Evening star., 1925-02-02

goods. species OF dogs, theories of gov
ernment. modes Of expression.
Nothing has escaped our fervof tor
possession, so that we have our church.
| our philosophy, our doctor, our party,
our shoes. our chewing gum, our dog,
our forms OF speech, our very pronunci-
alton.
Now this is good, in one way. but
harmful In another. 1t is well for
us that we believe whole he artedly y
in our government, and love our
church and our papers and our dogs
and our brand of mint and "bawth," )"
rather than bath"
| When We carry this thing SO far,
| however, that the posse ssion of these
preferences usually carries with II
| aversions of equal strength, then we
have suffered an eclipse OF our power
| of appreciation.
J When shrink from reading some
! thing in which 7 do not believe, no
| matter how wei! written 1t Is, how
sincere the writer. then I am in the
shadow of an eclipse OF the spirit of
appreciation.
The Blues Have Got Me-" sings
| that inimitable Coincidence, Marion
| Harris. In our case, lack Of apprecia-
tion has got us, and we are In an
eclipse.
|
| at the sun. hurting our eyes by look
ing at 1t through a glass insufficient
ly smoked, when all the time we have
little eclipse in ourselves patiently
waiting for our observation?
Perhaps our spirit of kindness has
somewhat withered of late. 1t is a
! sensitive plant, at best, one that
| needs much tending after the victim
| reaches manhood or womanhood
If one finds himself kicking at a
dog, or angrily rebuking children for
some question, no matter how foolish
1t may seem, then he may know that
his kindness is under eclipse If he
never stops on the street to help an
old lady across. If he growls at beg.
gars always. he had best look to his
kindness, and let the sun be for an.
! other hundred years
Buddy, can you help me out?'
| queried the tall man. in the apollo.
getic beggar voice. The scene was
Seventh street.
| We'll. seeing It's you" smiled tn.
well dressed citizen, forking over
two thin dimes. He suffered the los.
OF 20 cents, but not of his spirit OF
kindIiness
With kindness is associated gentle.
ness. This latter quality is mostly in.
born. differing somewhat from kind
| ness, which any one may cultivate
Yet there are many people, borr
gentle, who have allowed this fine
quality to suffer an eclipse. Only per.
sonal observation can tell.
Ones spirit of tolerance is very ap
TO suffer an eclipse after one gets tc
middle age, or even before then. Tol-
erance, according TO the dictionary
Is Willingness to bear with the diff.
| ferences of others"
We cannot bear to have a frienc
differ with us. We cannot stand Il
| hear our own words contradicted L
we say a book is great, we resent
some one else holding the exactly op
posite opinion.
We are suspicious and i'll at ease, l.
We are devotees of the great Ameri
can game of poker, in the presenc,
of the man who never plays poker
and we do not take him into ouI
inner circle until he, too, takes VI
poker
II we favor trousers with cuffs, w,
md 1t dificult to tolerate the mar
who wears his trousers bottom!
plain, and If We drink the bootleg
gers wares, we are constrained in the
presence of the gink who observe.
| the Constitution.
But probably we have suffered NJ
eclipse whatever in our tendency to
| ward anger. suspicion, mean kid
| ding, our inability to be progressive
| or our bias toward talking about tn,
spiritual while living the purely ma
terial life.
There was man long ago wht
recognized the eclipse of the spirit
when He said, Except ye become a
| little children, ye shall in no wis'
| enter the kingdom OF heaven"