The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-17

must not forget the Tragedy or
| beauty--for II is a tragedy.
Individual units in the wide world
OF humanity are held together by the
! law OF attraction; else. by the law OF
| repulsion. they drift far apart.
That man Is less a man whose ideal
is less than himself. A bigot and an
egotist are loaded TO the guards with
dead ideals and faded day dreams.
Our natures are very largely the
result OF environments. No wonder
some women are icebergs No wonder
some men are froggish. Some homes
are refrigerators.
Lots OF self branded saints are wait
ing for Gabriel to blow his horn. when
they might do a little business for the
good OF the race II they would toot
their own for awhile.
There are lots of runt millionaires
that are playing the game OF life for
what cheap fun there is In II. Osler's
theory and a good gatling gun would
relieve us nightly.
The man who wilfully neglects his
refuses the crown OF motherhood
these are the shoals upon which the
home is sure to wreck. II has never
failed.
O-S-T-I-N-G-boosting To leave
out IS" spells the other fellow who
makes that his business. BY that he
expects TO rise. A sea-pirate is an
honorable gentleman by the side OF
him.
Don't condemn In others what you
might easily find in yourself. When
the fox and the hounds run in a circle
II Is mighty hard TO tell the difference
between the pursued and the pur-
suer.
Humbly try to make the world bet
ter, be charitable within your means.
add nothing more TO a fellows sorrow.
be square with your neighbor, be
square with yourself-that creed is
good enough.
Get wise! You will see on any
street corner those social warts: the
Johnnies. scavengers In quest OF prey
The pity is that some move-on-law
does not mercilessly push them of the
very verge of creation.
Appoint yourself as a pioneer In in
dependent thought Try intellectual
scouting for awhile. II Is like breath
ing the tonic OF an upper zone Try
IL just once. You will feel the bound
ing. rich. red blood
For the most part ones criticism Of
another is In the nature OF self-in-
fiicted indictment Until a man can
stand fiat-footed and see over his own
back fence, he has no earthly right to
say what is in his neighbor's back
yard.
OF all the graces charity is the
rarest. And II is TO be exercised not
only among the worlds poor. but
among that vast body that happens
TO differ with you in matters of opin-
ion. Sometimes / think this is the
place where II is the most rarely seen.
Sorrow has It's own languag agte-nobody
but those who taste the bitter can un-
derstand It, Suffering furnishes splen-
did opportunity TO learn just how TO SYM
pathize. In that region alone Is the
place 10 learn what a message OF cheer
means to a heavy heart.
No person can really live whose hear.
is cold and shriyeled. Love and life are
one and the same Life grows richer az
love deepens and broadens The empty
life In always self-centred. To save
yourself be spent for others. SeIfishness
Is a high form OF suicide.
Whatever may be the pet ideas of those
who elect a life OF blossomed single
blessedness a woman never was born to
be judge and jury. Her scepter II a
caress. and her boundless realm Is an
empire OF love- When she fails there
her sway over man has passed away.
In our great congested centres women
who toll for bread are In an unspeaka-
BILE danger-of new sort, even In this
modern age. On the one hand. there
hang about entrances 10 theatres. church
es and the great department stores. hu-
man vultures ready with their cowardly
effrontery: on the other hand, IL she re-
sents their insult. there is a scandal
monHng press ready to place her name
before gossiping public. Could a human
be more utterly helpless7 No wonder n
recent publication, somewhat yellow
itself. calls this modern situation 'the
bulwark of vice"
Special privileges to none. equal privi-
leges TO all--that's sound doctrine. And
yet because some men have not the abil-
ity TO use all their privileges. they pass
TO another. There can be no waste In
this realm Are you, because Of ones
sheer incapacity, going to condemn an
other because he happens TO have more
than his fellows? You might make an
equal division OF all the worlds gold and
in a while there would still be million
aires II isn't q question OF loot and pi-
racy every time. More often II Is the In
capacity of the one and the capacity II
the other to handle natures equally dis
tributed riches. DO you see?