Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1926 — Page 9

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FORGET YOURSELF, THAT’S BEST WAY TO MAKE FRIENDS

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See the basis of that statement? Soon as you try to be a friend you tire thinking’ of the other fellow — how to do him a favor, a kindness, prove your friendship In some way. That’s forgetting yourself. When you are sufficiently interested In another's tastes, hobbles, problems to listen to accounts of them, and when you can give en thuslasm and help when needed, you are at the moment engaged in building up one of the finest structures In the world—friendship. Watch the person with a string of friends a mile long. He’s vital. He'j not too lazy to extend himself into hearty greetings when he meets people. He remembers what the other fellow Is connected with, or Is trying to accomplish. In other words, he’s not self-centered. He gets outside of himself, and In taking time to be a friend, finds that he has friends. It works automatically. _ Wants to Make Friends. Dear Martha Lee: I have been in the olty since March and I am pettlnp lonedome, as I have grotten acquainted with almost nobody. T am shy. f guess; at least. find It hard to "br-alt th” ice" when ■th people and when I would have a

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Saint: and Sinner By ANNE AUSTIN

“And I thought,” Cherry's high musical voice was saying, “that we ought to try our dresses on and be sure they are just right, then go and have our pictures taken by that wonderful new photographer, Spurlock, tomorrow. Os course the papers will want pictures of all of us—” "But, Cherry!’’ Selma Pruitt laid her face against clasped hands and looked at Cherry almost worshipfully. “You’re the most beautiful thing I ever saw —absolutely! You’re like a snow maiden, an Ice queen—or, I know, like Queen Titanla! It’s a shame you’ll have to hide your marvelous red curls with a veil —” Cherry revolved slowly before the pier glass, her blazing golden eyes filled with an almost awed delight In her own beauty. The Ivory satin which tradition had dictated as the basis of the gown showed only as a sheen, a shimmer, a background for the intricate encrustations of seed pearls, rhinestones and crystals, wrought in fairy delicate embroidery over the entire surface of the dress. “The veil isn’t going to cover much of my hair!” Cherry laugher. “Trust little Cherry! See?” She lifted the cloud of veiling—yards and yards of It. from the big box which held It, and with Frances' help, adjusted the tiny cap of priceless rose point lace, which did not in the least obscure the glory of her copper-and-gold hair, but enhanced it. Faith stepped softly into the room and Cherry laughed a little tremulously as she raised her apricot-tinted cheek for her sister’s kiss. “Don’t (he girls look keen? I adore you in that golden poppy dress, darling. How do you like Bweet-Pea Selma and Corntlower Frances?” The two bridesmaids were In dresses made exactly like Faith’s, Selma’s of pale lavender combined artfully with flesh-colored taffeta, and Frances’ of cornflower zlue taffeta, MINERS ARE MARTYRS TO CIVILIZATION Why Not Store Food for Men in Case They Are Entombed?

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Periodically there comes flashing over the wires news of men entombed In the bowels of the earth, smothered, starving, dying. We read the harrowing accounts of wives and mothers who stand for hours, dumb with anguish, at the mouth of the mine shaft, while workers delve and sweat in an often futile effort to free the men imprisoned there. Could any death be more terrible than being hurled alive? AH day you are shut In from the light, digging in the black crannies of underground tombs like a rat, crawling about in eternal darkness, and then one day a blaat comes. The walls fall in about you. The air is gene. Death stands at your side. You are merely one of that vast throng of American miners dead because the nation is dollar mad. First of all we must have the black gold, whether lives of men are sacrificed or no. j Not a mining section but shudders | over the remembrance of a like j catastrophe. Many a wife has kissed : her husband good-by In the morning and seen him descend into the earth from whence he never came again. Sometimes these men are merely trapped. They have air enough to exist until rescusers can dig them out. But the queetlon of lack of food looms before them. Why Is It not possible to provide each mine with canned foods for emergencies like these? We store food In ships to last us while we venture into unknown and dangerous oceans. Could we not put It also into the earth as sustenance for the surviving miners who may be entombed for days before he can be rescued? Why Is not every mine owner obliged to take precautions to safeguard, In so far as is humanly possible, the lives of the men who bring him his burled treasure? Why are ail mines not equipped with sudh devices as would avert some of these bitter tragedies? Surely with all of our scientific education, something could be done to make life safer for the American miner. So far, he has been a martyr to a high-speeded civilization tha\ must have coal to keep Industry alive—a martyr to our degrading Idea that nothing matters but money. I* he going to be slaughtered thus, forever?

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the exact color of the wide, childish eyes under the cloud of her silverblond hair. "Can I com© in now?” Joy’s voice came shrilly through the closed door. “Junior says him and Fay's sick and tired of waiting on you. And Mama's mad 'cause you didn’t ask her to come in while you dressed!” The last sentence was delivered In a lower key, with portentious solemnity and warning. “Here comes the bride!” Cherry chanted In answer. “Scoot back Into the living room, Joy, and tell ’em we’re coming.” The shabby little Myrtle Street house must have shaken with surprised delight clear to Its foundations as the little procession passed through hall and dining room on the way to the living room. Faith in the lead, Frances and Selma giggling together just behind her, and Cherry, her veil wound loosely over her arm to keep it from trailing in the dust of the old floors, bringing up the rear. “Oh, gee! Oh, gosh!” Joy breathed ecstatipally. “Ain’t we got fun?” Faith, the first In the room, nodded and smiled at Fky Allen, a plump round-cheeked, chestnut-haired, grayeyed girl, who, except for the fact that she sat very close to “Long” Ijane on the piano bench, gave no Indication of deserving the adjective that the Lane family almost habitually prefixed to her name. “That fast Fay Allen” looked singularly childish and nice. In her little belted suit of golden-brown velvet. In the clamor of exclamations and compliments and questions and halfflnlshed answers that followed, Faith stood to one side, observing the scene rather than taking part in it. Her mother was visibly trembling with pride and happiness, a happiness expressed In a constant trickle of tears down her cheeks, and In emharassed agreement with everything that Frances and Selma said. Mrs. Lnne was patently In awe of these “fine friends” of her adored Cherry, could not quite get used to the Idea that they were in her home on a basis of Intimacy. "Dad, you haven’t said I look pretty! You haven’t eyes for anyone but FVtlth, you bad, partial old parent. Don’t you like your Cherry a tiny bit?” And, with Impulsive disregard of her wedding finery, she plumped herself down on his knees. "I’d rather see you In your shroud

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