The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-06
aactless Wiseacres Who Are to BE Stunned
Gouaral PriDeinIes.

AactIesS Wlseacres Who Are TO BE summed
on General Principles.
Do you know 1 cordially despise
those people who are always happen
ing along just as you are accomplish
ing some little task in your own inge-
NOUS way. and suggesting a much
easier and better method than the one
you are utilizing. l don't know OF any
class of people that exasperates me
more.
1t would make some difference If the
suggestions were of value, or If the
suggesters knew what they were talk
ing about, or had ever had any expert
ence in the matters, which they never
have in eleven cases out of ten. They
simply have a mania for suggesting.
You are shoveling snow from the
sidewalk. One of them will happen
along, watch you moment with SUI
perior air of wisdom, and suggest that
if you would change hands with the
shovel every other time. it would be
much easier as well as more rapid
method. You have tried that way and
found it nuisance; but you haven't
the heart to say scat least haven't
and so you shovel in that manner un-
til the suggester, with feeling that
he is being fondly blessed for his
thoughtfulness, is out of sight Then
you go on in the old way. l have no
ticed, by the way. that these suggest
ers seldom practice upon their own
sidewalks in any manner.
Then. you are busy writing at your
desk. as though your life depended on
your Keeling out four feet of copy in
four consecutive minutes. and the
fendish suggester, thoughtful only of
your comfort and health, watches you
a few minutes and suggests that If
your light were a little higher or
little lower, or about so much more to
one side or the other. or shaded lit
tie differently. it would be great i'm
provement. What can you do but
change it. and cringe for fear that he
will think of something else to sug-
gest?
You are driving a nail You mangle
your thumb with poorly directed
blow of the hammer, and while you
are hopping around with your thumb
in your mouth. and trying to crowd
down the bad words which come we'll
ing swiftly up for utterance, the sug-
gester suggests that if you had
grasped the nail in such and such
manner, the hammer would have had
no chance to accomplish its iendish
work. 1t is so comforting at such a
time, and it goes so far toward assuag-
ing the pain!
You are just attempting difficult
shot at billiards, have figured out the
most practicable one. when, just when
you are nerving yourself for the effort,
the suggester starts forward anxious
ly. exclaiming: why. that isn't your
best shot! You'd much better play on
the dark-red ball first. very thin, with
the English on the left side, come to
the cushion about this point. and car
ON on the white bail"
OF course. there is nothing for you
to do but try it. And don't you almost
always miss under such circumstances?
do.
No matter what you are doing or
how you are doing it, the suggester
always happens around, watches you
minute or two, and volunteers his
new and Improved but unwelcome
method.
hate suggester. on general pi4n-
ciples. Some of them mean well
enough. but the most of them are med
dlers and fault-6nders pure and SIM
pie. Is it not so? Am not right? o
my brothers! 0 my sisters!-C. N.
Hood, in Puck.