El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-28

~ EGINNING with the day when
first took notice of a framed
- sampler hanging on the walls of
my grandmotner's front room" and
which she worked when a child. I
have read time and occasion innumer-
able that one should pity the poor
l spelled out the words on the sam
pier Tor myself. and when I could read
them without faItering was very
proud 1t is not enough to know the
verses said my grandmother You
must remember what they mean You
must pity the poor"
l grew up, believing that poverty
was the greatest sorrow life could
bring. I think differently now. If
mad the designing of sampler poems
and could order the notices for little
girls to work on cardboard, and could
write the headline for all copybooks.
there would be more appeals 10 pity
the rich.
When was poor I had an incentive. a
hope, an ambition Now 1 am rich 1
nave nothing.
You should find happiness in max
ing other happy" said a friend I
make a great many people happy; I
am not selfish, and turn down no ap-
peals and give much without waiting
for the appeal Mary's niece and Lepn-
ews are not the only children whose
welfare depends on me. Up in the
country there is a camp where l am
1
am making them happy, but this
knowledge does not satisfy the hungry
craving in my heart
SOmber Thoughts.
I want my own 1 want some one
who belongs to me- l have lost in
Elizabeth a joy that caring for a hun
dred children can never replace
So 1 say, pity the rich, There is
JOY In signing checks that mean re-
stored health to poor, neglected. little
waits, but II can not compare with the
JOY the poor man knows when he has
a little one of his own flesh and blood
in his arms.
He may know privation and hard
ship, but they are pleasant fellow
travellers compared with loneliness.
1 would not write a wall like this,
Diary. If 1 had any one on earth to
whom I could make it. But 1 have
no one
Sometimes I go out to the stables and
talk TO TOmpkins. He comes nearer
being a comfort than any other source,
for me reason that he loved the child
I lost.
August Al was sitting on the front
porch this evening, smoking, and wish
ing for company, and knowing there
ing down, when woman came hur-
riedly down the walk and turned in at
my gate.
so many automobile parties.
You are surprised, 1 know" she
said with a laugh, and also somewhat
shocked You belong to the old school,
which does not approve of a woman
making an unchaperoned call on
man; I don't"
The woman possesses power of
mind reading that is almost uncanny.
1 was surprised and somewhat i'll at
ease What, I was thinking, as I
brought forth a chair for her. mean
while mumbling something about my
pleasure at having my loneliness re-
lieved, would her friends say if they
knew it?
on the chair beside her, and removing
her gloves. my friends wouldn't care.
They are used to me. You see, I am
business woman, and business woman
has special privileges.
Very Frank.
Besides. with alarming frankness.
I like you and I intend that We shall
become better acquainted"
Naturally, I was pleased. I believe
I said so. But what 1 say doesn't
amount to much. My purpose in writ
ing this diary is to tell what others
say and what do. I don't do much
but 1 say even less.
She had called. she said. to talk to
me about redecorating my library, and
on all the lights that she might get
better idea of what the room needed
Turn off el cry light but the one in
the reading lamp she commanded
This room is to read IN. 1t is not in
tended to be brilliantly Illuminated like
a ballroom. I want II to have a coy,
restful look; that is not possible with
headlight effects"
She talked rapidly. going from win
dow to door. looking critically at the
arrangement of the room, pushing
chair here and another there, and or
dering me to do the same with my
Sleepy Hollow chairs and lounges. 1t
was diverting and amusing. Miss
Leonard is a type of the new woman
| had never known. I told her so. and
expressed the hope that I would see
her often.
taken a room in your neighbour God
for the very purpose of seeing you
often. You see" she added, as If 1t
were an afterthought, Il want to make