The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-08
Euenine Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

Not just Enough.
1.-The simplest flowers with honied
sweet are stored
The smallest thing may happiness
afford;
A kindly word may give mind re-
pose,
Which harshly spoken might have
led to blows.
Naught is so small but it may good
contain,
Afford US pleasure or award us pain"
Turn to your left, and then to your
right" said the elevator man as he
brought his car to a stop with a nice
exactness that had a touch of the
artist in it, land be sure to give the
door a shake. That knob turns hard,
sometimes
To this generous batch of direc-
tions he added a courteous smile and
I felt as if 1 had received good meas
ure, pressed down and shaken to-
gether and running over.
What a pleasant feeling it does
give to meet with someone who gives
more than just enough to cover the
law.
The other day in a shop I had a
similar experience. 1 was trying on
two gowns. The saleswoman strong
ly advised me to buy the one which
was less expensive, and then sug
gested simple and ingenious way for
me to alter and greatly improve the
appearance of the gown. OF course
the cynic may say that she was sim
ply following the policy imposed on
her by the shop in doing all she could
to please a customer. But 1 know
better. There was an unmistakable
flavor of human kindness about her
manner.
And as I left the shop my heart
glowed with the warmth which con-
tact with one who gives more than
just enough to cover the law always
imparts-
Once in awhile in car or train one
comes across the person who, on see
ing that two people who want to sit
together are separated, will offer to
exchange seats. But only once in
awhile. The average person will sit
stolidly watching the person beside
him exchange glances with someone
down the aisle and apparently never
think of an exchange. And yet that
exchange would not cause him any in
convenience beside the momentary
one of making it.
How strange that such courtesies
are not offered more frequently, when
they cost so little and help SO much
That is what a friend of mine says:
These little things don't cost any
thing and they help make the world
q DIll0 DIlSt1tGT Nigh DIS We'll 10
them" So he does, and the world
about him is indeed brighter for his
presence.
To give a little more than just
enough to cover the law, little more
courtesy, a little more service, a lit
tie more friendliness-it' not a half
bad ideal. is it?
With My Letter Friends.
Question: am a young woman. 1
have been compelled by my parents to
marry an old man whom 1 do not love-.
1 am almost a nervous wreck, but I
am going to end it all soon. 1 am
going away off where no one will
know me. 1 am keeping it secret.
1 am going on the stage and sing in
concerts. 1 have been saving up for
some time to carry me through. That
is the surprise 1 am going to spring
on my people. Am l wrong ?-Wor-
ried Life.
| Answer-You are right to refuse
to live as wife with a man who is so
distasteful to you, but wrong to leave
him in this secret way. As to going
on the stage and singing in concerts,
has it occurred to you that such occu-
pations require some preparation and
that such preparation is very expen-
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