San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11

ten in tender pity to little Ten when
she gables joyfully that the new
school is going to be just nothing but
fun-te little Twenty when she con-
fides to US that she and George never
can quarrel, because they are going to
have any trouble with him; he's going
be too utterly happy among the new
silver spons and the new mahogany
chairs-to proud and trembling twcn-
ty five when she opens the folded pink
blanket to show us a scowling new
conner sucking notified fist, and says
that the baby is so good ard so bright
that she feels sure that they'll never
to be like George, wide-awake about
everything, and he seems to have
Mama's angelic nature.
And then, knowing all this, how
| strange it is that we all are eternally
ready to say things like:
"Well, l was surprised at Lucy.
She's always been such saint, So
wonderful with those e.ep-childrcn
and her old father and all. And
she's so capable, and economical, and
hospitable, and pretty. ARD to heaf
her snap at Margaret that way-wcll
I'll never feel the same to Lucy,
never"
Ever Say Such Things?
"I'm so disguised with the Bishop"
says another voice. "Yon know how
wonderful he's been-gettiDg the So
cial work going and practically car
rying that orphan asylum. And then
playing bridge on Sunday night Why,
,Se were brought up"
Just heart broken" interrupts n
third. His father told him he would
give him his bicycle if he got "A in
everything, and he would have-ex-
/ cept for that miserable cold that kept
ann home Poor little fellow. we were
so sharp with him
'All true about the sunlight, and
the trees, and the two big bathrooms,
and for so much less than we ex-
rccted to pay" says somebody el0c.
But imagine-we hear every one of
those factory whistles, and we're
afraid the railroad company-"
mo, absolute divorce" interrupts
another speaker. MARY said she
never wished to see him or hear of
him again. Imagine raan telling
his wife that she had gotten so fat it
didn't matter what she were!
| "Yes, l know, he was a generous
man, and she had everything she
wanted, and all that-but when be-
gets tired she says he's always rude !!
Mary says it's his one fault, but she
won't stand it'll"
How to Wipe Out Divorce.
IL men and women, marrying III
the radiant flush of young love, would
make a mental resolve TO allow Tor
trade discount, how few divorces
there would be!
1t is because we all have in mind
that one hundred per cent of perfec-
ton, that list price, that the blow is
so bitter when the man of the house
takes a stand about asking the Wat
sens to dinner or is cool 70 darling
Mama.
Thousands of children, oil over the
land, are being made unhappy today
because mothers and teachers are ex-
acting from them that visionary hun
dred per cent of poli.ehess, respon-
siveness, beauty, cleanliness, health
end intelligence.
Mother, l got Baby csleep, AMI
I've done my homework" says happy
little Ten. in the doorway.
shut that door, and next time use
the back stairs, and go wash those
filthy hands," says Mother.
Ten obeys. But she never forgets.
Why Women Are Unhappy.
Thousands of young wcihen, all
over the land today, are unhappy be-
cause they fancy that these are lives
tnat do not have to pay tEat heavy
discount.
They don't realize that the more
ccnspicuously happy and successful a
life seems TO be, the more probable
It is that that very life 1t entirely
devoid of the true sweetness of liv-
ing.
The very fact that wealth and fame
aud success have been won by girl
Of twenty-five gives tina. same girl an
unreal, an abnormal perspective of
life. Simple things satisfy her no
longer; she is hardly conscious of the
process by which she has achieved