Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

eyes have been washed clear with
tears who get the broad vision that
makes them little sisters to all the
world.
This is of itself a compensation
for many sorrows. but / have more.
/ have proved myself to myself. ]
know that / have the strength to
endure, and the courage to carry on,
and that l will not be craven enough
to run up the white flag, no matter
what other difficulties / may be call
ed upon to meet.
"'The skeleton at the feast of the
woman who has always been happy
and prosperous is fear. She becomes
panic-stricken when she thinks that
she may be called upon to meet
trouble: that she may have hardships
to endure; that her soul may be
torn with suffering. She suffers with
apprehension at the thought of pow
erty, and wonders how she could en-
dure to go shabby. and do without
the things to which she is accus-
toned. She wonders helplessly what
she would do If she had to earn her
own living.
II am not afraid of poverty. be-
cause I have been poor and l know
that poverty has it's consultations and
brings you pleasures that money
cannot buy. Nor am I afraid to sup
port myself. I have earned my bread
and butter for many years. / know
the satisfaction of knowing that she
who is self supporting turns her
crust into angels food.
None of the fears with which
happy women torture themselves
upon occasion have any terrors for
me. know them for the bogies they
are, and know. too. that they fly
away before the person who does not
crinse before them.
"Often I am tempted to envy the
woman who has always had some
strong man to stand between her
and the world, some man whose ten
derness and love has guarded and
protected her. But I am consoled for
not being a clinging vine when
wonder what the vine would do and
think how broken 1t would be If the
sturdy oak on which 1t hangs were
laid low.
What Makes towards.
II have learned in the great uni.
versity Of hard knocks. a philosophy
that no woman who has had an easy
life acquires. I have learned to live
each day as 1t comes. and not to- Dor
row trouble by dreading tomorrow. 1t
is the dark menace Of the future that
makes towards OF us. put that
dread from me because experience has
taught me that when the time comes
that SO fear the strength and wis.
dom to meet 1t will be given me.
Little annoyances have no longer
the power to affect me- After you
have seen your whole edifice of hap.
piness topple and crash in ruins about
you. 1t never matters to you again
that a servant fofgets to put the doll
les under the finger bowls or tn cook
spills the soup.
II have learned not to expect too
much Of people, so I can still get hap
piness out of the friend who isn't
quite true to me, or the acquaintance
who gossips about me. and can even
find pleasure in the society of those
whose motives I see through.
above all, I have acquired a sense
Of humor. because there were so
many things over which I had either
to laugh or cry. And when a woman
can joke over her troubles instead Of
having Mysteries nothing can ever
hurt her much again.
$50 / do not regret the hardships
have known. because through them
] have touched life at every point.
have lived. And II was worth the
price had to pay"
With this beautiful philosophy how
could Dorothy Dix help being able to
interpret life truly and bravely- and
how to express the real love we feel
for those who are nearest ana dearest
to us, yet to whom Ne are often H.
tempered and inconsiderate.