Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-08
Roosevelt Approves Red Star.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.


clasps Jane in his arms and tells her
that he loves her as woman was never
loved before, he is wrong. Every
man says that to the woman he loves,
and every woman thrills in response
to it as all their ancestors have been
doing since Adam and Eve began it
in the Garden of Eden. ".
How CYNICAL" says Miss Young
love and stops reading at this point.
But her older and sadder (as we'll as
wiser) sisters and brothers get at once
a crumb of comfort. They can look
ahead. They recognize the inevitable
next step. &-sstfs 80
Love is uniyersal--so is sorrow,
and so is the peace which comes after
suffering and turmoil.
There are great many hysterical
folks who enjoy exclaiming over
cut finger, and demanding attention
and sympathy and the services of
trained nurse and surgeon therefor.
They get dramatic glow from their
own suffering. They like imagining
their pain unique, individual.
Leona can be guaranteed to go
up in the air" at least once a week
over the agonies for which life singles
her out. Those who are her intmates
can never be safe from a phone call
after midnight or before a. m. if
Leona feels that suffering has claimed
her again. In her own mind she ex-
aggerates' the failure to appear on the
first day of the month of the rent
check, which is the greater part of her
income, as the absolute approach of
poverty and destitution.
If she is out with a group of friends,
and she decides that she has sick
headache and must 60 home, and no
one volunteers to leave the matinee
to 60 with her, Leona feels abused.
Martyrdom to her friendship and ut
ter lack of loyalty are the things she
feels sure are her lot if none of her
friends phone her or send roses or
other beautiful tributes to her suffer
ing.
The Old Story.
/ | happened to telephone her one
afternoon about dinner engagement
she had for that evening. The hostess
had been compelled to change the
hour from 8 to 7 o'clock because one
of her most important guests was
leaving town on an early train. She
could not reach Leona by way of
telephone, so she asked me to convey
the message. Out of that Leona
managed to wrest for herself an in
suit and total lack of consideration.
Mrs. Van Zant might have told
me, but ! suppose I'm not important
enough to get phone CALL Of
course, the only person who counts
with her is celebrity. Prof. John
son want. to take an early train, so
she puts the dinner an hour ahead
Of course, I get home from my work
at 6 and need little rest before |
go out to dinnef-that doesn't mat
ter. / don't count. Well, I'm used
to it-no One ever considers me-" 1t
is as much of Leona's oration as can |
remember.
Most situations need not be taken
personally. There were going to be
II guests at the dinner and 10 of
them were being hurried, even as was
Leora; but she insisted on consider
ing the situation as peculiar to her
self.
Which of US does not know at least
one man or woman like Leona? Which |
Of US does not himself occasionally
act like Leona?
There are only seven plots in all
he world, say some of our sages, and
around those seven all romance, all
drama, all short stories must be
built. Even situations are not un-
limited. And so anything which hap
pens to- John Jones and Jane Smith
of Texarkana, Tex, is very likely to
be paralleled in the experience of an
other John and Jane up in Bangor.
Me-, or out in Walla Walla, Wash.
You Are Not Alone.
Considering yourself as the one in
iividual in the world to whom the
humidity and heat of July day are
excessively annoying is completely
absurd thing to do. 1t lays too much
stress on you and it distracts your
attention from the breadth of vision
gained by looking at the outside
world to the narrow focal point Of
your own woes. \
Suppose you do lose your position;
suppose the woman you love is faith
less to you; suppose your investments
some out very badly; suppose you are