The Washington herald., 1918-01-31
Confessions
SWi&e/s
ACE AND ENTHUSIASM.

| / guess ! am leaving youth behind
little book. for begin to be afraid oi
observing emotions. / have lived very
fully in these years of my married life
Some one. / remember. has writer
| very POLITICALLY that We must moi
count our lives by the calendar oi
! years, but by the events that seal
themselves into our souls in a way
I that We shall hold them there, "till
memory fails"
II 1 count my life by these sign,
! posts. i think / must have lived a
{ thousand years, for much as / wish
] to forget I cannot help but remember
/ 1t seems to me now that j have nevei
/ been young, never been irresponsible
| and yet when I look in the glass
| do not see a tell-tale wrinkle or q
single sign that my girlhood has
! passed.
While my Vte has been crowded
| with great joys and great sorrows
| little book. yet apparently ! have not
lived in a way that has lined my face
or hardened it.
! Thank God. little book. I yet have a
/ few illusions left. I am like a FRIEND
of mine who once said to me when
asked her how she contrived to keep
such a young lookout on life, keep
your Illusions"
You surely have lost some OF your
illusions" l said.
Yes" she answered. I have seen
many of what l might say were my
dearest illusions float out on the at
mosphere and disappear. but do you
know. Immediately set to myself the
task of putting other illusions in their
placer"
This woman, who was a friend of
Sarah Bernhardt's, told me that two
great women had been her greatest
inspiration. one of them the foremost
OF all French actresses.
I asked Nine. Bernhardt. one day."
said my friend. ''hows she keeps that
wonderful quality of youthfulness
that makes her indomitable against
the great enemy of womankind. age.
''She answered, always look ahead.
not back. am always planning for
the future and have now plans which
II carried out to fruition. will make it
necessary for me to live to be 1901
years OF age
'And that great woman" said my
friend in explanation. talked of
reaching the age of 80 years with
perfect ease anu surety. Win SIuIlS
she shattered in small pieces the Bib
lical ukase that the span of mans
life is three score and ten
Always since then, Margie." said
my friend, II have tried to look upon
life from this viewpoint. don't al
ways manage to succeed in this deter
but this idea has been a
great help to me-"
Af nArnaS1 fria hAnR
upon my youthful appear
ance while ! was visiting her and
when I quietly told my age. he said
1 was not like most women. You can
make up your mind" ne said. that |
on the principle of the little Japanese |
girl who remarked that it is better to |
lie little than be unhappy much"
We can never bansh the years by |
denying them. little book. We must |
make the most of them and II, as does |
we can still court our age |
by our enthusiasm and love Of life in
stead of by the calendar, so much the
happier for US.
Do you know, little book, that I !
hope this baby that is coming to me |
will be girl. for would like to give
her the advantage of my experience
n life. If my baby is girl 1 shall |
lake great interest from the very first
n trying to form her mind to make
Is own deductions, and to solve its
own problems.
I will strive to teach her that she
Is a human being with the frailties
If the average human being as well
Is the possibilities. I have always
'elt that one of the greatest crimes
against girls is the assumption of so
many mothers that their daughters
an do no i'll.
(To Be Continued.)