, 1935-10-18
SensitiUe Folk
Brood About
Humihations

"oh. forget itI" said big sister
Jean TO little sister Kate. You "a
Ga and On about not being asked to
that party &C though 1t mattered.
Touu be asked to other parties.
Suppose there hadn't been any par
ty. Then what7"
you and mother are always tell
ing me TO forget things, but / Just
can't forget. I wanted 10 20, and
besides, Martha was asked"
We'll, Martha's aunt Is some re-
lation 10 the Blakes and you know
very well that the Blakes have about
xxty cousins right here In town. They
had 70 leave out everybody that
wasn't some sort OF q relation TO
Betty"
Mother came in for the last Of It
and added:
Katherine, you are 20 much like
your father - always being Offend
ed about things nobody can help.
Jean is like me-she sees reasons for
everything. And there always is a
reason. You have 70 learn that every
day of your life is going to hold some
thing that win mortify you and hurt
you II you let 1t, my dear"
Fleeing From Classroom Hurt
The next day In school Kate was
reprimanded for rubbing her spell
ing paper. She filled up and cried
and was further Inundated by her
own tears and the knowledge that
every child In the room was staring
at her. So that no one could men,
ton Il 10 her after school. she darted
down q side street and took q round
about way home. Her modification
would not wear itself out for q week
and each night she would torture
herself before sleep came with mag
mary things the other children were
saying about her.
Poor little Katiel There are %
many children like her in the world.
and so many grown-upS, too. HUI
initiation goes with q vivid magma
ton and its victim toftures himself
far more than the cause warrants.
What NJ be done about 1t? What
win help TO smooth the path Of these
.inferiority people and thicken their
skins against the barbs OF everyday
e~xistence3
1T sounds so futile to say, Forget
A." o. Sister Jean advised Kate. But
actually II Ia the only cure.
Escape Sought In Oblivion
A woman I knew was cursed with
q vulnerable soul: she said this: II
have trained myself BY an almost
euperhuman effort 70 n definite
thought when I suffer out OF reason.
Laugh II you like. but ! invented q
aloud. When ] was cut to the quick,
'as rapidly as possible I conjured my
cloud. It was like q swnng, and I sat
ON &c and sailed through the air TO q
soothing rhythm.
Il could not make my mind q vac
uufn. and I found / couldn't concern
trmte on some other matter with that
pain In my emotional vitals. But
next TO complete forgetfulness came
the rosy cloud. I cant explain it, but
I think each one Of us representative
people has To find some such panacea
Tor Q hurt. Il isn't quite 'substitu-
ton nd not quite 'forgetfulness.
but q sort OF combination OF both.
After I have been on q journey IN
rosy space. / find I can face actuali-
~ without too much suffering"
With children / think that hasty
substitution or deep interest In some
thing else helps. But one cannot
always be there with the bromide
In a crisis. As they get older, they
will find their own antidote for hurt
feelings. Perhaps not 80 unusual as
q cloud, but some way known only 70
themselves that will help to assuage
The slight, the reprimand and the
failure.