Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-27
Through a
Woman,s S Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
"And This. Too, Shall Pass
,4,vGy!r"

Did you ever stop short and look up
at the moon. shining. 1t would seem,
just the height of few houses away.
and then realize that men have trav-
elcd up. mp. up ten. fifteen. twenty
thousand feet and found there the old
moon still shining just as far away:
Forty million miles away. we are told.
not what. And this is only one of
several other worlds besides our own
in the great cosmos.
! thought OF this while speeding
through the country the other night.
There was the moon. shining through
the window, the train tearing along at
forty miles an hour, annihilating space.
We thought. tut at its fastest speed
covering in the span of whole lifetime
less than an infntcsimal part Of the
great distances of which the moon re-
minds US.
There were the passengers. each
eagerly intent on HIS or her own err
rand. Some. on pleasure bent. We're
scurrying to vacation grounds. the i'm
mediate object Of their existence being
plenty of trout or good golhng. Others
were commercial travellers diligent over
iilncrarics or reports and bearing on
their faces the measure Of success with
There We were. all of us fevpr!shlv
pursuing the object Of the day. and
when that was accomplished, fcverishly
pursuing another. And there was the
old moon smiling down upon us as It
has smiled for perhaps four hundred
million years on the different stages
and different ages of man feverishly
pursuing objects that have long since
passed away.
| 1t made one think. that moon, OF
the old questions about why and what
we are. 1t made one look for mo
ment as spectator on ones fellow
passengers not rs we would ordinarily,
rs the man or woman on the next seat.
bur in a strange and peculiar way.
And II made one think of the cx-
treme pettncss and unimportance Of the
many things we permit to irritate and
pertnrb US and spoil our lives.
One man homeward bound was COM
planning loudly his disgust at life be-
Caus" he had 'rushed' and "nearly
Killed myself to get away for a week 5
fishing, and then found that the fish
would not bite Another was consum-
ing himself in fury because II could
not sell Strothers. And what I care
most about is that Smith at the office
will have the laugh on me. He won't
l"t me forget it for six months. 80
II they would only look out of the
window at the moon In the vastness
OF the reflections cd Luna would in.
Spira would be astonishmcnt that such a
tHing as the biting Of few trout or
III" humor of Smith at the Office could
interfere with their enjoying unruffled
and unperturbed their short span here.
II Is not the great sorrows that come
perhaps once in n lifetime. but the
trout and the Smiths in the lives of
most Of us that make the difference be &.
tween calm content and constant vexa =
tion with life. And merely looking at
The moon will teach us how soon these
pass away.
II il known that the ancient He
brcws throughout their oppression and
exile, thPir wandering in the desert.
their slavery in foreign lands, We're able
TO overcome and survive all these real
suffcrings because n wise leader CON
srantly reminded them And this, too,
! shah pass away