The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-09

woman Is ShlitlCSS ana OF no account
because he or she has never been taught
how TO do any kind Of work we'll
enough 10 make it worth while The
way to help these people is not to give
them money which will pauRcrizc
them, but TO help them to help them
selves by putting them IN the way of
naklnC a decent Lying. Sometime YOU
Can do this by tic expenditure of a
little money Often you can do it by
merely finding ont what particular
thing an individual has talent for.
and getting him or her started in the
right road
MANY people have no line on their
own abilities They can't even see
what they do best, or decide IN their
own preference, and they need some
one with a clear vision and strong
hand TO guide them on the first lap
of the climb up the mountain OF sue
cess.
Even II YOU have no money 10 give,
you can cndOw weaker brothers or
sisters with some OF your strength But
II YOU have a little money to spend -
Did YOU ever notice that little club
footed baby that toddleS about the
alley door OF the newsstand where you
buy your paper every day 1t is a
bright faced little thing. with a CHEEKY
smile. Too bad that 1t is going to
have 10 hohble through lie on crutche>,
There's not much that a cripple like
that can do keep a little stall and exc
ont bare cNiStancc probably. for
ever cut of from all the activities in
which an ablc-bodlcd man may take
part
Why don't YOU endow that baby with
surgical operation that wogld
ifalghtcn the poor little tcct' You
can't build a hospital. but YOU can
make one human being. al least bless
YOU until his diving day for having
saved him from the curse of lame
ness.
There's that nice lad. the son oi the
woman YOU boarded with IN the coun
Try last wear lie graduated with
honor at the top Of his class in high
Choul, and hcS crazy to 60 TO work
nni help his mother, but he doesn't
lrow wha, to do. Moreover, no one
viii give him job because he doesn't
Huv how to do anything lie is like
p merchant trying to sell wares thai
he hasn't got
lulow that boy Send him to a
good shorthand school and let him make
4 cracker Jack stenographcr oi himself
Plenty OF people will want him then,
and, instead Of being a miScrahly paid
village clerk all his DAYS, YOU will put
him where he has the chance OF going
on up to the places where Mr. Cortel-
You aud Mr.. Loeb and dozens ol other
rich and prominent men, who were
,tcuographct', have gone
You have made rather a pet ot thai
bright little office boy who is always on
the job, who never has to he told any
thing twice and who displays almost
un,anny tact aud Judgment IN knowing
whom 10 let in to see you anl whom t.
keep on, Call him into your office
and have a real heart to heart talk with
him some day Find on, what he ha,
got in that little tow head Ut his
You will find ou, tha, he is a horn
merchant, lie has thought of a dozen
change, m the way he would manage
Your store u he were YOU. And he's a
ilcnd at figures. But he has no tduea
ton Mothers a widow, and there arc
tive Younger than he He can't even @
to night school because he has 10 sell
paper, after office hours to add ever,
possible cent tl the mcagcr family rx
ehenucr
Endow that boy Send him to IN,
! puhh, school iur a year ut two and
'hcn IN a good business college Il will
save him years OF drudgety a, ,hs most
N the best II may make him mct
chant prince instead oi a porter IN m,
basement Hold ont ,out hand o. him
while he needs II. while he IS still ,oung
enough ,n he able ~ take advantage %,
'hc opportunity YOU give INN
And there's that clever little dress.
maker who comes ~ YOU hy the day
madam Really, she has quite a French
touch and a wonderful color sense Hut
'he has 10 sew rhcaply because ,hc
lacks lust little more knowledge oi
how to cut and M and finish of thing,
Ono season IN New York W at an,
school Of design would M her 90 he ,
fashionable dtesSmaker, who would he
able 10 gct top prices lot good work
and be ON her way 10 fortune
WHY don't you endow her with the
price oi success |, wouldn't cost vnu
mote than a couple oi gowns. and you'd
take that tired. hopeless. ,teadmill lool
out oi her eyes and put into them m,
triumph Of the artist
And Miss ntown. who make, such Az
liciou' cake, and salads. hat who barrel,
cke' on, living keeping boatdets he
cause her house /, ,n shabby and !,
badly furnished tha, people dom, like /,
: stay IN her dlngy to0ms. Miss Brow