Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-18
ILL-NATURED FOLK.
TRAITS OF PERSONS WHO ARE GIVEN
UP TO MISANTHROPY.

No Plant Repays Cultivation Better Than
Good Nature-why Some Men Fail-A
Selfish Boyhood - disappointed Men.
Modern Alcestes.
No plant repays cultivation better than
good nature There is no lack Of kindness IN
this world OF ours. but quite a large section OF
society allows it 10 run to waste, and in tImelt
evaporates and disappears. 1t IS largely
matter Of education and habit. Spoiled chill
dren are allowed to get into temper when
they do not get what they want They grow
up into crusS-grained men and women, and
after a time they lose the power Of controlling
their Grabbed instincts. Men Of well balanced
minds are taught sooner or later that we are all
more or less dependent on each other, and that
no ons can afford TO he a Inisanthrope But
the rarest thing in life Is a well balanced
mind which possesses the faculty OF introspec-
ton Men 90 through life without friends,
and wonder that they do not achieve the sue
cess their talents would Justify; il rarely oc-
ours to them to analyze the causes of their
failure: if they did, they would find that just
at a particular juncture, when they were
about TO seize fortune at the flood, they
I
from some one they had offended without
cause.
4 SCLLEN. SULKY BOY.
The i'll natured man was usually sullen,
sull,v boy. He kept himself aloft from his
srboOlfeIlows. He was morOse in his family.
and possessed such a capacity for making
| himself disagreeable that he was promptly
/ obeyed and waited upon for peace sake. He
saw gain in his i'll temper and he cultivated
/ it accordingly. As he grows to manhood he
| finds that people are chary Of crossing him
| FOR fear Of a quarrel, and his opinion Of the
policy Of churlishness rises higher. Bright
men cannot be kept under, and if he pos
sesses capacity. he makes his way. II costs
him more e,ertion than it need have done If
he had hal allies: but he is content to owe
nothing to any one.
To be a self made man. to owe his success
10 his own exertions, suits his solitary nature.
He drives his plow through society, careless
Of what little frail plants he urrOots by the
way He is a positive. sclf-asserting indi-
vidual, and acquaintance avoid discussion
with him for the sake If quiet life. He will
be no party to the little harmless dcccits by
which the polite people render life pleasant tc
each other. He calls a spade spade, Jones
a bore and Smith fool. He has AN unerrine
eve for the detection OF human weakness. and
loves 10 lay it bare To appreciate and com
mend virtue and merit strike him as mainly
pamby: 10 put his finger in the hole which
can be found in every coat strikes him a
mora worthy of man of intellect.
DISAPPOINTED MEN.
We laugh at Alceste when he declares tha
he hates everybody and wants to live in
desert 50 rs not to see u human face. Blu
there are lots OF AlceSteS ali round Us. The
are mostly disappointed meII-men who hav'
made unfortunate marriages and have un
happy homes: men who have formed ex
aggerated opinions of their own genius, an
foel that the world Is not treating then
Justly; men to whom plodding advancement
is too slow, and who are filed with envy a
the more rapid progress OF their fellows
Molieres Aiceste declared that it was tn
boundeu duty Of an honest man 70 tell ever
one his faults
Fears of physical punishment usually dets
our modern Alcestes from being Is frank 1
this: but they console themselves by speakin
ill of every one behind their backs. II
higher the individual, the purer his characte
the wider his popularity, the bitterer Is the
calumny 1t is their joy and their pride
; traduce those who by their station cannot r
sent the assault. They love to circula
] scandal about women who have no natur
prutector: to seek out non-combatants, al
sti,k a knife in them: 10 select the weak, Il
dsIenseleSs, the wounded and the bruised,
1 trsmple them down-San Francisco Chro
:cle.