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Show AN EDITORIAL BY ) FLORENCE DAVIES j ! "FOB LOV1 U MONEY " B 1 i- r. nee ia les. 1 The woman with dreams In her eyes and a touch of gray in her dark hair shook her head a bit sadly. "Doesn't anybody do anything 'Just for love', any more?" she asked. "I've had anj odd experience of my own with this I old home that I've been putting in j order to rent. There are so many things upstairs and down that no paper-hanger or painter or plumber or cleaning woman can do only somebody that knows the old house J through and through. "lioxes and bundles to look over In the attic. ld stuff to condemn utterly or smile over and pack into smaller compass to be stored away jagaiu. Little touches in each room why. I've stayed over there to rub off the finger-prints the f loor-finlshr left, and wind up the springs of the 'shades, and scrape paint off a win-! win-! (low here and there with a penny, 'you know. And my friends say, 'You shouldn't do It. Your tenants won't kno"- the difference. Here you are j getting all tired out." I "Don't they know that I love to do; those little things because I love the; old home? That I don t mind getting get-ting tired when I can make the dear old rooms look better or pick up a bit in the garden that used to be so naoll To If Aiilv mnnr.it rtnn miut think of nowadays, like the workmen who tlrotj the hammer and spill the nails at the sound of the whistle, and aren't allowed to "speed up' a bit even to keep an old friend from failing on a contract" 1 heard of such a case tho other day." "For love or money," we tiw.-d to say. It does seem as though the .nr. cent now was on money. But my I friend answered her own quertlon People to whom sentiment still makes appeal will do the sort of thing she has been doing, for love and love only. .That young workman who freely gav IiIm blood to a "Buddy."' whose strength , (was all but gone and refused to make' a penny on the transfusion, put the .accent on "love" and not on money. j Mot hers who do many wearisome things for noisy youngsters who are heedless of all such sacrifices, do them for love, and always will. I And some day, whpn "Men. m I'rothern, men. the workers." read the golden rule with understanding, ln-jdustry ln-jdustry Itself will see that money and what money buys, are not all that make life worth living. I r |
