Show i I 1 fl HERE Is a story in my mind perhaps you know it but III te tel I 1 it anyway once upon a time timp there were two troga they fell into a jar tit of milk the jar was dee and there seemed n way of escape I 1 guess were we re done for sorrow soon fully tully concluded the easily discourage led d frog nd we might as well lia h down and die no as later maybe yourt you ri right replied the hopeful frog but I 1 intent I 1 ti t keep on I 1 achin in the meant me so buoy buoyed ed up by the of the hopeful frog the two kicked all night and in morning found no difficulty in mak ing their m way ay out of the jar for th I 1 aching icking had churn ed the milk into butter he moral is obvious isn t I 1 told that story 1 I to a discouraged d friend of mine the other day he pen tiered dered unsmilingly over it tor for a space and then delivered himself of the fol lowing that s all right I 1 believe in the h eking process im I 1 m kicking now tut but ive kicked so long without results that I 1 guess its it s a jar of butter milk I 1 ive ve fallen into the moral here is also discernible discern ibia but don dont t think because the first bick kick or two bring the butter if that you are doomed to kick unsen anse m alven it s only buttermilk thare are re chances that the disturbance you raise will at tract attention and that some in dinnant housewife wife will hastily assist lou ou into freedom we re all born into a world ot of milk it almost seems to me aich which needs to be churned il if we are to surmount our difficulties by sue tess aher are are s several everal I 1 ands of kickers in this world there are the diligent 1 ickers lickers the 1 intelligent n t e g ent ackers the kick hick era who kick any way nay the kickers who waste all their strength on footballs and the kickers hickers mho ho are too lazy to hick kick but bould like to then of course there are people who ho don t kick those who are too timid or who sit upon this mundane sphere with a noble resignation be lieving sieving that if fate intends them to a n nove ove fate will do the necessary ne essary kid hicl ifa ili g or those who view with a laugh the world and its doings but at present im talking aboul tucks and kickers the intelligent kicker knows alien be Is in milk or buttermilk an anc he governs his kick hick accordingly more over when there is nothing tr be gained by kicking he is wise enough to keep the peace and enjoy life he ile never kicks without a definite ipar pose the diligent kicker generally gets what he wants because he so disagreeable if he dorfi n t the other fellow gives in to keey heel the peace when the diligent kicker gets come home in the evening his dinner is steaming hot on the table at the mo went desired but his family hates eftim as a rule he kicks at the office i inell I 1 antil the office machinery runa runs like clockwork but he incurs the ill will of his clerks if he s a clerk he hicks until his salary is raised if he int lan t fired the diligent kicker obtains his ends usually but he isn t loved the man who Is too lazy to I 1 ick lck but would ill e to Is generally the man mail at the foot of the ladder he iles s the man who says aw what s the use lse he never amounts to anything lot not so the kicker who kid mel s on principle or the kicker who kicks hicks auywa tl TJ e one ho kicks hicks on principle may be pretty good sort ofir of fellow when the mania isn t S upon him he ile is the kind who re fuses to give up f his nickel to the 0 conductor when j he can t find a seat the principle is all right and if his fellow beings would join their kicks to his on the spot there in be resultant good and we d have a better street car service but as a rule he is ridicule ed for a fool and has to pay up or get off the car the man who kicks anyway is something we have to bear he can t help it it s in the blood you might as well try to cure a mule he ile raver gains anything by his kicking unless its an accident he is in all wilks w iks of society he would die if he coilin t kick it s only mental til jiin n chere is another class of kicker th man who stands in front of a lne wall and bruises his tone im latently against it here is in labor striking t intelli ence and here are the unreasoning discontented the man who kid mel s at i stone wall Is s to be more pitied than despised he needs help and for the t od of ourselves as well as of him I 1 i should be given him and again there is the one who ants his righteous wrath kicking at t ta e atmosphere when he should be 0 r aerating era ting upon bething me thing solid s 0 I 1 I 1 d ti I 1 know that k bind I 1 n d too antl inti i abely to take a pleasure pe asure in boiu alu ubie uble discourse concerning ning it Y of us haye have mirage oi rage to punish tae air in the gosorn of our cami les presenting a d haild and L countenance when in the presence of the hated but powerful object of ur kicks many good laws tre re the result ot of iati tenuous k kick I 1 c k kals don t waste all your kicks on little things the big ones can stand it best most men attain success through their own kicking but there are who need to be kicked into greatness many great name would have been lost to the world if a good kicker hadn haan t been behind the dreaming poet the lazy musician the happy go lucky luchy artist the drunken writer A mule is respected from the rear but that doesn doean t prevent us from hit ting him over the head A man who t occasionally acl is overrun by his neighbors his fellow clerks and employers never kick at a man who s down he may get up again kick to create an interest in your self kick for justice kick for amuse ment kick tor for courage kick for principle lie on your back bach and kick v ith four feet it if necessary for self respect kick kiel yourself when you deserve it but don t don t kick hick chron icalla for mere meanness and whatever you do don t allow 3 our to be a general kicker E K V ooley in chicago record herald |