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Show J ARE YOU ONE OF THE CURIOUS7J By tma-HllG IRBMB leOKB. (Copyright. 12S, New York Even ng World. Prees Publishing Co The other day a girl fainted from the heat In the subway. - It was r.ot an unusual thing, yet hunlreda jftf people crowded around the few who were trying to revive the young woman and almoat made It Impossible to aid her. - When. oh. when, will people atop being ao curloua and. bee Ides, lose t'me and energy In watching somebody some-body euffer? It would seem that I the thing they should be moot con- 1 cemed with la thst the person In- ; jureo la pmprly cared for and then ; go about their own business. But no. the morbid onea must stop anl ee all the detailed horrora. Somehow 1 cannot help wishing that there be a aubject In the curriculum cur-riculum of the public achools wHh the watch words "Keep awe y from the crowds; mind your own bueinese." buei-nese." If you can't help, don't hurt by addtnsr one more to the mob. What benefit, anyway, can one gain from eeelng somebody hurt or carried off In an ambulance or by being a wltnesa to any kind of pain to another human being? Certainly. It cannot give any pleasure, and in most cases spoils the whole day. Aa a general thing. when you ar In touch with an accident ac-cident and are really an eyawttneee to any trouble, of thia kind, yeu cannot ejet It out of your mind. It doee yoa no good, and certainly cer-tainly It doee little or no good to the one Injured. In fact, moat af the time It la harrowing Indeed. The Golden Bule might well be followed here. If you put yourself In the other fellow'e place, you will realise how embarrassing It must be to appear the object of thousands of eyea. especially when you are miserable and need most of afll to pull yourself together and perhaps confront .an operation or even face death Itself. How much easier H would be for auch a person If only two or three people w ho happen to be on the epo V were lefLatona and be permitted to 1 give the first aid needed- How 1 n.tteh mere readily It would help the Buffering one cannot be estimated. The crowd Uself ta a source of alarm to the person who haa been hurt, since he fears be la more Injured In-jured perhapa than he actually ia There Is something wsak. yes. truly morbid, about tha Individual who muat stand by and make numbers num-bers oa occaalons like thia Thia endue curiosity mlaht . well be curbed. Much good would result for all concerned. f |