The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-13
A Pattern to Copy.

ooh, Norah! exclaimed Mrs Stew
art, <'what shall I do? 1 have just
broken my little hand mirror. You
know it is seven years bad luck and
unhappiness to break mirror
"Ach,' said Norah, cheerfully
don't be afther frettin' about it.
mum. Why, jest look at me. Oh amt
ia 'frettin' and i've jest broke the pier
glass in the parlor." ."--Philadelphia
approve, tacitly or eloquently. We
were brought up, and we have since
schooled ourselves, to be in every re-
spect at odds with their abnormal and
censurable demeanor.
There is no danger of overpreaching
the beauty of tolerance, and of the
lenient endurance Of another's in
trinity, in view of our own manifold
frailties and shortcomings. Sentence
ought not to be pronounced till all
the facts are in hand and the evidence
has been duly pronounced. If we know.
all, perchance light would shine. We
should then learn the extent OF our
grievous Misrepresentation and be
willing to retract it. We should re-
gret our hasty induction from insuf-
fcient premises. We should see how
great fire little matteg had kindled;
a cigarette smoker in the Adiron-
dacks throws tiny spark into the
underbrush, and the loss may reach
thousands of dollars. So small, con-
temptible rumor tending to uglify
another character gets started in
dubious whisper and winds up in
shout of defamation with innumerable
ringing echoes in its train.
The people who repeat kind, favor
able things they hear-or who give
voice to the generous and charitable
things they think-are among the
best and "the angels are on their
side" They are ever more ready to
commend than to condemn, and they
make due allowance for errorful NOR
tality. Judge not, that ye be not
judged"-there is no wiser saying. The
habit of censure grows apace. We be-
gin by criticising what glaringly re-
quires amendment, and not satisfied
with that we begin to pick flaws in
every part Of our environment. a
mere view can stand 1.-THE inlperson-
al part of a sordid neighborhood pas
sively endures it-but sensible peo-
pie are sometimes bruised beyond
healing. You can go out at your
door and replace a picket in your
fence, or a cracked paYing-stone in
! the sidewalk; or if you can achieve a
miracle Of landscape gardening
around you, and remold the face of
the earth to suit your pleasure. But
in the attempt to make over the peo-
pie at your elbow you will-needlessly
incur resentment if you do not go
about it indirectly, hiddenly, cautious
ly. You may not fly right at them
straight according to your thinking.
They do not acknowledge that you
have any supernatural credentials
empowering you to amend their mode
of conducting their lives. You look
to them exceedingly human. You
stand no higher against the doorpost
than they do. You seem of the earth
! just as they. In fact, even in the
case of the most successful people
that we know, we take an unaccount-
able delight in finding that they do
not loom upon the landscape a whit
above ourselves. That man who has
amassed colossal wealth is not nine
or even seven, feet high. That great
orator likes for dinner what we are
accustomed to eat. This author whose
works have gone into eleven foreign
tongues, that vastly popular portrait
painter. is afflicted with dyspepsia Of