The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-17

A Word OF Advice TO the Careless Young
caieaeo Lelgg.
Old man Knosey, OF West street, comes
about as near being an angel inpantoloons
as Chicago flesh and blood can hope tobe-
come, so far as intentions 60; but In spite
Of tho purity Of bis motives, the euileless
old man is in hot water q good share of
the time, simply because he has no such q
thing as tact in his nature, and will persist
in rubbing the hair the wrong way when.
ever he comes in contact with people. He
means well, but no matter how. hard he
tries to be soGiable, he is sure to put his
foot in 1t. He has no guile, or any Of the
other society essentials about him, and so
whenever anything comes into his head
hc blurts it right out without ceremony,
regardless OF circumstances and surround.
ings. The great fallacy Of his life is that il
Is sociability to say things that should be
left unsaid altogether, and ask questions
about things that can In no way concern
him.
Introduce him to stranger, and within
ten minutes he will ask the price Of the
mans clothing, article by article, from his
hat TO his boots. II ieweiry is visible, he
will want to know whether It is pure gold
or only washed" and whether 1t was
purchased new or at the pawnbrokers.
He win also want 70 know 4 the mans
watch keeps good time, and II he hasn't
been getting his pantaloons dyed. When
the conversational possibilities In that
direction become exhausted, he will make
the strangers name pretext for asking
II he isn't related to a family OF the same
name in such and such q place, and then,
very likely, he will proceed to remark that
one OF this very same family had to leave
the neighborhood between two days for
stealing sheep, and that another had been
thrown out OF the church for robbing the
contribution box.
He will ask doctor II he ever hurried
anybody out Of the world by way Of ex-
pertinent, and catechiae druggist as 10
how frequently he has made fatal blund.
ers in filling prescriptions. He will tell q
lawyer that he can't understand how the
tricks OF the profession can be reconciled
to the tenets OF Christianity, and will ask
q speculating deacon the difference be-
tween dealing in the options and other
kind Of gambling. He never hesitates to
intimate to the infatuated mother Of an
uncomely infant that he has seen much
prettier children than her babe, and then
the poor man will lie awake all night
shortly aiterward trying to make out why
her husband has foreclosed q mortgage on
his home. Hewill doze and nod in bis
pew at church, and then feel panied. when
he discerns that his pastor does not clasp
his hand with reciprocal warmth.
In visiting neighbor he walks In with
muddy boots, sets his umbrella in the cor
ner TO drip on the carpet, leans back in
his chair, mars up the rugs with bis boot
heels, soils the wall paper with his hair
oil, spits tobacco juice on the stove, and
yet the poor man cannot understand why
they do not press him to come again, and
why, after all his efforts to be sociable,
they should treat him conlly. He tres
hard to be cordial to al, audhe endeayors,
most unselfshly, 10 befrieDdly, but cannot
succeed; and all simply through lack Of
discretion and want ottacs.
Young man, II you want oslide through
the world easily, study tact before you do
Greek.