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arms. and. kissing her, said that she was glad to see her baby again. The child knew her mother’s love was true and many of her kindly deeds later were done in the remembrance of that love. We are usually made up more of other people than of ourselves. Our deeds and actions are prompted by something that we have learned or taken from someone else. I challenge whether we would ever do a friendly act to another if someone had not first rendered one to us; for we are but re- flections of another’s character. We see a trait that our friend has which we would like to possess and we immediately try to copy it; we build the many by-products of another’s nature into our own so that it becomes a real part of us. If it is a real part of us. we will surely reflect it again and our human traits are not for us alone, but for the benefit of all mankind. What is it that we remember of Lincoln—the most beloved of all American statesmen? Not so much the fact that he freed the slaves, and severed the plan that would have made the north and south forever separate countries, but that he was ever himself, always keeping his spontaneous humor, and not losing his interest in people, although he had far greater deeds to perform than merelv helping his people personallv. FLORENCE STUTZMAN. ’25. TRAGEDY A deadly calm was in the night air. The moon had clisappeared behind an ominously black cloud. An ideal night for murder, I would say. And on this warm night in July a great disaster was destined to occur, one which was to mean the death of certain ideals which we pupils once upheld. I was the only outside witness to the tragedy. Ah. me, that I must be the one to relate to the public the events of that evening. My first inkling of something unusual had oc- curred at the factory that morning. Behind the thin partition between the rooms I could hear faint whispered words. Then a loud angry voice cried, “At the old field at the crossing tonight then.” I hastily resolved to be present when the plotters ar- rived. and if possible, to prevent a calamity. I went to the place mentioned at eight-thirty that evening and waited. The air was growing chilly and the moon had gone behind the clouds for the last time. I was becoming restless, when suddenly a sound broke the silence. The smooth purring of a powerful engine came to my ears and I saw, coming down the highway, a Ford straight-eight. It stopped at the edge of the field and two men disembarked. Almost immediately I heard another sound on the Theodore Roosevelt Highway (noted for its rough- riding qualities). A roaring noise filled the atmos- phere and from the smooth pulsating sound of the engine, I knew a high-powered car was approach- ing. I was not disappointed, for just then a machine hove in sight, and as it drew nearer I found that it was a Chevrolet twin-six, with aluminum-plated fin- ishings. It came to a stop steadily by jerks. Two old men got out and, to my horror. I saw, under- neath the arm of one, a closely and carefully wrapped bundle. Both parties moved to the middle of the field and there the article was set down carefully and the cover removed. There in the cool night air stood a highly polished object. I immediately started think- ing as hard as I could (the smell of burning wood almost gave my hiding place away). What could
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by-products of human nature By-products are usually thought of as minor products in the process of making finished materials: but I sometimes think that they perform more good—or harm—in the world than do the main prod- ucts. By-products of our human natures are usually Hung out unconsciously, either when we are trying to teach and explain a lesson, or when we are work- ing with neither end nor purpose in view for our acts and words. Our careers cannot be made noble or great if they are based entirely on one or two praiseworthy deeds or virtues: for underneath those deeds must be scraps and bits of the greater morals of life, which we have at odd times acquired from our own experiences or caught from a kind word, a smile, or chance expression. The world is made up of people of all tempera- ments, but some go through it heedless of another s feelings, disregarding the fact that all person’s minds do not function alike, and therefore do not grasp—or do grasp—the little things of life which make it great and worthwhile. We are sometimes so engrossed with our own misfortunes that we fail to realize that our friends may also have misfortunes, just as bad and probably worse than we have; and it is very often, that from this frame of mind come the harsh, unsympathizing words which, instead of remaining a by-product of self-pity, grow into a common poisonous dislike. We say cruel things which are but outbreaks of rage and which we really do not mean; nevertheless they have an ill-effect upon the auditor. It may not be the exact words that adhere to his mind, but the manner in which they were expressed. But I do not believe that Human Nature is so unequally balanced that all its by-products are ill- favored, for I believe that if one sought, and really sought earnestly, that he would find the good in the world outweighing the evil, in spite of the fact that we are always having it drilled into us that this un- lucky generation is the worst of the worst. Many of the successes in life are due, not to the strictlv taught and long labored-over lessons—not the lesson itself—but to certain expressions or im- pressions that are stamped upon our minds and which afterwards have much influence upon our ac- tions. A pupil may fail entirely to grasp the point of a lesson, yet take from it something which will benefit him all his life. We cannot always tell what the by-products of our own natures will be, nor can we control them, for other people are more likely than not to perceive a situation in an entirely dif- ferent light. The finished or dressed product is often unreal, untrue, or artificial, but the by-products are per- fect reflections of the inner self. A tiny girl who went to school one day with her sisters, ran away to her playmate’s house. Kach sister, on the way home, thought the baby was with the other: and when they reached their mother and found that she was with neither, they became greatly alarmed, for gypsies were in the habit of carrying off little chil- dren. Both sisters turned back to search for her. Thev found her making mud-pies with her little friend, and not realizing that she was doing any- thing wrong. The sisters frightened the child so badly bv scolding and telling her how cross Mother was that she cried all the way home. The sisters pushed her into the room saying, “You’ll get it!” But instead, the mother folded the little girl into her
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