I think I know what kindness is tonight.
It is a woman standing by a light.
—Joseph Andrew Galahad.
The Red-Cross idea that children should be encouraged to breed white mice in order that they might be handed over to doctors for the purpose of medical research, and which recommended these white mice, particularly, on the grounds that they so endeared themselves to the children, can only be paralleled by a story General Baden-Powell once told at a Boy Scout meeting. There was a boy, he related, who went to bed one night without having done his "kind act." Just as he was beginning to feel rather miserable about it, he heard a mouse in a trap in the room.
"What do you think he did?" asked the General, and the audience promptly replied:
"Let it out."
"Not at all," replied the General; "he hadn't done his kind act: he thought of the cat."
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life