The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Don't judge others by yourself"
In the days when l was a kiddie
in the years before my companions
and had acquired the veneer of
grown up self control, that used to be
favorite by-word with u.s.
II anyone accused Someone else of
intending to do a mean thing, the
quick and singing retort would often
be.
Don't judge others by yourself"
1 think it would be a good by-word
for grOwn-ups, too.
Don't judge others by yourself. You
are continually trying to, but you
can't.
Some philosophers deny this, and
harp on the fact that in the elemental
things. all men and women are very
much alike.
I admit that the same elemental
desires and passions are present in all
Of us.
But in such different proportions
and so differently combined and de-
veloped, that We may be as different
from one another as one piece of mu-
sic from another II Am Afraid to
Song in Faust may both contain the
same elemental notes, but these are
certainly so combined and proportion
ed that the pieces of music differ
widely.
Don't tell me-" says the woman
with the serpent's tongue, that any
| girl could be alone in an office with
/ man as much as his stenographer is
with him-and you know how fascin-
ating he is-and be perfectly straight"
You are judging someone else by
| your own power of resisting tempta-
ton, Mrs. Gossip. Don't. Maybe you
couldn't do il, but you have no right
to assert that she couldn't
You certainly don't think" says
the business man, that a man with
I b - ~ANrw4 e.
without the slightest danger of getting
| caught, doesn't turn a penny on the
| side once in a while. I guess both
your parents came from Missouri
| Thereby. Mr.. Business Man, you
register your opinion of your own
| power to resist temptation and try to
| judge someone else by il. Don't
| Maybe YOU know the temptation
/ would be too much for you. but that
most emphaticalIy doesn't give you
the right to say it would be too much
| for your neighbor.
| People who try to make foot rule
| of themselves whereby to measure
| other men and women, remind me of
| the deceitful old adage we used to
| swallow so confdingly in our child
| hood-"a pint's pound the world
round"
| You can't any more make of your
| self a measure for other people than
you can say q pint of feathers weighs
| an ounce. ana therefore TWO plntS OF
/ lead would weigh two punches
| These I have given are examples
| looking upwards, but it's just the
| same looking down.
| You haven't any right to judge any
| one who yields to temptation as weak
| because the temptation would have
| meant little to you
/ All the differences of makeup. of
/ heredity, of environment stand in the
way of such 2 judgment.
OF course you remember Omar's,
After a momentary silence spake
| Some vessel of a more ungainIy make:
They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What did the Hand then of the Pot
| ter shaker"
Why" said another, some there are
| who tell
OF one who threatens he will toss to
| He'll
The luclkless pots he marred in MAX
ing-Pish.
He's a Good Fellow. and twill all be
/ we'll"
/ Surely, you can be kind enough If
| you are Of the. well made pots to re-
fuse to ever try to judge those that
lean awry because they were amarred
in making"