Show uncommon belase john blake a bell syndicate service we are negligent of ct the needs and the difficulties of others only because they rarely are help all brought to our at you can tenn menever people clearly see and understand the troubles of their fellow creatures they rarely fall to help hell them I 1 was in san Franc francisco Lica within a week of 0 the great fire that drove thousands of people from comfortable homes to seek shelter in tents beyond the fire bre zone working on a newspaper I 1 had bad an ample opportunity to see how bow help was coming la in from all sides and to observe how bow the rich forgot their pride and taking oft off their coats labored twelve hours a day till til all that had bad been driven from their houses were supplied with shelter and food this Is one of the fine traits in human nature rt it takes cover during average run of events but it comes out when there is a call for aid 0 0 0 0 0 0 in carl Sand burgs fine biography of lincoln he tells how bow in his early life one of the greatest of men and of presidents could never endure to see a hog in distress the hogs bogs would go down to the creek to drink and become mired in t the b e thick mud which had they not been helped would soon have drawn them down to their deaths then the tall lanky prairie youth driving past and observing them would pull off his coat anil and sometimes the remainder of his bis attire and by exerting his tremendous strength pull the squealing porkers corkers out on high land ile he smiled happily while they waddled way away to safer footing little in that time did lincoln or anyone else dream that before so many years he be would be rescuing a great nation from destruction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today there are many reasons tor for mutual helpfulness in the world it Is a time to scrap selfishness and self seeking and do all that can be done to keep going the movement which la 13 to bring the world back to its feet the vast majority of the people in america understand tills this the concerted efforts that are being made to restore better conditions la Is the proof there will be sacrifices and hardships but where is the man in this wide country who while struggling himself hint sell till not reach out a hand toward a neighbor nho aho is in a worse position than he millions are starting slowly back up the hill and I 1 believe as they toll upward they will find bud their neighbors reaching out to help them and finding in the practice of sympathy Smpat by a satisfaction which will more than repay them for all that they have done or are doing 0 0 0 in the days of my youth there were men who could not afford laundry bills and who wore what were known as dickeys dickeys were shield shaped devices ot of linen or cotton which could be used to cover up the tri false angular space which fronts begins where the vest leaves oft off cut but they were not very satisfactory they had a tendency to pull out at the corners permitting the public to view contemptuously the soiled w white bite or whitish shirt underneath they saved laundry bills for a while to be sure though in most cases it v waa as the toll of the poor wives or mothers at home that they saved but they were known throughout the town to be poor pretenses at respectability and as soon as a mans financial condition improved a little lie he abandoned them and went vent back on the old standard but the dickeys supplied a lesson lesso n to some of the people in my old town which more than atoned for the embarrassment ras rass iDent that they sometimes cost their wearers bearers discovered that sharn sham was no good that they might better have donned the old red flannel shirts which were worn by the railroad boys and truck drivers than to attempt to be something that they were not 0 is this Is not an arga argument in defense of the snappy dresser or of the boy who leeps keeps ills his mother at the washboard so she can save money to buy her offspring tile the evening suit he says lie he must annii in order to keep up with the parade it Is merely an effort to impress on my readers that while rags may not be royal raiment when worn for vir bues tues sake it Is better to stand tor for what you are instead of what you would like to be or what heaven willing chance you mean to be when you get your ui 0 0 0 0 6 0 be what you are and dont be ashamed of it better it it if you can and as rapidly as you can it if you want to be some tiling thing better but dont use false fronts or pretenses I 1 e uvell if they were not dot found out they would be bad for your character and believe me they always win will be found out probably at some time when the discovery will embarrass it beyond beyond your power to stand you up almos tinder us wear a bold front alay but be bore before you wear war it that sure it one i s not nol a false |