Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER THE COST OF VANITY at last the scales fall from WHEN the eyes of thoughtful earnest aspirants to the high places they see that vanity Is not only a jester but one of the most troublesome and tricky imps with which they have continually to contend the pages of history replete with failures of brilliant world leaders who have stubbed their toes against egotism and fallen so desperately hurt and humiliated that their usefulness ended in dismal mishap the want of substance to satisfy his inflated mind brought napoleon to ignominious defeat and banish I 1 ment and what was true in the nine century Is true today and will always be true the same elements of peril crouch ready to spring upon and overwhelm individuals who have an empty pride inspired by an overwhelming conceit of personal attainments the young men who prate over din ner der tables boast without blush of their wonderful abilities and ostentatiously tell one another what the old man at the head of the house should do to whip his competitors are as pal bably vain and absurd as their empty they are piling up debts which vanity sooner or later will nill proceed to col lect elect with compound interest and so it Is with puffed up young women who volunteer pretentious advice to their tired out mothers without lifting a jeweled hand to lighten household burdens or cheer hearts craving sympathy and love the world Is ig overcrowded with these priggish people who through some caprice of fortune have risen a step or two and foolishly imagine that they are in a position to instruct their elders and pull them about by the nose in their conceit they alno know more about the intricate arts and sciences than do the tutors to in universities more about finance than do the bankers who have spent a lifetime in the harness pulling and tugging to overcome difficulties difficult les instead of being courted and followed by over fond parents they should be pitied for they are bound straight to failure each knows more than can be uttered each lives not by faith but by pomp bullied on a crumbling foundation they can speak no language under heaven save that of the boastful give no encouragement to others nor do any work of value oc by mcclure newspaper syndicate 5 ro me T ouse RIS i wi tai the spade superstition and there Is no graveyard suggest suggestion lon attaching to n R hoe boe or no an DX ax the origin of nil all three of these superstitions must be looked for in the ideas hold held by the ancients with regard to iron tills Is by the elie fact that one farmer fanner considers it bad luck luch perhaps tin an omen of death in the family to carry an ax i or any other iron implement through the house how tile the ancients regarded iron fron has boon been stated staled in connection with tb the e touch iron superstition suffice it to say here that iron was abhorred b by Y evil spirits and they wore were likely t to 0 do mischief to tin an tiling into the composition of which iron entered if they could and to revenge themselves upon people ajio handed iron or kept it about only tile the most powerful amulets over their doors kept the evil spirits from harming the blacksmiths of pompeii and not long ago an indian prince objected to iron being used in the construction of houses in ills domain lest iest the evil spirits spread th alie e cholera abroad in revenge evil spirits abhor iron arid and yet they are much afraid of 0 it working with an iron implement out of doors with the tree gods the grain god and all tile the other forces of nature about it does not much matter but when you take in an iron implement from its natural sphere and carry it through the house the evil spirits likely to follow raging after it an and d wreck their malevolence upon the people of 0 the household nc by mcclure New newspaper syndicate 0 |