Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-21
FALSE KINDNESS.

"Now," said q shrewd man Of bust
ness, who had just consented 70 receive
q new employe, "now tell me what ais
him 2" The person who wal the subject
of the conversation was not present;
and the friend who had negotiated for
him looked Disconnected at the question.
But the other persisted. "Come, 1
have engaged to employ your protsge-
but I mustknow whatails him. Something
is wrong With everybody. What ails
him ." After some hesitation the rec
admitted q fault in the per-
son-and q fault, too, which might
have led to his rejection with most pso-
pie. every well," said the employer,
"'I shall try him, as I said. Now I
know what's the matter with him, and
how to take him. You may only say to
him that twice is the limit to which 1
shall let him transgress."
Something does "sil' almost every
body and the safest and proper way is
to be honest in stating it. Aud often,
with this knowledge, we a safely deal
sven with q faulty person, because we
know how to take him." Unreservsd
recommendations are uncandid and
dangerous. Yet nothing is more COM
mon than letters Of recommendation,
given upon importantly, and sometimes
even at a single request, which open
to the bearers privileges which the
writer's Of the letters would themselves
never think Of giving to them.
A portion Of the evil is averted, by
the fact that the general run Of letters
Of in PRODUCTION have no more weight
with people of experience than the
words " Your obedient servant" at the
end of a letter. Yet, this is q pity.
Words should mean what they purport
to convey, for everybody is not in the
secret that words mean nothing. Con-
sequently the best hearted and most
kindly people are grievously imposed
upon. We shall come to Chinese polite
ness at last. In the Celestial Empire it
is politeuess on your part to entrsat a
friend to come and spend a month with
you. But it is gross ill.bresding on bis
side to take even an invitation to dinner
in earnest.
Endorsements for applications for
| Office arc smoug common false tokens.
In this way many poor official is ere-
.,ed, and the public is %wretchedly
served, from the facility with which in
competen,s can procure credentials.
But perhaps the nuisance Of bad domes-
tics is the worst result Of false kind
ness. A person is dismissed for incapa-
city, or discharged because intolersble,
but is at the same time furnished with a
character" or preference" This
opens a new field for the iueorrigible and
intolerable to perpetuate their disa-
greeable practices, or to annoy their
employers with actual viciousness. 10
q recent number Of an English paper
which lies before US, q correspondent
complain, that a child nurse commune
Gated an infectious disease to a family
of eight children. She came upon the
recommendation Of her former mistress,
who c~haritably wished to secure for her
" good food and change Of air." which
the poor thing could not 6ud in the
home to which her discharge sent her.
So instead of keeping her in her own
house, or giving her the means to take
suitable board, her mistress generously
furnished her with a Character to
obtain a new place of service.
Dishonest or incorporate persons are
often foisted upon new victims by the
tacit consent if not open assistance of
their former employers. It is hard to
pursue an offender for one fault, or even
for one bad habit which is of possible
amendment. But truth is truth, and we
can all do much better by q friend, or
an employe, if we know what ails
him." Csndor is always best in the
long run. And there can be no true
Kindness in falsehood, written, spoken
or acted. The suppression of the truth
is often equivalent to the utteranco Of
falsehood.