THE DISCONTENTED WOMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18946, 18 February 1925, Page 13

THE DISCONTENTED WOMAN

She is too engrossed in the pursuit of pleasure ever to find real happiness. She forgets that the possession of high ideals isn't enough. So she sets up to be an authority on conduct, but apparently never tries to amend her own defects. She always looks on the dark side of life, and, though she wants love and sympathy, is never prepared to give either. She wants to receive rather than to give, and doesn't realise that no one ever yet gained real happiness that way. She makes mountains out of molehills of worries, and is always wishing for things she cannot get, instead of trying to make the best of what she has. She has so many amusements all her life that she is now too blase to enjoy anything. She needs to do a little good, honest work to level up things. She spends so niuch time regretting the; mistakes of the past that she can't make the best of the present. She lias no friends; only a host of acquaintances. She gives so little, and expects (so much. She does not realise that pleasure never yet cured boredom, but that good honest work often does. She is never satisfied, and never would be, no matter how many blessings fell to her lot. She expects too much of life, and waits for great happenings to make her happy, instead of gathering the little everyday flowers of contentment in simple pleasures. She is too busy envying others to count her own blessings.