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On Giving Advice. The Gambling Sex. Those Wise Sayings.
Sooner or lator comes a time in the life of the wise man when he makes up his mind, firmly, that he will refrain from the giving of advice on matters of personal taste. The curlier he learns the wisdom of this rule, the more friends he Friendships will make thereafter. are not built these days to stand the results of god advice badly or bad advice given in followed good faith!
Smoking, now, is very much 1 matter of personal taste. The furti- cular brand of cigaretten.
tobacco affected by one man may be
Occasionally our consciences are A woman is a born gambler. That's why she is intuitive. That's prodded by well-meaning educa- why she believes in luck and tionists, who tell us that an end scorns logic, If she hadn't learned should be put to the telling of to take her losses and go on, there fairy stories to children and the wouldn't be any human race to teaching of our present stock of
nursery rhymes.' write about.
Speaking of good gamblers, was! But what about dur there ever a better one than our supposedly wise sayings, our copy Mother Eve? She wasn't afraid to book maxims that are always ready take a chance on Eden Apple stock, to be applied to the individual (r. and she sold Adam on the idea doubt or distress by some would. too.
be good-counsellor?
And when she lost her happy or home, didn't she pay up and get out just se creditably as Adam an offence to your nostrils. Yet to did? If there is any doubt in your advise a change, however tactfully, mind, consult Genesis for the de-
tails of the panic that ensued.
is to court disaster.
stock of
Are they not responsible for just as much mischief as our nursery rhymes?
How much harm, for instance, may not have been done by that rolling stone that gathers no moss?
If you get him to "try this, old It's all very well and fine to
It is not conceivable that its chap" be will be miserable for give us a hand when we deserve it, weeks, and ons day you'll find him but why act as if it were necessary nakedncas may have often added
of dread cheerful again, smoking the same to applaud us for being good los-that last touch
to an
old brand. Incidentally he will have rs when we've been doing it for already over-cautious spirit, and ended enterprise before it had well A poor opinion of your taste, which centuries? is all your advice will have earned we've been taking chances,
Since the beginning of time, (begun?
and How many people have driven you--or entitled you to!
paying or pocketing our winnings themselves paat the safety line in There is mares advice floating and we're still gambling. We al- fatigue by that injunction "never about between men on this subject
ways will.
to put off till to-morrow what can then almost any other, which ex
be done to-day"? plains the bewildering number and variety of smokes" on the market.
And there are scores of other only to find that your friend shares pithy sayings that may be just as in this last viow!
painful as they are pithy in their effects when carelessly applied.
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Then consider books. Who has never suffered the discomfort of being asked by a sick, or busy, or The quiet and inactivity which Jazy friend to "change this book at meant such a thorough rest for you the library for me, and bring back nothing to do but bathe and laze any book you think I'll lika?" The about in the sun all daymay spell bad, but the food was awful" Or onus is put on you. The act of tak-sheer boredom to the next man that the food was "pretty decent" ing back a book will be regarded as Especially if it rains all the time
he's therel
allege that "the place wasn't
but the place "got on my nerves."
These and other things that will occur to you are matters of personal taste, and therein lies the danger
advice to read it.
Unless you are an expert, dealing If he is over-persuaded, by the with a willing pupil, the job of glow in your words and on your
vising on literature is beyond face, to try it for himself, he will of giving advice on them-unless you bitterly for are paid to do so, when people will you You are prejudised by your henceforth hate you own likes and dislikes and in order spoiling his only holiday of the think your counsel worth having.
There is little appreciation for to avoid the appearance of this, year.
You tell a friend that he'll be what can be got for nothing, which you end by taking back and enthusi natically praising a book nothing on "well looked after" at such and is the price of most advice, if not earth would induce you to read, such a place. He'll come back and its value-c... in Exchange..
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I SAW AMZY AMBROSE GET A LETTER TOLD THE POSTMAN HE'D: BEEN WAITING WEEKS :
FOR IT. WHADDYA KNOW ABOUT THAT!!,
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