Show I UNCOMMON SENSE SENSE- I IBy By JOHN BLAKE Put Them Out of their Misery S Grudges are better dead Kept alive aliye they demand more and and more at at- at t J U I Soon they monopolize practically all the time I of their owners And by way of repaying the care spent in nursing them the they make him sour and unhappy and for human society I It is easy to acquire the acquire the grudge grudge-colle grudge collecting habit i iI I I have known people who kept seven seven or or eight of them around all th the time Natural Naturally y they kept them busy so busy so busy that I everything beautiful l in life Ute went rigl right t by the them unnoticed ed I I Of or course people could not be what Ve we ve call tuman hu human tu- tu man if they did not resent injuries But resenting injuries and remembering them for years year and years always cher cherishing sh ng the hope of getting gettIn even is something else again Two actors of my my acquaintance met net on the street not long ago I 0 x A third actor passed by The elder of the two who had m met t scowled That fellow did me a rotten trick five twenty five years years' ago he said 11 I I get sore every time I 1 see see 0 him Do you mean to say that you remember a rotten trick for twenty-five twenty years said saId the other ther I r have a hard ard time remembering one for or twenty- twenty four hours hour It is hardly necessary to ro add that the actor who possessed the long memory for injuries hasn't had much time to be a good actor while the one who could forget torget them Inside of a day has risen n nto to a high place In his lis profession As we may have said In one of ot these articles there is nothing which is such poison to the mental system as hatred Grudges are but Individual cases cases ases of ot hatred Copyright 1924 by The Bell Ben Syndicate Inc I |