Show 11 I MONEY MONEY AND AND SOME PEOPLE J. J Copyright 1923 New York Evening Evening Evening Eve Eve- ning World Press Pub Co By Ily SOPHIE IRE IRENE LOED Times without number people have havo been known to preach about what they would do If it they had money They usually set fort forth how they would help this and that per- per son otherwise do charitable acts In fact the usual attitude is that If It they bad had a a l lot t of money they would mako everybody happy about them m. m especially those close to them The truth is that most of the time when they really secure affluence ence they think of ot themselves first and many times Umes it is first last lost ani and always Sometimes they view themselves through a lens that makes them seem entirely different from what they really are or have haveA been A very very good Illustration of ot this comes to me from a friend of mine whose family when they first came cameto cameto cameto to New York were quite poor In indeed in- in deed They lived In a cheap apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment house where everybody knew everybody else There was a very ery lovely spirit there and my friend called very often orten on the women who lived livel in inthe inthe inthe the opposite flat For years ears they were the closest friends almost like sisters They were happy Indeed in indeed In- In deed decd until my friends friend's n neighbor was left lett a a. small fortune and she soon left the tho neighborhood Of course my friend was Invited to the new home and for the for the first six months they kent up their old friendship hut but gradually the tho invitations became fewer telephone calls as well Ill and by and by the friendship died Though they lived In the same flame city less than a n. half halt an hours hour's ride from each e oth other r they are Just Justas as as though o gh they were strangers tra gers S S S S p S t V S S Tho The other day my roy friend met he her neighbor in a n. fashionable restaurant restaurant rant They hardly knew each other other oth oth- er and the greetings were most moat formal formal for for- mal mal- indeed My My- friend Is the kind lelnd of a wom worn an who Is the tho salt of ot the earth and though she Is not blessed with the worlds world's goods she has a a heart or ot gold and never fails falls to do the fine tine friendly thing thing- whenever occasion occa sion slon offers otters She had nothing but kindness to say about her old time Ume friend Yet YetI I 1 cannot help thinking that she realized that hat money sometimes people hardens and makes them too self sufficient t. t I 1 know of ot another woman who used to talk so much about her uncle the miser and used to say Ray what she would do If It she had his money money how how terrible It was to hoard it up and not ones one's rel rel- S SAll All the time she was was waiting for tor this dead mans man's shoes and when the uncle died he left most of hi his fortune to her She In turn be became became became be- be came more penurious than the un un- un- un die cle Her relatives said the same thing about her heras as she had said about the uncle I recall one lovely young oung girl girt her bel niece who went to her to ask I aid for tor a little more schooling in 1 order to fit tit herself for a better better po The aunt told her ler she Rhe did not need nned any more schooling and the best best- thing best thing for her was waa to go to work at once which the girl Irl did but always she had bitterness In her heart for this thin woman who became be- be camA came rl rich h so quickly that it turned I. I her beT head Why la is It that money so often otten brines with It such a of l selfishness e when when- It It should open ope hearts to to those who those who need that bit S 'S S J 7 1 HS H S c 7 i pt f aid that would s set t them on their feet as It were If It only such people could learn the lesson of after atter Tutankhamen who so many centuries found that he could not take anything with him and that all his material l things were vere as nothing to him after aCter he ha was gone And that the greatest pleasure In life liCe Is giving the Joy It brings and seeing rather than after while you liva you are dead |