The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-08
WICKED TO SAVE THINGS
 OUR NEIGHBORS NEED
The Woman Who Saved Fruit Cake From One Christmas to the Next-Another Female of the Species Who Carried Her Greenbacks'' Around With Her All the Time So As to Be Able to Leave Town
 At Any Moment
BY DOLLY DALxYMPLE

l purse or her pockeD to take her anywhere | she wants to go at any time.
 She is very much in love with a man who lives in Philadelphia-so much in love with him, in fact. that her conversation more or less suggests one of those | Parted by Fate" or Tho Lost to Sight. to Memory Dear" films in Moving Pic ture Show.
 She carries this amount of money re- ferred to about with her at all times, so tthat at any moment she may hear any sort of bad news referring to her "Best Beloved, she can get on the train and fly to him.
 Isn't it unnatural like and creepy that she sould be prepared for something to overtake hin-almost as bad as being l clairvoyantly warned and being dressed to make an effective entrance on the stage at the most effective moment! How does a person who has fruit cake in the house-a great mellow, beautiful smelling, fruit cake-feel when she looks out of the window and sees beggar stumbling up the hill? Or worse still, when the man next door whose wife has been away all winter vows he hasn't had a square meal and that during the holidays he l didn't even so much as sniff a piece of fruit cake?
 Wonder how the other woman feels when she comes face to face with a sad case of poverty and need and realizes that deep down in her-er- stocking-is that coveted wad of money being kept safe so she may go to Phil adelphia at any moment What an awful thing 1t must be to have money. more than enough for yourself, and not give it to those in need.
 To have a delicious cake reposing gently in the pantry" when you might have a party with poor beg gar as the honored guest, who with a lcrumb of 1t could conjure back all the lost Christmases of his youth, and the cake like Mother used to make" One of these women who hoard up things" said to me when We were talk ing about this subject:
 You'll never have anything if you give everything away. The wise per son saves against a time of need-an emergency"
 Maybe so-but I don't believe ii!
 The only way of insuring yourself from never coming to want, is to do everything possible to help others from coming to want.
 For as our needs be-so shall our wants be supplied, the Good Book teaches us:-
 Sow and ye shall reap abundantly; Give and 1t shall be given back to you.
 Don't save anything that is needed Iby your neighbor and by your neigh bor 1 mean any person who needs you.
 Of course, I don't advocate throw ing money to the birds" nor food promiscuously here and there. but its our duty to get rid of things we don't need, when they are needed by some one else.
 How many of us would keep a fruit cake if some family we knew would enjoy eating some of 1t? T How many of us would save mis- erable little batch of 'greenbacks," to take a trip to Philadelphia at some re- mote day, if we knew that some poor creature could be made more comfort able with it?
 How many of us would hoard up any affection thrt could be used by some one today, fearful that we'd be called upon tomorrow to love some one and not be able to do 1t?
 The more we give-whether it be money or service or love-the more we are given for the reservoir from which we draw the essential things of life is bottomless and not bounded by walls built by MAN.
 The RIGHT kind of giving always comes from on High, and all love comes from the same source and-goes back to 1t!