Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
There

IhCre-
Is rare. fine art in speaking the truth
in love. Never welding II In such a way
that it can do harm or crush some sensi-
tive soul. Nor is It necessarily always
right to speak at all There are virtuous
reserves.
one may be silent if one has nothing
kind TO say. The haste to tell every little
bit of gossip, every unfortunate or hasty
speech a friend has uttered. is net induced
by caudor but often by pure malevolence.
one Of the hardest things to decide,
spoke meditatively the observing woman.
is how far one is justified in telling the
Truth"
That is simple said the imDulsve
young person. Always tell the TRUTH
But the Observing woman rejoined Il
would like to ask you to recall the most
unpleasant and least popular woman you
ever met, and tell me if she was not a
woman who prided herself upon always
telling people her opinion Of them and their
doings. and of saying exactly what she
thought upon every subject under the heav-
ems. without any regard for other folks
pECjudices and feelings.
The queer part is that the self-eected
truth teller is feared always. not loved. She
perhaps thinks it is because sne is a mar
tyr 10 Tue cause of t,uth.
Perhaps better Instruction for speech was
never given tran the words that fell from
the lips of the great teacher Pythagoras:
II tier no agreeable fa!sehood; utter no dis
agrct&l.e truth
Otherwise pat: "ClotAe your truth in
pleasing wnIus and manner if it admits
no pleasing exterior, remain silent Again.
.t.lsuul Your pretty words with always a
truth. If year pretty speech is not true. do
not speak. b. both true and pleasing
Few People
Live 50 isolated as to region that they
also are isolated as to. people. Almost all
have nciEE5ors, near or fa", and whoever
has a neighbor has a duty.
This is not q duty of interference and
meddlcsCmencss but of thoughtfulness of
sympathy. of help when needed. Nor is 1t
merely the practical help of gifts and loans
which almost all render on application. The
help that comes from interest, from desire
to share what one has. from the feeling OF
brotherhood ard oneness is a vastly diff
ferent and superior thing TO almsgiving.
one has this spirit no. If the neighbor
has no pleasures makes some for her;
who. If the neighbor has inferior pleasures,
joins them without protest ma nifestatio
of contempt. and leads these inferior pleas
ures quietly along until the superior are
reached
No one is justified in entire secluson with
unless under extraordinary circumstances,
for as We are set in families also are
set In neghborhoods; and no one is too
great by reason of riches, work or learn
ing. and no one is too small through pov
erty or ignorance, to be part of that
neighborhood, entitled to interest from ev
cry others part and to more or less con-
sideration and care
The afiiuent in money and learning can
give to the poor all that such alnuence has
given to them. The poor can g We the rich
the sympathy in joy and sorrow that money
cannot buy, together with the experience
that comes from familiarity with human
nature III its simplicity, and all keeping
thus the threads of life woven about them
In ose fabric.
An Affiuence-
OF noble, womanly qualities, a cultivated
intellect and an affectionate disposition
give a charm to a face which is lacking in
features faulty faultless, icily regular,
sp!endidly null"
Handsome is that handsome does"
echoes from Oldest times. The neglect of
AL the finer qualities of mind and heart
leads usually to deterioration of beauty.
The face of the man which had in youth
that romance writers might picture as the
features OF a young Greek god was found
at middle age to have grown ineXpressibly
coarse In outline. The clear-cut profile was
blurred. the eyes under the arched brows
We're dull and heavy. and no charm was left
In what formerly had been a singuarly pre-
posse ssing COuntenance. To one who met
the changed man after an absence of years
a friend explained: He is ider. He
lounges lazily through life simply existing,
without thought, without life"
How different from this are the faces
chiseled to their perfection by noble
thoughts and kindly feelings-faces like ben
edctions. which are so TRANSPORTED by the
inward loneliness shining through the veil