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Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth | 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment League. ] 
V.—Sympathy. 
LITTLE boy 
was riding in 
.a - street car 
and, observing a 
kindly looking wo- 
man, he snuggled 
closely up to her 
and unconsciously 
tubbed his dusty 
feet against her 
dress, when she 
leaned over to a 
woman on the oth- 
er side of the little 
boy and said shortly, “Madam, will 
you kindity make your little boy take 
his feet cif my dress?” 
The other woman said: ‘My boy? 
He isn’t my boy.” The little fellow 
squirmed uneasily, seemed to be great- 
ly distressed and looked disappointed- 
ly into the face of the woman who 
had disowned relationship to him. The 
Woman whose attention had thus been 
called to the little boy presently ob- 
served that the child’s eyes were fas- 
tened upon her with a peculiarly wist- 
ful expression, and she said to him, 
“Are you going about alone?” 
“Yes, ma’am,” he replied, “I always 
go alone. Father and mother are 
dead, and I live with Aunt Clara, and 
when she gets tired of me she sends 
‘me to Aunt Sarah to stay as long as 
she will keep me, but they both tire of 
me so soon I keep changing from one 
to the other. They don’t either of 
them care for little boys like me.” 
The woman’s heart was drawn to 
.the motherless boy, and she said, ‘You 
are a very little boy to be traveling 
alone like this.” “Oh, 1 don’t mind,” 
said he, ‘only I get lonesome some- 
times on these long trips, and when I 
see some one that I think I would like 
to belong to I snuggle up close to her 
so that I can make believe I really do 
belong to her. This morning I was 
playing that.I belonged to that other 
lady and I forgot about my dirty 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
shoes. But she would not let me 
belong to her. Do you like little 
boys?” 
The pitifulness of that appeal over- 
came all resiraint of the woman’s feel- 
ings and, rezardless of a carful of 
spectators, she put her arms around 
the tiny chop, hugeed him close and, 
kissing him, said, “Yes, and I only 
wish you wanted to belong to me.” 
The boy looked at her with rapturous 
‘content and replied, “I do.” 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
And she 
said, “You shall,’ and she adopted 
him. 
Disobedience is a lack of sympathy. 
Sympathy rather implies a certain 
thoughtfulness at its root. A sympa- 
thetic person thinks of others and puts 
himself in their places and considers 
. what will please and what will not. 
Jacob A. Riis is Colonel Roosevelt's 
ideal of an American citizen. His: sym- 
pathies went out to the poor and op- 
pressed. His fight, 
single handed, for 
tenement reform 
against the _ politi- 
cians and landlords, 
backed by all the 
power of graft and 
greed, was from the 
sturt hopelessly des- 
perate, but he stuck 
to it until he won. 
He took upon him- 
self the needs of the 
poverty stricken 
residents of New 
York and almost alone worked reforms 
which have placed him in the front 
rank of civic benefactors. The story 
of his life contains one of the greatest 
moral lessons of recent years. 
We cannot live without the compan- 
ionship of others. It is affection and 
interest that give the charm of living; 
it “fills all the stops of life with: tune- 
ful breath.’”’ One of the greatest -bless- 
ings we can bestow upon our friends 
is thoughtful sympathy and attention. 
These take the hardness out of duty 
and obedience, for we wish to please 
those we love. Happiness is love in 
action. Somebody has said, ‘“Happi- 
ness is a perfume you cannot pour 
on others without getting a few drops 
yourself.” 
Practice.—Each day compel yourself 
to think of some kind word to say to 
those about you. 
JACOB A. .RIIS. 
Literature. 
So many gods, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind, 
While just the art of being kind 
Is all the sad world needs. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
The little bread I have 
I give away and gladly pray 
Tomorrow may leave more 
To give away. 
—Josephine P. Peabody. 
Somebody did a golden deed; 
Somebody proved a friend in need; 
Somebody sang a beautiful song; , 
Somebody served the whole day long. 
Was that ‘‘somebody” you? 
—Unidentified. 
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto 
one of the least of these, my brethren, 
ye have done it unto me.—Jesus. 
It may not be of the least conse- 
quence how you feel, but it is of very 
great consequence how you make oth- 
ers feel.—Unidentified. 
Kindness—a language the dumb can 
speak and the deaf can understand.— 
Japanese Saying. 
Is thy cruse of comfort failing? 
Scanty fare for one will often make 
a royal feast for two.—Dliza Charles. 
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