Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03


n was trial No getting away from
that And as she grew older. the many
~ aggravating little facets to her per-
sA Sonality grew more pronounced.
She had been dominating young GIRL she
had been a dominating wife and, not UNI
naturally. dominating mother. NOT that
her dominance had ever actually outbalanceo
her thousand and one ingratiating traits. Like
all emphatic personalities, she was no GOOD
ut halfway measures. The mother OF Theresa.
all her life, had been as high-handed as she
was soft-hearted: as domineering rs she was
merciful.
Her husband whom she fretted, even as she
was later to fret her daughter, declared all
OF his married life with her that she enervateo
him with her excess of vitality, robbed him
Of ambition by virtue of the SuperaDundance
Of hers, wore him down, tired him out, ex-
ha,,sted him. And yet with these legitimate
grievances, he adored her, as those who knew
the mother of Theresa could testtfy-glorieo
In her dominance, complained batterly OF ner
an his life, and died in her arms, blessing her
with Theresa her only child, every one
predicted total eclipse. There was no with
standing the overshadowing figure OF her
mother The girl could not be expected to
develop a personality of her own while her
mother ate for her. slept for her, thought for
her and reached decisions for her.
A ND all that was true enough until Theresa
reached the age of 20, when suddenly there
developed in the girl, who lived beneath the
shadow of her parent like chick under the
wing of the hen slow, cumulative, re-
bellious kind of anger that gathered within her
like q storm but unlike a storm did not burst
but rolled up, rather, into a great. portentous
gloom.
Strange but for some time the mother OF
Theresa too absorbed in her career OF living
- xlil not lofV fhQ
And therein lay danger for the mother OF
Theresa, because slowly, oh so slowly and I'M
perceptibly, the girl was bucking her VIII
against the alleged iron one OF her parent. ana
It was to transpire in the end that the mother
Of Theresa had no iron viii at all, but an ex-
tremely malleable one, only awaiting the indi-
yidual with the purpose to overthrow 1t.
And so 1t was that gradually, but with I'M
reienting consistency, slowly, surely, the daugh-
ter gained the upper hand In the relationship
NJ parent and offspring, and within 12-month
after she 20 the transportation OF Their
positions was complete.
Almost imperceptiby robbed Of her domino
ton by q daughter who would no longer toler-
ate dictation, you could see the mother whiten,
weaken age as she loosed her hold and gave
way to what time had shown TO be the stronger
personality of the two.
Not that there was an open issue. Out
wardIy the situation was practically the same.
That Is, In the beginning at least, the Old re-
gpect and obedience to the dictates OF the
parent were there. But somehow, within her
self and to her own secret loathing. the girl
had turned against her parent. The older
woman got on her nerves." as the saying
goes. She capable Of being short with
her, curt in her replies even rude And under
this treatment the mother Of Theresa, so
astonishingly vulnerable to domination once
you pierced her armor, became timid haunted
creature, a little afraid Of her child
MOT but what the younger woman fought
off this power of hers when she beheld