Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-23

L want some help. I don't know
just what kind it is, but maybe you
will. Somehow I have the funniest
feeling about you. I feel as If you
really knew how girls feel about
things, and yet l am sure you are
very crown up. Most women seem
! to forget all about how 1t felt to be
g girl. I'll bet all these things that
we modern young people" Go that
they're wailing about all the time are
just about what they did when they
were young, but they just pretend
they're perfection. because they
know that they ought to be by the
time they're thirty or forty, n just
about ready to die.
Well, the other day we were play
ing tennis, four of us, and I was
serving. The set was pretty nearly
over, games being 5-6, and my
serve. What do you think l did? 1
served doubles four times and lost
the set! I wouldn't have felt SO bad
\ if we hadn't been playing doubles,
but usually 1 can serve, and l was
| so mad that I slammed my tennis
racket into the net. My partner look
| ed at me in surprise. He's an awful
ly nice fellow. he's a college fellow
just home for the weekend, and I
think he's simply wonderful, and
now he thinks I am simply a silly
| little goose that gets mad when she
gets beaten. It really isn't true. /
can stand being beaten, but I hated
SO to lose OUR game, and set and
match, because that's what my fool
| doubles did.
I don't suppose I can ever live it
down, and anyway he'll always re-
member me as a little fool hat did
MT know how to be a good sport.
o dear!
Patty, my child, it's a great game,
and a terrific game, this living bust
ness. A very old English poet whose
name was Chaucer, knew what he
was talking about when he said
something about 1.-THE life sc short,
the craft so hard to learnt" And the
hardest part of the craft to learn"
or learning to play the game" as
we say at present, is to take it all as
a good sportsman should. Work
hard to win, but II you get beaten.
take 1t with a smile, because o did
the best you could, and its all in
the game"
You have probably heard people
talk OF growing palms." That's what
you're having right now. You real
iZe that you have fallen down and
it's a humiliating- experience. You
will never forget It.. But the next
time you won't lose your temper. So
just put the unhappy incident down
to Experience, and know that out OF
the travail of your soul you have
achieved some real growth, and let
that comfort you.
Unfortunately you girls who play
tennis with all your might and do
everything else in the same thorough
way, have that difficult lesson of
self-control to learn in a greater de-
gree than the girls who don't get aw-
fully enthusiastic about anything.
But never mind. things do get even
ed up after all, because you who take
things so hard, have as great a ca
pacity to enjoy as you do to suffer.
A capacity for enjoyment is a won
derful thing to have. So is a ca
pacity to suffer. Who wants to be
a dried herring?
. - .
I did hope to hear from Annielove
this morning, but l feel sure that
Ted will persuade her to be with us
next Wednesday. Annielove is one
of the girls who underestimates her
ability too much. She really is a
very gifted girl, but she has such a
passion for perfection that she does
MT appreciate how awfully well she
does things. It's just as well to keep
your ideal high. but don't indulge in
self-distrust. There are people all
about you who can't see below the
surface, or who haven't the time to
look below the surface, and they will
put your value very low if that Is
where you put 1t yourself. Keep your
ideal high and clear, but keep 1t in
your own heart, and don't yer be-
little your " achievement. Bear it
calmly. and without apology! You
will find that many folk about you
who are often greatly your
interiors, are utterly com
placent and self = satisfied. 1t
probably irritates you to see how
little they have to be self-satisfied
with, and I don't want you to emu
late their attitude of complacency,
But I do want your attitude toward
your OWL work and your own
achievement to be one of pride in
ldf4li6 uOil0 lHt D6SL IlldL 10 al JOQi
and that is as much as the gods
themselves can do.
It's jolly to hear from little Mar
tha-Mabel again:
Dear Mary G..
My mother is getting my camping
clothes ready to go away to a girls
camp this summer. Ide rather go
out to Aunt Nets, but Aunt Net is
going away herself, shes going on a
trip to Alaska. My but 1de like to
be her! But mother says my time
will come and 1 mustn't squeese the
orange dry before line fifteen, or
their wont be anything left in life
for me to get through the other fifty
years with. My mother says funny
things like shes kidding you.
But l got a lot of new khakhi
middysi and nickers and 1 am
graduly sewing my name into all of
them. I wish I dident have to take
any hankerchiefs or stockings be-
cause they take SO many names. /
hate sewing. When 1 grow up, file
have a seemstress to do all my sew
ing and mending so l wont have to
waist any time from sports such as
horseback rideing. That is my ia
vorit one. line practising hard since
father let me take some rideing les
sons, and I think I can show cousin
Ned a few things that will ~increace
his respeck for his cousin even If she
Is q girl.
Did you yer go to a girls camp
Mary G, and do you think It will be
any fun? Ide like to be crasier
about it because it does cost lots of
money. and / hate 10 haYA father