The Washington times., 1922-07-20

young woman snoulu KNOW aSluo
from her books-about the house,
etc. Yours very truly,
A READER.
We might answer that letter.
writing about eight hours a day for
the next eight weeks.
What should young woman
KNOWf
First, she should know what
/ KNOWLEDGE is.
1t takes a long time to find that
out.
The most important knowledge,
whether it be in books or out, is
knowledge Of yourself.
Study yourself without conceit.
That is advice not easy to take,
but try it.
Study the outside world and the
people inhabiting it, without being
discouraged by the worlds bigness,
or the strangeness of the people.
Before you make up your mind
in which direction you will point
your energies, map out a plan and
first Of all ask yourself:
What am I FIT fort What tai
ent have II What are the best
things that I, with my limited abili-
ties, can dot"
The thing is to discover as soon
as possible what you can do, and
what is worth while.
If you suddenly found yourself
alone in the engineers seat Of a
big locomotive going at full speed,
you would feel desperately anxious
to know what you ought to do, how
to push or pull the levers.
You would realize keenly your
utter helplessness if you did not
know how to control that machine.
You are the inhabitant of an en-
gine which is your own body. Why
it is here You don't know. Whence
the thought in your mind came
from you don't know.
You know that you are to stay
here far awhile, a hundred years
at the most. You know that you
are getting the benefit Of the work
of all the human beings here before
you.
Your conscience tells you that it
is your duty to make your life as
useful as possible to those that are
coming after and for those that are
here now.
If you decide, as most of us must
decide, that you are one of the
many able only to do useful, hum
BILE work, study to make yourself
as useful in minor way as is pos
sible.
The most important thing is
LIFE ITSELF.
To be useful you must be healthy,
you must understand your own
body and the laws that control it.
Needless to say, the greatest
thing that any woman can do is to
be the mother of fine children
just as the greatest thing that
painter could do is to be the creator
Of fine pictures.
Women are sometimes impatient
when told they should be happy in
the creation Of good sons and
daughters.
Yet every woman will admit that
when Nancy Hanks created Abra-
ham Lincoln she did about as big a
thing as any human being could
possibly have done.
No young suffragette will sug-
gest that it would have been better
if Nancy Hanks had devoted her
life to high and lofty thinking and
neglected to create little Abraham.
To have good children you must
marry the right kind Of a
man, and, consequently, OUTSIDE
OF BOOKS, to use your own ex-
preston, you must UNDERSTAND
men.
On that subject many thousands
Of columns could be written.
Bear in mind in your study Of
men and your selection of a hus-
band that the first thing is KIND
NESS-mother Of all the virtues.
The second thing is health, in
cluding temperance, self-control.
The third thing is intelligence.
But that you should LIKE the man
is most important Of all.
Fortunately Nature has arranged
matters 80 that intellectual power