Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-25

and have no doubt that my friend
has enough shoestrings-tied end to
end-to fly a kite over the Monument,
and donation days not half gone yet
And no Incense bearing. thurible ever
yielded a sweeter fragrance than
comes to him from these small ex-
changes of mere coin for the trifies of
fthe street vendors. Neither does he
pass the corner fiddler by, but pays
him royalty without questioning the
musical product or making inyidious
comparison with the catgut output Of
I eminent fiddlers he has heard. but
never really enjoyed as he now enjoys
the raspings of this Hoosier violinist.
Believe me. this is no time to give
ear to any grabbed injunetions against
tipping! At any other season, well
and good, but not now unless you
would freeze. the genial current of
your own Christmas time. At the res
taurant, no matter though there be an
! admonitfon in very red letters on a
white card No tipping of walters,
pay no attention whatever to this mig
gardly injunction. Tip! Tip, Tip! The
damsel in the white apron can find
not expect it. Pay no attention to the
rule, which certainly will be better vi
olated than in it's observance. Let
your fancy have play as you place
your donation beside your plate to see
it quietly and covertly made way with
by her plump white hand as she effu-
sively thanks you. Your little gift
added to others may mean much to
hn1 IN vvh oh hQl
Tip? Why, of course, and feel
throbbing of the heart, if you have to
deny yourself several cigars to do so,
| that is worth the outlay many times
/ over.
And your barber-don't forget the
barber. Slip the silver token into his
hand as You climb into the chair be-
I, fore he has opportunity to begin the
| exploitation of the hair Regeneration
and dandruff remover. AS you stretch
out Your legs for the ministrations of
the shoe sinner, don't overlook his
glance of expectancy. He pays doubly
who pays promptly. Hand him your
Donation at once, before. by sharp
r,ipson tieastand, he notifies you that
the work is done.
+ 'Bytthis method yeu viii get bet
y
How the artist will toy with his work,
going overiit again and again. picking
outsa spot here and there that he has,
he thinks, failed to touch, scrutinizing
the leather from heel to toe and toe to
heel again, and ar last reluctantly and
/ with a long sigh acknowledging the
work complete-and what a work OF
art it is. You'll never get such anoth-
er until another Christmas. Really,
this will be more satisfaction to you
than buying roses for your best girl
who will never allow herself to be as
/ effusive in gratitude as that black
faced slloeblaek with the pearly teeth
You see l have put the pearly teeth
where they belong, where they show
magnificently with a red and black
background to back them up A mere
novelist would have thrown away
those teeth on an unresponsive beauty.
Eat this genial season let US beware
Iof that species of intellectual humanity
Which has vaporous sympathy for
the deserving poor-enly the .deserv-
ling poor. mind yel-that feels for pow.
erty, but does not feel far enough to
reach the coin at the base of the pock-
! ct. And do not question the course or
the ultimate arrival of your. modest
: berefaction. Perhaps it may find its
way to the barrel house. Do not be
ltoo curious in your questioning. Be
hopeful that though 1t may run a
j thorny gantlet it may after all find its
lway to the grocery and appear trans
formed on the poor fellows table.
II have sometimes had my doubts
whether the very poor and proper,
lweli-fed, well-clothed people like YOU
and me, are really just the ones to
take it upon themselves to arrange a
line of conduct for these less fertu-
mates ones, and then damn them IL
they wahble away from it. Poor folks
have poor ways is the old. saying.
Agreed, though it is more than
likely some comfortable philosopher
fashioned that phrase for them; but
/ the ways of rich folks are quite as bad
and the better course is somewhere
about half way, and there is where
most of. US in Indianapolis make our
pilgrimage, not too remote from the
poorer brother by the wayside to reach
to him the kindly hand of sympathy.
not an empty hand, but an open hand
with something INIT
4 l'sTips2 Certainly When the New
Year comes in with the unlucky Is at
the tail of it. may you be able to say
| that YOU have Invested Yourself of
lsomel worlellinesse in the Christmas
days of 1912, that you have been
shrived of your meanness and are
ready, with a new heart, for the New
Yearfi-Indianapolis News.
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