they see slipping from the shoulders of another, and to spend days and energy in feeling. Any kind of a feeling will keep the generality of women from thinking. Women shoulder indiscriminate and useless burdens and feel themselves into innocuous desuetude.

It. is a hardship when one does not learn in childhood to read and write. But it is not an irremediable evil. One can learn when he is 20 or 40 or 60. A great authority on the Greek language learned the language after he was 80. He couldn’t have done it though if he had fagged himself with burdens other people had dropped.

It is never too late to drop burdens and use energy to some purpose. All one has to do is to declare “I have no burdens -- life is a play-ground !“ -- and stick to it.

You have no burdens -- they are all an hallucination. Life is a play-ground. This is the TRUTH. Just tell it to yourself until it works its way into your semi-paralyzed mind and makes itself felt. Relax physically and mentally. Lie idly under the apple tree and look up to the blue sky and let fancy play with the world. You will find new and happy TRUTH in common things, as Newton did.

Lie there and let truth regenerate you. By and by you will think of something you want to go play at. Perhaps the pervading humor of the world will suggest that you want to make mudpies again. Perhaps it will suggest a blackberry pie instead. It is a lot more fun to make blackberry pies than mud ones; and it’s such pleasure to watch the other children’s shining eyes whilst you all eat.

Perhaps you will prefer to go play the game of business. Well, play that. This whole great play-ground is before you. Go play. Make your own choice of games and have a good time.

Somebody says, “Life is real, life’ is earnest.” But I say unto you that “Life is real -- ly what you think it.” It is a great game, a tragedy, or a sentence at hard labor, just as you will.. if you don’t like what it has been use your ingenuity to make it different.

Above all things, drop the burdens. Refuse to make bricks without straw. If the world won’t let you go just go anyhow.