Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-23
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
John Is So Unsympathetic.

Dolores complains loudly and irri-
tably that her John Is the most un-
sympathetic of mortals
They're to be married some day and
she doesn't see how she's going to get
along with man who has so little
sympathy and considera ton for her.
Instead Of the loving tenderness
which she has a right to expect when
she pours forth her troubles. she gets.
more often than not. friendly slap
on the back and the advice to buck
up. old kid
This inks her--makes her feel that
John can't really care as much as he
should. Otherwise he would be so
deeply moved by her troubles. his con.
Germ would be deep and his sympathy
generous.
/ OF course, this shows quite clearly
| that John isn't wise to wOmen's ways,
or he'd have the sense to refrain from
the Buck up, old kid" stuff That
seldom makes a. hit with any women
John is evidently not much of a
lady's man or he'd realize that his
wisest course was to humor little
Dolores, no matter how foolish he
thought her fears and troubles.
But John being what he is. Dolores
should heave a. long sigh of relief and
thank goodness that she'd tied up to
a regular guy.
Johns bluff. goodnatured chaff will
do her more good in the end than all
the pity and soft Escaping she might
get from a more tender, compass.
siOnate sweetheart.
For Dolores troubles are chronic
and she Is apt to think her lot a great
deal sadder than it is really most of
the time.
With a little encouragement she
can work herself into fine state of
complete misery and hopelessness-
a state where all the world seems
against her. and she, a brave little
martyr, must struggle on alone
against cruel odds.
Kenneth. her old flame of last year.
used to humor her In the approved
fashion. He used to take all her
woes as seriously as she did herself.
Dolores would sob pleasantly for
hours with her head on Ken's broad
shoulder while he patted her tenderly
and murmured brokenly that IL he
could do anything to relieve her suf-
fering, he'd be only too glad to, ETC.,
etc.
Dolores thought Ken the ideal
listener the real pal She still
compares him favorably to John with
his calm indifference tos her suffer-
ings. and his blithe assurance that
everything will be all right. IL she'll
only look at things from a sensible
point of view.
Instead of bothering about what
she calls Johns cold bloddedness,"
she ought to start worrying about
how long she can hold a man like her
present sweetheart.
For he. blithe optimist. is not going
to hitch himself up for life to whin-
ing pessimist who seeks always to be
comforted
Some day he's going to pull out
unless she takes up a new attitude
toward life. Dolores will have lost
the best tonic in the world for her
morbid state of mind il she loses John.
She must stop wailing over his lack
of sympathy and start working on
her own lack of balance and common
sense.
II she will let him. John will cure
her of her chronic blues" If she
throws him over because he can't
sympathize with her doldrums, she'll
settle down to life with sympathetic
soul who will eventually reduce her
to complete pessimist
Copyright. 1926
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