TOO BUSY TO BE KIND.

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 30, 10 November 1900, Page 11

TOO BUSY TO BE KIND.

‘ I sometimes think we women now-a-days are in danger of being too busy to be really useful,’ said an d lady, thoughtfully. ‘We hear so much about making every minute count, and always having some work or course of study for spare hours, and havingour activities systematised, that there is no place left for small ■wayside kindnesses. We go to see the sick neighbour and relieve the poor neighbour, but for the common everyday neighbour who has not fallen by the way, so far as we can see, we haven’t a minute to spare. But everybody who needs a cupful of cold water isn’t calling the fact out to the world, and there are a great many little pauses 'by the way that are no waste of time. The old fashioned exchange of garden flowers over the back fence and a friendly chat “ about domestic matters helped to brighten weary days, and brought more cheer than many a sermon. We ought not to be too busy to inquire for the girl away at school or to be interested in the letter from the boy at sea. It is a comfort to the mother’s lonely heart to feel that somebody else cares for that which means so much to her. Especially we ought not to be too busy to give and receive little kindnesses in our home.’ May no one be able to say of us fhat wo are too busy to be kind. —The Young Woman.