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41 -Occident and -Oa Hand T all happened in an instant. (As a matter of fact, that is the way I most of the things that change the course of our lives do happen, I have found.) The digit was caught; there was a crunching sound, and then it was gone. I joined the great army of the permanently disabled. For many days there came to me a sickening realization of certain things which I would never be able to do again. Even the condolence of my friends was bittersweet, for they in- variably said, "How fortunate that it is your left hand"—and I am left- handed ! There was some small com- fort in the fact that "it could have been worse." I had lost only a thumb ; I had the other four digits left. There are many things I can do, yet. But it is not to record the mental agonies of a partial cripple that I write, but to tell you the wonderful facts of the mental reaction that fol- lowed my accident. Man is a creature of habit—too much a creature of habit for the good of his mental health. I began to dis- cover for myself how little of my brain power I was actually using, how easily possible it is to learn a new and better way to do what you formerly did as a matter of habit. Left-handedness proved no serious handicap in writing when I put my mind to it and forced the right hand Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are What Seem to Be Our Worst Troubles to do better what the left hand had been doing. Since the small acci- dent, life has been one continual thrill of learning to do another way, gen- erally a better way, what was formerly done with the trusty left 41 -Occident and -Oa hand. I began to look around me at other cripples. No longer do I pity the By G. H. JEYS man with only one arm or one leg. I actually find myself envying him the new things he has learned which told me in all earnestness that the truly, for I wa hed him dress, and I could not and would not learn be- accident that had deprived him of eat, and in all rry him cause I had not the necessity to know ! one hand and almost all of the other, with an assurance sAfTorail,p, A whole new world of investigation was the best thing that could have that are not often foun inAmerippTed opened to my astonished mind. I met happened to him. Before the accident people. a young man en route from San he was a "bum." Now he is a self- I met another man who, like my- Francisco to Chicago. We were respecting citizen, an industrial chem- self, was a printer. He had no hands traveling companions for two days. ist, earning a good salary, and he at all, only the stubs of his arms, and His left hand was completely gone. was on his way to a promotion in yet he is the best typesetter in the There remained but the index finger Chicago. He told me with some pride rather large city in which he lives and thumb of the other hand. Surely that he could perform delicate experi- and works. The wonderful fact of this man was handicapped. But I ments that men with two hands would mental adaptability came to his rescue. was prepared to believe him when he not undertake. I knew that he spoke From the almost (Turn to page I2) VOL. 88. NO. 24 JUNE 11, 1940 At13 Ida gt Ova"' BARGAIN ! A bargain ! and that function. Music wasn't his would not listen. She was getting a A Who isn't thrilled at the pros- major, nor yet his minor, but it was bargain ! But she had only glanced pect, whether its enticing invitation much more interesting than chemistry at the price tag! comes to us over the ether waves or and bacteriology. He was president After she had said the final "I do," by way of newspaper advertisements? of this club and vice-president of and the mist of glamour which had 'Tis so very human—this tendency that. He had an active part in the surrounded him had been dispelled toward bargain hunting—this "hope subscription campaign for the school by the bright sunlight of reality, she that springs eternal" that somehow, paper, in the drive to raise money for was appalled at what she had done. someday we can get something desir- a swimming pool, and in campus ac- Why, she didn't even know this man able for nothing—or at least for a tivities generally. she had married ! But she couldn't small part of its real worth. No one of these things took much exchange him—not then ! All sales Without a second look at the price time, as advertised, but as lie ac- had been final. tag, without stopping to carefully and cepted more and more extracurricular She never says anything about the thoughtfully examine the quality of responsibilities, he "fell off the honor misery of the two years she tried to the merchandise on the bargain coun- roll ;" and when the senior class was make the best of a bad bargain, but ter. we cry: "I'll take it," only to ready to organize, he was dismayed she asks me to warn the young peo- discover how more than true it is at the array of "incompletes" and ple who read this page not to let that—well—"a fool and his money" grades in the "c" and "d" brackets their good sense mire in the sands of —or whatever he may have used for which stood on his record. Also there sentiment when it comes to things money—"are soon parted." was an "f" or two that he had all but matrimonial. Be sure that the man I know ! Once upon a time I forgotten. or the girl who is your "one and bought a pair of bargain shoes. They Frantically he went to work to only" is genuine through and through. were of excellent quality, in good clear them off. But he found himself "Listen to advice and warnings," she style, just the color I wanted, and so mired in the welter of bargain- pleads, "and before you invest, in- not a thing in the world was wrong counter activities that he had a hard vestigate." with them except—they were just a time extricating himself to concen- trifle too short. But couldn't one trate on plain, unadorned lessons. stand a little distress for five dollars? His class graduated the other night _TACK had a good position, was well What a saving! With an ever-so- —but without Albert. thought of in the community, and thrifty feeling I started off on a va- He has learned to his dismay that in a few months was to establish his cation, wearing my new shoes. Oh ! no worth-while school offers mental own home. All things considered, no The chiropodist charged me many furniture at bargain prices. young man ever had brighter pros- times five dollars ! I had to discard Examine the price tag of the next pects. But one evening he had op- the shoes while they were still per- activity that is glibly advertised. "It portunity to get what he considered, fectly good ! And I am still paying will take only a few minutes," prom- at first glance, a bargain. plenty for my folly in the coin of dis- ises the enthusiastic salesman. Make A girl with a lurid complexion and comfort. sure of that ! Most things, to be a glib tongue, whom he would have Yes, the most expensive things are worth while, need and demand solid been ashamed to introduce to his sometimes the cheapest in the end. time. Look past the bargain price, fiancee ! A glass of liquor—his first ! And the cheapest things are some- and don't let anybody fool you! The An automobile ride ! An accident ! times the most expensive in the end. bargain may be highly expensive in And the youth who prided himself For when one sets out to acquire the coin that you can't afford to spend on his shrewdness in getting real needfuls of a successful life, there that way. value for his money when he bought are more factors to be considered clothing or real estate, discovered that than the mere first cost. he had paid a tremendous price for his first drink. LARA LEE thought she was If he had only studied the price tag C getting a bargain. She met her before he took it ! AKE an education for instance. prince charming several times casu- TAA Thinking back over the school ally, went out with him twice, listened year, have you been willing to pay when he declared that he had "fallen" the price for the best—which alone in love, promised to marry him, know- HAT will you have ?' quoth is worth having—or have you been ing nothing save what he chose to WGod ; 'take it, and pay for it.' " looking for, and investing in, so- tell her of his circumstances, his What a pity that we humans so oft,.n called bargains? family, his background. Work which forget this sage observation of Ralph Albert is popular—one of these neither could leave separated them for Waldo Emerson. For perhaps there genial boys who always has a smile, the better part of a year, and during is no other fact that is so hard for ready wit, abundant self-assurance, that time she idealized him and made us to accept as that life runs no free who loves the limelight, and is a all preparations for their marriage.
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