The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-29
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Advice To The
 Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX An Authority on All Problems O, Girls and Questions of Love
 and Romance

We humans are never more than Iooee.
 and unwisely much of the time Philosophers and historians say that our savage ancestors made their first studies toward civilization by chance discoveries due to restlessness. So we needn't decry restlessness as something new-the curse of the age in which we are hving-or of any age for that matter. There's no req son for us to feel that restlessness has to be destructive force and that it must break down and corrupt
 Restiessness has made men look from time immemorial. but that something new was often a discoy- cry, and adaptation of circumstances ] material into something hitherto un- guessed and imprisoned in blind matter.
 Howe-the inventor of the sewing machine-was not merely a chival- rous gentlemen who chafed at see ing his wife sew endless seams by hand. He was a normal human who
 watched conditions as they were and grew restless. He wanted a change He was irritated at the endless stoop- ing of his wife over bundles of cloth
 He had that great curiosity to see
 what he could do about it. which has
 made the world go ahead and hitch
 steam and water and fire itself to ! new uses
 |
 all praise. It has built our civihza- ton. It has urged mankind on-
 The boy who whittles manfully at | a piece of wood. throws it away,
 SInE to realize something toward
 wHich mental unrest and longing urge minis a creative force He should
 be encouraged So far the aauoers
 the restless youth that surges toward
 creation. Fine enough. Praise it.
 Urge it on-
 form of a feverish longing for ex-
 citement, for gayety. for change-for
 anything different and so more
 ''amusing" than the things at hand.
 then it's a destructive force
 Youth today likes to whiri from
 emotion to emotion and from sensa- ltion to sensation The thronging s streets teem with excitement seekers- 2 IThe bizarre and exotic in our fasn- l lions-even the immodest-are prob t I ably due as much to restessness as to any other quality
 enjoying the moment Perhaps the terrific conflict which so recently 2 shook the world and which cost 1t so ! much in terms of youth and happi- wrest what joy he can from life Few
 erish, nervous unrest drives the
 world now-for some it has an inn
 pulse toward excitement. toward eayety-and toward nothing else MI This is the restlessness that de- II stroys Travel is for the stimulation II and sounds to which the victims or il of being swept away from the Sgn,e II restIessness are accustomed While II for the eager type of restlessness III that longs to grow travel offers the III chance to see and learn new thinSs III If vou want to know whether you're III consumed by destructive restlessness III or driven ahead by constructive rest II lessness, consider your day. Do you 7 cram it with engagements or a tritl-
 inp and unsatisfying sort? Are you o tied so tightly to the trivial that when a chance comes to do something thai IT is of real interest and that makes a vital appeal. you're too busy VII nothing to make room for something real?
 Are you working toward some thing or running away from every, thing Do you want to be gay and : merry. or do you want to amount tS