A WORD TO WOMEN

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 12 March 1927, Page 7

A WORD TO WOMEN

WHAT IS YOUR AMBITION ?

T'm sorry for the woman who hasn't ambition, who's satisfied Wfth eyerything just as it is. To her life must be a dull grey slab! Nothing to hopd for, nothing to strive for. It's striving for something better that makes living worth while. When I talk of ambition I don't mean the silly, petty ambition of suburb^ — or the best curtains, or the suburb — or th ebest curtains. or the most expensive pram!

Fm talking about real ambition, like wishing and working for success in your career. Helping your husband to success — your children. , Ambition means striving — proT gress — and attainment. Even if you fail, it's a great deal better to have tried and failed than never to haye tried at all, Your very failure teaches you things. You start off on the next "try" with ■ more knowledge, more experience. You have gained by your effort something ! that no one 'can take away from you. Something 'that, unconsciously, helps you all your life. Success— as we recognise it— doesn't matter such a great deal, It's Ihe striving for success that counts. The effort we makc, the work we plit in. It's- a fine thing to have an ambition — a worth- while ambition! It spells ■ adventure — life without a spice of adventure is a pretty dud business! Everybody should have an ambition — something to work up to. The people who fail are mostly the people who muddle through life, doing the things that liave to be tione in a ilat, soulless way, never raising their eyes to the heights, never lifting their feet to climb! . There are heaps of worth- while things to strive for. All you have to dc is to make up your mind wliich vou want most and go out for it.! And if you don't quite get there in spite of gallant efforts, remember Robert Louis Stevenson's axiom: "To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."