The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-07
Thin Skins.

No doubt SensitivenesS is a mark of
a refined temperament, but in view of
the roughness of everyday life, we can
but think that too much of it is u posi-
tive misfortune.
The sensitive man is never thorough
ly happy.
He is too thin-skinned to bear with
equanimity the temperature of the
world at large. He is always getting
sighted by somebody. He is always
having his feelings hurt. Some wrong
is being continually done him. He is
always left out when he should be
counted in, and uice versa.
If Mrs. A., who is near-sighted. and
would not recognize her own grand
father three doors of, meets him on the
street and does not bowie is slight
ed! Mrs. A. has cut him! If jenkins
has party, and invites dozen friends,
and leaves our thin-skinned man out,
he feels himself aggrieved. If his next.
door neighbor has an attack of dyspep-
STA, and wears a long face in conse-
quence, our sensitive man is sure there
is something wrong. Somebody has
been misrepresenting him!
He is always in trouble. As child
his nose will be perpetually out OF
joint; as young man his teachers will
be in a conspiracy against him to pre-
vent him from gaining the first honors;
and when it comes to falling in love,
and going counting, Heaven preserve
him! for if there is manageable man
within ten miles of his "beloved," he
will be sure to think she favors him.
Your thin-skinned man is always
taking hints.
The old adage says: "If the saddle
fits you, buckle the girths."
He is continually buckling girths. II
anybody laughs behind his back, they
are laughing at him. If he has long
nose, and noses are mentioned, he is
sure he is attacked. If he comes from
poor family, and anybody mentions
poverty, he is ready to flare up-they
are INVITING him with his humble origin!
His friends are a source of unhappi-
ness to him, for they must talk of some.
thing, and who can manage converse.
ton so skillfully as not to run against
some of the angles of sensitive man ?
The minister means him, he feels
sure, when he is preaching about
special sinners, and consequently he re-
fuses to subscribe fifty dollars to that
worthy's salary.
Almost every newspaper article he
reads hits him, and he is ready to beard
the editor and challenge the author in
behalf of his wounded feelings.
In short, he leads a life of it, and ev.
cry humane person must pity him.
Time will, in some measure, wear
away extreme sensitiveness, but it is a
long, hard process, and if any of our
readers are born with thick skins, let
them thank fortune for it.
For it is q fact that this world will
90 on just as it has gone on for ages,
totally unmindful ofindividual feelings,
needless of crushed spirits and broken
hearts, careless of lost happiness, in
different to the joys or sorrows of its
inhabitants.
And the man who is never sighted,
who never takes hints, who is never
downcast because of evil doors, who
can 90 on secure in his own sense of
right doing, and receive no wounds of
feeling or sensibility, is the man whose
days will be many, whose sleep will be
quiet, whose liver will never require
pills or bitters.
Happy individual!-Kate Thorn, in
N. Y. Weekly.