The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-04
NO ONE TO FILL Bellows PLACE ON STAGE
Great Actor the Possessor of Incompatible Dramatic
Finesse-The Gentle Art of Self Sacrifice
Doesn't Paw in the End

Don't YOU remember the girl at
school who got you to write her them
es for her, help her with her Latin.
solve all her algebraic problems. crit
icise her drawing and do general yeo-
mans work for her and how she ran
off with Dick and Harry at the class
picnic and left YOU to hold high brow
conversation with Professor Borem
who had been annexed for alleged
chaperonage" Although, by the way.
!, how can he be a chaperon when he's
man. Many strange things happen at
college, however.
Then there's the woman next door
who borrows eggs when they are thir~
ty-five cents a dozen and forgets to
pay EN-. uses your telephone, reads
your evening paper when its thrown in
the yard before you get to It. asks
for the loan Of your centerpieces when
visitors arrive from some place or 9th
er, tells the children 10 rur into your
house after school If she's not at home
and generally she's not-where they
play leap-frog over your dlvans and
knock things on the floor~-and new
er asks YOU to take a ride in her sew
en-passenger automobile"
'Df course. They live next door to
eNerybody-but YOU.
i How about tie woman you've taken
/ pains to be nice to because other wo-
men said horrid things about her and
then When she is rehabilitated gives a
party and asks everybody but YOU?
| Do You KNOW her: Sure. She's ev-
erywhere.
/ How about the first cousins of your
aunt's grandfather whom you enter
! tanned at great discomfort and incOn-
venience to yourself during the meet
! ing of the Order of Conglomerated
Bores in your town because Cousin Ell
| len wrote over and asked you to do
SO because they couldn't stand hotel
! cooking on account OF having weak
stomachso
And then when 20 go to their city
as a delegate to the Federated clubs
they never respond to your note from
the hotel that you're in town.
incidentally you ride past their
house on the street-car. You know it's
their house because you have the
number and street carefully impress
sed on what you call your mind. You
are Astonished to see flunky opening
a door and your erstwhile visitors de-
scending in silken raiment to their
limousine insolently standing at the
curb.
Didn't you organize the Club for the
Promotion of Culture Among the Dis
franchised and finance the thing for
the first two or three years and then
when it got into the papers have your
best friend walk in, get herself elect
ed president of the board of direc.
tors and leave you to audit the books
before they were turned over to some
body else?
Didn't you pay the rent for poor
Johns family only to 60 to the thea
ter one evening and see one of the
girls sitting with a party in a box clad
in swell clothes" and casting superior
chances at the plebes that sat in the
balcony-where you were because yor
couldn't afford better seat?
Havn't you gone out OF your way
many and many time to be nice tc
wall-flowers and bores and worthy
} boys working their way through col
lege and people who don't go out very
: often and hardly know how to act
and then have them snub you later
when they were taken up by someone
elseo
J Then there's Mrs. Blankey BLANK
who's just married and moved across
the street and doesn't want TO get III
: with the wrong people whom you in
J troduce to your friends and your clul
and who is SO grateful and flatteret
} and who clings to you with such low
ing tenacity and whom you one day
after year, say, and when you hadn'
noticed her running in SO often, seem
: ed uneasy and distract when she me
: you at a reception at the house Of tn
Great Lady Of the Town who never in
vited you except when she rounded VI
: all the odds and ends at yearly jam
: boree?
t And didn't it occur to you that Ii,
2 tie Mrs. Blankety Blank was rattle
II yln6 " get dNd HUN YOU no" IL
2 dignant you We're. Well, il l ever did
: After all | did for her!
: Then there is the person to WHOM
you loaned ten dollars and who ha
never paid it back although she smile
j at you blandly in new hat every ott
er time.
2 The truth is its a great mistake t
a be nice to anybody. 1t doesn't pay.
is a beastly thing to admit-but have
e MT you noticed that it's the selfis
= snobs that get alongo
e Self sacrifice is noble but it is
e question whether in the erd it benz
fits anybody. Oh, say those Lowell
e people who never sacrifice anythin
e but write club papers about it and d.
e liver speeches at conventions-thin
i Of the way it broadens the soul OF tn
e sacrificer?
But does it? It's question whetk