San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-13
Listen, World!
Phantasies
By Elsie Robinson

ter Eunice. Simply flabbergasteI
That such an honest, good girl should
suddenly tell such a fearful lie! Why,
she never went to that party at the
+ Gladdcn's ut all, and yet she came
home and gave glowing description
Of it to her anxious mother and father.
They'd counted good deal on that
party had Ma and Pa Ransom. Eunice
had been such difficult child to bring
up. Shy and awkward. she just
couldn't seem to make friends. Time
after time. they'd started her out for
some affair, only to have her return
home in tears. So naturally when the
Gladdcns asked her-THE Gladdcns
they'd worried n good bit over the
result. And when Eunicc came in at
eleven. all flushed with excitement,
they thought it had been wonderful
success. But the very next day Mrs.
GLADDEN. phoned to inquire how Eunice
was--so sorry she been ill-and it al
came out. She simply couldn't bear
to face another humiliation, so she'd
'phoncd her regrets and gone to a
movie instead! And now Ma and Pa
Ransom are wondering what sort of 4
dcccitful monster they've bred.
She isn't a monster, partners. She
is simply a shy, hurt human trying
to bring her unsatisfactory career up
TO par by padding and coloring 1t bit.
Sympathy and patience will help her
through. But before you can Slyc
those you must first have understand
ing.
Eunice hasn't developed some new.
hAA utr IS httn a
We're all like that, TO a greater or
less degree. Every week, there pass
through my office, dozens OF people
who arc trying to do what Eunice has
done. Timid, unsuccessful men
homely, unpopular women-neglectcd
boys and girls-all of them hungry for
the love and admiration which life
seems to deny them. And nearly all OF
them trying. BY some subterfuge to get
what they need.
There's one case, which may throw
some light on this problem in many
homes. 1t isn't the ease of normal,
growing girl like Eunice. It's the case
Of a mind which has wondered over
the border-line and will never more be
ouite sane. But the imulse at the root
of bcr insanity is the same impulse
which moved Eunicc TO tell her fool
ISL lie.
ycrna Clark (of course this isn't
her namc) is now 81. She is a small,
colorless. rather sickly looking girl
with n mcIancboIy expression. De-
.pitc her seeming hclplcssncss she has
n good position in n brokers oIilcc.
Her work is ALWAYS jnteIIigcntIy and
carcfulIv done. She IL extremely neat.
with gentle, refined manners. She
Ncods splondid books. Doesn't sound
like an insane person, docs she? But
read on.
Vcrna has done great deal for
herself. She was the fifth daugh-
ter in n big, poycrty-strickcn family.
She had few advantages as child and
lived in the more sordid surroundings.
Her sisters were pretty, were eager.
Nv sought after and married young.
She was n skinny. awkward child.
with rough, blush skin, drab hair and
a. moody temper. She was most un
popular. .r.
BY great effort she managed 30 20
through high school where her work
was so well done that she drew the
! attention of one of the teachers who
helped her find good position on
graduation. From that time on it has
been n steady climb. hard work. moder-
ate success, but no diversions save
reading or an occasional movie. She
has. almost no friends. People con
slider her a moody. shut.in girl. with
no interest in the life about her.
YET ALL THIS TIME VERNA
HAS BEEN HAVING A CAREER
As HECTIC AS THE WIDEST
MELODRAMA! / know, for she has
written me about 1t for the last six
years. -.... ..
Men by the dozen have made I'm
,,agsinpnd lnve to Inrnn-Othpr men
Lnve handed her through school and