Show I I JOYOUS OF THE TIMES II F jI I 4 I I Republican Special Service Copyright Copyright Copy Copy- ll right ht l IL 7 i A reckless less prosecution of ur personal Interests ests with wih no reg regard ld to other I peoples people's peo COIlle's CO- CO ples s n needs cds Is not hiot the Limo only characteristic character character- cha 1 of uC modern modem life thou though h one une might often often- feel teel tempted to lo think so u when whelm remembering time the tyranny of trusts in iii inthe inthe the United States Slates and anti of oC czars In nus- nus ida sla B By the side able oC or this current rent c which so proudly claims leadership in human we perceive a hard struggle sustained b bj by both huth the rural ruml an and in industrial iii- iii populations in order to reintroduce rein rein- trod uce standing Institutions of or mutual mutual mu tal aid and support and we wc discover cr In all al classes of oC society a widely spread movement toward d the establishment of an Infinite variety of oC more or em 01 less les permanent permanent per per- manent Institutions for tor the thc same pur pur- pose e. e 10 lInt But lut when we pass from fu public life to the private life UCe of ur time the modern in individual in- in In we te discover another extremely extreme extreme- I ly iy I wide e World of or mutual aid and support sup sup- port I which only pae pases unnoticed by ly most because it Is limited to time the row nun nano circle of or tho the Cami family anti and personal friendship fu Under the time present social system all al bonds of oC union among time thu Inhabitants of oC the same str street et or 01 neighborhood have ave been dissolved I ol ed In tho lie richer parth o of the large towns people live hive without ln knowing who are aro an their next- next door neighbors But In tile the crowded ded lanes people know each cach other perfect perfectly per per- anti and are continually brought ht Into mutual contac contact Of or emit course pel petty quarrel hl go go their course In the lan lungs s as um cl elsewhere wl Wit but ut groupings In fn accordance with wih personal person al iii 01 affinities grow lOW lii up and within their circle mutual aid ahl is practised to an extent of or which the richer m classes have no Idea If I we take for 01 Instance the time children chil chi chi- dren of oC a poor nl neighborhood who vho play In a n street or 0 a churchyard or 01 on a n agreen agreen green leon we wc notice nutce at once that a close clos coc e union ts amon among them and that thai that lint union protects them from all al sorts of or misfortunes As soon 00 as a unite mite over 01 the opening of bt a drain Dont Donit SlOt slop top there a thel mite sho shouts ts out Fever Fe sits sis In imi time tho hol hole Dont climb Q el that lint wal wall the time train main tain will viii wi kill hill lei you ou If you tumble down town w Dont Don't come conic near the tho ditch h Dont cat those berries her ber poison ries ries poison You will wi tHe mile Such are arc ae the tIme first teachings of lh time street urchin when he lie joins his mates out of doors 00 1 How low many of or the lie children whose pla playgrounds lunts arc c the time pavements would be ho to l cath by the cat carts caL Is And drowned in Il the tub muddy d waters water rere in tie r it nol not for or that lint kind of or mutual support sup sup- port And nd when a fair falu Jack Jock has made mado a slip Into the unprotected ditch at al the time back of oC the tho milkman's yard or a cherry cheeked Lizzie has lias after aCel all aU tumbled Into Inlo the Iho 11 river vel time iho young oung brood raises 1 such cries that Hint all aU he time nci neighborhood Is on time the alert an and rushes rush rush- cs es to time the rescue Then comes tho time alliance of oC the time mothers You could not Ima imagine inc a alady alady alady lady doctor who rho lives I es in a poor neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- told tOlI me inc lately how much the they help cah cach other othel It If I a n woman has prepared nothing or could prepare prepare pre pro pare nothing for COl the time lal baby she expected expect expect- ed nil all al the neighbors bring something for Cor time tho newcomer One of or the time neighbors always takes lakes care of oC the children mind and some somo other olhO always alway drops in iii to take cam caro of oC the tho household so long as the mother Is in bed As to tIme the charities cham and amid the lie amounts of or orl work k for general well wol being which arc are voluntarily done h by so o many ninny well well- to-do to to-to to persons a as well 1 a as bj by ly workers every one knows know the part Ia c in iii modern life lre by these two categories of JIen len who have acquired wealth often feen do do- do donot not In lit It the time expected ton tion Others begin to feel foci that whatever what what- over ever cr economists ma may say a ay about wealth bell being the time reward d of ot capacity their own omi rown toward reward Id is exaggerated tet The rime conscience of oC human solidarity begins to tel tell |