Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-06
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
u 10 Proper to Accept Your Neiehbor
by the Front He Puts UP, but
There ls More Human Quail
ity In His Back Premises
By SARAH ID. LOMRIE

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YOUR neisbbor,s back door wavs is law Of
Nature, however. there is no earthly reason
why you should not like and even admire
your neighbor from the front which is after
all. the only aspect of himself by which he
would wish to be known. Doubtless, too, he.
or his wife at least is furious at the way
your chorcman beats your rugs, especially as
she knows that you know that It is thing
forbidden by the law, of the land. Beyond
question. too. their servants. who are oldish
and staid. think that the 'goings on in
your kitchen. especially when the cook had
words with the laundrcss show you up MS
being either weak or an absentee mistress
90 IT is live and let 1.-Two IN tho bock
y premises and smile md wave y cordial
hand on Tho front novamept Won reoiiv
cannot b,;obt ono a,athoris r;o,, ~ tront y,
do much barr, hr noreIess ,,avs m,ia.a ro,, ",
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grace hia or bavo vonr conf ,,,t ;n ~. ds,
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ocrcs onart ,om nrc ont,ni1 ~ na -, u
of the people next door anJ no, onIw rho
nronlc but tbeir maid servarts ond ,beir
hmm. sorvon,s tboir nv ond thnir oa" ,a. 80
sneak nf thc;r e,naa hors s n,cks %' 1", rn,,s .'
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NV EN- coulu unuerstanu tue 1orce OF the
icnth commandment OF the Mosaic Law.
IL always seemed to me II should have been,
instead OF do not covet your nelghbors ct
"eteras. do not desplse your neighbor S wife,
nor his COW. nor his cowyard, nor his man
servant.
That would have met the situation better,
as | see 1t.
Not that l ever went so far as to drspise
my ncighbor's wife, but when she let her
hired man put her coward on the edge of
our 'front.' drive scorned her carecssness and
his shftlessness, and the cowyard most of
all.
Hut knowing how much depended on it
for II you are not friends with your neighbors
In the country you might as well put For
Sale on your gate fed apples to the
cows IN the horrld barnyard as they poked
their great rubber noses through my fence
and all went well until Halsey threw the
dead branches OF the bee tree over in my
grass. Then did dcspise-not my ncighbor
Halscy is the hired man. Part of his
n hn for
money Is counterbaianced by bad act
Which ne aoes lor h0thing: Ills pad acts fall
upon the JUST ana the unjust. lie considers
me lhe unjust because: hnding the rotten
branches or the bee tree hung over my fence.
l painstakingly gathered them up and re-
placed them under the tree from which they
were Topped. It Is the custom up here in the
country TO consider any tree where wild bees
have stored their honey as free to the finder.
"hether Halsey was the nnder or not do
not KNOW put anyway the branches of a
huge sugar maple were Topped of and Hal
Sc! uiSposcd OF them IN the manner ] have
Just related, with the quick reJoinder on my
part that nave also related. But the end
was not yet.
Not long aftcrward. when taking my walk
abroad in the cool of the day, had the pain
OF seeing those Topped branches again on my
SIDE OF the renee. Not as before, just over
the fence, but carefully placed in the middle
distance OF the meadow: L let the sun sink
u. L
summoned my hired man and directed him
| to heaVe the branches over on Halsey's side
| OF the fence. For ! realized that 1t was nc
as citizen with whom | had to deal.
knew II would be tug OF war, for Halsey
mas certnin FEMININE QUANTITIES that mean per
Slstence In woman and stubbornness in q
man.
rv,p,vr
MI =, EAfECiAlioNS were rewarded
| hn nnNt A.
was regular wOodpilc placed on my side OF
the fence, but so far toward the center of m,
property that il would take a horse anC
wagon to draw 1t away. l therefore sen,
for my hired man and directed him to tel
Halscy to bring horse and wagon and draw
| it away.
! | knew my hired man would love tha
crrand; also that II would not lose pth b,
his delivery. 1t evidently did not fail {,
reach Halsey. When we next met he re-
fused to see my cheerful nod, and from tha
time until now he has regarded the sky OF
the trees or even the ground when heave il
| sight Meanwhile, the bOugbs rOtted I'm m,