Show I 1 sr ED ef HOWE 0 bell syndicate WIN u S I 1 know a man who Is fairly smart and mainly disposed to be a gentleman nian but be inherited a strong disposition to be disagreeable lie ile lights fights tt it with some success but not enough I 1 know film well and run from him lie he always makes me furiously angry lie ile knows the importance ot of gentility and fairness but from some of mf fit anc ancestors estorE lie he caught a dose of pettiness lie he cannot get rid of how do you handle the file pettiness some old ancestor handed down to you instead of 0 fame and fortune everyone has blood in him he should get rid of but it Is mixed up tip in the main stream and the operation Is difficult 7 X I 1 am tired of those persons who amount to nothing themselves but become tremendous critics of those who do most of the big criticism in print and heard from the platform come from persons who do not amount to much except as writers orators find soy any man who Is 13 behaving tolerably vi tell ell and accomplishing proper human tasks with considerable ability and you will find him surrounded with whooping critics ranging front from members of his own family to his congressman and editor A vast horde of men are going to the devil but a still greater number ere are giving a good account of themselves look at the great number of our creditable american not one managed by a bum look at our progress we are in the load lead and every progressive step Is id made by good men the bums have nothing to do with it let us hope that the idle the coreless careless the unreliable the incapable will finally be able to take the bint their abuse of good men has always been unavailing the best men cannot be kept down the great lesson tw that should be taught unceasingly Is that there la Is abundance for all that Is the tact fact of which there Is least doubt but we must earn save and work nature abominates the shiftless and rewards the careful the foolish notion that men may make the world over and lieveld leave cave out industry and thrift Is believed by no intelligent man for thousands of jears bears we have been working to reform others the great work Is to reform ourselves ft A I 1 often wonder there are so many rOUD ders men who devote a good deal more than half their time to what they pall all pleasure A rounder always goes to the devil finally nally fl and have a great deal of fun I 1 believe there Is more pleas use in honest business than to in bum mery A man may find a good deal of pleasure in promotion in III the notoriety the newspapers always give particularly ticul arly capable men there Is pleasure in building and occupying a better home than the average in good credit at the bank and in the community y 11 times at are nearly always hard because of false efforts to make them better Z ilen blen do not actually trust dreams and il Is lons but somehow hate te tc give them up I 1 lately attended a rather unusual social affair a lady who sat near we me sat said it was the best showing of gowns gown of the th season I 1 doted at the gowns but did not find much enuch of Inte interest resL occasionally casio nally I 1 ahne gone to dry goods stores to be in the way while adelaide my niece looks the unusual display of gowns at the notable party looked to me very much like those I 1 see displayed on racks in the dry grods goods stores of all colors sizes and shapes and rather flimsy we read in history that the beet of the anilene civilizations became so luxurious that they ran out nature provided plenty but the people were so idle and pleasure loving that they work to maintain themselves then came along a hurdler hardler und and simpler race of men arid and captured them genghis kohn kalin the barbarian overran the neighboring civilizations so tit did Mali otnel and its his successors it Is sold said our western civilization Is becoming so luxurious that thai it la Is in didinger di inger what simpler people will succeed us why it be a good iden idea to sin haq our ourselves selNes it if the bernart aleck alart h town toun ioen art are doter determined ter mined to go to hell bihy may not nl the formers farmers lend off the Imper idam calamity we have a hlll country probably the best that has eer ex ei aimed 1 led alii it let lef it lie needles ly why not IKI simplify our ur habits un der the direction of the forio runners ers arid ami sae rate it why become bri fine file suh jeris ii ol 01 some boine of the ihu lark races I 1 faintly recall a story hemn tuo nini men to in a great grant emergency in the going to 0 1 fanner arnier and Iiii juring lilii to quit the plow and help them it 1 iv time fur for something of the kind to lo happen again it usually I 1 cant read a writ las ing or fathom her mind |