Smyrna times., 1872-12-18
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Sensitive Folk.

Wooden people are unpleasant enough to
deal with. but sensitive folk are more 50. 1t |
the one cannot be stirred by any thing short of
an earthquake or ten-pOunder, the others are
always on the quiver like animated aspens, and
are as easy to start as young doe III the
braken. You break yourself to pieces against
the stolidty of the one, but you know no rest
or peace under the fretful animation of the
other. Wooden people offend your sensibifi-
ties and wound your mortal vitality SO to
speak but sensitive folk insult your reason
and diSquIet your common sense. The first
are like granite barriers, through which no
passage can be made by the ordinary wayIarer.
The last are pools of quicksilver, which scat
ter at a touch and which breath can set in
motion Between the two, you OF the strong
pulse and healthy brain have hard time of
: it; but on the whole you fnd your very
sensitive folk the more difficult and the most
disturbing
Sensitive folk are always people Of small
self esteem and an inOTJlnate love OF appro-
baton; generally, too, they are people OF
e large affections aud vivid imagination. The
. facility with which they can be bent, and their
I capacity tor being snubbed, are on par. Nc
/. shying horse is more convinced that quiet
heap of stones by the wayside is something o
which to be afraid, than your sensitive folk are
. assured you mean to slight and humllate then
IN IN when you mean only to do them a kindness, o.
perhaps mean nothing at all You ask them t
:. dinner on Tuesday with the Smiths and the.
Is are wounded beyond measure that you did no
a invite them on Wednesday with the Browns
,fI You neglect to introduce them to the Robin
be sons, ana they quarrel with you on the groun'
m that you knew they wanted to be introduced
Is the Robinsons, and this was just the Opportu
e; nifty; or you introduce them in a manne
P that displeases them, and bring forward, q
rol the link of relation, the very circumstance {
all their condition they desire to keep hlddeI
he You speak in terms of cOmmseratiOn OF poo
i've Mrs. =, who has just lost her favorite chilC
n5 and they think you cast slur on their grief,
hS i their first mourning for their father. Yo
md praise young Maulstck's picture in ii
70 academy; and they feel pang of sensiti'
ri, jealousy that you do not include in your pra
cen their magazine article of last mouth. If yC
.rt express your affection for the Does, you imp
the want of affection for them-the ROes. they C;
III. never join hands in any company whatsoeve
Re, or sing chorus with the rest. They mu
in: always be individualized separated, al
and ad specially chosen and if you do as they deslr
,sip even then they may trip-let your walk be ev
we'd so careful-and offend the sensibllities you s
tor ! or yourself to soothe.
hip; Of that great dignity which is not cas-
i as offended because it knows its own position
tru- keeps it, sensitive folk understand nothir
rent Reflections as they are of every other person
Sas s%d face-echoes of every other person voice
,ises they have not centralized point of self-suppO
t. to but quiver without balance, according to
fr E.r Of hand that is laid them. They may be peO
ned of superior attainments and undOubted soc
10 status, but they can be made miserable by
ice; lice; affected contempt Of an gnoramus; and
r the paltry airs of a parvenu are as flies in tn
ed IN ointment and poison in their wine. Women
~ be mature age and dignifed surrOundings-tl
a0 saeS angrily resent, or flush and cowerebefore,
oGys. sE,a. pert ggge of knot of silly girls. Men
pro wealth and solid character-they burn W
'SO'o sensitive shame, or as sensitive wrath, wi
.Sin. Of a puppy in the hunting field shows them
o tie way with an air, or makes feint Of overlO
~ pfs 'aSr ing them on the steps of the club To be
sPeS right on a statement, to be corrected on a II
ID re: ter of fact, is, to them, to be made unreas
'eha" ably angry, or as unreasonably humiliat
They have been known to become the un
---- giving enemies of really quite innocent
for benign people for no worse sin.
AS friends standing too close for the pu