THE NEED FOR ACTION

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 3

THE NEED FOR ACTION

WHEN WOMEN FEEL “FED UP.” Every woman, feels “fed up” with life at times. Even the favourites of fortune who have everything that money, good health, and good looks can bring them have days when they feel they must smash something or scream. “It’s just nerves” the doctors say, .and they shrug their shoulders and prescribe a tonic. Perhaps it is nerves, but it is something else as well! It is the crying need for action, for change, for some upheaval which will temporarily change the face of the dear old world with which we have grown just a little too familiar. On a day like this the wise woman, instead of tightening ©very nerve, clenching her hands and screwing up tier toes in the effort not to “give way,” will do something iconoclastic. After all, it is better to smash something than to scream! Screaming leads to hysterics, and hysterics leads to much jvorse things! But something smashed can easily he replaced, provided, of course, you select a not-too-valu-able object. You might try smashing a wall! That sounds a little mad I know. But if you have lived for years in a house with all the walls standing just as they stood at first, it will be refreshing as a shower on a hot day if you decide to knock down a wall and turn two little rooms into one big one—always supposing that the house is your own. Naturally you cannot push the wall down yourself, but the decision to call Up the builder tho very next day and have the alteration put in hand at once will make you feel a lot better. You can start planning what you will do with your big room; how you will furnish it. You can anticipate the jolly dances yon will give, to which all your friends will be delighted to come—they weren’t very keen perhaps on being cooped up in two little rooms by that offending wall. Even if you think better oF it in the morning the decision will help you through tho night. If you prefer a less drastic method of getting rid of that “fed up” mood, play “general post” with your furniture. Turn the dining-room into the drawing room, or sleep in the lounge. It will give you a splendidly adventurous feeling! If your hair is long, have it shingled. The study of your profile, the back of your head, and the fullface view, to decide what you’re going to do about it now, will keep you amused for weeks. Make a frock, bade a cake, or make some toffee! You’ll probably never wear tho frock, and no one will eat tne cake or tho toffee; but you will have forgotten yourself for a time, and you’ll feel a now woman afterwards. The paint is, dear lady, do not make a martyr of yourself, either consciously or unconsciously. None of us is immune from this “fed up” feeling. Realising your weakness, and realising also that you arc ono of a vast sisterhood—get a move on and see what can bo done about it!