The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-19

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BY MARTHA LEE

One hears that money is the key
note to happiness. Another per-
son will claim health is all that
makes life worth living. Still an
other says happiness is the result
Of intelligence, which makes it pos
sible for person to surmount the
horrid every day details that drag
like stones upon the souls and spirits
of those who have not the education
to argue them down in insignif1-
canoe.
Every individual has his own
recipe for happiness, founded upon
his own experiences in life. He
has weighed those things which
have made him happy against those
things which have caused him pain
and misery and trouble, and of
course the result is that all any
human being has to do is to follow
the course that he has mapped out
and he, too, shall find happiness.
But there is no road to happiness,
all marked off with signs and ar
rows and detours. There is no map
to follow. There is no recipe for
the connection. It is matter of
personal industry. 1t must be sought
out, in our own way, by each and
every one of us.
Every one is own Savior.
Every man is his own savior.
Dependency, i'll temper, a grudge
against the world in general. all
these must be done away with. by
the will and effort Of the person
suffering from them.
These moods which cause des-
pondency are injurious. They are
bad for the health, because they
cause a lack of appetite, q state of
nervousness, an inability to gauge
values.
They are injurious. too, because
they eStrange us from those who
must come in contact with us. All
in all, the game just isn't worth
the candle, and it merely is a state
of mind, overcome with honest eff
fort on the part of the afflicted.
Dear Miss Lee: I am SO miserably I'M
happy that if I we're courageous I be-
neve I would put an end to all this. I
am so alone and without friends. Other
girls my age II am ~ either are married
or thinking of being married, or inter
ested in careers. have nothing to keep
me interested in life now, and surely
nothing to look forward to in the future.
I am rather nice looking and have nice
clothes and good home. I have been
educated and Travelled quite a bit, but I
just don't seem to take, if YOU know what
I mean. I have no intimate friends. not
even girl friends 1 can chum around
with
There are loads of girls who have much
less than who seem so happy and con-
tented. What is the solution of this way
to happiness? What shall I do about it
all?
There is no way anyone can oil
rect you to happiness The only
advice anyone can give YOU that
might be helpful is to show you the
error of your ways. Happiness is
matter of keeping busy working
and thinking about someone besides
yourself. You are not bad off st
all.
1t is easy to see why you have no
friends. You are not very enter
tanning company for one thing. You
are sour and bitter and self -centered
with absolutely no reason for being
that way. You say you are edu-
Gated. Youmay nave been to school
but you certainly are not educated.
You say you have Travelled. So does
an elevator boy, going up and down
all day in fifteen story building.
Travel Has Meant Nothing.
Your travel has not meant any
thing more than your education,
for the simple reason that you have
merely covered mileage, like
speedometer. You register the dis
lance, but not another thing.
For your own sake. stop finding
yourself and your troubles SO de-
vastatingly interesting and start
looking about you with some in
terest. Life is filled with no end
of laughs and sobs and rib-tickling
incidents.
III