The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-14
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
FABLES OF EVERYDAY
PEOPLE
BY Sophie Irene Loeb.
THE sNoe SISTER.

Onor upon n time there was wom-
an who had ambition.
She had married one Of the richest
men in the town in which she lived.
and Immediately assumed airs.
Her people were Of moderate cir
cumstances, but now she assumed an
"uppish'' attitude and rarely recog-
rized her schoolmates and usually
passed them by with hardly a nod /.
In fact, all her life she had deemed
herself superior sort OF person, ana
when the war came on and 1t be-
came fashionable to take care Of the
poor she saw way for the fulfill
Jnent of her ambition.
She wanted to become popular. SO
she formed an organization, calling 1t
the Little Sisters Of the Poor"
She managed to gather together
some would-bc climbers and they
elected her president of the associa-
ton, which she accepted rather re-
6 luctantly. That is. she gave the APP
pearance of being reluctant. tShe
would have bitten a hairpin in two II
she had not been made presidenU.
Now the next thing to do was to
JlHu lIle pun. 80 '''SS .N'~ >-'''NN''
with us it was not a difficult matter.
Then she needed some helpers aud
some donations, people to knit and
bake cakes for baZaars: SO she put
on her smile and went forth in the in
tcrest OF the Little Sisters Of the
Poor"
The climbers smiled back at her and
gave her the assistance because they
looked forward to being invited to her
home. But the everyday w"rkaday
people would not be dazZled by her
benevolent 90 spirit. They understood
the pain of the poor, because they
knew what the pinch of poverty meant.
And when they gave help it was with
the fulness of hcart-the real feeling
for those to be helped.
The great souls who do the big work
are those who are unknown as a rule
They do not care to shine. They give
Of themselves. In a word they are
genuine.
Such people always are found out in
the end. No matter where they hide
themselves the world makes Il path t.
their doors. They are made of the
metal that does not glitter, but it is
worth it's weight in gold.
Thus, when this woman appealed Il
the real people Of the little town, the
people who had suffered from hei
snobbishness. they turned a deaf cal
to her. They knew that her CHART,
was the kind that wants to get it:
name into the paper.
They realized that she only sough
them for what help they could give
to put her on a pedestal of popular
ity. So they let her severely alone
They got together and took care o
the poor that were among them ant
left her to her climbers and bazaar
and pink tea philanthropy.
She could not understand it. Sh
thought that when she even mingled
with the poor people that they woul,
be only too glad to grasp at TIL
chance. But she did not reckon wit
the twentieth century individual VIII
will note be fooled and refuses t
shake the hand OF sham.
So the woman found her popula
wave but a bubble and her "Lit,l
Sisters of the Poor too exclusive 70
such q name.
For once the people whom she ha
snubbed had chance to show he
pathy. She learned this moral:
If you are honest in your servic
the world will recognize your wortl
but the sincerity of a snob is Away
questioned