Show HOLDING BACK by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean oc in of men university of illinois tafts ts DAYTON was too looking king over J lier her d clothing and her husbands to see what might with safety be disposed of without loss or sacrifice to hersel bersel or to tier her family slie she lind had listened recently to an appeal and slie she wanted to seem charitable and generous and bet et not yield entirely to tier her emotional impulses here tire lire a couple of vests of your pas and an old brown skirt of mine she said to her daughter minerva 1 I think ill send thern them to the committee they are ol of no possible use tor for any tiling thing elbe and I 1 hate to rive give away uny anything thing that 1 I could use why dont you put in that gray suit of fathers maggie and your last winters coat cent never near thein again and they would give sonic some needy person good service they seem too good to give away mrs dayton replied and besides rd id thou thought ailt I 1 might cut them up and abrald braid them into a rug the gray gm y and the blue would go beautifully together mrs jackson had one in her bedroom last week that pleased me very ciuch aisch mrs dayton forgot that she had a trunk full of braided rugs already that shii she I lial aano no place lilace for it was just the at old habit of holding back of never being quite able to make the surrender file fhe suit would liang hang in the closet until it was moth eaten the coat would pass from froin one closet to another or they would be made into rugs for gildi ehe lind no use ube while mille down the street there were men and women sv and children etli hardly a rag to hide their shivering naked bodies when gifford reported to the city iff iclal the amount of his assessable property lie could not quite bring him alf if to make inake a clean breast of it 1 I baet t believe the other fellows fellow tell tie the truth lie he explained to an in tamate friend lind and I 1 cant albord to tc tic ie sl skinned an lie ile quite hangsl it Is a custom ninny of us follow illa ilas hold holding lil back alle V e do in not give out our alves over to a principle with corn com abandon when we give over we ive do jt it grudgingly when we tell our wives ies we love thein e say so too fern mill reser allons we are dafid to 10 be overenthusiastic overgenerous en crous I 1 r 1 E 1924 western Newe |