Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-01
GETTING "A START
 NATHANIEL C. ss FOWLER. IT,
Copyright. 1915. by tn MY NEIGHBoR'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 fel- low what to do until you have learned how to do it yourself Don't worry about your neighbor's actions until you have harnessed your own and know how to drive them. Don't chase the racing automobiles at his unlawful speed; meet him head on and make him stop. Now your own lawn before you con 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, 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 neighbours 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 um- 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 a cup of coffee and a piece of fnince 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 -haIr the fellow who doesn't need your assistance.
 Don't keep away from the primaries, refuse to vote when it rains. and talk sun shines.
 Put yourself in the other fellows place before you criticize him. stood on a steamboat wharf when the wind was blowing forty miles an hour. A dozen inconsiderate yachting youngsters had moored 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 vet eran, but he had to maneuver with the l wind and the tide against him. dog 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 a canal boat. The captain was on the bridge, the critics 1 were on the wharf. and not one of these amateur navigators could have docked an empty mud scow when the water was as calm as mud puddle and the wind as blowless as the timid breezes of an electric fan. Don't be a fool unless you have to be. and perhaps you don't have to be. |