Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-12-08
Copyright. 1915. by Mcclure Newspaper syndcate9
MY NElGHBoR's KEEPER.

Don't presume to judge the world
until you are elected. Inside your
own home-house and yard you have a
good-sized job on your hands.
Don't disinfect your town until you
have disinfected your own house.
Don't preach moderation immod-
erately.
Don't attempt to tell the other fell
low what to do until you have learned
how to do it yourself.
Don't worry about your neighbours
actions until you have harnessed your
own and know how to drive them.
Don't chase the racing automobilist
at his unlawful speed: meet him head
on and make him stop.
Now your own lawn before you con-
denim the man next door for letting
his grass grow.
Don't find fault with the storekeeper
for underpayfng his clerks until you
are willing to pay a fair price for what
you buy.
Don't kick against the slow trolley
and then rush out of your yard after
Il has passed and make it wait for
you.
Don't ask the newspaper to print
what you would not publish If you
owned it.
Don't expect the minister to be fear
less when, If he expressed his
thoughts, you would be the first to
demand his resignation.
Don't ask your employer to raise
your pay unless you would increase
his if positions were reversed.
Don't borrow money of the man to
whom you would not lend.
Don't kick at your neighbor's dust
until you have watered your own.
When it rains, let it rain, until you
are elected clerk of the weather.
Don't sit in the sun and growl at the
heat.
Don't expect to keep warm by an
empty stove, or cool in kitchen.
Don't leave your raincoat and UNI
brella at home and find fault with the
weather because you get wet.
Don't expect anybody else to attend
to your business. He won't.
a piece of mince pie and expect to feel
like doing business.
Don't bolt your breakfast. run for
the train, and condemn the doctor and
his medicine.
Don't blame your neighbor for do
ing what you are doing, and don't ex-
pect him to help if you won't help
yourself.
When you haven't anything to say,
don't say it.
When you don't know what you are
talking about, shut up.
Don't help the fellow who doesn't
need your assistance
Don't keep away from the primaries,
refuse to vote when it rains, and talk
against the office holders when the
sun shines.
Put yourself in the other fellows
place before you criticize him.
l stood on steamboat wharf when
the wind was blowing forty miles an
hour. A dozen incCnsiderate yachting
youngsters had moore6 their cat and
kitten" boats in the channel. A big
steamer had to make the dock, and she
was hard to handle without strong
steerage way. The captain was a vet
eran, but he had to maneuver with the
wind and the tide against him. A doz-
en- yachtsmen were on the dock, and
each one Of them told tie others what
the captain ought to do, while some of
them called him fool and said he was
not fit to handle canal boat. The
captain was on the bridge, the critics
were on the wharf, and not one of
these amateur navigators could have
locked an empty mud scow when the
water was as calm as a mud puddle
and the wind as blowless as the timid |
breezes of an electric fan.
Don't be fool unless you have to
be, and perhaps you don't have to be.