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Show ! HOWE ABOUT- By ED HOWE j tCopyri&ht by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) I was talking lately with a young woman who has an ambition to become be-come a concert singer. She said Unit in her dreary practicing she was' encouraged en-couraged by the hope of finally giving the people pleasure. . . . What an old flim-flam that giving the people pleasure Is ! Her real ambition is. of course,, to charge the people three dollars for tickets. When a man acts foolish, what an excellent excuse if his relatives can say he was shell-shocked during the war I , . f you cannot interest people, at least do not bore them : yon can accomplish ac-complish that. Probably people generally gen-erally suffer most from beiug more bored. - You come to a conclusion you know j a good many others will not accept. . . . . How much sire you willing to concede to avoid a disagreeable, useless row and argument? . . . You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to demand that others give up their opinion, and accept ac-cept yours. Very few 'people seem to really think. They use only the instinct or cunning: a ' wolf has in seeking a mate, or in avoiding a trap. . . There Is a great noise going on in the world, but about as much of it on one side as another: the truth may be got at only by considering the silent testimony- which few use. Your think ing decided your fate, and you should think accurately and fairly. I have no doubt you are a Good Fellow. Fel-low. But that isn't enough. Are you a Reliable Fellow? Are you taking care of your family affairs reasonably reason-ably well? Do you devote sufficient time to your job? Many Good Fellows Fel-lows are a nuisance in their communities: commu-nities: we have too many of them everywhere. A Good Fellow nearly always has extravagant habits; near- i ly always unreliable in money matters; mat-ters; rarely the best and most depend ; able workman in the shop where he Is I employed. I I If you do not know your wife and children and your more Intimate acquaintances ac-quaintances are tired of your "stories," "sto-ries," from having heard them so ofteB, you are a slow observer. . . . But I heard a husband tell a story the other day and his wife said she had not heard it. . . . Here la evidently evi-dently an unusual num. |