Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-04
Sentiment
and Business
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

The Officer correspondent in
the trenches Somewhere" who has
sent an account of the affair to me
used some strong expressions,
as he looked at it, regarding the care
lessness of fellows who lose things,
1T" was a photograph of girl
which the writer OF the letter to me
had found, considerably the worse
for having spent day or two in
the mud where he had discovered it.
The likeness was damaged badly,
but still there it was" and who
knew how valuable it might be to
someone? The news of the find
spread from man to man, but no one
who had lost a photograph could be
discovered. So the finder took it to
his officer, who expressed himself
vigorously about people who could
not take care of things belonging to
them.
Having relieved his feelings in that
direction, he wondered what was to
be done. In the end he scrubbed
an advertisement on the back of an
envelope.
Found in trench-a young lady's
photograph. Owner can have same
on application to-" ETC., etc.
That notice was nailed up on a
post where it would catch the eye of
soldiers passing by. 1t hung there
for days. 1t excited the greatest in
terest. Would the owner turn up?
Each day the news ran around that
he had not appeared. Amid all the
anxieties and work of the day won
derful amount of interest conferred
around the likeness of its owner. The
news rushed around at last one day,
when hope had almost died away,
that the photograph had been
claimed.
"All the fellows seemed to grin
more happily" writes my corre-
spondent. wonder if you'll think us
Stiles, Fortune, for being sentiment
tall"
Not a bit. There is some senti-
mentality that is to be reverenced
with heart and soul.
But there are people who don't be-
lieve in sentiment. Sentimental rub
bish," they call it. They believe in
being practical-"in business
mo feelings, if you please" 1t does
not seem to them that the two things
can ever mix-that feelings can be
anything but a drawback to doing
ones best in lfe's flight Feelings
and idiocy go together in their esti-
nation.
Among the acquaintance OF
Charles Phillips, the famous lawyer,
was an old gentleman who had &C
quired vast fortune by business and,
as he flattered himself, had no feel
ngs He was a widower with an only
daughter, and when sutton suddenly
presented himself before him one day
and asked him for his consent to her
marriage with him, he Immediately
set to work to discover whether he
was man likely to make her happy"
His idea of doing that was to in
vestigate his prospective son's-in-law
means. He was rich, it turned out.
you see, Mr.. X" he remarked
amiably, at is only natural should
wish to go into things. Emily will,
as you are no doubt aware, have a
large fortune on her marriage, and
Il would marry her, my dear sir,
if she hadn't penny" exclaimed the
devoted one.
you would what?' cried the old
gentleman in establishment.
Il would marry her if she hadn't
penny" shouted the lover.
Good heavensw gasped the old
gentleman in amazement. What a
fool you must bel!
Feelings that have not a cash basis
are folly to people like that. The
lover went down enormously in the
old gentleman's estimation when he
discovered that he actually loved the
young lady for herself. Her father
had hoped he was a prudent man,
marrying her for the cash she would
possess, and here he was actually in
love! 1t was quite shock to him.