The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-17
IT DOESN'T COST MUCH.

IT DOESN'T COST MUCH.
 How Easy It Is to Knit and Maintain Friendships.
 It doesn't cost much to go around the corner after dinner and ring the door bell of your sick friend. You can say that you missed him from busi- ness during the day. learned on irl- tquiry that he had been i'll these three days, and, of course. had an interest to know how he was. The mere in- quiry of itself will be worth more to the caged invalid than his doctors
 doses. To go in and sit with him a half hour would be worth more. The cheery, healthful air of your presence is about all that is neded; you had better assume that he is not very sick
 but, if he insists upon it, you had best listen kindly to his narrative of ills. I say it is worth much to him. But it l is worth incalculably more to you. For, mark you, he will never forget it. He might forget it if you loaned him thousand dollars; but a sick days call? Never forgotten! That's one OIG5AIie ways IO uldhS ALASlluSs It doesn't cost much, when you are
 waiting at a railway junction for your train, to go seek out your acquain- tance in the town. Not that you want to sell him any good or transact any other business. Not that you cousin" for dinner or would investigate a
 customers credit. No errahd but to
 keep up the acquaintance or renew it. | It is the way some bright and big hearted men have of making and keep | ing their friends. It doesn't cost much to remember | the name and address of pleasant peo- pie whom you met crossing the At ] lantic, or on some western stage jour ney or in some lone hotel. A wise
 man will preserve such fragments of delightful relations with his fellows. l A fool forgets all about them the next | day; he never expects to encounter
 them again. But he will meet them again, be sure that. Ten to-one he had fostered the acquaintance when
 he had no axe to grind, for now he | had his aX in hand, and these people could grind it for him. But, of course, he is ashamed to ask. s..-
 It doesn't cost much to pay your so- eial duties with promptness. You owe the As call. The B's are newcomers in your vicinity, and you ought to | call; you intend to call, but week after l week passes, and you do not call.
 Other people do the agreeable, and the As and B's vote other people Every nice" Meanwhile you suffer by contrast; they vote you rude, self ish, unsocial and what not--all of which you do not deserve; you are i simply careless or lazy. But the day comes when it would be worth solid
 silver and gold to you to be on really good terms with these people; and then it is too late; your overtures | would seem mercenary and calcu-
 lated. Keep good tieighbors. It is easy. ;,. .$ All
 It doesn't cost much to do a little more than your part in towering up at night, my boy, mean you, the young clerk in the store. If you, are ready to lend a handgat piling black the goods after closing time; if you willingly stay after hours to help some fellow behind with his task: if you share the box of grapes or apples
 sent down from the country home
 farm, asking mother to express them
 to the store rather than to your
 boarding place, and knowing full well
 that it will be precious few of them
 that will go down your own throat;
 yet all this pays. Do not mfsunder-
 stand me. It would spoil, it all if you
 calculated, selfshly, on the eventual
 profit of it all for yourself. But to
 cultivate the heart-feeling, that self
 ishness Is poor economy, and gener-
 osity is always legal tender the wider world over, that is what I mean. And
 it is the small, inexpensive services
 those that do not cost much-which
 go the furthest.
 It doesn't cost much to do an er-
 rand, perhaps. You are to be in
 town and can take a bundle. You are
 to be near and can squeeze out ten
 minutes to take message into an office. You go three blocks out of
 your way. Your think nothing of a little trouble; indeed, considerable trouble can be safely assumed. If
 course there is limit. Sensitive people
 dislike to be under great obligations
 for errands. Hence it Is the little er-
 rands that do not cost much, which
 are most acceptable. But I tell you