to a
concert was laughed at-no time to
waste on music! Didn't enjoy it,
gar rather stay home and figure how
/ to cut the cost in one Of the depart
ments of the office she manages
Willy-nilly l dragged her to the con-
cert. A week later there was an ex-
f, hibition of pictures sne must see
Walks in the Autumn woods, trips
20 beautifully lighted studios.
AS soon as that woman came face
to face with her own real desire for
beauty and recognized her interest
in the lovely things of life. she mel
! lowed. She used to find her rec
re..tion in telling risque stories and
goine to all the plays that were ad-
! scrtised as "off color" and people
suggested that the hidden self OF this
business woman wasn't very pleas
! ant to thinL o,~,.+ Now she Is en-
1cyinE the real beauty of her own
nature.
When you find what really inter
este you, you will find one of the
keynotes of your being. Don't take