The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-26
Making The Best
 Of Things
Who Occupies a Unique Position in
 the Writing World as an Author
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
ity on the Problems of Idfe.

ity on the Problems of Life.
 Do you remember the verse about poor little Sally Waters sitting in the sun crying and weeping for a nice young man? And don't you know any number of Sally Waters? By that I mean isn't life full of folks who sit bewailing their fate and waiting for some miracle to bring them what they want of 1ife2
 Sometimes I get frightfully angry
 at dhe walters who sit whimpering about what they'd love to have
 what, indeed, they would, have if life were giving them anything like a square deal. I want to set off a few firecrackers under the chairs where they sit compIacentIy rocking
 while they go right wailing. want to spill them out of those rockers and wake them up to a re- aLzation that if they'd only do some
 thing about the difficulty on which they are expending so much energy, they might get somewhere. But would they listen? Wouldn't they
 be likely to look at me very re- proachfuIly and sigh out that no one understands?
 All Much Alike Most of Us aren't misunderstood at
 EH-by anyone except our very sym
 pathetic selves. We fancy our belVeS unique cases singled out from the rest of the world by a cruel fate But we're all pretty much alike. We have back of us half a. million years | of race history in which all mankind | is working up from savagery, and 1 fighting nature and climate and 1 beasts.
 1 If we'd only remember that! Strug- | gle makes the race. Struggle is part | of the heritage. Without it, l sun 1 pose we'd still be back in the prehis- | toric stage and more like anthrepofd apes than like the creatures into which we have evolved through effort H6 cir and utterly unconscious-and now 1 perfectly conscious and yet also com | pelled by the circumstances of living | and ekaing out an existence. Moth l ing comes without effort. Nothing l comes by favor of circumstance. Some may have a better start than others. l But that doesn't mean they have the
 equipment to make the finest use of l that start.
 1 The lame and the halt and the | blind may, by force of uncongenial
 and cruel physical maiming, make
 use of every other gift and actually
 rise-not in spite of, but because of, their handicaps.
 The rich mans son is a proverbiaI
 ne'er-do-Wen. And when he amounts
 to a lot, it's generally because he too, had a handicap to overcome. It
 may have been a clash of wills be-
 tween himself and those in author dty. It may have been disappoint-
 ment or a facing of the fact that all
 
 he most needed. But it took some | thing that was not of ease and com | fort to impel him to the best he had 1 it in him to be.
 Rise by Struggle. l There's no escaping the fact that we rise by and through struggle. It's
 the history of the human race and it is the history of every human in- 1 dividual in it.
 | Nothing could be better for those 1 who want to have everything made easy and pleasant for them than a 1 little of biography Read what Ma i poleon had to overcome-Stevenson 1 Carlyle, Ruskin, Beethoven, Julius | ICaesar-au who succeeded, seem to have done it because the physical or
 spiritual difficulties of their lives im- fpelled them to fight. Little Miss de Millions is born on the sunny side of the street and her | youth is passed in pleasant places. But unless she develops through suf- 1 fering and experience she ends either as dolly who smiles or cries when the master hand pulls the strings, or | else when she has been badly trained for diversity she is put to the iterri- ble test of fighting without any pre-
 ylous warning that her sheltered life
 might sometimes get out into the storm centre
 Fight, or go down into the dust l heap, is almost life'S battle cry. And none of us may escape.