Show Evening Chi Im BY me BUTH OAM BON i iN 0 iii matter malter r how much muth it t may ma maa a lom l lOlk any Olk h spoils s the N No worker for fOI sane happy cons om else with It I his Ius fellow 11 is is evil il Tile rhe roan Ian who comes home R at t nIght unlit t. t to be friends with his wife and ami dren dlen no matter mattei children chil- chil how many lie he ma may shower upon them is not a good provider For I. I or lie he Is failing to them provide with a more IU luxuries luxuries-a important t thing than The rhe a peaceful Ih home me atmosphere who aho so wears herself out by her herself ht devotion to her household cares t that she and cannot annot be pleasant and sweet luau limn Is acting in a rather an unselfish V way 3 The rhe young oung man and woman woman ho throw themselves Into their work worl with self solf exhausting ex- ex fancy fanc they deserve Haise praise for for- their lr ambition but If they come home at night as so m many or of them do unable to th b lio he agreeable F e II 01 or Profitable housemates they ne nil II dont don't deserve praise at atA atI ArC A te you ou any one of these people If you ou are I It may InterEst you to know I in It addition to the indictments I have already alread al- al read ready brought ht In I P I i that you are taking i ai something that does docs not belong to you vou 1 You OU are arc stealing stealing- ener energy y for foi your vom Doubtless s You ou thought you vou were accomplishing hn bors R so inu much Il h moie more than your our neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- tj by J your own oun strength But you vou aren arent t J Ji You s1 are dol doing S it partly out of tic lie forbearance for foi- i o blar bearance nee and endurance of he members oi of YOur family who have to tolerate you vou when you vou come back k from your join o office a i nervous wreck wieck 1 YO I dont don't l think so w Ve Veil we Il sa say you vou have hal hat l a a ha hand hald id day cla and JY YOU K go home in such a nervous condition condition con- con that every sound disturbs you jou and ir It someone drops something on the or stumbles over ovel the rug you jou feel personally per per- affronted Before Defore you jou have been ben In your join house nan halt an an hour hou your whole family begins to get into your our state of mind it is ine inevitable liable Xo No disease is more contagious than nervousness Your state charges the very velY atmosphere with nerves Now ow when you vou remember such even even- and Ings-and and tl there ere are aie few overwrought o business men But Out have them to ber can ber-can can you jou ou still think that you u supplied tho the energy for your day days day's s work at the theoffice theoffice theoffice office all b bj by yourself or will you jou admit that it also cost your family family- something A AH All 11 work beyond what we can do pleasantly pleasantly pleas- pleas antly and healthily is evil Some of us are driven en by necessity to work worl be beyond ond our strength and Then rhen the th evil is not our fault I With others the driving Is merely undue undue un un- due ambition Then rhen it is our oui own fault If rr you think I put too strongly all this please listen to what Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson Stev Stev- enson the believer in the gospel of ot sweet temper emper has to say sav of the man Who tries to o do more than he can do pleasantly Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship and lives a recluse in n a garret with carpet slippers and a leaden eaden inkpot or he conies comes among people sWiftly and bitterly in contraction of his whole nervous system to discharge some temper empei before he returns to work 1 do donot donot donot not care caie how much or 01 how well he works This is an evil il feature in other peoples people's lives ives They would be happier if he were dead 72 |