The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-12

LII VI lltttAa SOs . - ~ $50
see if you cannot find some Of the warm
heartedness that is ahoat in the world,
says Dorothy Maddox in the Philadelphia
Enquirer
The bigger the town the better your
chances, though it is a generally ac-
cepted idea that a big town is a miser-
ably mean place to catch even a wintry
CLEAN of heart sunshine, that everybody
in a city is too busy catering to self to
have any time for other people.
1t looks that way. In reality the fund
of good nature, the lively sympathy that
flourishes In the busiest marts constantly
electrifies me. Pretend to have a sprained
ankle IL you cannot think of a cleverer
scheme for attracting attention, and see
how the highways and byways will dis
gorge good Sa1naritans.
They will swarm about you in a fifty.
And how eagerly they win try to do
something, and then you will marvel at
the kindness of these strangers and pretty
soon your pessimism will melt like boar
frost under a touch of sunlight. and you
will begin to realize that this old world
is not such a bad place. after all.
I rode down town the other morning
with a crazy woman. She looked sane
enough when we started, and so much of
a gentlewoman. All at once her wits left
her, and then you should have seen the
way the women stood by the unfortun-
ate soul. They all wanted to do some-
thing. Two very lovely neighbors. one
on her right and one on her left, finally
fixed 1t up between them to see the poor
lady to her destination.
Hardly bad 7 Loft a on1 7 mac
now way down in the heart Of the bust
gathered about a fallen horse. This time
men were the Samaritans.
They were as gentle with the dumb
brute as if the horse had been a human
being. Men are the incest of all Samari-
tans, once they have had their sym
pathies aroused. Perhaps I think 50 be-
cause one so often NETS great hulking
fellows who seem to have hearts as
tender as babies.
/ was telling a friend of several ex-
periences lately with the worlds SYM.
pathy, and what do you think that woman
had the heartlessness to ask? Dorothy.
We're their pocketbooks touched either
timea'
l did not like to say no but / re-
memhered that in no one case had any
Of the good Sarnaritans given a penny,
just lots of heart help.
When | acknowledged that hard cash
had not played any part in the good viii
of the different episodes my friend shifted
she has a way of shifting when things
don't quite please her-then remarked
That's the test; that's it. Kind words
are cheap. Smiles are cheap. | haven't
any use for chaan samaritans u
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