Evening star., 1925-03-21

| 1t Is a sad fact. AS the damsel eats
| whipped cream soda with infinite rel.
ish, so the natural-born Sneerer sneers
His eyes CLEAN. His very counte-
nance gives him away. Smiles croT
up easily, under the pleasing iafiu-
| ence. When the victim goes away the
Sneerer pats himself on the back al
having done very good thing.
+, Yet 1t is a very sad thing he has
| done. With the world full of sc
| many things, life so pleasing, despite
| it's sad aspects, the Sneerer has found
| nothing better to do than take 6
| mean dig" at a friend or supposedly
| good acquaintance.
| That is the worst feature of sneer.
| ing. 1t is foisted by friend upor
| friend, acquaintance upon acquain-
| tance, schoolboy upon schoolboy, gir
| upon girl The husband may sneer al
| his wife and the housewife in turr
| may sneer back at him or take il
out on the children.
| This is another of the vicious
| circles, among which we have num-
| bered Kidding" or the universe
practice of joking.
Where there Is smoke there is some
| fire. Any one who draws sneering
| from one he knows may rest assured
| that he has done something worthy
Our modern civilization has result
| ed in these two strange actions: That
casual meetings must never be Sc
| rious, but must almost invariably be-
gin and end with silly kidding" or
| some brand of sneering.
AS for the latter, most men are CIV
| ilized enough not to sneer at some
| real fault in others: but reserve their
| filings of outrageous fortune fer some
worthwhile feat of a friend.
| X x x
1t would seem that the dullest per-
son coud find many pleasant matters
to talk about when he meets any one
| he knows.
A person has to be pretty ignorant,
| indeed, not to know something to talk
about worth while.
Think of all the wonders Of modern
science. There Is the radio and the
telephone, the telegraph and the
x-ray, the mechanical music makers,
the player-piano and the phonograph,
the countless machines of factories
and printing establishments, the Hoe
press, the linotype and monotype ma
chimes, the six-wheeled bus, the auto
mobile in its thousands of variations.
the submarine, the ocean liner, the
battleship, the turrets with their
guns, the fighting mast, the type
writer, the pneumatic tubes, tractors
and farm impements, the skyscraper
steel building, electric lights, ele-
vators, 5 and 10 cent stores. pins.
needles, broadcasting stations, the
microphone, cakes OF soap, cement,
stadiums
lf these are not enough, think upon
some of the age-old beauties, con-
trived by nature and man: women
children, dogs, cats, books, poems
songs, music. architecture, painting,
sculpture. philosophy, libraries, hnoun-
tains, rolling plains, violets, roses
grains of wheat, ensemble dresses
sopranos, birds, feathers, flakes OF
snow, CLEANS of light, breakfast
foods, bobbed hair, diamonds, rubies
bright eyes, gentle smiles.
II these are still not enough we
may talk about honor and Justice
decency and uprighteousness, peace
and plenty, good will among men. in
tegrity of purpose and resoluteness
in doing good, the bravery of heroes
and or silent women, the love of par
ents for children and of children for
parents, the love of boy for dog and
dog for boy, the pathetic, but sweet
tale of the dog Nero that died upon
his masters grave, the grave, but
gay determination Of Vice President
Dawes to bait the Senate, ancient
pomp and ceremony, glories that have
passed away from the earth, beauties
that are ours today.