Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-20

1t looks like the coming gene
ration IS going to have at least
one big problem to solve, and
that's how to get a meal with
out a can opener.
A daily paper not long ago
carried a front page story of a
motion picture actress who took
her own life and left this mes.
sage, II am tired, oh so tired.
Life has beaten me, it is hope
less, useless struggle of disap-
pointments and sadness-what's
the use, Good bye"
This story arrested the eye OF
the writer because it contained a
message. ( 1t has lesson for
every person who thinks fame or
success orhappines are to be won
out on the artificial brilliant high
ways of life. The content of life
is found just where you are, in
doing the things at hand and
doing them at the best of your
ability. The world is still willing
and eager to beat a path to the
door of any man or woman who
has something the world needs
be it a better method, a noble
character or superior service.
Happiness is not a thing to be
won as if it were proffered
prize. Happiness is a reward for
having performed a service that
satisfies ones own ideal Of duty.
A man sends his renewal to
this paper with the accompany
ing letter: Keep the paper COM
ing. The women folks all read
it: and when they read it they
don't talk; and when they don't
talk | have little peace and
quiet" 1t would be interesting
toknow if this manis3an amateur
humoristsaor=sa :..ddownstrodden''
husband. Is he trying to be fun {
ny at his wife's expense, or has
he really discovered a new mis-
sion for the paper? At any rate,
his letter whetehr it lis facetious
or i'll tempered, suggests the
possibility that maybe we all talk
/ too Notwithstanding the COM
planning gentleman. An old pro-
verb has it that speech is silverin
and silence is golden. The scrip
ture contains many injunctions
concerning governing that un-
ruly member, the tongue. And
the joke smiths from the time of
the Ancient Greeks, and pro-
badly long before, have made the
laxative woman the butt of their
jests.
But after all. do women talk
more than men? Every COM
munity has a man whose first
name ought to be Windy" Wo-
mans gatherings may resound
with talk, talk and more talk; but
sodolodge rooms, the barbershop,
street corners and other spots
where men are want to congre-
gate. Women may gossip-but
so do men; and outside the ex-
elusive Smart Set of our cities
women are not given to telling
coarse stories. We have the con-
.viction that the small talk of a
group of women today, will not
compare unfavorably with the
talk of their husbands and broth
ers.
But at that, men and women
alike waste a lot of breath upon
matters of small consequence.
And it isn't the unruly tongue
: that is the offender. it is the emp
ty mind. If we live q narrow,
little life with no interest beyond
the petty affairs of our own
household or those Of our mmedi-
neighbors: If we have no know
ledge of what is going on in our
world; if we move along in mar
row groove and never lift our;
eyes to the hills beyond: if we are
held fast by rock. ribbed pre-
JUDGES, we probably have very
little to say that will add to the
we'll being of our neighbors. and
any talk at all is too much talk.
The one safe rule in talking is
this, Have something to say,
that is worth while, say it,
then quit.