The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-07

Do you remember the old couplet: | "l shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth. Iknow not where
 N ell, I think ali writers feel oc- | casionally as if they were shooting into the air rather than 2t mark | they can see. It's sometimes 9 rath- CT lonely performance to sit at a >.-sk and cali out to your readers without | Knowing just what they think about | the subjects which the writer is hop ing mean something to them. And | so response means great deal. AD- | precia ton is a stimulus. To a writer who deals with other i folks problems and has the hope Of | helping them fit themselves to deal with their own needs and to feel more l kindwly toward those of other folks Q | letter like the one I am going to print today means great deal. And the beauty of it is that it must bring q message to each of you. Malicious gossip, in my estirna- ,ion. makes more than half tho trou- ble in the world and as the one al- most unforgivable sin. If I cannot gay anything. good of anyone I Eay nothing.
 i've heard people I knew well sian dered by people who scarcely knew them ,and in q few particular in stances have made 1t my business to i find out the details, and every t4me without foundation.
 "I sometimes think people of cer- l tain sort spend their time thinking l lrp something mean to sny about eCYae l one nd it makes me think of T sen- tence I read once and always rsrnsr bered. The busybody is always ii prude; and prude signifies an eyil- minded person whoEe purity is not Of the min
 "Why cannot we live md let live? .or one have so much to occupy
 my mind and tiTe that [ haye no I1-f1 11-fs -i-1 ir,t and powder and dresses sty1iehly
 seems to me to bs her cvYn ba7inssa. The neighbors orght to hsye the:rs | too.
 ''Now, I don't know whether you are
 young or old, but I feel sure that
 apart from years you'll never grow
 old in heart because you are tolerant
 and sympathetic end the big sister Of
 so many boys and girls.
 ''why can't we all take the big
 sister attitudeY Why can't we be
 lteve as you suggest, that IFS pret-
 ty good old werld?'
 'tS'ew 1 want ts say t word about
 the much criticized dancins.
 'I love to dance and eer dance
 trouble, sorrow and even phEs5ca!
 misertes away. I am q better wife
 and mother and a much better dis
 positioned person to live with after the pleasure ana real joy 1 ges fre:Gi Z dancing.
 , Pm very nervous zirl, and there's
  throbbing nerves like music. It seems to lift 1ne out O 4nyEalf ana , give me courage, strsuEth and ep- : : timism to meet Hfe's troubles, hnd problems and unpleasantueese7 This
 must be true of many. yst think oi , the evil attributed to dancing. II 2 seems to me that there ought to be few more people writ:ns eherrful1N ! and optimisticaily of the world ir :, which we live and for which We have ] so much to be grateful. :. You believe in folk and yourself y and the world we live in. I want tc = thank you for that. Rillta.' And having shot my arrow into the 5 air-Tm grateful to Billie rrd |, n every one else who has told ins that /, she Cor he) loves life nrd tho world . and its people and is ready to be1r ? other folk to find faith in the here a and now.
 Doesn't each of you who reads see
 what joy life must bring to 'Ril'ie'
 In return for her warm. generous n kindly attitude toward the world and = it's people?