The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-01
Faith and
Hope Lessen
Bitterness
BY MARTHA LEE

The grandeSt virtues IN the world,
as applied to individuals, are faith
and hope. Charity is the greatest,
but faith and hope are the grandest,
because it is usually when charity
has failed, that hope and faith come
up to help a person over the rough
spots, to see that he gets through
the black days without being embit-
tered and desolate.
Usually, if charity had had a
hand in things in the first place,
the results would not have to be
feared. If an individual, in his
dealings with another individual,
would think ahead to the results
that deceit and lying might bring
about, there would not be the dam
ger of lost faith in everything that
was once held sacred.
Take a boy, for instance, who, in
order to gain something, leads
girl into believing he loves her with
an undying ASSIGN, that life with
out her wou' be nothing at all, that
If she does not say eyes" he will
make mad dash for White river,
and there wash away the anguish
that is in his heart.
The poor girl, bowled over by the
dramatic intensity of the situation,
takes it all in and thinks it's duck
soup. OF course, she is silly. But
no person has a right to cash in on
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Soon enough she finds out, as
they used to say in the silent
"drammer," that she has been
duped; that this young man can live
very comfortably without her or the
thought that she exists. She grows
bitter and cynical. One little act
Of charity on the part of the boy
in the first place would have saved
all this heavy strain on faith and
hope.
have a letter today from a girl
who has had two rather hard blows:
Dear Miss Lee-I am Is years old When
was II years old started going with
boy from another town, who was going
to college in my home town. I grew to
like him very much. AS I am an only
child, my parents were more strict with
me than most parents. and when I had
dates, we usually stayed home or went
to a movie.
went with this boy during his first
three years in school. He was out to my
house, after I was graduated from high
school, morning, noon and night. He was
guest at our house for luncheon and
dinner about Ave nights out of the week.
Finally, one night we had small quarrel.
He did not come back the next day, or
the next week. heard he was running
around with a group of boys, drinking and
carrying on. We had been engaged for
the past year, and were to have been
married when he was graduated.
Well the story is that he turned me
nat. After that one quarrel he never
came back and finally married another
girl. 7 was simply heartbroken. For a
year would not go out any place. 7
had hope chest filled with things ] had
made in preparation for our marriage and
number of things to be. completed, Every
time I looked at these 1 thought would
| die from the bitterness that filled nay
| heart.
| I met another boy an older fellow. who
| was very attentive to me. He took me out
and treated me wonderfully Finally, he
| told me he loved me and wanted to marry
nae. I consented and he bought me q
| beautiful diamond Everything was going
| fine. Our plans were completed for our
marriage the following month, when. a
| check was brought to me that had been
| forged by my fance.
I was simply stunned, and of course,
| believed there would be an explanation
as soon as 7 saw him. There was. and
I was satisfied with it. Then few weeks
later the ieweler took my engagement ring
away from me. There were a few more
| forgeries and had to give him up. I am
| absolutely desolate. I no longer have
faith in anybody or anything I don't
want to be that way It doesn't seem
right though. All my life have tried so
hard to do the right thing. I have never
wilfully injured any one as long as have
| lived, and yet these things must happen
| to me. JEANETTE.
That is your consolation, Jeanette,
that because you have always been
| fair about things you get let out of
misery such as you have never
known by marrying a man who did
not really love you or a crook. Just
count on that old faith and hope to
pull you through the dark days and
before you know it you'll find some
one who looks at life as you do, who
will bring you enough happiness to
make up for all those heart breaks.
In the meantime, don't get a frown
on your face. 1t is very dampening
to romance.