Show I i Dome i THel 5 T 1 CITY HAS ITS DISADVANTAGES No Neighbors There as There Are In the Smaller Towns of the tho Country A big town offers advantages There are unusual facilities for spending money Impressive buildings to s suggest mans man's importance e and show houses where one may be entertained at at a aprice aprice price by experts In the entertaining business There are smooth streets to encourage the consumption of gasoline and smooth promoters to encourage I the cutting of eyeteeth There are pedestrians wearing the latest styles and newspapers chuckling over the the latest scandals But there are no neighbors In a city a good neighborhood Is a part of town In Inhabited by people who have plenty of spending money In a small smalltown smalltown town a good neighborhood Is one inhabited Inhabited inhabited in In- habited by people who make good neighbors A good neighbor is one who bids you good morning calls to ask what he can do when you ou are sick borrows borrows' your jour OUr garden tools keeps his chickens and children at home never plays plas his phonograph after ten o'clock at night and takes a mUd mild Interest in all of your our affairs He De calls you Tom 1 If you happen to be a 11 Tom and feels free tree freeto to your house by the time kitchen door If if that Is the tile more convenient way Are there any such In great cities clUes When the wife bakes and has bas unusually unusually unusually ally good luck the time best loaf goes to the neighbor It expresses friendship and liner her commendable pride In good craftsmanship After Arter a few days the loaf returns Jn In the form of a cherry pie hot bot from the oven or a bowl of dumplings cooked In the made home-made blackberry wine l left ft from the boiling of a ham If one of tIle the children cuts a finger th the neighbor has iodine He lie offers It freely for tomorrow night bem he lie m may y forget to bring home a 11 can cnn of t to to- bacco town Small-town people are one big fam fam- ily It If their mode of life makes secrets secrets secrets se se- se- se crets impossible It also lessens the number of or things that should be kept secret and their l Interest terest In one an another other other other-an an Interest that might be very annoying to a 11 town big-town man man Is Is Inspired inspired inspired in In- by kindness rather than curl curi The man who asked Who Is my neighbor was not a small town small toWn n man an else he be would have known Robert known Robert Quillen In the the Saturday Evening Post |