The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-02-23

slang phrase, Forget il" II YOU have
a friend who has used you Ill. forget II
Don't dwell on il. Tor II YOU do, It will
poison all the springs ot lie for YOU
One false friend no more makes up the
whole OF friendship than one swallow
does a SUMMER
Yet We all know men and women,
who because one person has been dis
loval to them, lose all faith in friend
ship, and 90 through the world bitter,
cynical pcSSimists. lonely and forlorn,
while all about them bloom the flower
OF affection that they might have for
the plucking TIE memory OF old
wrongs does nobody any good. Forget
them
II fate has dealt unkndlv by YOU and
YOU have seen Your most cherished
schemes g. To- smash, forget your fail
ures II turns hope into despair cour.
age into fear, It paralyScS effort to
threSh over and over in ones mind the
memory OF past defeats. The only way
II IS possible to succeed is to forget the
bumps We have had, the battles we have
lost, and to keep our minds fixed firm.
ly on the hope OF future not the dis
aStcrs OF the past Moreover, nobody
| likes a wilmer, so whatever the troubles
| you have gone through forget them
II your wife isn't all that your fond.
est fancy painted and doesn't measure
up to all oi your ideals oi what a per
feet woman should be, forget it Jus,
| try to remember her good points and
forget her bad ones, and YOU will keen
out Of the divorce court Quit think
ing about what a mean dinner she gave
YOU last night, and the way her nose
got red when she cried, and tear of a
few reflections about what a good moth
er she is. and how hard she tries 9
| please YOU. Cultivate system OF for
getiuncSS at home and you'll find do
meStic lie Shorn OF half Of its trials
II YOU are a wife who considers her
self misunderstood, unappreola,cd
martyr, a jewel OF wife cast before a
swine OF a huShand-just try the pleas.
ure OF forgetting as a substitute for the
| pleasure ot recalling your woes, and
sec what 1t will do for YOU Trust me
/ YOU won't know yourself in week. The
7 iavofite pastlmc ot the great majority
OF wives IS collecting memory gems OF
/ their wrongs
| They've got a lorg recollection for
| The times their husbands forgot 10 kiss
| them, and were nasty over the grocery
/ bill, and told them lot OF unpleasant
truths m the heat Ot an argument, and
they have turned these things over and
over IN their memories until all they
can see OF the men that they arc married
/ to IS a Surly brute or grinding tyrant
| Now, YOU can press on a tender spot
until YOU can make raging boil OF IL
and YOU can think about a little wroug
until YOU can develop an uniorgivcabl,
injury, and that's what we do when W,
dwell continually ON the faults and
weaknesses OF those with whom We hay,
90 live
Half OF the diSgrun,lcd wives would
find an easy and a permanent cure ioi
their broken hearts IN simply culiWat.
ing the power OF iotgc,iulncss. and IN.
stead ot hroodlng all day over some lit.
tie neglect ei their husbands, lust pul
It out OF their minds and charge i, ~
to the glNc-and take oi mairimony
Men never mean more than half as
much as women think they mean rs
what they de-, anyway
Aud, oh, what a blessing 10 society il
would I've IT the people who have seen
better DAYS would only forge, them
. There are tens ut thousand, OF pcoplc
who are failures because they arc sd
busy recalling how much money the,
used a. have. and what ,tylc they used
w. 1--we m, that they haven't got any time
to do the work oi the present Also. all
.o' their attention and in'cre,, is cen.
tered on what has been instead of he
NIX concentrated on what ought To he
. ! he greatest luck that anybody could
wish these men and women IS a forge,
tctN, m good working order
he blessings ui memory Tut. tu,
axe mo- stock IN any such false doe
lrne Memory is torture chamber
iuil ol lost JOYS, dead loves. blasted
hopes The real source ni comior, and
. happiness IS To he blessed with such A
. good iutge,lery that all the sorrow,
ana appointments of existence max,
nnt momentaty impression on vou
! Then, indeed, trouble slides of of yor
as water of a ducks back
A-1 n.