Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-01

| getting worse as it goes along-which
| it distinctly is not.
| II ~ y X -.
Sir James Barrie, in a guarded ad-
dress several years ago, which has
| been printed in a neat little book, by
| the way, paid his tribute to youth.
Certainly 1t was the old men, those
terrible "old men," who caused the great
| catastrophe of the World War. Only
| today I was looking through pano-
| rama collection OF the scenes OF those
wonderful battles of the A. i. +.
Destruction, loss, desolation - il
| would be a good thing for the world
| is such collections were broadcast
over all the lands, so that the fiery
| hearts of youth could see what those
| old men did.
There is one thing certain about
| the World War--the young men OF the
| charge, could have made no worse mess
| Of it than the graybeards did.
That was what Sir James Barrie
| meant, and. If you will forgive me
| the juxtaposition, that is what I
mean. Perhaps that was what DR..
| Osler meant
1t is because the young people are
of such vitality. such beauty and such
paramount interest that my secret Is
If you believe in them, you want
to save them from misery and self
consciousness.
II person gets firmly fixed in his
| mind the truth that no one is really
| interested in any one except himself
he will stop trying to please those
| of no Importance in his life.
| 1t is because children imagine that
| their own deeds and thoughts are
| equally great in the eyes of others
| agances in the way of aping each
| other in dress and In actions, or. bet
| ter, aping the dress and actions of
| the less worthy of their friends.
| To get firmly the idea that the
| other fellow is interested mostly in
| himself-not in you-s to take a
great step toward ditchtng self-con-
| seriousness.
The lives of sensitive children are
made miserable for many years by
! their constant idea that every one
| else they meet or see is looking at
| them. 1t is not until they arrive at
a point many years later in their
| progress through the world that they
realize how foolish they have been.
| Take. the young girl attending her
| first box party at the theater. She
| thinks every eye there Is hXed upon
her. Perhaps SO. but only for a Sec
| ond. They are interested more in
themselves, never forget, and will
| turn away
| Indifference on the part of others
vanishes when you do not expect too
| much of them. The heartaches that
| come from lack of Indifference will
fade into thin air, where they belong.
il you do not expect too much at
| tention.
| You may have laughed sometime s
| at the commencement orators when
they tell you how you should be true
to yourself, etc, etc. Bromide" you
| whisper to each other.
| But what else could the orator do?
| What else is IT possible to tell you
than to be true to yourself, be true
to the best in you, and God bless you
| If you like to plant roses in the
back yard, let the boys call you
Sissy" Some day you will be a I.u-
Their Burbank, and the little rough
necks-grown--will come to you for
Jobs"
| ] hope no one reading here will get
the idea that the secret here impaired
is the fruit of cynicism Life is big
| ger than cynicism or skepticism or
optimism, or any of the other 'jsms."
To realize that people are mostly
| interested In themselves is but TO
EDo,r q fact NJ life ..-,