Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

| at all to sitting at one of the small
tables where only one man was sitting.
He would no like that" breathed
the official gently but firmly.
DO you mean to say that the rest
Of us must stand up and wait until some
| ono leaVes?" asked the Washingtonian.
Yes, sir" said the other politely.
Moral~They know how TO make the
| eater feel comfortable in Canada.
u * 4 y
Excuses. misunderstanding, politeness
these arc three neat hot-weather
| themes. Every one knows the first
| from personal experience. If there is
a man. woman or child alive who at
some time or other has made no excuse
about something or other, he or she
deserves a medal.
/ There is some disposition on the part
! Of some persons to frOWn upon excuses,
| especially for failures i'll work and con-
duct. but sane thought will allow for
| them and realize that good excuse
| is better than a poor one.
! In other words. If an excuse seems
| necessary, make it a consistent, well
! thought out excuse. not bunglesome
| flow of words meaning nothing. The
| failure for many excuses to get over
| lies with the person to whom they are
offered, too
If one is not fair in trying tc see
another persons side of things. or if he
| harbors suspicious mind. which per-
| mits him to credit out-and-out lies to
Others, he will not be III position TO
| relish an excuse from them.
Knowing the occasion when it is
| profitable to make an excuse is some
! thing of an art Undoubtedly there
are times and places when and where
an excuse is very much out of place
| Only the student Of mankind will make
a perfect choice.
Misunderstanding lies at the root of
much Of the sorrow and trouble IN this
| world. It is precisely because words
may help toward understanding that
plain talk is desirable between two
/ persons at odds over something
/ Especially Is this true in adolescence.
| Many child nurses a hurt mind and
soul simply because some one--perhaps
| the teachers unable to comprehend
| the need for tolerance and sympathy,
| II an educator believes that this is
demanding too much of a plain human
| being which. after all every educator
| is, let him or her remember that in
| assuming the work he or she takes
| over certain definite obligations One
| of the greatest Of these is the neces-
| sity for finding out the troubles in the
| scholastic lives of pupils. Learning
| ought to be a pleasure, but too often it
| Is not. Those who are older and, more
| experienced owe it TO those under their
! guidance TO help them in more ways
| than one.
AS for politeness, the Canadian res
| taurant sets a precedent which might
be initiated with gain. we believe. bv
most American eating places. Certainly
the rights of the consumer ought to be
| protected. Every one who has eaten
at table with stranger knows that it
| is anything but pleasant in the great
majority of cases. Some places attempt
to solve this by making the tables very
small or doing away with them entirely,
substituting armchairs.
The United States is such a pushing,
croWding country that most Of us pre-
fer to stand up in a street car. for
| instance, than be left on the curb.
Perhaps the day will come In this ceun-
try when every rider will get a seat.
and every movie patron get a good seat.
and every restaurant frequenter table
| 10 himself.