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Show j"l li By ROGER W. BABSON, World-Famous Statistician It's funny how seemingly little j things in our surroundings affect our j efficiency. Whether you feel happy and successful, success-ful, or down-and-out and a failure, may depend on so small a thing as the heel of a shoe. I khow a man who is a great philanthropist. philan-thropist. Ho isn't so very rich; but he does more good with a few hundred dollars than many do with millions. This is the way he goes about setting set-ting down-and-outers back on their feet at 50c per. When he finds a, poor, unfortunate, he takes the man to tho nearest cobbler's cob-bler's shop and has full new heels put on his shoes. Ten minutes later the down-and-out-er is facing the world once more. He is alone again, but his heels are square and he stands a little stralght-er. stralght-er. He throws back his shoulders and sets his jaw, not knowing Just whv he docs it, and strides off a better man. By straightening those heels, our friend has done more (o help a drifter than if he had. given him a hundred dollars. It's the little things our heels, our shoes, our clothes, tho pictures In our houses, the condition of the tools we work with, and tho expression worn by those we meet that mnkc our moods. If you want to try an experiment along tliis 4line(jwatch your1 wife the day she buysAthnt new hat. no , |