Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16

INE single suggestion IN II. L ask moth
ing better when l die than to pass
into a realm of peace where | shall be per-
mitted to do what l want to do, in the wayE
l want to do it, without dozen people ask
ing me why don't do it in some other way
am aware that 1 shall never attain this bliss
while | remain on this sad old earth, which
is made vale of tears chiefly by the de-
moniac suggesters with their maddening in
reference with your every act.
You know how it is, for nobody is lucky
enough to escape these pests. Adam wasN
the only human being who ever enjoyed al
paradise in which no one told him whereS
to get on and where to get off, and even his'
respite was brief. For as soon as Eve ap-'
peared on the scene, she began suggesting an
apple diet to him because she liked apples,
and, bling! The gates of the Garden of EdenI
banged to behind him.
Ever since then where Two or three are
gathered together, the curse of the suggester.
is upon them. No one is allowed to do their
work, to follow their pleasures, or to rise up'
or lie down, or eat or sleep, or Dress orI
marry, or do anything whatsoever without
being showed under by gratuitous and unde-
sired advice from all about them,
This torment Of our days begins with our
earliest waking moment when those of our
household demand to know why we don q
take a hot bath if we take cold one or al
cold bath if we take hot one or suggest al
shower If we take tub. 1t continues while
light clothes if we have donned dark ones !
or different necktie from the one we are
wearing, or another pair of shoes from the
one we have elected to wear.
At breakfast it rises to the full strength
of chorus, and we eat to an accompaniment
of suggestions as to how much sugar we
should put on our cereal, and how we should
drink our coffee, and how we should eat our
eggs, and whether we should breakfast \
heartily or sparnsly, and with the newspa-I
per or without it.
What a meal would be without a single|
suggestion as to how we ate it, and without
being told how bad everything we like is forS
our digestion and how wholesome everything
we loathe is, we can only imagine. It Is AMI
ecstasy that no one who lives with their fam
lily ever experiences. Nor do you achieve id
at hotel, for the waiter invariably hangs
about you with his Internal suggestions of.
every high-priced thing on the menu.
And it is worse still with your clothesI
When a woman buys new frock, she takes
into consideration her purse, her age, her fig-I
ure, the purpose for which she expects 70 use,
the garment and her taste. Inasmuch as she
pays for the garment and is going to wear it
and it pleases her, it would seem that it Isl
her own affair, and nobody else's business
But this is far from being the case. Hert
husband her family, her friends, even casual
acquaintance fall upon her and demand to|
know why she didn't get different colored|
dress, why she didn't get it made different
style, why she didn't have it made shorter|
or longer, or fuller, or scantierfi and why she|
didn't go to the dressmaker or shop they
patronize instead of the one she did And
they never cease until they have spoiled all
her pleasure and made her feel that it is the
most inappropriate and unbecoming thing she
could possibly have bought, and that she had
been cheated in the bargain.
The thing about the suggester that fills|
I1,oiro ic h noJn
nerve. His egotism is sublime. He is sure
that he knows more about a subject that he|
has never investigated at all than the indi1
vdual who has devoted his life to studying it'll
He may never have been out of his nativel
village, or ten miles from home, but bel
would not hesitate to tell an Arctic explorer
just exactly what to take along on dash to|
the North Pole He could not tell you the|
names of the bones in his own body, but he'
suggests to a great surgeon just how hel
should operate. He may not have been able|
to make living for himself, but he is per-
fectly certain that he can tell you how toI
run your own bank.
And women have the advising bug even
worse than men. A woman can no more
keep her finger out of any pie than she seesI
being made than she could fly. Hha :" 4
simply got to interfere in every other won-|
ans business, or perish. That is why no two|
women can live together in the same house,
problem.
Therefore the hired girl had fled to fac-
tory where she can work in peace, without
being tormented out of her life by a mis-
tress who stands over her and directs every
move and wants to know why she doesn't
use a big spoon instead of a little spoon, or|
the carpet sweeper instead of the vacuum
cleaner or broom instead of either one|
Wherever you find a woman who will keep
out of the kitchen, and simply ask for 81
suits, instead Of offering suggestions, and
permit her to help to do their own work in|
their own way, you will find that there isl
| no trouble about keeping a cook.
Each of as is responsible for his own life.|
We make our success. We pay for our fail.|
ures, and I maintain that it is our inalien-
able right to have free hand, and work.
out our problems unhampered by suggestions|
we have not asked for, and do not wish. The|
only people who are privileged 20 make eug-
gestions to us are those for whom we are|
working, and who have a right to have their|
work done their way
All other suggesters are impertinent med
dlers who take up our time, and make us|
waste our energy fighting them, and fill curl
hearts with murderous impulses. What al
pity there is not some lethal chamber where|
they could all be done painlessly to death!
But would any Of us escape the fate Of the
Ioathed and hated suggester?