The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27

Al lNE-TENTHS Of the untoward hap
" peniugs that people call accidental
are due to gross carelessness and
shameful neglect.
There are two sets of people in the
world-those who keep things up and
those who let things run down. The
first have never INDUCED in the habit
of putting off till tomorrow what ought
to be done today. If the roof leaks or
there is crack in the ceiling or a
loose board in the floor or a sagging
hinge or a broken window cord, they
repair the damage at once. They know
perfectly that it costs less to mend
than to mar. and marring goes rapidly
on where there is no mending As
every body knows the best way TO let
even a fine house go TO absolute ruin
is to shut it up and leave it without
al inhabtant. A house that is lived in
lasts longer and looks better than a
house that is uhtenanted, because the
war upon the buildings of men. and a
constant battle must be waged against
them if men are to come off victors.
The Needless hOusekeeper has casu-
ally mentioned that there is a thin
place on the stair carpet which Will
presently wear into hole. She is not
ignorant of rip in a rug which may
catch somebody's heel and cause tum-
Die, But being needless. she puts off
repairing the rent in carpet and rug
until an unlucky person hurrying along
has fall which means a hip out of
Joint or a broken leg. or. worse still,
o n f..h
someone in old age, or the develop
meht Of a malignant disease in some
one younger. These baleful sequences
DO come from slight falls, and some
bod is responsible
A variety of miseries shuttle along
in the train of sO-called accidents
which never should have been permit
ted to occur. From time to time peo-
pie die because they have eaten toad
stools when they thought they were
eating mushrooms. Nothing is easier
than to distinguish between the deIici-
Gus edible and the deadly fungus. yet
there are those who mourn. such
of accident.
Children are sometimes left in the
care Of thoughtless hirelings and are
MANNED for life through falls for which
there was neither excuse nor occasion.
A man fearfu1ly deformed with a great
AihlAilf btNNFtcl MS SnOulOeTS was IN
his infancy. the most noble and beauti-
ful of children. While his. pretty nurse
was flirting with a gallant policeman
the baby Carriage took slide down a
steep hill ana was overturned at the
foot, and years of pain and wretched-
ness, with the handicap of the hunch-
back, have paid for that folly
We seldom read of a railroad acct
dent that is not due to the careless
ness of somebody. and yet it would be
most unfair to utter sweeping criti-
cisms on the employees of public con-
Feyances- The average man is superb
~ trustworthy. The engineer sticks
to his post and dies in the effort to
save the train. When one of the en-
gines on the Majestic was suddenly
put out of commission not long ago by
a real accident that no care could have
anticipated or aVeTted. the corps of en-
gineers. at the risk of their own lives
in the face Of clouds of scalding steam.
shut off the machinery, and were car
RED 10 the hospital afterwards. They
were heroes
There are accidents that no one can
prevent. But as compared with those
which come by lack of care. they are
few When the lightning from the sky
strikes a man dead as he sits in his
house or walks by the way. he may