Show I F I Getting Along I By DR FRANK CRANE The problem with everybody is how lio to get gel along with f The Th clerk want to know how hOV to to get al ng in the office tl led couple separate and an divorce because the they cannot get Iet a along ong- ong together tog anti and the son soli and daughter daught r find difficulty in gettIng alon with their We Ve have all sorts ot of advice about the marriage rel relation uon that the husband should should be thou thoughtful a and d and the wife should be attentive and the finances split fifty fifty-fifty and the woman should engaged in some fome lucrative e Vork or that she should stay at home and attend to the children and all sorts of admonitions Then children are arc exhorted to pay their parents proper respect and parents are told to respect their ch childrens children's personality anti and so on Clerks are advised advise to restrain their ego to be polite and Industrious and all that sort of thing All this mattEr simmers it itself down to one thing and that is to be as considerate of others as w ware we are arc with ourselVes In other words it is the Golden Ru Rule e. e Almost every problem of ge gelting along with folks can be solved by the Golden Rule by putting ourselves our our- selves in the other pers persons person's ns n's place and treating him himas as considerately as we would ourselves That is all there is to getting along Other rules and advice are merely a of this one rule The greatest breaker up lip of homes the greatest of human relations of any kid is egotism When the man gets to thinkIng too muc of himself and becomes dictatorial and faultfinding the woman e etther ther has to submit which i she Js is a a. self respecting woman she will find hard or else revolt and seek seel a a. divorce Th When n the woman is thoughtless giddy end and extravagant extravagant ex- ex she is simply not paying attention to her husbands husband's problems She is not putting herself In hi his place So aU all difficulties with stern parents and wayward children amount to about the same thing It Is curious that one simple rule would solve olvo most difficulties If we e would quit thinking too much ot of ourselves and think enough of other people troubles would r rI vanish I know a young oung couple who married with every prospect of success They are both charming nut But the young young- an abnormal egotism This manifested itself in a petty tyranny tranny and an unreasonable unreasonable unreason unreason- able absolutism lh The marriage went on the rocks all because of failure re to observe the Golden Rule setting Getting alon along is not a complex proposition that requires us to observe a thousand little things One thing is and that is to observe the Goden Rule When both oth parties do that there Is not generally any trouble Copyright I 1929 92 9 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |