Show WHAT WE OWE TO SOCIETY ill III CHARITY from education and habit we aro are always condemning ostentatious charity in the abstract and praising it in tho the individual I 1 do not mean tho the kind that boasts of it on the street corners and proclaims it from the housetops house tops but the charity that heads the subscription list in the newspaper and bids loudest at the church fair it is ono one of the many conventional hypocrisies of our day unconscious it may bo be but nevertheless a grave fault since the modest giver may suffer the reputation of miser and the unassuming philanthropist bear the reproach of skinflint the sweetest charity is that which speaks no evil A sympathetic word of the hand often a s warm clasp are gratefully appreciated whore where financial aid would be only a wound to the spirit my definition of charity is the art of making others happy and it is an art some are gifted with a subtle intuition that warns them of the tender fonder places in the natures of men but most of us can only save tho the fo too lings of others by a close celoso guard on the lips and tho the thoughts of the heart |