Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
copyright. 1915 by the Mcclure Newspas
per Syndicate)
MY NEIcHBoR'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 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 II 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 a 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 cup Of coffee and
a piece of mince pie and expect to feel
like doing business.
Don't bolt your breakfast, run fol
the traing and condemn the doctor and
his medicine.
nor,+ bIoroo xyoI1r noiOhh0r 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.
When you don't know what you are
talking about, shut up.
Don't help the fellow who doesnt
need your assistance.
Don't keep away from the primaries
refuse to vote when it rains, and tall
against the Office holders when the
sun shines.
Put yourself in the other fellow
place before you criticize him.
l stood on a steamboat wharf wheI
the wind was blowing forty miles al
hour. A dozen inconsiderate yachting
youngsters had moored their cat ant
kitten" boats in the channel. A BIZ
steamer had to make the dock, and sht
was hard to handle without stronl
sleeIage way. The captain was vet
eran but he had to maneuver with tn
wind and the tide against him. A do2
en- yachtsmen were on the dock, ant
each one of them told the others wha
the captain ought to do, while some o
them called him a 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 O
these amateur navigators could hav
docked an empty mud scow when tn
water was as calm as mud puddl
and the wind as blowless as the timi
breeZes of an electric fan.
Don't be a fool unless you have
be and perhaps you don't have to be
French Pensioners.
The Hotel Des Invalides which nov