Show Infringing i ging on Others' Others Rights S Becomes Habit With Many By ny OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON j Ev Every Evry ry time timea a a driver makes extra fast time on the road others are losing losing-it it to him His little selfish tricks make the rest slow up turn aside put on brakes and so on If all these lost minutes were strung end to end the sum would be exactly that of the extra speed of the road hog So dont don't allow your child to be bea a Goop as Burgess has immortalized the name for the youngster with bad habits Each tim time the boy borrows and doesn't return every time the girl keeps someone waiting it means inconvenience to the lender and stolen time from the waiter This is a song to parents too too too- because they set the examples The bewhiskered joke about the borrowed borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed lawnmower or snow shovel is still good Or th the unreturned scissors or cup of sugar Catch It in Childhood Then there is the late always-late guest or someone left tapping a afoot afoot afoot foot on the mezzanine For why i as Andy says do they do it And with an utterly clear conscience at that I do it you do It nearly everyone everyone everyone every every- one does does but but at least most of us have the grace to be worried And Good gracious How I do hate to be forever harping on these sermons sermons ser ser- mons about habits I do it partly to o jack up my say own conscience and that of those belonging to me yet yetI I think the bitter sauce is needed by the last mothers mother's son of us And I think that habits like borrowing and putting off return as well as letting others do the waiting simply have to be trained out of children young before they become part and parcel of charac charac- ter And with lazy young fry In Inthe inthe inthe the house absorbing every lax habit of ours we have to jerk ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves up by the bootstraps and at least pretend to be fidgety about other peoples people's rights Some Someone Somene ne gave the definition of a gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man as one one who puts his convenience convenience convenience ence behind others' others convenience Work that on your sampler and set it on the radio And then go and look over the book shelves helves Open the covers and see how many names of kind lenders lenders lend lend- ers are Inscribed therein Why heres here's one of Mrs Smiths Smith's books I thought Id I'd returned it two years ago See if that doesn't happen Or if it you have loaned Mrs S. S that new translation and given her and all her lies second cousins time to memorize It you might with a clear conscience gently nudge her memory People mean well But there you are And on the other hand when asked to a party Mrs Smith I am addressing you dont don't begin to dress for a 1 o'clock luncheon at 1 Mrs Jones may have your book but you ou are helping helping help help- ing yourself to her time and that of a dozen others as well And be sure that Ray and Mollie are getting quite used to your saying Im only half an hour late Some day Ray may be just 30 minutes late for a sure Bure fire job at at- atthe the bank |