Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER conversation bach over your life and see it somewhere along the line you have net been materially influenced by the sharp sting of a hasty word something that set yon thinking conversation yon know s one of the principal mental foods and it Is a plentiful pabulum of which the supply all too frequently quite exceeds the demand there Is good conversation and bad conversation instructive conversation and stupefying conversation we have in the waking hours an almost mining contact with the talk of other people some of it Is satisfying some of its Is stimulating some of it Is degrading and some of it Is just talk cut it Is with particular regard to the sharper words with which one comes in contact tn the course of the years that I 1 want to enlarge everyone of us at some time or an other Is brought face to face with the fact that we are somehow drift ing into a becalmed mental intellectual doldrums where only the ground swell of life Is felt all around us the air seems laden some sort of lethe it Is almost too much trouble to breathe it such times as this that the sharp tongued acquaintance proves himself the real friend it tabes a jolt to rouse us from such a state of being and awaken the ever latent hu man impulse for self and much os the sharp word may sting harah as the rebuke may seem uncalled for and unkind as may be the words employed to effect the awakening it nevertheless wakes us up and starts the impulses going upon which real character Is built L Is the impulse of one human heing 0 o be and forward con celt and self satisfaction are brills trills which under proper leash are by no means evil ones and yet they can do a great deal of destruction toan successful char acter development once upon n time n congressman with grave unction to impress the listening house with the forte of argument bellowed forth fit the honorable thomas blacked need of maine and in lails mr speaker I 1 know I 1 CT right and I 1 d rather be right than president the gentleman will probably nev er be either sententiously remarked the peppery need who had grown tired of the windy legislator and there and then the strain broke the house rocked with unrestrained glee and the unctuous one trans grossed its time and patience agnan A kofl answer burneth away wrath the master some nineteen hun dred beirs ago A harsh word now and then properly administered may sometimes prick alie bubble of conceit and do equally as much good as he gentle phrase anes a alon it Is not always that pacifism in Is the needful quality for all people kindliness and generosity patience and forbearance are bleeders breeders bre eders of love and aticy are the bread and meat of life but a little suit and pepper now nd then help fo enthen ohp for living just ns their thoughtful use by the housewife malies bilings taste bet ter by mcclur syndicate |