Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-30

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A number OF social gatherings this
summer at which the unbidden onlook-
ers have exceeded the invited guests
have called forth criticisms on those
who SO lack in modesty and pride as to
tntrude where they are not desired.
This is one side of the picture and in. a
town like Marshalltown. where no
sharp line Of social demarkation can be
drawn, we can not see the other side;
but 1t was fully brought out in single
instance in The Workers." The de-
scription is of police station where
penniless men have spent the night. AS
they file in they pass party who are
out Stunning" and one of the outcasts
in surly way asks a companion why
it is they are watched as If they were
some show or panorama. And why are
they? You and may never have
known poverty and misery in their most
abject forms, but our lack gives US no
license to probe into the Affections OF
others. When the poor stare at the
well-to-do, we call it vulgar, but the
well-to-do may not only stare, but may
ply the poor with inquisitive questions
and we call 1t socialistic! There may be
osity.
Charity in the past few years has out
growE much of its crudeness, and
knowledge and insight are necessary If
it would accomplish what it should.
But knowledge and insight are not the
results of curiosity, nor are they of
morbidness. Many who give spasmodic
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ated by the one or the other
Even gold is not free from baser
materials and SO the bad and the care
less are not always separated from
charity, which is itself pure gold. No
other work can so ennoble one as the
seeking to better another. and that is
what charity really is. Selfishness is the
cause OF all sin and love is the cause
of all good-and the translators OF the
Holy Book have taught us that love and
charity are one.
What would summer be without a
circus? Laugh and joke as we may at
the same old parade and side show and
concert, which one of us would miss it
Jail? Circus day is halcyon one for the
small boy. for then he is in much de-
mand A most unapproachable small
boy it must be who can not find some
one willing, aye eager, to take him Ito
see the animals In this connection the
story is recalled of man in town not
very far away who as the flaming pos
ters announced in gaudy colors the
coming of the great and only" cast
about in his mind for some excuse to
attend. Being blessed with no offspring
and all his acquaintances providing for
theirs, his search seemed futile until at
last he found one small boy who had
no visible means of attending. AS a
sinking man catches at slender straw
he chung to that small boy and winning
| for himself the reputation of child
lover and kind doer, he set forth for the
circus The small boy seemingly en-
joyed it, but what shall be said Of the
mans enjoyment? But his honor was
| short lived and today his appearance is
| the signal for general laughter for on
the way home some one overtaking
| them said: why. Mr.. Blank, didn't
know you had little boy ooh. ]
haven't" he answered, "but I took this
| little boy. who hadn't any one to go
with him" One never knows when he
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! befriended and it was so in this case,
| for the little boy said, yes. and fell
asleep and fell down through the seats
and Mr.. Blank was looking at the clown
so hard that he never knew it and
didn't he look surprised when the po-
| liceman pushed me up through EN-
AGAIN." The best part of this story is
that it's true.
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Some one laughed few days ago at a
| tiny little girl and called her foolish or
even obstinate. The little girl, with her
dark eyes and dainty ways. would be
taken for little southerncr. With
those characteristics OF the south she
adds yet another-a great liking for
sweet potatoes. On the breakfast ta-
bic was a dish of potatoes and the little
girl kept asking each one at the table
/ Oh! won't you have a sweet potatol
You'd better, for they're very nice" Nc
/ one corrected her mistake and to one
from whom the passing years have
never taken anything of child love OF
4 child understanding, 1t was not alto.
lgether a laughing matter when the lit.
tie girl broke the potato on her plate
and found that 1t was not sweet one
but a common Irish one. Perhaps shs
was foolish to let her disappointment,