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Blow of Disappointment Softened by Training, Jane States.

Feel free to comment on all problems which interest you. The best letters will be published. EAR JANE JORDAN-—A recent letter from a young woman of 25, who, despite a fine husband and two children, found herself bored and restless prompts me to write this, For some time 1 have been playing with the notion that the age of 25 in a certain type of woman is one of spiritual impasse. When 1 was 21 I lived in a large club for women and had plenty of opportunity to observe girls. Many

of them, when they reached 24 or | 25, came down with a feeling of |

staleness, a restlessness that nothing seemed to satisfy, a feeling of what's-it-all-for-anyway?

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even though they had & good job, | health, talent, beaux, lovely clothes |

and whatnot. to be too busy with everything from night classes to community matics to be at odds with selves. I thought then that restless 285 was due to the fact that the girls were not married and had no children. number of news stories about voung women of that age who committed suicide because “life held nothing for them.” Most of them were married. Twenty-five is & period of recapitulation and time of planning for serious life. Having matured physically, women have a feeling of power which they want to use but don't know how. Not recognizing it they can't interpret it and so there's bound to

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be a feeling of frustration and resi- |

less urging for an unknown something. Those who cannat find an outlet for this urge are those who commit suicide. A psychiatrist might have saved them. this sound like sense to vou? So long as I'm writing I may as well get this off my chest, too. Recently a book appeared with a title, “Be Glad You're Neurotic,” followed bv articles like Helen Welshimer's “So You're Neurotie.” tions! These writers are make something desirable of neurosis. My understanding of a neurotic is that he lacks balance mentally and cannot cope with the problems of life. I don't know enough about it to spot the fallacy in these authors’ writings, but 1 feel that their arguments are sophistry. PF wish you'd devote a column to it, either debunking or upholding the authors, and set me right. R. M IL. ANSWER—Your letter is so well expressed that I regret the lack of space which prevents my using all of it. It may be that 25 is a sort of milestone in a woman's life, although I have no facts to prove it. I have not had the opportunity to observe a large group of young women except through their letters and as far as I know resilessness and discontent are not age.

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peculiar to any Any woman who has failed ‘0 solve one of the maior problems of life, such as ilove, occupation or social adjustment, suffers from feeling of frustration at 25 or 95. The way a person reaets to disappointment depends more on the habits he established early in life than on his age. Some give up under pressure, whereas others are driven to find compensations. The problem of suicide is much more complicated. If our readers could look back over their lives to the age of 25, perhaps they could find experiences which support your idea. I wil. be glad to publish their letters if they will take the trouble to write. Your last question will have to be answered later. Give me iiine to read the book and let me know when and where the published. It has often been not-

iced that many of our writers are | tubercular and that tubercular pa- |

tients in general are sometimes quite productive, as if the disease stimulated them mentally. On that premise can we say, “Be glad you're tubercular’? JANE JORDAN.

Color in Laces Is Fall Fashion

Lames and velvets have heen mentoned with laces as among the luxury fabrics which seem

pageant of luxurious fashion. Color in laces, lace, as done by both Molyneux and Jean Desses, lace blouses and bodices of all types with lames and vel-

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coeds packed their campus clothes and set out for Oberlin College, the first school in the country to allow men and women to sit together

through college courses.

There was no sleeping through 8 o'clock classes for those first coeds. The Young Ladies—as they were called in 1837—were required to rise

sessions were not enforced bedtime.

Members of the Indianapolis branch of the American Association of University Women are to make plans for the celebration of the centennial within the next two weeks, sccording to Mrs. Calvin R. Hamilton, president. Oberlin was more plain than fancy, and a good thing. too. for it was served bv the ‘coeds. Bread was the staff of life—bread with milk, bread with gravy, bread with salt. and bread and water. If a | voung lady preferred a more hearty diet than bread she paid an extra charge and sat at a table where meat was served Waiting tables was only

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coeds. They also scrubbed floors, kept their rooms and rooms of the men students clean, and washed and {mended the men's clothes, Pav for this valet service was 2% cents an hour.

x» » » HESE and other regulations that governed these petticoated pioneers of coeducation have come to light through the centennial celebration of Oberlin College, set for Oct. 6. Church was not the coed’'s choice in those days. She went whether she wanted to or not. And religion was not confined to Sundays. A

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prayer began every class, whether it was Cicero, the Acts of the Apostles | in the original Greek, anatomy, physiology, or (rigonometry. No coed-served meal began without grace, and there were prayer meelings, religious lectures and chapel hours for them to attend. They were alco allowed a half hour each morning for private devotions College life for the coeds of 1837 did not include fraternity and sorority dances, rumble seats, football games, or complicated campus politics. Their outside interests ‘were limited to literary societies, the Female Moral Reform Society, and the | Musical Union. The Reform So- | ciety’s most earnest endeavor was | to adopt a resolution “that the dis- | orace of the gentleman who takes improper liberties with a young | lady shall be as great as that of the voung lady who permits such | liberties.” :

hw ; . y ; \VEN though they were eager for | that either from modesty or delicacy the kind of education that had | they felt reluctant to read their

heretofore been offered only to men, | compositions in the presence of the first coeds could not always take | men. By means of the petition and it. There was the time when a | tears, the ladies won their point, corpse was exhibited in anatomy | and they continued to read their class and four coeds grew faint. | written thoughts before a strictly There was also the faculty plan To | female audience. combine the men's and women's| In 1840, Oberlin was given a teleEnglish composition classes, and a |scope, but it was reported that the subsequent petition from the ladies [lady principal was “a bit hesitant

New Frock long suit. That play proved to be | the best defense. 8035

South could see nine tricks if the | diamonds broke, but on the secon: lead of that suit West discarded a | low spade. Hence. East had held | four diamonds originally. A small club was led and won in| dummy with the ace.

When East's | 10 dropped. South felt that he had | all the data he needed. East must | [have held five hearts for his vulnerable overcall and as he had four diamonds. this left him with four cards in spades and clubs. South entered his own hand with a diamond and led the jack of clubs, which was finessed when West | plaved low. The balance of the club iricks were cashed and a diamond led, Bast winning with the jack, but now all he could do was to cash his ace and king of hearts, thereby giving the declarer four odd. South. by correctly reading the distribution of East's hand, was rewarded with success. (Copvright, 1937. NEA Service. Inc.)

‘Mavos [Leave on - Honevmoon Trip

Mr. and Mrs. Albert K. Mavo are | on their wedding trip following their marriage Friday in the Central | Avenue Methodist Church. Mrs. Mayo formerly was Miss Esther Jane Crist, daughter of Mrs. Daisy Crist. Mr. Mayo is a son of | Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Mayo. The Rev. Guy O. Carpenter read | the ceremony. Miss Irene Bentley was maid of honor and George | Wright was best man. Edgar Fields | and Jack Stavte ushered. Preced-

ing the wedding, a breakfast was |. dod ul | given for the bridal party at the Interprets the vogue by Simuiat-

Hotel Antlers. (ing a lowered waisteline and com- | Mr. and Mrs. Mayo are to be at | bining it with the ever-effective

‘home next month at 2605 College [princess silhouette. The result | speaks for itseif—a flattering af-

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innovation thorities would have been shocked at the two modern Oberlin undergrads seen above.

Future of Child Hard To Predict

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Subject He Fails at in School May Be Strong Point Later.

By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

| How can a mother tell what her | child's future is to be? If this question could be answered, all the pother and indecision of years would | be eliminated and money enough | saved to pay the national debt. Parents never can tell, because children have a way of deceiving us. The very subject the child fails in, | in school, may not only be the basis of later work, but spell success in a large way, Whether it is true or not that Einstein's weakest study was | mathematics, it provides a good il- | lustration, for there are many such | cases. Only today T read of a brilliant New York bank president, whose weak point in school and college was arithmetic. So the world goes. There is no crystal to tell us. However, many children do show promise along a special line when

Kindred Photo, Mrs. Ora D. Grass was Miss Cynbeline Carrie Ferguson, daughter of Mr. anda Mrs. Vernie Hollingsworth, before her marriage July 23.

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in 1837. and college authe informal camaradie enjoved

about allowing the lady students to stay up after hours to look at the heavenly bodies.” Once every week the coeds were given a lecture by the ladies’ principal on engagements, marriage, hy-

giene, politeness, dress and the qual- |

ities essential for a minister's wife, One student described

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they are small. And I believe in [shaping ends toward some Rene (goal as early as sible, | IN [® Early Training es By ALICIA HAR There is somethin about early | NEA Suh . | instruction that a and ‘e on | Several salons, applying the prinwith an interval of years there it Ss Ciples, Ned Ji: WIVEI VIN SRG Nee 'all ready for service at the ri ht ER pro a Dyer [ \ } ght weight, Sufiying 0 FH en sig . y re studios ig 8, A golfer will be all the better for wily ronally Alin having had practice with drivers | apje are the results of their treat. and putters in boyhood; a horse- | nents for chins and throats. woman will jump her fences in the One expert advocates a knuckle chase more gracefully and surely, | massage and tells the customer how if she has had a chance to ride |t5 do the routine at home every | old Charley on the farm across | night before she goes to bed. You | was a child. | carefully, smooth on rich wight | And so it is with everything. | cream, then work it in with knuckles | What we learn young seems to! rather than palms. spread itself ta both muscle and | Place fists in the center of chin mind and germinates into real (so that the flesh on the jawbone is | prowess later on. squeezed between knuckles of second Children who learn dancing when | and third fingers of hands. Now

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MONDAY, AUG. 30, 1937 ™-

Gland Rules Growth of Human Body

Giantism and Dwarfism Are Caused Pituitary Ills.

By DR. MORRIS FISHBWIN

¥ditor, American Medical Joumal Since 1827, the pituitary gland has been known to be a veriteble storee {house of hormones or important glandular principles. A five of these are already wel, recognized, [One is known as the grovth hore | |'mone, another as the sex hirmone, | the third as the thyroid stimulting | hormone, the fourth as | stimulating hormone, and the fifth (as ‘the adrenal gland stimulating hormone, Any trouble with the growty | mone is promptly reflected size of the animal or child cerned. If the hyvpophysis, a | gland is sometimes called, | I'moved from a young anima growth is stopped. In a few (its long bones will discon (ereasing in length Moreover body weight as & whole small. Aids Children's Growth

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| guiltless if we trample on these | nothing else is gained, there is |deeply, work knuckles upward to planted a little grain of confidence, | cheek bones. In other words, inIn school the child gets many | stead of patting, slapping or rubbing things. It may be the writing make the knuckles do a below-sur-of English and its fundamental |[ace massage job which exercises rules that defeat him, but he re- | muscles of the face and throat and lin had to defend just such criticism | tains something; enough, say, to stimulates circulation. Be ever a hundred years ago. In 1837, a build on, and he may be one of the SUNS Oh Ye Wiwont, a : | world's strongest writers at 30 or 40 Pilting your head backward (not 'student who had been dismissed | ob. general education did hel ‘| far enough to strain the throat from the school wrote a pamphlet | although it was hidden at the time. | Muscles), meanwhile opening mouth, | name NASIR, accusing the leaders of Oberlin of All-Round Culture Best fen a ar Ba aa hy oe “wild fanaticism.” He declared that | de Welles Tats D0! SOTE0S Of | with the back of the hands, has the now used in medicine “joint education” was very similar t0 | ror i en ree desired effect, too. WAVE, free love, and that undue intimacy | <omething of evervthing, and he | was common between the students | wij] neeq it all, if onlv to justify of opposite sex. The pamphlet, Just | his self-respect. One-sided edas anything written on the subject | yeatians, or too one-sided, that is | today, enjoyed a wide circulation. | wayld leave embarrassing gaps. Be- | No one today knows why the four | gises even the aviator should | young women who enrolled at Ober- | yo 2 cand speller, if bv chance he | lin College on Sept. 6, 1837, Chose | panames an official of the line, and to be America’s first coeds. Oberlin | must correspond with the angels of admitted them to “bring within the | enterprise. yeach of the misjudged and neglect- | ~The wise way is the way we ed sex, all the instructive privileges | gre doing, giving children a genwhich hitherto have unreasonably | ama) education and intensifying | distinguished the leading sex from | aq early as possible the predispo- | heirs.” : | sitions they may show along special | Whatever the motive of those four | lines. While Einstein may have in going to school with men, the end | failed in mathematics, yet this does was matrimony, 100 per cent. If | not prove that his seat-mate who {matrimony is indeed the aim of | 040 high marks, was to be a fail- | most coeds, the beginners were more | a o5 auditor or business manager. | successful than their modern sisters. | Quite the other way, the rule runs. | For through the years the percent- | We should observe ability, and | age of marriages of Oberlin’s wom- | concentrate on it, yet not neglect | en graduates has dropped from |the wider range which, after all, | 100 to 65 per cent. |

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wasting of the body Cause of Giantism

Should the pituitary gland be un [usually active or should it develop | too much secretion, may be ihe case when there is a tumorous over growth of the gland \ child will become a giant | will develop changes in {and in the conformation o | that are described under the general

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