The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-19
BY MRS, WILSON WOODROW,
The world famous writer on vital subjects.

Half n dozen letters from girls who
bemaI the iart mat they are lonely
They want companionship; friends of
their own age, and tastes, more life
and fuller life"-all of which Is per-
feCtly natural and right.
One girl writes. Loneliness Is tax
ing my youth away, n we only have
that once in our lifetime; SO please tell
me how | can have II better time
Before | answer this question, III
tell YOU Il story which happens to be
fact and not fiction. ! knew a girl
who vas Charmingly bright and inter
esting so long as she was provided with
amusoments, Then she was radiant, 1t
was n pleasure to meet her, she was
SO fun of life and good spirits. But II
Il dun season interviewed. she whlned
and sighed and moaned and groaned
until she made everyone about her
miserable.
She would wear the most discomfort
ed expression, and draw deep signs,
and make cynical remarks about the
emptiness and uselessness OF life. and
she usually developed at such times
some ailment. Hut let some exciting
event loom on her horizon, and she
arose like the phoenix from It's ashes.
The color came back into her cheeks,
the sparkle to her eyes, The ailment
which was hourly getting more serious
NilllNllNh Ilht CIlNht4 III was tVduN
for anything,
She was the very best of falrweather
friends, the delightful companion of "A
sunshkny day, But unfortunately for
her, there ara from Ian. ! to Jan |,
quite a number of rainy, stormy days
and taking her through the year she
wore so badly that the friends she
made so easily dropped away from her
like autumn leaves,
They soon learned they either had
to devise ways Of keeping her amused,
or else endure her glooms and grouches,
so they preferred saying, Goodbye,
God bless you!' and farlng on their
way,
She had made the vast mistake OF
fancying that she could sustain life
on charlotte russo and cafe parfait
and always, be 1t said, at some one
else's expense, And now she Is facing
q disseminated, dreary, resentful mid
die age
People will forgive much to youth
and very willingly excuse it's faults;
but they are rather mcrCiloss to a
middlc-aged woman who Is constantly
grasping for excitement, and who i'm
agineS that other persons exist merely
to provide entertainment FOR her,
She becomes a social nuisance. She
is lust 30 much useless brtc-a-brac
quite out of date. aud she gets what
she has earued-thc ash can.
First and last, We all get exactly
what we earn, No matter what is your
desire, you've got to pay for 1t. Nc
matter whether it's groceries or happi'
ness, you pay the price Of that especia
commodity, or you don't get It,
You want happiness, The best way
to get It is to cultivate the will to en-.
JOY.
Try an experiment. Instead Of vast.
ing your energy in signing, begin to en-.
joy everything, no matter whether /
seems enjoyable to you or not,
II you are always in good humor, !
you have pleasant things to say, and /
you steadfastly look on the bright sid
OF everything the people you long tt
know will inevitably gravitate towarC
you. Say "a yourself: THE friends
seek are sekinE me-, aud hold on t
Il, Relieve II, and keep on believing
Don't imagine your youth is passinl