MUM'S LETTER

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 12

MUM'S LETTER

Dear Sunbeams,-— You are always being told that Socialism stands for the Brotherhood of Man, and I.[am. going to tell you what a great Indian writer and thinker says is really meant by Brotherhood. His name is Jinarajadasia, and this is how lie explains the Word Brotherhood.

"Let mc put the word in anotnerway: I will "call it Friendliness. It is .an intense sense of friendship with all things, so- that you do not go about trying to judge people as to whether they are good or bad, educated or not educated, whether of this type or the other type, -but you are friendly with whatsoever ..a thing is because it is so. You are friendly • with a tree—say a btech-tree—not because it is not an oak-tree, but simply for what it is. Feel friendly in the same way v. ; !th everything. As you come hi to touch with people try to. feel towarls them, and do not have the ordinary standpoint of weighing them in the balunoeh o" your own experience. Accept a person with warmth just because he or she is one to be friendly with. You are friendly with a dog who comes up to you, you pat h; or if a cat rubs itself 'against you, you stroke it You will find that the same friendship can be shown by you jto all people. It is the beginning of charity." V * * * The same writer gives us the -following: GREAT ACTIONS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

In young people love must express itself in iHtle acts of service. Many boys and girls dream one day of doing great things, but so wrap, themselves up in dreams that oft2ll Ihey aro more of a burden-than a help. There are a thousand and one litfJe acts of service that caii always be done in the home, and opportunities t o do these should be consraiitly looked for. Let but young people thus train themselves in little acts of s-?rvi.2e, aru? .they will find that the great of Love swells up within, them. A great love will be the first among the great viitues to appear. Then love will waler the roots of other virtues, and' one by one strength, self-rsL'aiice, truth, wisdom, gentleness, will grow in them. EXPERIENCE THE BEST TEACHER

In an old volume of "Punch. ,, there is a picture of a grand lady watering flowers in her garden, -while a Obstructed maid pokes her head out of «. window and ci-ies, "Ma'am, m.a'ani. vviiat am I to do? I have swallowed a safety pin." And the great la-.ly without even stopping to look nx> rep'ies, "So that's where my safety phis go, is it?" The picture was shown to a small girl with the ques"What can be done to make that lady sorry for the poor girl?" and her reply was—"l don't know, unless you males her swallow a safety' pin hefrs-elf and see how nasty it is." AN AMERICAN OPINION A little more kindness, A little less creed, A li.ttle more giving, A little less greed. A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking A man when he's down. j A little more "we," A little less "I," A littlo more laugli, A little less cry. A little more flowers On the pathway of life. And fewer on graves • At tlio end of-the strke. —MTM.