The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-25
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them would feel themselves rich
with a steady husband, a steady
income, two small sons, home, gar
den, car, perfect health, and that
security from aerial bombardment
that is becoming luxury in the
world.
Suggestion for Lola.
But that isn't fair. For she ad-
mits herself that she OUGHT to be
content, and really wants to cure
herself if it is her fault that she is
not. So instead of reproaching her,
I am going to make to her several
suggestions that may help her ex-
tricate herself from the rut into
which she has fallen.
To begin with, there is an inner
spirit or sublminal consciousness
or soul or entity in every woman.
It is a correspondence with ele-
ments that are supernatural. Call
this thing whatever you ike-Kar-
ma, Yogi, mental healing, the in
finite, Oneness-it means that you
recognize some influence higher
than a merely earthly influence, and
your values in life are formed on
something higher than purely
earthly scale.
Most of us call this imponderable,
infinite, intangible but very real
presence, God. We don't attempt
to analyze Him, work Him out on
charts and graphs; we merely go
into that stiffness called prayer now
and then, and await with perfect
confidence a renewal of life within
us; new sense of potentially,
trust, and above all delight and
eagerness in the outwardly dull rou-
tine of every day.
The Happiest People.
The happiest persons in this be-
wildered world, in fact the only
happy ones, are those who have
found this secret for themselves,
and revel in that unbounded glory
of living which the orientals call
''bliss" You can live in three
rooms in crowded tenement, and
possess it. You can be the wealth.
est woman in the world and miss it
completely. Yet it's open enough
to find, and it costs nothing. Ask,
and you shall receive it, and to re-
peat, it costs you nothing. It can be
yours.
Once this is achieved, a thousand
interests and indeed fevers possess
you. You want to live forever, so
that you may have time to read a
thousand books; accomplish thou
sand prison reforms and live to see
them work; establish a Spanish
class at Is cents lesson and watch
it grow until you are besieged with
class and radio engagements; plan
a garden, and glory In its beauty;
build backyard grill and enter
tain the boys and their friends
there; find an old country place and
move into it, and have chickens and
a cow; raise fne-bred Persian kit
tens; gather circle of their friends
about your boys and be sune that
the group in which they grow to
young manhood is a safe group;
study beekeeping, astronomy, book
binding; put up fancy preserves and
sell them. Or, under state super
vision, take three or four small chill
dren to board. The state pays
much more than they cost and the
work of building little citizens is
valuable one. Or go into politics,
by the simple process of attending
meeting or two, accepting posi-
ton on some committee, and con-
tributing your mite toward better
and wiser administration of your
local affairs. The country would be
better off if more women did this.
A Plan Is Necessary.
Some months ago was walking
through a dark Boston slum with a
young professional man. It was
broilirg summer, and the high tene-
ment rooms were like so many little
hot boxes glazing into the crowded
night. To my exclamation of pity
and concern, the young doctor said,
1T all depends upon whether you
have a PLAN or not. People with
out plans are to be pitied, no mat
ter Wnere tney are.
Wherever men, and women are
looking forward, saving and work
ing and hoping for something bet
ter, they don't care where they are
at this particular moment"
/ believe that is true. Most worn-
en- would be happier for a plan. If
you are working to extend your USE
fulness and your horizons, thinking
ahead to better times and taking
every possible step, no matter how
small, to reach them, you have no
time left for restlessness and dis
content and if you once decide to
sit down and work out plan you'd
find it isn't the task it now seems