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TO HIM THAT HATHI
[By KATHLEEN NORRIS “America’s Most Popular Woman Writer for Women”
The Socialists the Bolshevists the
rebels and anarchists of all ages are
of course quite truthful and quite
logical.
’ There is more than enough room
tor everyone of us in this world
tore than enough food and covering
roof and sunshine amusement and
freedom. We would all be happy if
it was honestly shared.
* If every man did only two hours
honest work a day all the work of
(he world would be doue. and all the
rest of the time left for fun and rest.
' If every man was paid only in hav-
ing a comfortable home and more
than enough to eat. and plenty of
Rothes and toys and books then there
Wouldn’t be any need of dollars and
eents any millionaires piling money
money and millionaires' sons
piling vices upon vices.
’ We would all be happy. But not
snly that. There is no happiness for
any of us in any other system. There
is no real joy for anyone in the self-
ish cornering of the good things of
life. They daily breed miseries after
all. The richest selfish man is poorer
than the poorest unselfish one. The
man who gives himself gives more
than the man who merely signs a
qheck nnd sits back fearful and sur-
prised because that doesn't seem to
<ure the evil.
But granting all this and granting
that the stupid world is off on a
•(prong scent that the things we chose
qnd desire and die for are gilded
Raper and dead sea fruit—isn't it as-
onishing to realize how extraordi-
larily simple faith and courage have
I fashion of- scoring even under a
^rong system and against the old set.
Gruel monopolies and prejudices and
handicaps?
'Oue would say. offhand that al!
the power and all the money of the
World were held in the hands of mer-
qenary cold-blooded heartless men;
that the penniless unknown uninflu-
Intial man bad no chance against
them.
< Thrift honesty energy might have
Succeeded once in a different world!
But are they really potent now?
■ And then one comes upon some in-
ftance somebody’s little story that
^stores all one’s faith in God and
the world again and makes one hope
that since such mirae’es nre possible
qven now. it wouldn't take such a
tremendous overturning such an ex-
traordinary letting-in of the light to
set a newer and a better fashion bf
living for everybody everywhere.
J One such little candle came my
way a few weeks ago when the mail
brought me ri small slip of printed
daper titled “A Willing Mind.” wi|h
Uie name' of “Margaret E. Edward-
l?ole Ottawa Ontario” ns its writer.
lam quoting some of it word for
’ord knowing that to other penny-
Wasting American women it will be
(s astonishing as it was to me. The
black-faced type is mine. This is
Wie story:
“My two boys little chaps of five
ind six years longed for a veloci-
ledc. This was years ago when
velocipedes Were luxuries ami people
spent hard-earned money carefully. I
had been trying to teach them to
think out their prayers forgetting
that ‘faith without works is dead.’
Bru evening after they v fe tuckr.l
Bhqb bed I heard the youngest say to
ie elder: T don’t believe God is
ver going to send that old velocj-
ede! L'm tired praying for it.’
» “Next morning I said: ’Boy’s If
on want to work in order to earn
Jiat velocipede. I’ll give you a penny
tach that's two cents a week for
twinging wood from the shed to the
titchen woodbox.’ The bargain was
nade. In five weeks they had earned
at cents.
“About that time I was reading n
lory about systematic beneficence—-
fid also at about that time the mar-
Hge >of a relative took place and
Mue of the wedding cake came to
>e in a beautiful little box tied with
rhite ribbon.
“The day the boys earned their ten
rents. I told them the story of the
ithes. Thej- were greatly interested.
ind immediately they decided to put
me penny aside and call it ’God’s
noney.’ Nine cents went to the
’elocipede fund. The one cent I put
hto the little wedding cake box.
I “Another five weeks went by. and
the velocipede fund was eighteen
Jents ‘God's money’ two cents. The
roodbox had been faithfully filled no
noney spent for candy. Just then my
ieiglibor sold her cow. and wanted
ome milk from us. She would not
ake it as a gift but proposed my
ending it over by the boys and pay-
ng them a cent a day. They eagerly
greed. This went on serenely for a
ew weeks when to their delight they
Vere offered another job. ns messen-
»rs to homes in the neighborhood—-
his In addition to two cents a week
■nd one cent a day.
“Why this arrangement was never
nentioned to the boys' devoted fatl -r
[ do not know. He was frequently
(way from home but when be was
here a detnder love drew them to-
ether. He was their closest confi-
ant. but somehow this little drama
m systematics escaped his notice tin-
il one day he came home with a col-
Cctor for a most worthy object an
iudcational institute.
- “The boys listened eagerly and 1
ihall never forget the joy with which
hey raced away to get ’God’s money'
whole dollar earned by themselves.
fheir father was delighted .and with
he nine dollars not only bought them
h*ir velocipede but had enough left
o get snow-shoes as well.
! “In after y^ars it chanced that
iotb bias went to the institute to
Vhich they had sent their first dol-
ar. learning there French and Span-
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SUNDAY.
KATHLEEN NORRIS SAYS
ty years ago there were trees tables music| perhaps a
Punch and Judy popcorn perhaps pink lemonade.
Families went with basket lunches. Nowadays take
two good crisp twenties with you if you plan to' spend
a day with two or three children in an amusement park.
♦ ♦
Five and ten cents! The biggest building in the
world was built by them. They pay for the big street
car systems for the flashing chewing gum advertise-
ments for the newspaper buildings for the tremendous
cigarette industry. They started the movies. We can
well remember when the movie houses were “nickelo-
deons.”
• *
These nickels and dimes will work just the same
miracle in your life and mine. They will breed in-
crease and build putting behind them power courage
success and more success.
* *
De Lessep's Panama project went down into history
as a sensational failure because he didn’t kill the mos-
quitoes. We’re all like de Lesseps. We don’t waste
thousands as thousands. But we never think of the
mosquitoes. Remember it’s the little foxes that eat
the vines away.
ish that was to be invaluable to them
late?.
“And ns a final coincidence th:
relative whose wedding box was God's
bank after years of honorable service
to his God his kindred nnd his coun-
try. was called to a higher service
nnd left us in his will an interest in
Their father was delighted and with
This story needs little comment
unless one might add that the writer
does not list among the advantages ot
this lesson to her boys what they
took into the world as men. in the
valuable knowledge of what the small-
est beginnipg. can produce.
If the averagd America n household
"needs one lesson isn't it this? The
leakage of pennies is a leakage of
dollars every week hundreds of dol-
lars every year and thousands of dol-
lars in every lifetime. The streets
are strewn with rubbish for which
somebody five minutes ago. paid good
money. Our bureaux are stuffed with
it. Our tables are cluttered with it.
What if the stockings are sleazy and
the boxed food three times as ex-
pensive as in bulk? We go on buy-
ing them and casting them off in our
wake and heaping vacant lots with
them. Five cents —ten cents—what's
that after all?
Tak^Jor example our amusement
parks and compare them with the
amusement parks forty years ago.
Forty years ago there were trees ta-
bles. music and perhaps a Punch and
Judy. Families roamed about carry-
ing basket lunches. Perhaps there
was popcorn. Perhaps pink lemon-
ade.
But nowadays! Take two good
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nS nothing to equal AT //w S-K j
Jg them ail season ff Jft if Smart IS the W
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I Mmay I
y 100 WEST HOUSTOH 2
iAT^THE. BRIDGE —
In the average American
household the leakage of
pennies is a leakage of
dollars every week of hun-
dreds of dollars every year
of thousands in every life-
time.
The streets are strewn
with rubbish for which
somebody paid good money
five minutes ago. Our bu-
reaux are stuffed with it.
Our tables are cluttered
with it. We go right on
buying. Five cents — ten
cents—what’s that?
* »
In amusement parks for-
clcan crisp twenties with you if you
pluu a day with two or three chil-
dren in an amusement park. Seventy
cents here a dollar ten there sixty
cents the next booth. One of them
may win a feverish Kewpie in tinsel
skirts to be sure but they will pay
high for her!
“The little girl played seven games
and the little boys six and eight—-
that's twenty-one—two dollars and
ten eents please" says the choupiere
calmly. “Stand away. dear that gen-
tleman wants to play. You have
seventy-two thousand points—would
you'like the match or the little
Iftipe? parasol?”
"Mother may we play the ’locp
fish-pond? And are we going on tM‘
bnnipety-bumps?” stickily ask the iu-
satiables in one’s ear.
And “After all. it’s only ’ ten
cents!” one reasons inwardly follow-
ing their leaping ranks and remem-
bering. or trying to forget the days
when ten cents meant two instead of
one loaves of bread.
Five ami ten cents! The biggest
building in the world was built by
them. They pay for the big street car
systems for the flashing chewing
gum advertisements for the tall news-
paper buildings for the tremendous
cigarette industry. They started the
movies—you and I can remember
when movie houses were "nickelo-
deons.”
They will work just the same mira-
cle in your life and mine. Just as
waste begets waste nnd debts debt
and shiftlessness more shiftlcssness
so these strangely variable little units
will breed and increase and build.
Tomorrow—Come Early—This )
GREAT PURCHASE SALE t
OF NEW STYLE HATS I
Amazing Values at g
These For Example . OF*
Ostrich trimmed satins » O J
Mctallics in cloths and trimmings
Satins with silver gold and laces '^B^
Faille silk hats—flower trimmed s®.
In all shapes—ln all colors
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
putting behind whosoever respects
them power and more power cour-
age and more courage success and
more success.
To him that hath shall be given—
And the same is true by the Cross!
To the thrifty God sends gold
To the wastrel loss on loss I
I don’t know who said that or
whether those arc the exact words.
But it has never been disproved. It
has never been disproved that the
father and mother who saved the nine
pennies for the children and gave the
tenth to God. regretted it. Not only
wealth has followed upon this course
—fiends have had wealth and always
will. But oh the happiness the se-
curity the serenity that attends it.
Only seventy dollars in the bank
this year—that is fourteen hundred
nickels—only four hundred and sixty
dollars in the bank next year alto-
gether a miserable matter of ten
thousand six hundred nickels — but
how much pleasanter than the old
fashion of insecurity doubt bills
borrowing.
There was an old man in our town
years ago who had made a great for-
tune. He was putting up a big
building onee and they told of him
that he used to walk about it. nnd
throw back on the piles such bricks
ns had fallen into the street. Once
he returned to the bank my father
managed to call his attention to n
ten-cent deficit in a dividend. My i
father probably smiled nt him. for the !
old man said defensively: “Ten cents j
is n year’s interest on a dollar and a ।
half! ”
I don’t quote him In admiration. '
Ho was an old miser. The money he
left bred the misery he deserved to 1
create. But it goes to show what he j
thought of the tiny and insignificant I
things the five and ten-cent pieces
upon which nil the groat fortunes of
the world have always been built and
will always be built.
Look at the steam-box of nn en-
gine some day. It is about as large
as n firclcss cooler.
Steam in itself is a puff of menn-
inglcss vapor. It. quickly melts into
the nir and is gone forever.
Let us imagine a dreamer of 1403
talking about it.
“If I could box that pennant of
intangible mist in that iron case. I
could move worlds drug about thou-
sands of tons master space” he might
say.
They would have immediately
burned him or imprisoned hi mas
mad. Let us imagine one of his de-
scendants talking to de Lesseps a
century ag'-.
“Don't worry about masses of iron
nnd steel de Lesseps” let us imagine
him snyint. “Don't take these gcod
people's hard-earned money to invest
in bolts and cranes. Y'ou nre to be
routed from Panama and your
scheme is to go down in history as a
sensational failure because of nothing
more significant than a mosquito—-
that tiny spineless aimless drifting
insect that buzzes about your whirling
brain at n!girt I Forget the money—-
forget the engineering—kill the mos-
quitoes!"
But we're all like de Lesseps. Wo
don't waste thousands as thousands.
We don't buy the new car—the new
gown—the new house carelessly.
These are the big machinery the lug
scheme.
But we never think o(. the mos-
quitoes. Kill the habit of spending
the small amounts. Save in the small
places. They will grow to big things.
Remember it is the little foxes that
eat the vines away.
Pay for Operation.
Del Rio. Tex.. Dec. B.—As soon as
it was learned that Pascual Hernan-
dez. Mexican janitor at the high school
here was suffering with appendicitis
and that an operation was necessary
the teachers and pupils immediately
contributed funds sufficient to meet
hospital expenses and the operation
was performed. It is expected that
be will be able to be back at his du-
ties ns janitor within a few weeks.
Hernandez has held the position as
janitor for several years nt the high
school nn dis considered very honest
and efficient.
OBSERVE AIR EVENT
Twentieth Anniversary of First Suc-
cessful Flight to Be Observed.
The twentieth anniversary of the
flight of the first successful heavier-
than-air machine will he observed by
aeronautical associations throughout
the United States December 1« nc-
rording to a notice sent ou-. by F. !!.
Patreicon president of the .Viticnal
Aercnautieal Association cf the
United States with headquarters at
L'ayron Ohio.
No elaborate program is planned by
the ban Antonio members of tiie as-
sociation. according to the president
Edgar Tvbin. Celebration of the an-
nivcrw.ry will probably ta'.v the torm
of a noon lunheou Mr. Tobi i said.
The flight of the first sueessful
J eavier-than-air machine was made
nt Kitty Hawk. North Carolina twen-
ty years ago. The mne'aitie was con-
st.mctel by Wilbur Wright now de-
ceased. and his brother Orville
Wright.
SMELLED LIKE CAKE
Negro Officer Has Way of Telling
Prisoner Drank Almond Extract.
William Taylor negro 51. Comal
street resident appeared before Po-
lice Judge Wilkens. Saturday charged
with having disturbed the peace last
Tuesday night at a Cameron street
dance hall.
Will Powell negro special officer.
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Note the grace of line the sheen of the figured bro-
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If we could have put color into the illustration we
would have shown you a picture cf this dainty bit of
*’ fobtweah but we know your imagination will be equal to
the task. !'' i '
And we assure you that the SLIPPER will come up
to your expectations.
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319 Alamo
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I DON’T GET
EXCITED
—and pick out
just anything
ANYWHERE!
Come to a
store whose
tales people
are eager to m
suggest many
gifts in leath-
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good taste.
M MAY WE SUGGEST
HIGH-GRADE LEATHER GOODS?
FOR MEN FOR LADIES
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Hartmann Wardrobe Trunks i nfitted Cases
® Gladstone Bags Traveling Rags (Plain!
3 Suit Cases (Fitted) Traveling Bags (Fitted)
g Suit Cases (Plain)
«« Dressing Cases Vanities
Brief Cases Toilet Sets
Mt Collar Cases Manicuring Sets
Handkerchief Cases Picture Frames
W Card Cases Writing Cases
Si Pass Books Card Cases
9? Covered Flasks Sewing Sets
M Poker Sets Bridge Sets
Plaving Card Cases Bridge Prizes
W Leather Belts Music Rolls
Kf Pullman Slippers Music Cases
ST Cloth Rnishes Drinking Cups
W Military finishes Coin Purses
Coat Hangers (in Cases) ^ nr T"
W Cigar Cases Address Books
IM Cigarette Cases „ j
gr Jewel Boxes Telephone Pads
W Writing Cases Cloth DHishes
Vacuum Bottles } aeuum Bottles
» Note Books Leatlier Novelties
Sample Cases Hat Boxes
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Sj 211 ALAMO PLAZA CROCKETT 1957
testified the defendant entered the
place was boisterous an.d refused to
obey when cautioned to be quiet. Tay-
lor told the court the officer was mis-
taken that he had worked at Precinct
No. 1(1 in the bond election all that
day and was tired and did not feel
disposed to raise a racket.
"I don't understand what led up
to the disturbance how it camo about
or—was he drunk of drinking?” asked
Judge Wilkens.
“Yes” promptly replied the negro
officer adding: “He had been drink-
ing almond extract.”
"How do you know he was drinking
almond extract?” the court nsked.
“Because yo' honor "he smelled
jist like a fruit cake.” -
A <5 fine was assessed.
Seguin Pioneer Dead.
Seguin. Tex.. Dec. S.—Mrs. .T. Wes-
ley Harris 75 a resident of Guad-
alunpe county for many years died
at her home in Hondo on Sunday
night. December *. The body was
sent to Seguin Tuesday nnd inter-
ment was made in Geronimo ceme-
tery. Rev. J. W. Alexander of the
First Methodist Church conducted the
funeral services. She was the widow
of John Wesley Harris. Confederate
veteran and pioneer settlor of Guad-
alupe county who preceded her in
death just one year ago. Mrs. Har-
ris is survived by four daughters
Mesdamos E. W. Winn of Dallas
J. W. Henderson and J. W. Newton
of Hondo and J. D. Brown of Se-
guin. besides a number of grand-
children.
USEFUL
GIFTS
Why give use-
less frinkets?
They arc soon
f orgo tt en.
Gifts of leath-
i er ar e useful
las well as
' beau tiful —
they last for
years.
D 'K'-y COIFFURE
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ISi J ■ longer puts up her hair in ■■ !
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permanent wave has become KS
universal. We employ the H
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) are ^ a ' r ’ ^0
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