The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-08-25
TELLS Some Ofhe Desirable Qualities inaNciOhbOP

"Just because person Us next door to YOU. y
aid the Candid Girl as & elnged in the ham
mock gives her no more rlgh1y or privileges in re-
gard to you than If she lived across the ocean But
some people think that being neighbor immediately
e0nfers upon them the relationship of a near friend =
you should study the fine art of encouraging and
discouraging neighbofs. said Grandma
1.-The right kind doesn't need encouraging and
the wrong KIND can't be discouraged said the Can
did Girl gloomily
There are desirable neighbors," said Grandma.
"Oh. yes said the Candid Girl Frightening.
Plenty Of them. They are the kind who never giye
your children cake and candy and pie between meals
You don't need to say politely as you can under
the circumstances that you do not care to have your
children eat between meals, and they are never the
kind to reply alry when You do tell them this, On
a little snack, now d then, won't hurt them If
you have desirable neghbor it is not necessar, to
take the children privately and forbid them to ac
cept anyth ng 70 eat, which would not do any good
Tor the kid who would not take pie or cake when il
was offered to MIN would fear was headed straight
for heaven.
''Nor is the desirable neighbor the kind who makes
excuses for the children when you punish them and
tells you that children will get into mischief and
says whole lot OF silly things TO the children them
selves until they look at you reproachfuy and wish
she was their mother.
''Nor is the desirable neighbor the kind who nabs
YOU the minute you appear in the back yard or on
the front porch, and talks for an hour at stretch
Oh, the hours you waste over the neighbor who
very inside thinking of all the work you have to do
and how the time is going, and yos say Il Eust 60,
and she, Yes and without taking breath goes
right on with what she is telling you That's being
on the rack
The Candid Girl famed herself awhile to cool off,
Then the desirable neighbor doesn't ask you
leading questions, such as, Was that your brother
who came in the motor yesterday afternoon think
he looks so much like you? The Candid Girl laugh
ed Jimmy Blake you know, looks no more like me
than the moon looks like green cheese"
Grandmas eyes twnkled. "Oh, she said ''you
are speaking from experience"
The Candid Girl flushed slightly. Il was just
talking about neighbors in general, she replied.
Then, the desirable neghbor never borrows.
When you strike neighbor who borrows, it's cheap
er to move"
The desirable neighbor," said the Candid Girl,
slowly, lis the who never goSsips, never prizes
irto your affairs, who leaves your children alone and
doesn't keep tab on what time your husband comes
home at night, and who doesn't use the accident of
being your neighbor to press her acquaintance upon
you"
But neighborliness," said Grandma, is great
easy cloak for doing all these things and down in
side of US we are all so fond of doing these things
that we slip the cloak on the very first chance get
and then sail in and do them. Human natures human
nature, and it comes out strong in being a neighbor
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