Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
Give a Place


In your daily litanies to the aspiratory. to
be delivered from all !gnoble ambitions.
from all dishonesty, pose and pretenses.
do not let your standards of conduct or
intercourse become blurred. 1t Is astonish-
ing how soon. even with the fastidious. the
Reorganization of those governed by a lower
standard tends to deteriorate ones own.
There is little story OF such far-reach-
ing significance that 1t well may be repeat
ed OF a crowd looking on at the executing
Of a gang Of criminals 1t turned away
with shudder OF horror from the first
head held up. calmly gazed at the second
and derided the executioner when he let
slip the third.
The principle holds good in less CHASTITY
contingencies on many an occasion IN daily
life. The manifestation which gives us an
unpleasant jar the first time Is soon ac-
cepted as part OF the personality OF the Of
fender. 1t ceases to give jar; 1t Is then
tolerated. and finally initiated The toler
ance is not virtue, Invariably. Tolerance
OF an honest opinion. different from our
own. is one thing: tolerance OF deliberate
lowering OF the standards that we have pro-
posed TO ourselves is another.
Keep a fine edge on your susceptibillties
that you may not come to tolerate the in
admissible. and to this end frequent the
best company as Thackeray has said, in
books as In life, in both of which the best
companions those who send you spin
ming forward.
We Almost Welcome
Any suffering II 1t would make us so
strong. noble. true as some people have
been. We mutineers look back through our
tears and see what large place certain
character We have known has filed In the
lives Of all who knew him. A Woodworking
country doctor may have been Sir Philip
Sidney. an Admirable Crichton, a Carlo
Rorromeo. We remember his mirth. his
cheerfulness his courtesy. his wit. his In
dustry. faithfulness and unselfshness. We
remember how he came In the sick room at
early morning. bringing flowers for his suf-
ferIng patient. and we follow him through
the years of his benehcent but unrecorded
life saying this was character"
30 OF many woman unknown to fame.
We remember how bravely she met caIa1n-
ity and shame brought to her by one man
who had sworn to love and to protect We
remember how cheerfully she worked for
him and for her children. how she was able
to see others succeed without envy
And we remember the man who all
through his life lived under an unjust sus-
picion to shield a brother or son.
We think of the old man to whom came
domestic trials of the hardest yet who
never lost faith.
We think of the brilliant woman of So
ciety who stuffs her wounds with brocade
and never let's the world see that inwardly
she bleeds. All this Is character and all
these are characters.
Volumes
Have been written on the etiquette of social
and official life. and few people would at
tempt to mingle in their great wihrlpools
without learning the prescribed rules of
conventional decorum. It Is in the every
day or home life that all are most remiss
And while there are few set rules for meet
Ing the tri1ing incidents that crowd upon
one another day after day. there is a
broad general principle which covers the
whole subject and is set forth IN this old
cOuplet:
The kindest things IN the kindest way
A writer on etiquette prefaces his volume
BY saying that every one should learn that
the Christian woman who shows in her
daily life that she possesses the fruits of
the Holy Spirit. to all intents and purposes
Is true lady. An irreligious woman never
can have this bearing. She may be poll