Evening star., 1935-11-19

people cannot DO themselves they
consider just perfectly awful for other
people to do, and try to stop them.
A NYWAY, a woman of SO can do
anything that is decent that she
has the strength and the health and
the inclination to do. Many women
even older than you take up sports, 20
to college. go into business or become
globe-trotters, and instead Of lifting
their eyebrows at them, all intelligent
people give them the glad hand. For
it is fine thing for woman to have
initiative enough to find something
interesting and enjoyable to do that
will make the latter part Of her life
perhaps the better part of it, instead
Of sitting down in the corner at home
in dull despair waiting for death to
come and get her.
The greatest modern improvement
is that We have abolished age and
have thrown into the junk pile the
hampering superstitions about what
an old person should wear and what
an old person should do and how old
people should conduct themselves. 1t
simply put people in their 4O's in a
stralt-Jacket and after they were so
they might just as we'll have been in
the grave for all the liberty they had
and all the pleasure they got out of
life.
In those terrible old fiv,,a,
with grown children was looked at
askance and thought to be frivolous
II she didn't wear black silk and sit
on the sidelines at parties. Then a
respectable middle-aged woman was
expected TO get all the exercise she
needed by walking to market and
church instead of playing golf or rid
ing a bicycle or driving a car. The
chimney corner was wished on Grand
ma While she was still hale and hearty
and she was expected to enjoy herself
by preparing for the end
X
RUT look at it now. Grandma and
Granddaughter buy glad raiment
at the same specially shops, they 20
to the same parties and nobody cares
whether Grandma is 20 or 100 as long
as she is gay and amusing Grandma
isn't in the chimney corner, she is on
a world cruise. And she isn't medi-
tating on her latter end. she is asking
what's trumps in a snappy game Of
contract.
So next time your critical friend
tells you that women of So are not
riding bicycles, you tell her that they
are doing it and whatever else they
like, and that if she doesn't know
it she is just behind the times.
And here is final tip: Don't let
what people say about you worry you
so long as your conscience is clear.
You will never be happy until you ac-
quire the trick Of letting your friends
and your neighbors criticisms go in
one ear and come out of the other
without leaving even a memory or a
resentment behind.
Because people are going to talk
about you and discuss your affairs and
find fault with your taste whatever
you do, even as you do theirs. No
matter what you do or leave undone
they are going to find fault with 1t,
and so as you cannot possibly please
the public why not please yourself and
do as you like, providing, of course,
you keep within the bounds of proper
conduct?
X
DEAR MISS DIX: l am % years
old and have been married five
months. Before I married 1 joined a
woman's lodge, attended several meet
ings and card parties. all of which
enjoyed very much. Now my husband
refuses to let me go to meetings or
to attend any social activities. I have
no outside interests and feel as if I
should have something to do to oc-
cupy little Of my time after my
housework is done. Do you think I
am wrong ir asking for this little bit
of freedom? T. H. S,
AnsWer.-I certainly do not, and 7
think that your husband does not un-
derstand how cruelty tyrannical he
is or else he would not withhold this
bit of personal liberty from you. Just
ask him how he would like it il the
tables were turned and you refused
to let him belong to any club or to
spend an hour or two every week or
so with a group of men. Just ask him
how he would like to be shut up in q
house all day with only his own
thoughts for company and nobody to
swap a bit of gossip with.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright. 1880
Cooking Hint.