Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-20
AN EsSkNTIAL FEATURE.
The Suriy Girl snd the snappish Young
Man.
Written for the GLoBR.REruptrc


Man.
Written for the GLoBR. RErupttc.
"Politeness is the grease of human life
without 1t the nge OF daily intercours,
turns heavilf, am | would. II | were a
teacher, impress the necessity of courtesy,
OF friendly demeanor, of respectful bearin :
Just as thoroughly as any other essential
feature OF success in any line OF life.'
Mr. Joseph Howard makes this renArk,
In The Boston Herald, as the summing up
of dissertation on the surly girl in a tele
graph office. remarks ON that cal RI
cious parsonage are exceedingly just and
timely. An impolite person, of either sex,
is scourge upon society, a creature who
deserves no success and will have none.
The surly girl in store or telegraph
Office snubs everybody but her young man.
At sight of him her face beams like "a thou
saRl-candle power electric light and her
voice drops into tones As mellow as the notes
OF fairy orchestra The young man is
hattered of course. 1t gratti1s his vanity
to know that she has smiles for none but
him. He is not sufficiently cairvoy ant to
see her As she will be in tho future, when the
enchanting illusions of marriage have beeu
scattered by the direful realities, sour,
embittered and lavish with her frowns even
to him. He doesn't know that an impolits
person is always selfish. He will find it out
later, and lie will even wish that he were
dead.
The snappsh young man is quito as fro
guent in pubic places As the surly gil and
he is just a. hateful. He browbeats timid
women, snubs old people, and bul,ies every
body that he isn't afraid Of He has a fine
time making p,ople miserable. He has
pleasant words only for his sweetheart aud
the girls Of her set. Tuere is a day of reck.
onns ahead for him. too--a day when he
will be old. souchy, chronically eros hated
by his wife and feared by his children.
When he dies every body related to him
will be relieved, and possibly rejoiced. His
selfishness will fruit into an abundant crop
of tyranny and terrorism. Love will desert
him and Patience will have none Of him
He will pass out of world that his presence
has cursed, hating every body, himself worse
than all. He will have had rich experiences
In reaping whirwinds from the wind that he
has sown.
Politeness means kindness 1t is the out
j
consists not alone in hat-tipping and Tur-
veydrop bows 1t is sharing one another's
burdens, respecting the misfortunes and
sorrows of oilers; in short, unselfshness.
Politeness comes from the heart, when it is
the genuine article. 1t Is the sum OF all the
virtues. Even a spurious sHin-deep po-
liteness is to be commended. 1t hel ps make
the earth less bitter.
As ali investment for material returns,
politsness pays. Tue reverse of it always
entails dead loss. If the snappish young
man was accImulating desirable property
by ill-treating the people he comes in con
tact with, there would he some excu.e for
his ugly conduct. But he is really
impoverishing himself. Nobody ever
grew rich, or great, or happy by
snarling through life. What if the foolish
and malicious and stupid do aggravate you.
CrUsSneSS will not maze them " ise or sensi-
ble. Neithe. will it make the path of the
dispenser thereof any easier to tread The
soft answer is a fortune in every mans
pocket, or rather in his mouth il he only
knew it. Short words butter no pars-
nips.
1t seems TO be the law that we get what
We give out in this world. If We give out
rage, irritation, peevishneSs we are dead
sure to have ii return TO US, sonnet lines i'm
mediately, and sometimes after many DAYS.
Gentle speech is great lubricater of the
wheels Of life. 1t falls upon the soul like
dew upon the flower. It brings back sweet
blossoms and good II litage. No capital un
der the sun will eur n such IA large per cent
age a. kindness. And then, it costs nothing
The more we give of it the more we have
The soil 1t grows upon is graf 5ful, and yields
abuniantly when Gu tivated.
II men and women young and old only
knew that every time they give expr ,ssion
TO bad tember or irritability they are open
ing the way for gang Of little demons to
drop into their souls and abide there they
would hesitate long before letting the first
demon have his say. Every cross grained
speech has procession Of his kind behind
1t. They are ali ready to walk out to the
end Of the tongue and jump off at the first
opportunity. They are running wild in the
brain, stirring up all the dlsagreeable emo
tions they can find there, and introducing
several hundred of their own manu- acture
The impolite man is the unhappy man.
He II a seething urn Of iil-temper within
and a bubb,ing torrent of wrath without.
He does great amount OF what is called
standing in his own light" in fact, he
does 50 much OF it that he never sees his
own light at all. He is living in darkness,
the darkness OF ignorance. He kills his
own success by his curt speech, and then
wonders why he never has any luck.
II the polite man hasn't dollar in his
pocket he is still rich. He has fund o.
ktndnes within him, and it ATTRACTS kind
ness toward him. He can never be isolated.
for he feels hlms IL akin TO the great family
OF humanity. He is, ind ed, the righteous,
who will never lie forsaken.
Mr.. Howari's advice is wise. Teach
children, teach youth, yes, teach the un
taught grown p-ople IL you can, the price
less value OF courtesy, of self. control, OF
patience IN short, Of politeness. Whatever
scholarship may be lacking. let not pe iiteness
lie omitted Without 1t any man or woman
goes through life like an Ishrnael Surly
GIRL you are lying up an endless store Of
unhappine's for yourself every day. Snap.
pish Young man, you will have some din.
cult harvesting 10 do later on
MARIE ST. JOHN
NEw YoRK, Sept. II.