Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-06

There is nothing surer than that
! vreat MANY "slick customers" as they
| like to picture themselves, do not TAKE
| in as many people as they tf1aA
| they do. A..
MANY who have something put over"
on them, as the popular phrase mas IT,
/ know all the time what Is IN the ar
And how do they know? -,
It is here that the wise ones ran
down, fatuous in their own concen.
| They think that they conceal their
| VOLTS coat very well, when all the tlme
I it is the one thing which sticks out.
Those who fall for practical jokes,
or tricks which turn the laugh on them,
or even for fraud, are warned IN al
vance by the very persons VINO ADVANCE
toward them. o,,
come from a certain type OF person.
| They know that if such man or
| woman proposes to do something :or
them. or seems to take an interest N
! them. something is entirely wrong
in Denmark, or wherever 1t is they
live. for this matter is not confined 20
America, of course.
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Thus the boys wise in their own
conceit might be mildly astoniShed to
! realize that their very appearance, as
smooth as they like to think 1t Is, more
often than not gives them away.
Their very actions, which in the
past have been compounded only OF
similar tricks, without admiXture OF
kindness or that larger human decency
which everywhere is called love, pro-
claim who and what they are LOUDER
than words could do it.
Their victims almost always reallHe
AIaie IN,
why they are not taken in" as otten
as they seem to be. They are wiser
than they are given credit for being.
There is, at bottom, an eternal en-
nifty between these two types OF people.
The ancient Persian idea of good and
evil, with its everlasting warfare be-
tween the children of light and the
children of darkness, is duplicated in
everyday life wherever human beings
live.
often there is nothing either splendid
or mean about this battle. 1t does
not soar, on the one hand, or sink
on the other. 1t merely runs along in
a calm, easy way, resulting in blcker-
ing and dislike, or an ill-at-eaSe feeling.
One man says of another. Il do not
like that fellow. do not know why, but
don't like him." All sorts of explana-
tons have been advanced, from transmit
Rratl0n OF souls 10 an aura dIOullu
each human being. Different auraS dc
not mix, etc. Beasts of one nature come
back to find beasts Of another nature
sitting in Office with them.
The common sense of mankind re-
jects these conjectures, and prefers to
rest solidly on the simple but satisfy
ing doctrine of good and evil, and its
natural warfare.
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Let it be stated again that good and
evil has thousands of intermediate
phases; there is nothing in the con-
ception which calls for grand moments
only, or utter depravity.
One may do an evil deed to another
by so simple a device as withholding
deserved praise, laudation which one
feels in ones heart, but which, uttered,
might forward rival, or help another
human being Of whom one is jealous.
Oh, yes, there are many, many ways
of doing the devils work in this world
which are not recognized as such, but
are held to be part of the normal,
natural life of human beings. Often an
acquiescence in the words of another is
evil, since both parties to the CONVEX
sation know the gist Of the statement