Samuel Goldwyn

Well, Jack, it's a long story.

Remember that night three years ago at the Academy Awards when Sam Goldwyn called me Hugo? Yeah.

Well, ever since then, Hugo became a sensation.

What about Hoagie? He's a

the telephone bell rang lo mrs spick kind effusive mrs spick had rung her up to coo conventional condolence and now if there is anything i can do galna she concluded be sure and let me know ah my friend some time you too must have suffered suffered and known not where to turn and as sure as most hearts alas are ignorant some time you too must have heard that frightful phrase that mockery of friendship the very epitaph it is upon the grave of affection if there is anything i can do be sure and let me know but as galna dazed lonely aching staggered back to her room behold upon her bed she saw an unfamiliar thing tear-blinded she groped for it a hundred dollar bill why where did this come from she asked wondering oh miss felice left it there said her maid she thought perhaps you might happen to be short of money yes she's downstairs now helping wash the dishes and putting the parlor to rights and sending telegrams ah felice needed no one to let her know what to do she had imagination she had the educated heart for the educated heart always knows he seeth with his heart the language of suffering ordinarily can no more be learned without experience than can the language of mars but upon some blessed few in this world thank god has fallen the gift of tongues truly as sadie said nothing is so rare as the educated heart and if you wonder why just show a kodak group picture a banquet photograph a photograph of a class what does every one of us first look at talk about ourself and that's the reason why most hearts are so unlearned in kindness yet none of us likes himself to be forgotten or neglected almost any wife i verily believe would prefer actual rudeness to having a husband pass over her wedding anniversary unnoticed even a blow would prove that she was of some importance in his life so it isn't always the big climactic misfortune that we suffer from most we can rally after we're stunned and go on somehow but it's the little stings that we can't forget it's because of the uneducated heart that love-mad women kill why don't you get a smart hat like carrie's dear she's always so well dressed yes and because of the uneducated hearts of their wives husbands grow seedy silly and old why one can tell almost by the looks of a man his posture his very clothes whether or not his wife truly loves him for many a wife dubbed by his undiscerning friends a shrew a harridan has proved her real interest in him by so ballyragging him for his faults that he has despite himself improved to meet her criticism become ambitious become persevering and successful while as many others have been slowly kissed and praised into an intellectual apathy most affectionately murdered by the uneducated heart ah tis not only cats and lap-dogs that are killed with kindness there is another side to the mary and martha story i know them well those two sisters mary loves martha well she will tell you and be shocked at your question but dear martha is before her time an old woman round-shouldered bowed down by caring for others in the years has mary ever said straighten up dear you are growing crooked not once her own head high she walks beside a sister almost deformed whom with an educated heart she could have saved from ugliness and by this time you'll understand of course that the educated heart isn't really educated at all in the sense that it has had to learn how to be kind it merely is wise its gesture is instinctive its knowledge innate but you ask can't the uneducated heart be instructed don't the churches and sunday schools teach how to be good how about the books of ethics ah the trouble with them all is that they teach what to do but not how to do it and the trouble with this little study will be perhaps if you and i don't look out that it will educate us as to others faults but lead us to forget our own it is so easy to be petulant and critical it's so easy to deny that we ourselves are morally round-shouldered if you have even the rudiments of a heart culture long before this you will be saying to yourself have i an educated heart so if you are not content with increasing your chest expansion or your biceps if you want to enlarge that mystic organ whence flows true kindness you must cultivate your imagination you must learn to put yourself in another's place think his thoughts there is but one substitute for imagination and that is experience if you have deeply suffered perhaps you may have found from your very pain what real kindness is like confucius you may have learned politeness from the impolite and if you haven't well i scarcely think it should be necessary for you to break a leg or inoculate yourself with the germs of typhoid you might do a great deal really by exercising just your common sense take a little thought therefore upon what style really is in costume you'll see that style is not what most people but what the best people wear if you wished to be strictly up to date then you'd go to the leading shops for your clothes wouldn't you you'd haunt the opera the smartest assemblies the most aristocratic homes to see what fashionable people selected if you wanted to learn modern surgery you'd visit the clinic of the most eminent surgeon wouldn't you to observe his technique then if you desire to be really kind elegantly kind artistically kind why not seek the highest authorities on kindness and emulate their expert taste and method wherefore let me recommend to you the greatest examples of altruistic love past masters of sympathetic consideration whose kindness is directed by an inspired imagination two perfect exponents of the educated heart there are only two but i am sure you have known them the mother who sees her child as truly a part of herself and the true lover whose imagination is fired with romance in those two is most perfectly manifest the love which passeth understanding for ever unconsciously they demonstrate the radiant truth the heart hath its reasons which the reason knoweth not of ebook of have you an educated heart by gillette burgess

jacky and the Kid by Samuel Goldwyn.

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