Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
THE FRIENDLY PATH-By Walter l. Robinson
TIJES OF

and do not endanger her interests at all, IS a
happier woman than she who breaks her
heart over them. And she finds her hus-
band can ever be grateful enough to the wife
who is jolly, instead of being reproachful
1t is, howe 'er, in her own individual bust
ness of being a woman that a woman most
needs her sense of humor to save her from
being a figure of fun to her acquaintance.
The woman with sense Of humor never
commits the folly, for instance, of thinking
that she can camouflage her age, and that ii
she only plasters On enough paint and dye
tn t she can make sixty pass for sixteen. She
never serves old mutton dressed as spring
lamb.
The woman past middle age may still
have a you:g heart, and a youthful zest IN
life, but she looks into her mirror and if she
has sense of humor she smiles at the old
face she sees reflected there, and goes and
buys clothes suitable to her time of life in
stead of the spangled knee length skirts that
she might really like to wear.
Above ALL sense of humor is womans
bcst safeguard against the absurdity of posing
as man killer long after all the charms that
might once have allured lovers to her feet
are gone. Haven't yor felt like weeping out
of one side of your mouth and laughing out
of the other at hideous and haggaru OLD
women who try to tease themselves about
boys that might have been their grandscns?
I have known these humorless old imbeciles
to send themselves flowers and candy in Or
der that they might smirk an SMILE and lie
about it's being the tribute of some admirer,
and who were always talking about, my
tsr11v and
who represented every man who was even
civil to them as being desperately enamour-
ed Of them.
Such women are mockery and byWoro
to the ribald and fill the discerning with pity
for lack of humor that prevents them from
seeing what sardonic caricature they are
of youthful romance.
It is a lack of the sense Of humor that
makes women brag; and boast, and pretend
and pose as being something they are not
We all now the woman who has never read
anything but the six best sellers who pre-
tends to be literary and profound. and falls
into the first trap that any one lays for her
feet; the woman who pretends she belongs tic
the four hundred, and calls milllonalres by
t. cir Christian names; the woman who does
not need money but who takes boarders for
company, and goes to work because she
wants something interesting to do; the
woman whose daughter has just refused a
millionaire, and whose son declines to be-
come bank president because his artistic
soul revolts at the sordidness of finance; the
woman who is so irresistibly attractive that
strange men fall in love with her at sight
and whose marvellous purity Of soul alone
saves her from temptation.
Surely, sense of humor would save us all
from becoming braying asses trumpeting ly-
ing information about how great and won
derful we are to a disbelieving public. For
;o@o 1oJ 1ono hnhi ind fQ
having already taken our exact number
which is most amusingly different from the
figures we furnish
1t has been said that we all miss a good
joke in not being able to see ourselves as we
really are. Certainly women do, and that
is why if were a Fairy Godmother l would
8 We every girl baby a sense of humor that
would enable her to smile at her own pecu-
liarities in order that others might not laugh
at them.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.)