San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-09

logical victory, so you will find-ii
you ask them,-that all successful
persons have the same story. Terrible
handicap - deadlock, - stalemate,-,
and then success.
To make a blunder-to do the
wrong thing, Why, that is not a bar.
rier TO success. 1t is an essential
part of it. The baby grows up tc
school age, the incompetent husband
| patents his silly little tiresome can
opener and sells the patent for three
hundred thousand dollars, or is sud
denly elected to the Senate
But Mary has jumped the traces
years before this. She would nc
work her way through the barriers
she sneaked about them. She has lon,
ago tried the movies and failed. Ant
made n half-heartcd second marriag,
and failed there, too. And she is nov
trying to write scenarios, rOominf
with girl friend" in a crowded city
and keeping the tail of her eye alert
for a rich and impressionable man.
1 remember taking 4 three-year old
boy to his first party years ago.
There were races, and as the youngster
watched the preparations for them in
some awe, / warned him:
you'll run, and you'll stumble
down, and lose your potato. and get
away behind the other children. Then
you must jump up and laugh, and
pick up your spoon and your potato
and begin running again, and then
you'll fall down again, and have to
jump up again"
1t was touching to see his faithful
execution of this prophecy. He fell.
arose laughing, staggered boldly on,
and in the end outdistanced older ba-
bies who wept and stopped short AZ
delays.
For there is really no such thing
as actual failure. The only real fail
ure is inside. The uninspiring hus-
band, the anchoring babies, the money
reverses, the apparent loss of oppor-
tunities, all these are assets, not liza
bilities. These are life in the con-
cret, these teach. dvelop, expand all
ons potential forces.
Success and self-expression are not
less delicious at forty than at twenty
The greatest personal triumph Of the
last ten years was scored by a man
past fifty. One of the most success.
ful Of all English actresses went on
the stage in her fortieth year. One
of the most popular novelists was
past sixty when he began to produce.
Prepare yourselves. you women
who are tortured with the nasging
Of fear Of having missed some
thing, of having mismanaged your
lives, for the next change. All our
lives are moving steadily, inevitably,
toward change. The one true thing
about you and me, and the king of
England and the murderer sent to Jail
for life is that we don't know what
is moving toward us. We didn't ex-
pect the last big revolution, Ton s
death and the fire and Mollie's mar
land-how amazing all this would
have seemed ten years ago!
Presently-not in days perhaps, bat
in the years that are SO slow to pass,
so brief to review presently will
come another complete shifting. Some
will go up. some down.-those will go
up. you may be sure. who Lave been
getting ready for promotion. and those
will go down whose inevitable trend
is toward delay. and encouragement,
and idle regrets.
"Yes-but I'm twenty-eight-I'm
thirty-four 80 say the women, with
watering eyes. 81 should have begun
years ago.
And in ten years how young-how
powerful-twenty-ei and thirty
four will seem 10 these same women.