DON'T MEDDLE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 38

DON'T MEDDLE

One of the most irritating feelings against which the best people need to.be on their guard is meddlesomeness. The chances are that by our meddlesomeness we mar more than -we mend. The probability is that the cook bcoiled the breakfast bacon better than we could bav,e done it, alid the tailor cut the coat better than if he had followed" our directions. No one can. ever be happy in. this world who fancies himself or herself born to ' set it right.' It wouia do us all good at times to sit with the pupils instead of taking uninvited the seat of the master and the critic. One of the most useful lessons any man can learn is to let things alone. Let the chair stand where the miaid placed it. Let the - dinner be served without protest as the good wife ordered it. And remember that the world will have to get along without us some day ; that if we keep hands off from it a little while it may be learning, as it must learn, to eventually get along without our "" suggestion or interference.