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Show j HOWE ABOUT j By ED HOWE j (Copyright by Tne BU Syndicate. Inc.) I know an old lady, said to be a Lovely Character, who spoilt seven sons and daughters and nine grandchildren. grand-children. If they wanted to remain out of school sue said: "Certainly; children can be children but once." When the boys went to work she aided them when they wanted to lay off; she said they were sick when they went rabbit hunting. As a result, they never kept a Job very long. She waited on all of them In a manner man-ner she thought was fine, but which was really shameful. Her children and grandchildren are all worthless. When this old lady dies she will be greatly surprised, for St. Peter will tell her the truth. No one ever told It to her on earth, and she has always supposed sup-posed she would go to heaven sure. I have never fully expressed my old-age old-age opinions, remembering the rights of middle age and youth. Keepers of shops have a poor opinion opin-ion of customers. Is It Just or unjust? Are people as unfair and mean as shopkeepers say they are? Still, I have observed that shopkeepers compliment com-pliment a few. So do bill collectors. Is it possible that only a few deserve compliments? ... I was talking the other day with the keeper of a florist shop. She was speaking of Mother's day, the day when people are supposed to buy roses and send them to mother. The flower seller said that while people cheerfully paid high prices for funeral bouquets they are stingy in buying flowers with which to celebrate Mother's day; Instead of ordering gorgeous bouquets they order cheap ones, and don't seem to have their hearts in It . . . When a troublesome person Is finally out of the way it Is possible to celebrate with funeral flowers. Every man who has failed likes to say his riches are not in gold ; that he has been of more use to the world by giving good advice than successful men have been In material affairs. A few men have been useful who have done nothing but give good advice, but they are extremely rare. The world Is on a gold basis ; men fall or succeed suc-ceed as they make money. What pleasure the young man In school gets out of thoughts of what he Is going to be! For he can make himself believe It. But the old 'fellow gets little pleasure out of conceit; he has tried everything and knows what he can do; while the young fellow has tried nothing and can easily imagine himself the greatest man In the world. |