Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28
Be sociable.

we contend WlUnOuU Iear OF COnUFd-
diction, that Colby is the most unso-
cial town in the state. In the eyes of
a majority of our people social gath
ering of whatever nature is looked
upon as place where the devil turks
ready to hurl the participants down
to everlasting perdition. The most
innocent form Of amusement is placed
under a ban, and the result is that
our young people are growing up in
ignorance of the most ordinary amen
tiles of life, and when it becomes nee
essary for them to go out into the
world they will find themselves handi-
capped in the struggles for existence.
Apropos of this subject we append the
following from the Logan County
Banner:
''The people of this city have earn
ed the reputation Of being the most
hospitable in the world: They assem-
bic at one another's houses and have
good time instead of sitting around
and mourning over what might have
been. These gatherings are, we
might say, peculiar to the people of
Russell, it being the only town in the
county in which the people make a
practice of keeping acquainted by
frequent social intercourse. 1t is a
pleasant and sensible practice which
might be adopted with profit by other
towns. When a person becomes so
absorbed with selfishness- surround
ing himself with a hOlier-and-better-
than-thou wall-that he cannot get
out of his shell and mingle pleasantly
with his fellow being, it is time that
he took something for his liver or re-
ceived shock from Schlatter or some
other storage battery. There are
town in western Kansas where din
ner partyya surprise party or social
gathering of any kind is seldom held
unless it be for the purpose of raising
money for the heather in foreign
countries or to fool the people into
spending their money for some other
folderol. We have but one life to
live which is good reason why we
should get as much as possible out of
that one. AS philosopher once said:
''Life is short and we will be long
time dead" How much better is it
then that we leave the world brighter
and better for our having lived in it.,
instead of trying to make it cave of
gloom and an iceberg of selfishness.
Greed and selfishness, formality and
exclusiveness, and gloom and worry
and will not help matters at all
l[Colby Tribune.
! 1.-THE above is so much to our way of
thinking that we give IL as a text for
our readers to reflect upon during
these happy Christmas times. The
sentiments expressed will, we believe,
meet with almost universal COM
mendation but for some explained
reason people do not always act in ac-
cordance with it. And while it is
true that there are some in every COM
munity whose actions Justify the be-
lief that they consider almost every
thing bordering on cheerfulneSS and
sociability as vanity, and whose men
tai vision is distorted by looking at
everything through somber colored
glasses. yet we believe that this type
is largely in the minority and when
discovered will be found to be closely
related to the one who actually ZEN
joys poor health In all newly set
tied countries kindness, hospitality
and sociability are characteristics.
In older communities the reverse APP
pears to be true and people apparent
! ly become more selfish and live more
within themselves. We cannot be-