Show Something to 0 Think About By F. F A. A I WALKER PASS IT rr ALONG BARD a a good story the other H Cl day he said and then he recited recited recited re re- re- re cited n a clean wholesome anecdote which Is said to have originated with the late Champ Clark He lIe was passing along a little of ot the joy of life He was wag distributing smiles There Is a manufacturing establishment establishment establish establish- ment up In New England not a big enterprise It Is a sort of family affair affair af fair In which all the workmen and their wives and sweethearts have ha a amore amore amore more than wage-envelope wage Interest The principal reason reason Is that the theman theman theman man who started It decided that he was going to pass along the Joy of f the success if It was a success and lie he has continued to do so from the day lay the little factory opened If a particularly big order comes Somes in he writes a little bulletin about It and gives It IE to the superintendent and at the bottom of ot the slip sUp of paper paper are arc always alwa's the words Pass It Along That means that everybody In the factory knows the he good news almost as soon as the owner does And one year when the profits showed larger l than usual he had the th th bookkeeper draw up a little statement statement statement state state- ment of the time years year's surplus When It was In his bands hands he took tool h his s pen and dividing the total by two he be drew a ring around the quotient and a line from the ring led to the words Pass It Along which meant that half of all nIl the profits was divided among the workmen The game of ot Pass It Along Is a great game So m many ny can play at it It needn't take any money to start It and none to keep It going All It requires is a desire to make people happy and nd a n determination to tomake tomake make the the desire a working reality f It Is a strange thing that we seem more willing always to spread the unpleasant unpleasant un un- pleasant news than the pleasant The rumor that Jack has lost his job gets twice as prompt circulation as the fact that Jill JlII has received a n promotion I wonder why We can can pass along so many helpful helpful help help- ful CuI things En Encouragement Appreciation Sympathy Everyone Everyone Ev Ev- Ev of ot them without a penny of cost but so full Cull of the profit of satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- t faction If It we wc do It with a generous I spirit The parable of of- the two debtors has dh always n h ays s seemed to me one of the most vivid of the Illustrations by which Jesus taught his great truths You will ill find the story In the latter part of the tite eighteenth chapter of ot St. St Matthew The trouble with the servant of the king kingas was as that Unit he did not pass along to the tile man who owed him the charitable charitable char char- treatment whit master had shown In forgiving him the Ule debt he heo o owed ed If you jou on have e some something good some some-g something some thing helpful something that will make another happier pass It along It It Isa isa Is la laa a profitable proceeding Copyright C No Actresses Before 1656 There are so many many actresses today that It Is hard to believe there was a time when there was none Yet before 1650 1656 A. A D D. no civilized country could could- boast a woman star There was no law against It but it was considered a n disgrace for a a. woman oman to appear on the stage and womans woman's parts as in the Chinese theater of today today to to- day were taken by boys or pr men Rose nose Coleman broke the Ice lee in 1656 She appeared She appeared in The Siege of Rhodes and her success was so great that scores of English women followed her example and France O Germany and other nations followed suit In haste I 0 0 |