Show I Evening Chit Chat I L. BY DT BUTH I O YOl I know ow n it seems to me to be a law of nature that the da day Do D which starts gray glay and anti cloudy doudy am and then clears deol ol olt orr almost always a ends nels b by being more beautiful than the da day that started ou out pleasant pheasant I Isn't It true Did y you ou ever know anything more mOIe per beautiful than the jewel da days s 's o of spring and autumn that emerge from front a mOWing morning shroud of mists and clouds and am hazes Did OIl you ever see any anything thins fairer than a clear off sunset at the end of a rainy sum suii- mer user da day Did you OU ever eve see a winter afternoon more snore magnificent ent than titan the one that toT fol lowed a morning of storm Just contrast Not wholly I think Partly a compensatory law of nature And do you ou know I often fancy that this law la of compensation extends into human affairs well as as natures Are you ou blue toda today Has thc the da day the tIle week the month even es-en the new year rear It itself elf been r her her- disappointing disappointing disappointing pointing so far Cheer up Remember its it's the day that starts cloudy cloud that ends by being the most beautiful beautiful beau beau- day of all Do you ou allow your our children to laugh at drunkenness in any an- form Again gain and again I have seen mothers actually joining with their children in smiling smiling- at some poor drunkards drunkard's antics and I have hae had far more disgust for fol their weakness than his isis If you ou want to make a child hate anything any any- thing you ou do not teach him to laugh at It If IC you ou want your our boy to grow row into the young oung man who thinks but lightly of the shame of drunkenness smile with him when the drunkard on the street says or docs does some silly thing Otherwise dont a The other day I had the privilege of being in a living room which while by ho no means the time richest seemed to me inc quite the most attractive I had ever eyer seen In the first place there was an air ot of dignity without stiffness The room ha hail had he the the the- appearance of being lived In although not lolled in In the second place every piece of furniture furniture furniture fur fur- was evidently designed to give the acme of utility In the Else third place evel every ever ornament seemed to have hae a II sort or of significance a peculiar dignity and personality persona about it But the time charm of all an was the fact that there was just enough and not one bit more In that room I do donot not think that of o one r room out of ofa a 1 hundred d J that tk I enter ie ietI tI tIo I can n say sav that Whether it is that we live in too small sinaI quarters or have too many possessions T I do not know but most of us certainly I crowd clowd our rooms room altogether too much I The Japanese have hae an Interesting tale of a very verv wealthy man whose house was ornamented simply and solely by one beautiful vase With this he lived studied it and absorbed ab- ab sorbe its beauties s and when he tired of it sent it away and had another one onen In n Its stead But never more than one at a tune time Of course that is an aa extreme but isn't It t interestingly suggestive for a good many of us who live in crowded rooms and and between overhung walls naUs n |