Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — “THE WOMAN YOU ARE TO BE” [ARTICLE]

“THE WOMAN YOU ARE TO BE”

It All Depends, Says Writer, Upon What You Put Into Your Head as Days of Girlhood Pass. There comes a time in a girl’s life when she passes from childhood into the land of dreams and flowers, and the question that now arises has to do with the woman that she will be for the rest of her life. Is she going to furnish the nice, clean recesses of her brain with things that really count, or is she going to toss an indiscriminate mass of jumbled nonsense into hfer heart? She has it within herself to make her brain a power, to teach it to reason, to cram it with intelligence, and to force herself as a personality to respond, aays the Pittsburgh Dispatch. There is still another thing that she may choose to do—sne may decide to leave it entirely empty. Ih that case, which is ‘the saddest of all, her eyes will count for nothing, even though they be beautiful, for they will be expressionless; her lips that, closed, are so perfect in contour, when opened will frame,.those tawdry nothings so pitifully evident of the empty brain behind them. Old age will have nothing of interest in its '”ake,‘ for the wrinkles and lines that speak for character will be absent, and the face, pleasing in youth because of its fresh beauty, in old age will become nothing but a hideous mask. Think well what you will put into your head, for you will purchase from Life itself at a high price.