Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-29
nL.NATURED FoLK.
TRAITS OF PERSONS WHO ARE GIVEN
- UP TO, MlsANIHRoPY.

No Plant Repays Cultivation Better Thon
Good Nature-why Some Men FaiI-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 large section of
society allows it to run to waste, and in time 1t
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 cross grained men and women, and
after 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 one can afford to be misanthrope. But
the rarest thing In life is well balanced
mind which possesses the faculty Of introspec-
ton Men go through life without friends,
and wonder that they do not achieve the sue
cess their talents would justify; it rarely 90
ours to them to analyze the causes of their
failure; il they did, they would find that just
at particular juncture, when they were
about to seize fortune at the flood they
lacked friendly help, or they met opposition
from some one they had offended without
cause.
sULLET, sULKY BOY.
The i'll natured man was usually sulen.
sulky boy. He kept himself aloft from his
schoolfellows 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 be cultivated
it accordingly. As he grows to manhood he
finds that people are chary of crossing him
for fear of quarrel, and his opinion Of the
| policy of churlishness rises higher Bright
| men cannot be kept under, and if be pos
sesses capacity, he makes his way. IL costs
b, him more exertion than it need have done il
he bad had allies; but he is content TO owe
nothing to any one.
To be a self made man, TO owe bis success
to his own exertions, suits his solitary nature.
| He drives his pillow through society, careless
| Of what little frail plants he uproots by the
way. He is positive, elf-aSserting indi,
vidual, and acquaintance avoid discussion
with him for the sake of quiet life. Hewill
be no party to the little harmless decets by
|
each other He calls spade spade, Jones
a bore and Smith fool. He has an unerring
eve for the detection of human weakness, and
loves to lay it bare. To appreciate and com.
mend virtue and merit strike him as namby
PANTY; to put his finger in the hole which
can be found in every coat strikes him a
more worthy of a man Of intellect
DISAPPOINTED MEN.
| We laugh at Alceste when he declares that
he hates everybody and wants TO live in q
desert so as not to see a human face. But
there are lots of Alcestes all round us They
are mostly disappointed men-men who have
made unfortunate marriages and have un
| happy homes; men who have formed eI
aggerated opinions of their own genius. ant
| feel that the world is not treating then
Justly; men to whom plodding advancement
is too slow, and who are filed with envy O.
the more rapid progress of their fellows
Moliere's Alceste declared that it was tn.
bounden duty of an honest man TO tell every
one his faults.
Fears of physical punishment usually detel
our modern Alcestes from being as frank a
this; but they console themselves by speakip,
| Ill of every one behind their backs Tn
higher the individual, the purer bis character
the wider his popularity, the bitterer is thei
cahnny 1t is their joy and their pride 4
traduce those who by their station cannot re
sent the assault. They love to oirculat
scandal about women who have no natura
protector; TO seek out non-combatants, AM
stick knife in them; to select the weak, tn
defenseless, the wounded and the bruised, t.
trample them down.-San Francisco Chrcr
icle.