The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-23
Friday. February %, 1917
THE LITTLE THINGS OF LIFE.

would you designate?
Perhaps, you think on the spur OF
the moment, you would indicate some
great lawyer, or some favorite minis
ter, or perhaps some old family doc
tor, or any of dozen or more nota-
BILE personages in the community.
But on second thought, you are not
so sure, and after mature reflection
you are ready to discard them ALL
Then you begin to east about among
the less notable ones. Now you are
getting warm" as the children say.
Now you have located him, and you
are surprised, because he is never as
ISOLATED in your mind with the great,
or even the near great, nevertheless, as
you study him, his popularity and the
reasons therefor are brought forci-
bly, to your attention.
In the first place, you study him as
he comes down town in the morning
His progress is slow, as he seems to
be stopped by every person he meets,
and he has a handshake and a warm
Coed Morning for all. You follow
him to his place of business and see
him radiating the same sunshine and
cheerful greeting, and you find he is
known to every employee of the place
as Uncle"
Watch him, if he is merchant, as
the store begins to fill with customers.
Each receives the same cordial well
come. To the ladies he is especially
courteous, and you are surprised to
see that courtesy mistaken even when
confronted by one whom you by no
stretch of the imagination could term
a lady. He sees your surprise and
for the sake of the SEX" he smiles.
Now watch him he starts for home
toward nightfall. School is out and
the children are on the streets. Here
he must stop to shoot marble with |
a crowd of urchins, and they hail his
coming with shouts of glee. Another
must persuade him to have try at
his top On account of his avoirdu-
pois, he has to draw the line at the
hoop which another offers him, but he
starts it off for the youngsters to pur-
sue.
A little further on he is accosted by
a bevy of small girls, who are in their
element as they swarm about him,
clamoring for a story, teasing him to
jump rope, or even rihing his pockets 7
for suspected sweets.
You see him as he reaches his home.
when the good wife meets him at the .
gate. She has a sad tale for his ear.
Sorrow has entered a neighbours home.
At once he is all sympathy, and with
out waiting to enter his own door he
passes on to the house of sorrow, Per-
haps he can offer naught but sympa-
thy, but this comes so painly from the
heart and is accompanied by such a
warm clasp of the hand, that is car
ries its blessed message of comfort .
and sympathy
You are now beginning to appreci-
ate the true reason for his populari
ty. He is man of innumerable .
small deeds of kindness, but these
deeds are such as touch the heart
strings of those about him. He, him
self has never aspired to great things,
being content to occupy himself with
the small affairs of life, knowing full
well, wise man that he is, that of such
is human life composed. He would
smile with incredulity were you to
hint to him Of his great popularity.
because he is essentially one Of the
humble ones Of earth.
And his great popularity-whenee
comes it?
In his heart he has caught and held
the echo of voice from the far Off
oast-"And the second is like unto
his: thou shalt love thy neighbor as
Myself"
Kaiser William expects God to pun
sh England, but he is going to attend