The Washington times., 1929-12-30
ADVICE TO
LOKELORN
YOUTH
BY Beatrice Fairfax
An Authority on Problems Of Love
and Marriage

CHRISTMAS aftermath Is
here-every one cheerful.
full Of turkey and cram
berry sauce-nearly broke, but
happy, with a newly acquired
wealth Of neckties, billfolds and
cuff links or evening bags and
pretty hahdkerchiefs! just as
we begin to get our breath after
Christmas thrills, 10 and behold
it's New Year Eve-time to get
the New Year resolutions ready.
What a thrill there is in max
ing those New Year resolu-
tions! Even by the end OF the
first day of the New Year some
Of them are likely to be broken.
If you wrote all your resolutions
down and crossed each one off
as you broke it, would there be
any left on the list by the end
Of January? Just the same,
those New Year resolutions are
worth making, because they
show enthusiasm, interest IN
progress, which is the best IN
centive to a Happy New Year.
To turn over a new leaf on
New Years, then redouble ones
efforts to work and struggle for
better things, means a good
start on the shining road TO
success, progress and happiness.
Enthusiasm, determination 20
improve, a mind open to prog
ress and new ideas, sensitive
ness to all that is beautiful and
fine and good, an honest out
look on life, love of adventure,
willingness to work long and
patiently at loved work, the
determination to slip off silly
shackles, of old prejudices and
get the utmost JOY and good
and love from this human life
of ours-these are character
istic Of the era in which we
live and these qualities are the
very essence Of romance. That
is why I wish you q romantic
New Year, dear girls and boys
"a year Of deep feeling as well
as thought, of fine adventure
as well as practical good sense.
Romance includes more than
falling in love-romance in
cIudeS all that is bright and
beautiful, all that looks deep
into life, Through the material
to the underlying spiritual. So
when wish you romantic
New Year I do not mean neces-
Sarily that I am hoping 1880
will bring you love and mar
riage, although nothing better
than q wise marriage can hap
pen to any young man or
woman when the right time
comes. But ! am hoping you
viii, whatever comes, look up
and not down, out and not in,
forward, not back.
The young folks of today are
honest minded, hence clean
minded, facing frankly the facts
Of life. They are not perfect,
neither are they depraVed, but
mixed good and bad like all
humanity. And youths leaders
today are those of its own gen.
Grafton who set the example
practical idealists. The Charles
LindberghS, the John CoOlidges
and thousands of less famous
couples are illustrations Of the
fact that today, as always, q
marriage Of friendship and al
lection is the wise and happy
state for a young man and
woman who wish to get the ut
most good and joy from life
and also serve the best interests
of the community.
Perhaps the keynote of typi-
cal marriages of today is the
congenial comradeship OF two
life partners, Young Mrs. John
Coolidge writes:
People think it silly for q
girl to go to college just to
learn housekeeping. think 1t
is q great help in marriage be
cause it brOadens ones outlook.
II think a wife must be equal
In education with her husband,
so that they may have interests
in common. Get as much edu-
cation as possible !" I've al
ways felt that marriage was the
most genuine thing in life
even when I was in college"
On January 2 Anna and Carl
will take out a marriage IL
cense. New American citizens,
having been born and brought
up in foreign city and having
sought the new land of prom
ise in America, they first met
here, where Carl is now a bank
clerk and Anna a governeSS. A
weeks honeymoon, then, bet
ter still, their own little walk-up
flat in a suburb there is Just
as much romance in this quiet
wedding as any that ever took
place in the days of knights
and ladies and tournaments on
fields of the cloth of gold. Ro-
nance still lives.
If you are old enough to be
grown up mentally and phySi-
cally-Say past your teenS-I
hope that 1880 will bring to
your experience the happy
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