Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-16
Cheat
n ature of
Reckoning
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

You can't dance till in the morn
ingsand come down to work fresh
and eager at 9 the next morning.
You can't eat salad and ice cream
and cake at S and bring much ap-
petite to your 7 o'clock dinner.
There has to be sense of bal
ance- in all you do, or nature ad-
justs the balance i'll her own way.
Strangely enough, most humans
complain about the effects they've
managed to produce, but they don't
do much to change the causc-nor
even give due consideration to that
cause.
~ Don't you know plenty OF girls
ho insist on trotting around all
Aili,er in thing silk stockings, laugh
ing at their immunity to the colds
that might beset other folks who
didn't show due regard for keeping
their ankles warm-and who are
astonished and feel abused when the
spring finds them constantly oh the
invalid list?
There's no way OF cheating nature
of her reckoning. She doesn't al
ways collect the minute the bill tails
due. II wouldn't be SO bad if she
Gid--for it's easier to reconcile your
sclf,to paying for bit of reckless
ness when the memory of its enjoy
ment is still fresh than it is to be
called to account long after the glow
;s cs,,,n aud fnruotteu
In youth every one builds the
foundation of his house of life.
Habits, repHation. education, health,
all start pilimg up cumulative mass
when folks are young. in what is
..9sllcd trutlfully the formative pc
riod."
Tn youth you're training the body.
which is the only one you'll ever
possess. You're building up the mind,
which is to be an asset or handicap
in life's struggle for success. And
YOU. can never call back one mis-
J .pcnt hour, nor yet live over one
tawdry moment.
III doing a business job, if your
calculations go wrong you can
start over and do tho problem an
othtr way. There's waste of time
and energy and often sense OF dis
co,,raeement, but the thing may
wosk out, and then there's a tre-
metfdous satisfaction in the mere tact
OF having persisted.
But in the process OF living, 1t IS
harder to head back from the wrong
direction and start over. Habits
form while you aren't on your guard.
Drupkards and drug fends aren't
born-they are made. Congenital
vcaklings are sadly frequent, since
weJdon't show much common sense
about our race and its protection
Butseven congenital weakling may
amount to a great deal if he is prop
erly educated, carefully trained and
formed along lines OF useful habits
+. This doesn't mean that one who
bl,n,ders must sit down and give
himself over to hopeless weeping. 1t
means that he must stop blundering,
in : full recognition that he has
enough to pay off to nature already
andyrdoesnt want any more heavy
debts to come along.
., The sane soul can even proht by
his blundering if he looks squareiy
at This false steps and where they
lead him, considers the wrong turns
hes taken and proceeds to build
with the wisdom Of experience
gained instead of sinking into the
slough of weakness acquired. :,
The thing to do is not TO 100.
Yourself. Recognizing clearly that
for every cause i'll life there is
result, the thing to do is to be ef-
fcient enough to make tomorrow to-
DAYS debtor instead of todays credi-
Life is an inexorable bookkeeper'
Don't forget that.