The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-23
TRAITS OF PERSONS WHO ARE GIVEN
UP TO MlSANIHROPY.
No Plant Repays Cultivation Better Than
Good Naturc-vHhy 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 q large section Of
society allows it to run to waste, and in time it
evaporates and disappears. 1t is largely a
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 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 one can afford to be q misanthrope But
he rarest thing in life Is a well balanced
mind which possesses the faculty of introspec-
ton Men go through life without friends,
I'd wonder that they do not achieve the sue
their talents would justify; it rarely oc-
urs 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
lacked friendly help, or they met opposition
from some one they had offended without
cause.
SULLEN, SULKY BOY.
The i'll natured man was usually sullen,
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 a gain in his ill 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. 1t costs
him more exertion than it need have done if
he had had allies; but he is content to owe
nothing to any one.
To be n self made man, to owe his success
to his own exertions, suits his solitary nature.
He drives his plow through society, careless
Of what little frail plants he uproots by the
way. He is a positive, self-asserting indi-
vidual, and acquaintances avoid discussion
with him for the sake of a quiet life He will
be no party to the little harmless deceits by
which the polite people render life pleasant to
each other. He calls spade u spade, Jones
a bore and Smith n fool He has an unerring
eye for the detection of human weakness and
loves to lay it bare To appreciate and COM
mend virtue and merit strike him as namby
pamby; to put his finger in the hole which
can be found in every coat strikes him as
more worthy of n min Of intellect.
DIsAfroINTED MEN.
We laugh At Alce;te 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 Ale 2stes all round us. They
are mostly disappoi- tied men-men who have
made unfortunate marriages and have un-
happy homes; nm who have formed ex
aggerated opinion of their own genius, and
feel that the rid il not treating them
justly; men to whom plodding advancement
is too slow, and who are filled with envy al
the more rapid progress of their fellows
Molieres Alceste declared that it was the
bounden duty Of an honest man to tell every
one his faults.
Fears Of physical punishment usually deter
our modern Alcestes from b, ing as frank a:
| this; but they console themselves by speaking
i'll of every one behind their backs. The
higher the individual, the purer his character
the wider his popularity, the bitterer is theil
calunny. 1t is their joy and their pride Il
traduce those who by their station cannot re
| sent the assault They love to .circulata
| scandal about women who have no natura
protector; to seek out non-combatants, ant
stick knife in them; to select the weak, tn,
defenseless, the wounded and the bruised, t.
trample them .down.-San Francisco Chron
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