Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
Some Of the Different Kinds OF Men.
DY SOL. N. LEE.

EY SOL. NJ LEE.
Men are more alike than women. Their,
| seems to be certain laws or fixed rule
| which regulate the former. while the lat
| ter may be said to constitute an infinite
| eonqlomeration of varieties.
THE THOROUGH GOING BUSINESS MAN
| is rather an amusing study. His notes
never 60 to protest-in fact, he seldom
gives any He is not likely to be popular
with schoolgirls or imaginative young
ladies-there is not enough of the ''fret
lance" about him. A woman does not
like to receive sprawly letter on common
paper, commencing yours of the IA
instant came to hand this date" If you
chance to be extravagantly dressed, your
intense business friend regards you re-
provingly, as one who would say, Cone
half the expense of that suit of clothes
and that watch and chain ought to be at
interest" When travelling on business he
will sit up all night to save 50, and upon
returning home subscribe $40 Cat the ear
nest solicitation Of wealthy female pa
tron) to the Infant Hottentot Linen Asso-
citation. He casts his bread upon the
waters, knowing that it will come back
again after many days. When your thor
ough going business man tells you, with
look of placid GOODNESS, that he cannot
possibly accommodate you in the matter
of that 'littlc loan,' you know it were
easier for camel to pass through the
needles eye Tor point, for that matterl
than for you to accomplish the aforesaid
'little loan" Order is his first law, and
he never fails to impress the fact upon all
about him. "Mr. Jones will be in at nine
O'clock" the polite clerk informs you,
with look, as much as to say, eff you
have any loose change to bet against it,
I'm your man" If John, the coachman,
were to drive around fifteen minutes late
he would do so with his official head un
der his arm. They are little tedious and
prosy, these systematic people, yet when
one is waiting at the bank for raise
that will save him from bankruptcy, he
appreciates the prompt arrival OF the
cashier. | wonder whether these regular
people do not wish they could lie in bed
n halt hour later now and then, just by the
way of variety?
THE UNLUCKY MAN
deserves pity. Eeverything he touches
miscarries. He works hard, but does not
become rich. He sows, but gathers not.
The Rethschlds are said to give unlucky
men wide berth in business, perhaps on
the supposition that lack of Judgment,
rashness or undue caution, inattention
and want Of capacity are the prime causes
of SO nlany being unsuccessful. | have
often wondered how my friend Tomkins
or Smith could afford to spend SO much
money on SO limited business. The So
luton has appeared under the disastrous
heading, Failure" The unlucky man
is fatalist He believes that some men
are sure to prosper, while with others it is
impossible. He is generally involved,
breathing an atmosphere of debt and diff
ficulty. Being looked upon at the banks
as a little "shaky," he is sometimes una
bic to effect loan that would save him
temporarily from ruin.
THE ERECT AND POSITIVE MAN
is great nuisance. What he does know
he knows with such an intensity of GER
tainty that the weight of tho evorl"eting
hills could not press out one iota OF his
stock in trade. He is essentially man OF
"details. Regardless Of the opinion OF
others, he asserts his own with an air OF
infallibility. There should be dot over
his head, that the world might mark him
at a glance as in reality a little 81" He
is the mortal foe of argument and logic.
Ideas petrify in his brain, and occasional
ly have to be pounded or dug out, IN
which event he lays them away in sort
of charnel- house, hoping they may some
time come into use. Opposition lashes
him into fury. els dogmatlc, unm-
aginative, dictatorial and generally nate
full.
THE DYsPEPTIC MAN
must receive passing notice. 1 knew
man who often ate twice the average din-
ner, or, in other words, two mems DIN
pers. and afterwards made sad lamenta-
ton that God continued to punish him
with that terrible dyspepsia" That man
tried all climes, but his magnificent appc-
tite followed him. Three times day he
threatened to Course God and die, but
did neither-dont think he had the nerve.
Two hundred and fifty times, while labor
ing with his pains, he has said 10 me:
"Ifavc you had the dyspepsia? hnaiiy
came to answer NO. in business tone.
"You cannot appreciate my sufierlngs;
you do not sympathize with me, he would
reply with an agonized air. My dear
fellow" I remarked, one day, lit would
take too much time; pray let me make a
monthly deposit of sympathy for you to
Check ON Since that time, In my pres
ence, he has eaten ana sulleIed III si'n .rl,
Your dyspeptic is thorn In his wile
flesh, the terror of his children ana ser
wants and bore to his friends. us
peeyishness is of the pugnacious order'
and seeks relief in war OF words. lie
is not an agreeable companion; everything
he does is afflicted with that yellow cast
of his disease. When his suiferings. are
not the result of continued indlscretions'
he deserves genuine pity.
THE sANGUINE MAN
is alternately IN ecstacy and despair. ne
enters upon project with the enthusiasm
of Young lover. Everything looks
bright before him. He plans forward
movement, leaving no loop-hole LOT re.
treat; often wins victory from sheer
lack of caution-his self-conhdence
sweeping like a tidal.wave ever every
form of Opposition When reverses come
they are double defeat because unpro.
vided for and unexpected. Temperament
is his master. The lessons OF experience
are unheeded, save for the time be,hg.
He r4oochets from good to bad luck ana on
to good. his face always red with antlcipa-
ton or purple with unforeseen disas,e YER
Your sanguine man is not properly pal
anooa p -, undertaking requiring deep