The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
A "Cozy Corner r Talk"
By Grace Riley Clarke

business woman admits out Of all her
purposes and impulses is that of never
missing chance to help.
81 always believed that if I once
let a chance to help 60 by my good luck
would desert me-" she says.
Few realize the divergence Of the two
roads which frequently have their start
ing point in the chance to help. With
the mind to grasp the fact that the help
ing or not helping is the first of two
professions of. events, there are few so
lacking in the superstitious Instincts
or the divine wisdom-as: not to feel
wish to get on the road peopled by
the little gods of propitiation.
i. :. i.
One who is idolized by her sons who
have grown up among the world IS best
as SO many jewels to her crown, said
that the first lesson that she taught
them was that of the rights of other
people, and that she did this by first
teaching them the rights of animals
thru their little household pets.
The great light which makes some
people regard such rights as equal with
their own must be known before it is
possible to enter into the strength and
gentleness of the life Of the teacher of
the first century.
For the mother who wants her child
to be according to that model, it would
be worth the paying of a great price to
gain for him this point of view. 1t is
not possible for schools to teach all Of
that which so delicately blends qualities
Of both heart and mind. By guiding
the baby mind to care and loyalty and
gentleness to his little animal friends,
the mother has the whole secret in her
hand. 1t is the principle which is COM
ing to be considered in all lines of use
fulness and she has here the practical
school for working it out, which will
appeal as nothing else could to plastic
little minds.
The small person who is deprived Of
his pets, by overanxious fears that he
may get harm from them is deprived of
one of his best chances to know and
understand.
In London there was lately set up
successful little shop by French
woman who is one of a class well known
in Paris called the ''artiste stoppeur."
Freely translated, it is ''artistic men,
DER" and the woman is one of those
convent trained members who can darn
a rent in any kind of cloth so that it is
absolutely indistinguishable.
This is work for which tailors have
frequent call, but which they never can
supplys satisfactorily, and the person
who tears an otherwise perfect garment
has no resource except to beg darn as
a favor from some older woman who has
learned the art.
j. i. !.
She is not lady at heart was the
keenly intuitive analysis proudly made
by a woman who had been brought to
the depths Of misfortune by mistakes
of temperament. She had appealed to a
woman of position and wealth, who had
a long list of charitable benevolences,
and who told her friend of former days
that she deserved no sympathy because
she had brought her troubles upon her.
self.
1t was not her refusal to help that
hurt, = added the woman. cit was be.
cause she rubbed it in"
The aside, so-called by theatrical peo-
pie, and less tolerated by them than any
other sin, is near to the CT told YOU
so, which is never uttered except in
the most playful way by the lady at
heart.