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Show BUILD FOR THAT WHICH IS WORTH WHILE. "Here are two dollars for two little girls, who were referred to in your paper. May the children's Christmas be a happy one. Now, tell me, where is the office of the Children's Aid society." so-ciety." The spokesman was a man who had with him a rosy-faced little girl of 4 years, adopted by the good man and his wife. When the war was raging and before America entered, the Samaritan showed devotion to the fatherland, and we see in this latest act of kindness an explanation. He is a man of deep affections and sympathies. His attachments at-tachments are not easily shifted. He is firm in his love and devotion, and so hiB kindness of heart at times brings him serious embarrassments and burdens bur-dens whicli are soul-trying. After all, when you get beneath the surface, the average man or woman is very much the same. We all have a tender spot for the homeland; we all are possessed of good promptings; we all, perhaps, are- a little better than the-world outside-realizes, and many of our good deeds and all our best resolves re-solves escape public notice. And so that which is true of the average av-erage individual applies to the average aver-age home here, there and everywhere, ! and that is why the Standard has urged 1 that, in making the coming world's j peace, the diplomats plan for the mak-1 ing of happier homes, rather than seek to build on the ruins of homes the i things that appeal to the vanities of j ambition. |