Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER LITTLE THINGS HOW we are to estimate ever thing by its size the elephant gets his prominence in the circus menagerie almont entire ly because he Is the biggest thing there he really Is not half so important nor nearly so interesting as a subject of study as the parrot in the cage of mixed birds which attracts only piss ing attention nobody knows how it Is or why it Is that the parrot of all the animal creation Is alie only one that has either inclination or ability to human words and utter human sounds averone in the wide world ex copt those who think doctor cook found it knows that peary discovered the hornli pole yet there Is probably not one in a thousand thou who knows alio discovered the fact that the mosquito was ly to blame for the spread of the scourge of sellow fever the visiting of the borth pole by the great explorer was a tremendous physical accomplishment but the finding of that theoretical extremity of the earths axis has not and never will serve to save a single life fill a single hour with happiness or be commercially worth a penny while alie discovery made by those miracle working scientists and clans who went into alie swamps of central america in of the origin of alie yellow fever germ have saved thousands on thousands of lives and hat saving will go on as long as time shall last if a hunting party made up of well known men they were eclen lists or jut rich men bent on sport were to start for south america to find and kill some animal about which the world knows little or nothing there would be plenty of publicity the movie men would grind their cam ens and the world would be sure to know all about it some time ago a group of men left london to go to the west indies to gather a collection of a certain variety of fresh water snails these snails develop a germ which transmitted to humans by means of drinking water causes serious and frequently fatal illness to those in fectea it Is a ten toone to one shot that you have not read a word about these or their mission hat there will not be a movie picture of them shown and that they will go and come hick from their humane mission without having had as much notice ng a second class prize fight would get we pay altogether too little atten alon to little things after all the biggest thins in the world Is only an aggregation a bring ing together of little things the highest mountain Is made so the scientists tell us of electrons millions of which could dance on the point of a needle A drop of water from the ocean has every quality that the whole ocean has we let the idea of bigness run away with us we let ale eclipse other more important and necessary qualities dont forget the little bilings watch out for them remember the little kindnesses the little courtesies the little words of cheer that go BO far and cost so little remember the etory of the ant who saved a mans life because the man had on saved it from alon lou nestr can tell when a little thing may mean or do a grent deal 6 by |