Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-31

'Umphl' said Marian. looking up
from the magazine she was reading
there's a scientist who declares that
as a general thing, emotional people
do not live as long as those do who
repress their feelings. Bah! ia
rather cut ten years off of my lie
and feel the 10y OF expression than
to live to weary old ago in dried up
suppression
/ The cynic looked wise well. my
dear" he began, when Marian inter
rupted.
"Now don't commence to preach
she said. International people are
like hard-boiled eggs. They are stupid
and stolid and are the hardest people
in the world to digest happily. GIVE
me the person who is not afraid TO
express the lights and shadows Of hui
man feelings"
The cynic smiled wisely.
Every good, my dear. your emotion
alism upon your subject Is alone a
very good argument in the abstract.
But emotionalism is like forest fire.
, 1t starts maybe with mere spark
of enthusiasm which. driven by
the gust of expression soon
ignites the imagination and thought
until It ends in a spectacular blaze
which sometimes burns disastrously
and sometimes proves merely a flare
UP. 1t is far better you know he
concluded, with wisdom. "to be gov
erned by a long head than by hot
/ head"
Pooh" said Marian, with disdain
/ at wisdom's words. "Long-headed
people are usually the ones who so
around caked in ice They have no
magnetism, no fire, no warmth OF
! feeling. They live in their own shells,
which are usually as hard as flint
and they very carefully lock up all
! their perfectly natural feelings Gt
D they have any in a strong box
which they label Unconditional
heart. And, goodness! what dried
up sort of lives they must lead! What
are lows and sorrows for if we are
not to express them? Why do we
love. hate. hope and despair unless
we can let others share our lives? II
is wrong for people to live within
themselves. Deliver me from these
human chunks of ice who float around
this sea of humanity. freezing all the
warth and spontaneity from natura
hearts full of expression and life. Re
served? perhaps. Deep thinkers? Nc
doubt. Sincere? Absolutely. But
pshaw: what does sincerity or deeI
thinking amount to if one deliberately
! suppresses and locks away all the
outward signs that express human
feelings and thoughts? Nothing, alb
solutelv. None of this compressed
air sort of life for me-" she concluded
mo. II Is unhealthy for anyone Il
live entirely that sort of life replied
the Cynic, but at the same time VI
are forced TO admit that the jails
penitentiaries and police courts ar
filled with examples of emotionalisn
unrestrained. Mary Austin, one o
the writer's Of the day, in recent IN
terview Is said to have declared tina
it is a crime for parents to try 4
suppress the natural emotions in thei
children. Even anger and fear. sh
afRrms, should be allowed full expires
sion. I pity Mary Austin's viewpoint
Surely she has but blunted foreslgh
IL she cannot see to what disaster
: the expression of such emotions IN
| less checked and suppressed in chlll
hood will lead to in after years.
, Spontaneous JOY. enthusiasm 10
b clean, clear-cut subject or the e.
! preston Of an unselfish happiness ar
emotions which should never be r.
= pressed. as they are ever the agent
= for good influence. International peopl
S are frequently accused of being III
lsvmpathetic. cold and unfeelin
g when in reality the majority of theI
= are more acutely conscious of life
= various emotions than they are VIII
bubble and express them in High
o and unthinking manner. It is usua
= " a stronger nature that suppresse
{ than that which expresses
81 don't believe it, said Maria
Il emphatically. but whether dry oil
}. statistics say It's so or not makes n
r difference to me- The person who ism
Il afraid to express his honest emotion
Q who isn't stingy with his expression
Of feeling is the one who is the mos
n joyous to meet
q Perhaps" admitted the Cyni
D "emOtionalism and temperament az
all right to meet en- PEASANT but the
are not very joyous living companion
Q People whose lives are lighted by tn
fires OF emotions burn up a lot {