Show WAIT V. TILT 1 1 By r Carolyn Caroln Fools rush in where an angels els fc fear r to tread Is I am amwell well aware an nn old moth eaten proverb but it means as much today as It did lid whon when penned b by Alexander Pope rope awn away back In the tho tho seventeen hundreds If Ie there is ever evera a particular time when woman lovel lovely woman makes mal the angels weep over oyer her precipitous manner of or rushing rushin into things timings it H is when she sho offers to do 10 something for Cor somebody A long tong time ago aso I heard an old oM grandfather Cathor give this advice to a a. little child Valt until you are arc asked This was long ago ogo so 80 long ago that I was too tao little to understand Just what ho he meant hut but since then after having kept m my eyes ees and ears open I have como come to understand what tho the ol old gentleman meant when ho he advised ad ad- the little child to walt wait Wait Valt that's tho the thing to do o. o Dont Don't rush in anti and overwhelm overwhelm over over- whelm your friends with sith unsolicited offers of or assistance until you arc are sure suro the they will HI be bo appreciated Ones One's duty to ones one's neighbors does docs oes not consist In lying prostrate before Defore them to bo used tired for or 01 a a. doormat If we aro nee needed ed nn and needed neede hadl badly we wo will find It out soon enough never fear tear For most people are not backward backward back back- war ward In letting the public know when they aro are In neef need of anything The experience of ot tho the woman who otTers offers to take care caro of or her neighbors neighbor's plants while sho she Is away i is Js familiar to us all It Is not any particular woman but almost ever every neighborhood can furnish the sto story Sh She volunteers to tal take e care of or the tho neighbors neighbor's plants while whilo the tho neighbor Is away on a vacation trip Through h several long summer weeks she sho worries over these plants plant waterIng waterIng watering water water- ing them and ten tending them and even giving up nice little suburban excursions be because those plants must be at attended attended at- at tended tende to She Sho hates them even before the job Is half finished and ere tho the woman who owns th them th comes comes' ba bac back sho she has hns reached leache the thie the frame frame of or mind mIn In which she ho does docs not care whether the they live or die cHe and of i course they dt dZe If they had been her own plants the they would have c grown and flourished nourIshed like weeds with ah absolutely no caT care at all but because thc they thoy were her her neighbors neighbor's the they died lell Hereafter there thore will be a n. coolness ss between tho the women which ml might ht have been avol avoided J If the first woman Imd waited until sho alto was asked There Thero aro are countless other instances that havo have come conic under tinder m my observation In which trouble has followed the theton too ton precipitous offer of or assistance People offer to take care caro of other othor peoples people's children their dogs their cats their parrots and anel at the same roma time they are aro laying up all aU sorts of or trouble for s. s A child ma may bo be a cherub In its ita own home but the It Is transplanted to the fireside o of or a neighbor It Jt suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly en degenerates Into a 3 young fiend The Th cat who was never known to stray will take alto on on the e most abnormal prop propensities to roam the minute a n. neighbor offers to take care of or it and anti sometimes it com comes s hack back but more often orten not Dogs Dog too that thal are regular well behaved dogs doSs at home homo will develop nil oil sorts of or troublesome traits as ns soon as ns they go visiting and ancI as for Cor parrots words words fall me If the rot parrot happens to belong to some one ono else So if you would avoid trouble and amid goodness knows theres there's enough without hunting for fOl nI any nuy Y more wait walt until you aro are asked aslee before volunteering your services In other ther words dont don't butt hutt in Look nt tit t the Tom Kearns alleys an and see see sec Tar from sincere are the cl claims of tho hO managers of or the American party part that they aro are for rot Improvement Ono One ot those alloys alleys Is Just west of ot the tho Commercial hank bank bull building Tho The Theother other Is at the sl side e of or the Rowe and anti Kelly elly st store stare rc In Main street The alleged Americans want vant Improvement hut but but thc they want some one ono else ese to pay pay for or It When It comoto como comes r to improving their own premises promises the they refuse |