THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 2

THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS.

An American has written to the "British Weekly," i under tragic circumstances for^the purpose of expressing his belief that "there are kind folk everywhere." "I, have -recently passed through a. great trial," he says. "My eldest son, a lad neaiiy thirteen years old, was attacked with appendicitis in iho 'heart of Albania, far away from hospitals and surgeons. When it became possible to move him we brought him to Trieste, then to Lausanne, when tho end came. But this is not primarily of our potlr humanity ; I use it to servo as a basis for a whole-hearted testimony which I make to the bastic goodness of mankind. Jt was everywhere the. sam© story, from the poor, ignorant Albanian peasants who carried my boy on their shoulders a three-day's journey to tho coast, to the ship's crew oh tho -way to Trieste, the Italian nnlrseis, and patients' in the Tlopidale Civico ,the^... v . Ithe7.pelo.ple on the-train en ;ro/uto /to .Laiisaniie:, up to the' world-famed- -surgeon,oo,Professor Cesar Rou^'W' liaWatine,"-. it'°was all the ..same- story of kindness and h,elpful, sympathetic^: ministry/to ,strangers' in-,.need." After, all, love is isiipreme. 'IJut'it is-inot a-^vord that gleaTnis :\&n&. ■^flashes.;; it.'is'';;^h^^^:^eTehs%^ciLils; •it, 'an amufet,..•^jn'pe.-.iWo.r-n.-^dil-ibi^d^ri. ,o». the breastfJwhidk'mflko's-ihe'Wiiole world a garden:1 v 7;''■-*-■■-; • ■■-'i !- ; v