The Washington times., 1918-11-02
E. DAVIS.


We get a good many letters of this kind, asking ques
tons and implying in the most haering way that no ques
tion is beyond our answering powers
First our reader wants to know if intellectual training
BLUNTS the emotions-especially woman's emotions
Certainly not You might as well ask docs sharpening
blunt razor?"
The emotions are not in the feet or the hands, the
hair Every emotion is in the BRAIN A dull brain has
dull emotions An unframed mind has unframed emotion
An ignorant woman ignorant in her emotions Is to
say, If she is INTELLECTUALLY DEFICIENT. Mere ab-
Of book learning may not impair the feeling OF
woman naturally Intellectual
Given the intellect the better the training the better
the emotion.
Perhaps a woman with well l-trained mind might not
weep very violently dead puppy or go into mysteries
at the loss of canary And this absence Of canary bird
"emotion might be irritating to with mind like
a spoonful of mush But woman with an intellect well
trained her emotions WISELY she feels things that
worth feeling She passes over that which Is unm
portant. She is really worth while.
If you know a woman trying to develop her mind be
GLAD-provded she is doing it in intelligent way
she is developing her mind should acquiring
knowledge of all that know, acquiring especially
sympathy for children knowledge of their needs knowledge
Of things that she should teach them, you know the right
kind Of a woman. F.E
Secondly our friend asks 'Can we love the unovabe
when it comes to loving our neghDorS as ourselves
usually something different from ourselves And what we
call LoVABLE is something that reminds of ourselves
The order to love OTHERS love ourselves is, of
course an order to love others DIFFERENT FROM OUR
SELVES is, of course, very easy to like that which is
like Therefore the law which supposed to fol-
owand which DON'T follow very closely-is to try to
the good in Others although may be different kind
Of good from own to try to feel toward those different
from ourselves or unloya6le as our friend mas IT. lust
THAT WE SEEM TO OTHERS AS UNLoVABLE AS
THEY SEEM TO US.
The third question descends into the commonplace and
the common sense with sudden thud Our friend wants
to know if $25 week is doing poorly for who has
been working thirteen years at general office work-age
twenty nine"
If the who is making s25 week after thirteen
years work STILL FEELS THAT SHE IS GROWING
that she has still chance with that firm, that there
better opportunities for her she is able take
them, that woman need not be discouraged
living should be this Work at ONE thing as long as Tou
feel that you GROWING in your work. that you YOUR
SELF improving And that you have actual chance
to do better where you are.
The moment you make up your mind that you CANNOT
grow where you or that the place will not let you do
any better, GET OUT.
Do for yourself what the gardener does for the plant
in the eahen pot When it gets too big for the pot he
breaks the pot and lets the roots spread Or he lifts the
plant out and repants it in larger, commodious
dwelling
Do that for yourself Don't get excited like some fool
ish geranum as big your finger and think it will make
the geranum bigger to be put in larger pot That only
makes the little geranium look foolish.
But when you quite that it is the geranum
that is too big and the pot that is too small change yourself
to something else.
In these expensive days it is pretty hard to work thr
teen years for firm and get only $25 week It looks
though kept in place for thirteen years
must have been at least FAITHFUL and also though the
firm had been taking advantage of her to pay her so little
ct the end of that time.
But the big thing in this world is not so much to get
ahead in the BEGINNING to get something worth while
in the END When you know how many years Napoleon
lieutenant and how suddenly he became emperor and
ruler of the world after he stopped being lieutenant YOU
can quite conented get $25 week for thirteen wears
IF YOU ARE SURE THAT YOU are growing while you
draw the $25.