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Show Proof That Kind Act Is Not Always Appreciated i N AUTOMOBILE stood in front of a theater. It was an imposing car of TV brown leather, burnished brass and allied flags, and as its owner came out 3f the theater movie and was getting aboard, two girl children asked with the wheedling confidence some call t imprudence that goes with inno-:ence inno-:ence and shedding teeth : "Say, mister, give us a ride. Jinny ain't never been in a nautymobile." The man paid no attention and whizzed away. They were only tads of the street, but it would have been worth while, perhaps, to give two stepchildren of fortune a memory that might have fasted them a lifetime. And nerhans. again, have sot the host arrested for kidnaping you never can tell. It seems the right thing always to do a kindly action offhand, but consider the case of one friendly man who lives up Capitol hill way: Being a stranger here for responsible war work, he naturally gets a bit lonely for oldtime friends and associations, but being also a wholesome and buoyantly healthful person, soul and body, takes all the pleasures that come his way and always does his best to pass them on. The other afternoon his car was at the curb, and, as it was inconvenient just then for the friend in the house to go riding, he humored the children next door who had been begging him for pennies, cones and the like, by taking two of them for a ride. When he returned after a short spin it was supposed that was all there was to it, but, dear me, no! The mother objected to a strange man's taking her children in his car. So, you see, you never can tell. |