The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
Being Noble
BAH Right
in It's Place
BY MARTHA LEE

A life Of devotion and service is
one of the most beautiful in the
world, but it does have its draw
backs. When those to whom that
life has been devoted leave, there
you are, hanging on the end Of a
bough. No person, for his own sake,
should devote all his life, all his
thoughts, all his time to one indi-
Vidual.
To keep as happy as this world
allows. it is necessary to have out
side interests. A wife whose whole
heart lies in her home and children
is a happy sight, but it doesn't
help to hold her husband if he, on
the other hand, likes some pleasure,
some recreation, outside the walls
of his home.
A man wants his wife to be inter-
esting, to feel vitally concerning the
things that interest him He wants
her to be able to converse intelli-
gently about something besides what
Johnny did while she was stirring
up the gingerbread and what Jane
said when Mrs. Smith came to call.
Have Some Interests
Even more essential it is for an
unmarried woman to fill her life
with interests so that she will not
become sour and ingrown, because
she does not even have the advant-
ages of a little Johnny and a baby
Jane.
Many women who have not
married have SO acted to care for
their parents. Noble, to say the
least. T3ut a woman who has a
choice and who decides to devote
her life to her parents is doubly
duty bound to keep interests that
will be sufficient to fill her life
after her parents are gone.
It is the sacred duty of everyone
to retain the finer characteristics
and understanding that an unem-
FILTERED life can bring. And when
one finds oneself growing bitter and
cynical, it is time to shake ones
mental teeth till they chatter.
Dear Miss Lee-When I was a young
girl my parents, who were then well up
in years. had financial reverses. went
to work. I was quite attractive looking
and was not without chances for marriage,
but I could see no way but to stay single
and continue to help my parents.
None of my affairs of the heart became
serious enough for the question of whether
ths man would be willing to take them
with us, to arise. But I felt it my duty
always to look after them.
Now they are gone. am well on the
way to so with good bank account and
9 good profession. But I suddenly am
completely lost. have few friends and
no outside interests, as devoted all my
spare time to mby parents.
/ am afraid of people. because they all
seem so intensely interested in so-many
different things, about all of which
know nothing. I feel as though I were
becoming monomaniac from such lone
Illness. What can I do? LONELY.
Get a leave of absence. Take
your bank account and go on a nice
trip. You need a change of envir-
onment, change of air and change
Of mind.
Go Away on Long Trip
Get away from everything that
you have grown accustomed to.
There is nothing for loneliness like
a good long trip on the train to new
scenes.
Your chose your path, to walk
with your parents. Now you owe
it to yourself to make it pleas
ant and agreeable one.
Perhaps you have allowed your
self to grow so sour that you no
longer are happy companion. Stop
standing in the doorway, watching
life go by. Get out and mingle with
the throng.