The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-12-10
1Copyrght Isle by the McClure Newgpaper syndeatel
MY NEIGHBOURS KEEPER.

Don't presume to judge the world
until you are elected. Inside your
own home-house and yard you have
good-aized Job on your hands.
Don't disinfect yoSr town until you
have disinfecteA 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 underpaying his clerks until you
are willing to pay fair price for what
you buy.
Don't kick against the slow trolley
and then rush out of your yard after
it 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, IL 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 II 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.
Don't lunch on cup of coffee and
piece of mince pie and expect to fee
like doing business.
Don't bolt your breakfast, run fol
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 hell
| yourself
When you haven't anything to say
don't say it.
talking about, shut up.
Don't help the fellow who doesn'
need your assistance.
Don't keep away from the primaries
refuse to vote when it rains, and tall
against the Office holders when th'
sun shines.
Put yourself in the other fellow
place before you criticize him.
! / stood on steamboat wharf whel
the wind was blowing forty miles al
hour A dozen inconsiderate yachting
youngsters had moore6 their cat AM
kitten" boats in the channel. A BIZ
steamer had to make the dock, and sh
was hard to handle without strong
steerage way. The captain was vel
eran, but he had to maneuver with tn
wind and the tide against him. doz
en- yachtsmen were on the dock. an,
each one Of them told tie others wha
the captain ought to do, while some 0
them called him fool and said he wa
not fit to handle a canal boat. TIL
captain was on the bridge, the critic
were on the wharf. and not one Q
these amateur navigators could hav
locked an empty mud scow when tn
water was as calm as a mud puddl
and the wind as blowless as the tint
breezes of an electric fan.
Don't be fool unless you have t
be, and perhaps you don't have to BIZ