Show Evening Chit Chat L KINDNESS KINDNESS may be doubled by the theA V manner of Its doing doing- A bit of valuable Information was sent me sue the tho other day and the tho sender doubled my gratitude to him when ho he added Now dont don't bother to acknowledge this I know how very busy you are arc and 1 I know you arc grateful and that's enough Isn't there a good suggestion In that Oftentimes to a a. very busy person the necessity of acknowledging a favor however however how how- ever grateful ho may be is somewhat of ofa a burden Why not along with the tho kindness kind kind- ness to do a favor also ho havo the fineness to Insist that your beneficiary shall not trouble himself to acknowledge It Although it is not absolutely necessary to acknowledge flowers sent cant for a a. funeral many people try to do It and a more soul and brain racking exercise than time tho ef effort of- of fort to write fifty or a hundred such notes saying something individual and gracious in each I do not know What could be kinder than to write on your card along with a message of sympathy sym sym- pathy Please Mr or Mrs and So-and-So do not think of troubling to acknowledge those these 7 Is a grace before meals asked at your table How I would like to know just how many many or or rather I suppose how few few few- among my readers will say a mental yes to that And also Just how many out of the same number of readers would have an answered amm- amm yes if the same question had been asked twenty live years ago Probably five or six times as ninny many It seems to mo me as If the good old custom cus cus- torn tom of saying grace before meals had been relegated almost entirely to ministers minis minis- tent families and amid I am heartily sorry I think It was good for men and women to pause three times a day and realize that there is a higher power In this universe universe uni uni- verse than the power of man and bo ho thankful for life and the means of sustaining sus sus- taming it I think It gave dignity to the meal and made It loss a mere matter of stoking and more like a ceremony as a family gathering about the tho table should be I think It made the tho family moro moron a unit when all bowed while one of them spoke to God for them all Why dont don't you bring back the old grace fathers and mothers It was a fine old custom too custom too line fine to let bo be lost In the rush and dust of this automobile age If you do not remember any set grace say a few simple words of your own Or If you lack the courage to do that hero Is a simple little grace that mat will probably come easier than a more formally formally for for- mally religious utterance Sonic Some ha meat and cannot eat cat And sonic some would eat cat that want It Dot But wo we ha meat anti and we can eat cat So let the Lord bo ho 7 |