Show I JAN AN EDITORIAL BYI BY I I FLORENCE DAVIES 4 45 5 SWANS S rOll flU I G GS The business of making 8 swans ans out of ugly ducklings Ung is h 1 one which interests us all First st and fore fore- foremost foremost tore most most wo no 0 are Interested In It on our 0 ov n n accounts Some ot of us aho ho seem eem to pass pans for ugly duck duck- ducklings lings hugs h hive ve a taint faint suspicion lou that If only the tho truth were kno known n we might turn out to be beautiful white snow white do downy deafly ny feathered sn s sans ans That's a discovery which Sir Ph Philip III I Gibbs the English editor and Journalist well ivell known tt tO Americans front from his In Inthis inthis inthis this country had the pleasure 0 of making about himself all due so soho he sass SA s to the way nay the Americans have of treating visitors Sir r Philip modestly took too his case to be ba typical Americans arent aren't al alnas a s so cor lal to who don dont t merit this thia deference But barring this modest oversight on the part ot of Sir Philip he makes makos nn an observation about the effect of treating people well Veil which Is north orth some ical leal thought The fact tact I Is he writes that the people ot of o the United States I give any visitor who ho arrives tiltS Ith decent credentials a 0 sense of mm- mm Im Importance I and ele elevate ate him tor for n a abo above abose e his usual state slate of ot In- In Insignificance In Insignificance significance Any goose Is made to believe himself a stately S San an by the warmth ot of o courtesy shown toward him This has a 8 a strange land and effect upon the It gh gives cs him dence deuce dence It actually does de In Ills goose quills change Into something like and his neck dis- dis distinctly distinctly dis distinctly elongates There Is 15 some some- something something something thing in the very cry atmosphere atmosphere- electric sparkling a little Into Into-I- cating Which eating gives a 0 man cour cour- courage cour- cour courage courage age makes him hint feel teel bigger and not only feel teet bigger but hut be big big- big g S This Is li no fantasy but nc- nc actu tuti nc-tuti tu ti II fact tact I was nas rather a 0 brave fellon for tor tho those o few weeks wee each ear because so many people be- be be believed hosed he In my nile quality qu of ot character In my Intelligence In my potters ers of truth telling Isn't this just another proof ot of the tact fact that we wo are arc what p e expect et us to bet be Suppose too that we ne all treating our visitors time the nay ay Mr bir Philip said that Americans treated him Not ot gushing over oser them thorn but just recognizing their point ot of Ie seeing their personalitIes and pIa placing Ing them u up a 8 little Ani An hostess who ho knows s how to do that n need ed never neer look long tor for dinner guests ts And suppose that e eer every er vi Ire mad made the fascinating experiment ot of treating her husband hU that wa way ot twitting him hint In public about his small weaknesses D Every Esery ery mother mothr Ino knows Inos s that It one ot of her children Is an ugly uly duck duck- ling duckling a tt little unpopular a little out ot of thIng a little lacking In self self- self confidence confidence It la Is very ery much her own fault tault because she hasn't treated him more like a swan Theres There's no heppl happier r business than making swans out ot or ugly duck duck- lings tinge ducklings and and It can be bo done as us Sir Hr I Philip Philli say says ite It if wo no practice a 0 II little tile ot the courtesy to others othere which ho he country countr ay says nays he ho received In this coun coun- coun- coun I tr tn try I |