The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-10-18

natural course of marriage and
motherhood, and they find glory and
money rather poor pickings in the
end. aa -
And the merely rich women! The
glamour girls who have done nothing
to earn their luxury and power, their
yachts and Palm Beach mansions,
their furs and jewels-what sad
mess THEY make of it!
Within a few years of the time
when you went around all morning
wishing you were in Gloria Millions
place, Gloria is haggardly facing a
second divorce, supporting flatter-
ing circle of titled European hang
ers-on, and telling the whole world
that she will fight for the custody
of her child.
Whereas you, if you've played
your cards wisely, are the adored
mother of two brown tall Indians
of children who are dancing about
because it's Saturday, and Nom is
taking Jim and Mary and the Sim
mons children off to the beach for
the day.
Or you're absorbed in your gar
den; there's no heartache cure like
a garden. You've decided to have
supper out-of-doors. You're trying
for prize contest on the air. Your
Persian aristocrat has produced
three delicious kittens. The baby
next door has been loaned to you
for his noon Pabulum and his after
noon nap. Jim is, thank goodness,
going to be free for a three-day
weekend next Friday. Mary is in
first year French and it's perfectly
amazing how your old grammar and
you can help her. You've got to
consider both sides of moving to
that possible farm. Chickens and
fruit and quiet and space against
the committing trip for. Jim. \,
All Possess Materials for Happiness.
In short, you've mastered content.
You've learned that to each one of
us women in this life is melted out
the materials for happiness; it is
only our wisdom or stupidity in ham
ding them that makes the differ
ence. The successful writer,
actress, heiress of course MAY be
happy. But she has to be happy on
exactly the same terms that are
available to you. She has to have
love, and chance for service, and
books and appetite and deep sleep.
And often these are all sacrificed
before she has discovered how per-
ishable is fame, how brief is youth,
how little money can buyl While
you are climbing up the scale to
the forties and fifties, she is descend
ing to depths that you never knew.
Face-lifting and cocktails and men,
cries of past splendors don't help
her; nobody remembers and nobody
cares.
Develop what you have. The chill
dren, the back yard, the possible
picnic and camping sites within
reach, the libraries, the swimming
beaches. Develop hobbies, activi-
ties, interests. They don't spring
into being full-grown. But you will
be pleasantly surprised to see how
fascinating they can become.
Develop Jim, too. AS you grow
to be contented middle-aged and
someday old woman, take him along
with you. Make the fifties happy
years, and the sixties even better.
The woman who does that will soon
find herself in position to pity the
very stars and glamour girls and
celebrities that she is envying today.
And most important of all, develop
yourself. Try to achieve that peace
Of mind which can only follow from
a life well lived, because as eagerly
as you are now looking ahead to
new thrills, in your old age you will
look back upon the pleasures that
have been yours.