The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

troubles is the hardest one
L for us to accept. It's time.
Nothing is harder than to pa
tiently endure painful or difficult
situations, and wait for time to
help them. Time works slowly,
but it works inevitably. There
are no circumstances in your life
today that the slow unrolling of
the weeks and months and years
is not going to change.
You will change, too. Many of
your ideas will change, softening
and shifting. So that what seems to
you a completely insuferable bur-
den today may prove to be tomor-
rows blessing. The person who
seems your enemy now, the person
whose very presence renders you
miserable, may turn out to be truly
your friend in the time to come.
Looking back at your life you can
see thousand instances of this, but
it is much harder to look forward
and believe that the future will fol-
low the same pattern.
We all make mistakes. We get
ourselves into wFetched mix-ups; we
find ourselves in positions when
there seems no honorable way out.
Someone has to be sacrificed; some
one has to be hurt; the natural in
stinct is to break up everything, end
this particular set of troubles as
fast as possible-no matter what
follows!
Time Straightens Out Troubles.
And as a result the troubles null
tiply and grow worse; presently
there really is no way out. Except
time.
If some of the hundreds of wom-
en- who are contemplating divorce
today; desperately arranging to be
separated from their children; ap-
pealing to their friends for sympa-
thy and their families for help, would
only quiet down, compose their
nerves, strengthen their spirits to
bear injustice and discomfort for
awhile, and leave the cure to time,
we would not only be a much hap
pier nation, but a much stronger
one.
Here is the case of ''V. T."
woman Of "a, who has so hopelessly
tangled her domestic problem that
no matter what she does several in
nocent persons are going to suffer.
The innocent persons are a boy Of
IA, two small girls of and 5, and a
little boy of 2. All these are "V.
T.'s" children, by a first husband
whom she divorced ten years ago,
and by the second husband, whom
she wants to divorce now. 'FV. T."
is apparently a pretty, intelligent,
normal woman, but she certainly
has done her best to wreck all
these lives, and is on her way to
wrecking few more. She wants to
know what the solution" of her
problem is, as if one could toss off
cut-and-dried solution for a situation
that has been moving In the wrong
direction for Is years!
ST married at 49," says her letter.
"Of course it was too young and of
course was unhappy! My baby was
born before my nineteenth birthday,
and born lame-this was as bitter
blow to my husband and me that by
mutual consent we left the baby
most of the time with his mother,
who has him still. Judson was a
college athlete, holding several
championships, and to have his child
crippled was a continual grief to
him. He and I were divorced when
Stanley was four; I went abroad
with my chum and we stayed in
Paris for a year, studying. I then
met Bob and we were married; two
little girls were born, we had
nice home and circle of friends.
Finds Genuine Love.
However, when Jo-Ann was two
I had a serious illness following a
miscarriage; they were afraid was