Article September 1, 1917 Issue

Shutting the Door

ETHEL S. EVANS

Two little children were playing one day, when the older, aged seven, began to describe her aches and ills. "I have an awful cold," she said, "and my tooth hurts, and I'm just sick." The five year old, who had been listening gravely, replied: "Why don't you shut the door in its face?" This voicing of the truth was of course effectual, and the error so scientifically rebuked soon vanished into nothingness.

We are told in one of Faber's hymns that—

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