The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-19

In order that they may mot be vexed bv
seeing the blood run; certain dishes
never can be had It sll 1t the
table where they sit, because the condi-
ments, such Is garlic, are disgusting t.
them. whether desirable to Others or not /:
and certain vegetables must never be
cooked IN the house under any circum-
stances, because they cannot and will mot
endure their smell. And for the rest-the
back seat In the coach, for instance why.
it makes them sick to drive ths other way.
and that disturbs their whole day. What
1t 1t makes others sickf They would
stare with afiiazei,cnt at the ideat what Is
that them they cannot .affhr1 to be sick
If It does: Evidently, If iineonsciously.
theft bHslness. here ID with ntmber .otie'
and Hot two, three; ahd f8uf: while Id
to the little ;access8ries Of Comfort and
pride. they will tell you, If you presume
to Question, that they are things which
nobody else thinks of; that they are not
set apart for others, because Others are NOT
sensitive enough to appreciate and desire
such refinements; and in the matter of re-
ceiving the most attention and the chief
consideration, certainly that is not their
fault If people choose to pay it to them ;
others must make themselves agreeable.
too.
Too! A brief word, but it expresses a
eved ~ these peo ou means NJ se th Se
they ars ali thsy should he, that they have a~s
arg night ito to 4. they &C., and that others he; may
what thsy ao not Want fSsHssiv I've u'e !;
means that they afe fist, and others cotae
afterward; that they acquire their right
and their possession by. hitch the saRle
prescriptiHe virtue is That OF the, divine
right Of kings; they cannot say Why it is,
only that it is. Heaven gave the nature
with these demands, Heaven obliges 9th.
ers to satisfy these demands.
Perhaps all this does not do so much
harm as at first appears to the rest of us
we others who are not the selfish ones,
who have none of this sublime sclf-wor.
ship, and make not one of these prepos-
ferrous claims. For we, at any rate, who
live under the spell, are in no danger Of
being like our tyrants, not only by rea.
son Of any dislike and disgust we may
feel, but through sheer impossibility Of
getting chance to do likewise. It is 4
fact as universally to be observed as any
of the material phenomena Uf nature, thai
. selfish mother make an unselfish
daughter, while its reverse is very nearly
as true; for if an unselfish mother does
not always make q selfish daughter, it il
because the beauty of unselfishness IL CON
tagious, and not because the daughter hal
not her chance of becoming selfish, and
gratifying her own desires to the eiclu
sion OF others. The selfish mother; who
exacts everything, leatts nothing fof thu
that time her habits Of Surrender dire s;
entirely formed that she has forgotten her
self, anti strives only fbf the happlnes.
d some one else-itused to be her mother
and now it is another. And in reality sh,
il far the happier of the two, for tn,
pleasure of pleasing ones self can neve
last beyond the moment of the receipt O
the pleasure, but the pleasure of pleasing
others lasts for days and years, and carrie
on its good work to be added to tho goo,
work Of the eternities.-Harpcr's Bazaar