Article May 8, 1920 ISSUE

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Florence Davis

[Florence Davis in Detroit (Mich.) Journal]

We still suffer from the old Puritan tradition that happiness is one of those unnecessary luxuries on which we ought to pay a kind of constant war tax of worry or guilt or fear. Happiness is supposed to be a sort of by-product of life that one should be ashamed to try to salvage. If it may be found, all well and good. It not, it is as bad manners to reach for it as if it were the biggest piece of cake on the plate. One should wait until it is passed, and then not appear overly anxious.

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