Show our small troubles it appears appeals to me that hilt tile the most charitable act possible la Is the prevention of 0 human decay mental moral find and physical which comes through troubles at first small it I 1 Is the most charitable act because an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure and because its exercise compels the giver to ex cx creaso unusual iqual discernment and tact as well as more or less heart there is no end of charitable heart on top tap but tact and tile the sense of 0 timeliness are as rare as honest men 11 in politics almost any adult knows of 0 the decay of some individual family or community from causes alch at first were very slight yot yet beyond the sufferers ability to overcome the loss of a aln irle gle week fcc k or even a single day of 0 work has started the downfall of many an honest family so has tho the lick of one pair of shoes hoes or a single dotie ot of medi cine society t excuses itself tor for its responsibility 11 in such eases cases by pleading that it know tile the being that there is generally enough impel tl nent lit in extreme activity to 10 learn tho th worst about condition worse still it Is 13 the sufferers knowledge that their trouble Is knola yet goes unrelieved that takes the courage out of men and women and to use the poet Long fellows words crushes into dumb despair one half tho the human race JOHN |