The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-17

they make friends fast and firm among people of real heart. The obliged partly multiplies the little by a large multiple; he thinks. What would he have done if had only put him to the real test? Why, see! He exerts himself to do this mall er- rand for me as if it were an affair of the greatest importance. I like the fellow" I undertake to say that there is no surer way of knitting up exquisite and strong friendships among fine-grained people than scru- pulous kindness in doing small er- rands. If there is anything under the canopy which it is difficult to get done well as you would do it yourself, in fact, it is a small errand. 0bliging errand doing is the nap on the fabric of friendship. It is only my best friend whom I dare trouble with a little errand. There are hundreds of people among my acquaintance whom I am afraid to ask to post a letter or call and get me a morning paper. The delicate tracery of fine etching is in these small offices.
 It doesn't cost much to remember the vitaHy interesting events in your neighbor's life history. What ghoul- ish blunder it is to ask after our friends wife when she had been in her grave these 10 days. Nothing, absolutely nothing, that you can say will purge you of cruelty in his mind. And you will yourself feel like a grave robber. He was your neighbor, and you ought to have remembered. The pretty little remembrances of we'd ding day, fixed for your neighbors house, and you have the cards; the childs name, the fact that his son sailed on the Etruria and is now due in Queenstown, or. that his daughter went away to school yesterday, or that you heard something to his credit this morning. It doesn't cost much after a little schooling of the mind, but it counts for thousands!
 PeIhaps, after all, am wrong. It may be that the sort of thing l have been talking about would cost great deal of effort in a man or woman who finds it unnatural. 1t may be that these tokens of good will are impos- sible to a man mean and selfish nature. They are, however, to the truly gen. erous like wild flowers on a fat soil easily growing even among weeds and the very borders of the garden. It may be that many people could work themselves up to the performance of a huge and costly kindness who could hardly be civil in railway ear if you had inadvertently taken their seat.
 An elephant can be pitchforked till he dances, but q happy child dances from very joy. No paint ever equals the sunshine. No base, bad heart can be neat in his kindness; he is very sloyeri. a bungling giant fingers at-
 tempting to thread a. needle while the drops of sweat on his puckered brow.
 Indeed, the minimizing civility which is already done before you are aware of it, the spontaneous, small courtesy that adorns politeness, like frosting on silver surfaces, and the rhythmic grace of pretty proffers with genteel speech -these do bespeak genuine good heart. They give the ploWman a polite- ness richer than the Waxed Adonis of the salon can generally boast; they lend an added glory to true woman hood; they beautify little children
 more than their silks and furbelows; they make the stateman magnetic" and transform the philosopher from a
 bore to a charming companion; they are indispensable to the clergyman
 who would win wayward youth; they make welcome for the family physi- clan, as their lack often costs a physi-
 clan many valuable patron with sen sitive nerves and large purse. The small courtesies of noble and sym
 pathizing spirit are like the nameless armao of flowers. Science has never yet explained a perfume. Rules of eti- quette have never yet compassed the thing to which have easily directed your atention-for everyone can re- cognize it, yet none can quite de-
 scribe it. It is good and severe test of your nature namely: Do you easily and naturally and constantly perform
 kind deeds that don't cost much?- Tha New York Weekly