The Washington times., 1937-01-19

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Or, perhaps, Elsie Robinson
as you've chatted while ambling
down some well-loved trail. Not
formal sentences, set paragraphs,
but casual, quiet words passing
back and forth as the mood rose
or fell each word sinking into
your heart E. healing some secret
hurt heartening some secret
fear.
FRIENDLY WORDS
Quiet. casual. well, Ted Ma
lone's Christmas letter was like
that. Just a handful Of friendly
words telling how he'd decorate
your Christmas tree if he could. d..
with a silver chain of friend
ship circling from the topmOst
twig down through the multi
cOlOred globes Of glad hours"
Baskets full of happiness. ...
"a snow-white chest of hope" E.
All those presents you're want
ing and needing so Eorely, deep
inside, with a hunger no Paris
jewelry or hand-tooled smoking set
can ever fill,
And then, suddenly, the in
evitable bit of bedrock truth
which Ted always manages to
slip to you along with the
chuckleS and jokes and tears. A
wish. But what a wish! Sounds
simple enough-but I wonder how
many of us can take it!
Its Christmas time, and this
my wish that life will always
hold for you new chapters you
may walk into"
NEW CHAPTERS-surely that's
a gay and easy thing for any
friend to be wishing another, with
the old year passing out and the
new year opening.
NEW CHAPTE RS - new
chances-new adventures aren't
we all wanting them? We Ger
tainly are. Not only wanting, but
demanding them - praying for
them-curSing our fate if they
don't come pronto and plenty.
But how do we feel when our
prayer is answered?
How do we act when those NEW
CHAPTERS really arrive?
Do we take them as they come,
in all their strangeness, all their
discomfort? For anything new"
by it's very nature, must be
strange, risky, uncomfortable, in
convenient.
Do we remember this when the
New Chapter opens? Do we vel
come the strangenesS which will
blast us out of our old SNUG ruts?
Do we rise to the challenge which
will test our reserves Of courage
and initiative? Do we thank God
for the risk which will leave us
stronger, wiser and friendlier, if
we have the courage to see it
through?
NEW CHAPTER
or do Ue shrink from the
New Chapter, 1Uith all it i'm
plies? Do 1Oe eUGde and duck
.. pretend that IDe'd be per.
tectIy delighted to seize this
neU chance if only things tDere
a little different it our at.
fairs 10ere in shape it our
folks tDere iDilling? But IDe
haze to think of them first E.
1De're not really free to do as
We please. OF course, If it
Dere another kind of opportW-
nifty if it paid better
if 1Ue didn't haze to leGUe home
.. And so on and on, eTIdIeSSLy,
tDith excuses and Glibis!
A NEW CHAPTER. You KNOW
you need it-you THINK you want
it-you're SURE you'd welcome
it-BUT WOULD YOU REALLY?
Are you really ready for its
changes, its challenges? Or
wouldn't you, rather. cling to the
old chapters, the old conditions
that have become comfortable
habits for your lazy, cowardly
spirit?
I'm WISHING YOU A NEW
CHAPTERv" says Ted Malone.
Yes, darling-but try n make
some of us take it!
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