Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-25
UNCOMFORTABLE PEOPLE.
Persons Who Exist Solely for the Trial oI
Their Neighbors' Faith.

| Persons who Exist Solely for the Trial oi
Their Neighbors' Faith.
| They are those who never let you
| alone, or let you enjoy yourself in
| your own way, but intend and in
sist that you shall be happy in
| their way or mona; who want you to
drink coffee when you want to drink
tea; who insist that you shall wear
your hair plain when your pleasure Is
to have it banged; who speak to you
as IL you had committed some heinous
crime should you have the temerity to
have an opinion differing from theirs.
They question the correctness OF
your knowledge upon any subject I'M
der consideration, and argue the most
trifling points with fcrvor bofitting
the most weighty cause. Their opin-
ion upon art, literature. science, thcol-
ogy, in short, all human learning. Is
so exhaustless, their taste so cultivat-
ed, their code of ethics so just and
pure, that you, with your limited
ideas, are at once put to silence, and
they would fain impress you with the
belief that from their ultimatum there
Is no appeal.
Such people never let you appear at
your best; they have tho effect upon
you OF n moral torpedo; they make
you shrink into yourself, make you
ashamed of yourself. instead OF inspir-
ing you TO any endeavor worthy OF
yourself
know not whether these high and
mighty folk are not to be preferred to
those not more humble ones who
make no pretensions to culture OF any
sort. who in fact frown upon any thing
OF the sort, thinking it a waste OF time
and energy, but who are nevertheless
firmly OF the belief that their opinions
are the only ones worth having and
that knowledge will die with them.
Their uncomfortableness takes the
form OF differing from you on any
subject that may happen to be brought
up. partly from sheer obstinacy and
because they are constitutionally con-
| trary- minded.
1t matters not what your efforts may
be to please one OF this sort; you will
| meet with no favor. A CHEEKY good
morning" meets with no response,
and all your well-meant efforts to en-
| gage her In conversation brings forth
but monosyllabic replies, If, indeed,
| any at all.
You take particular pains to poach
| her an egg; she declares that IL is not
| fit to be eaten, she would rather have
| 1t boiled. Is her bacon boiled, she
would rather have it fried; the tea is
| too hot, the cocoa too cold, and so on,
ad tnfnitun. Do you suggest walk
or "A drive, she is sure it will rain. or
1t is too hot, too cold, too dusty or toe
something else,
| You plan a pleasure trip or n visit
TO n distant friend; she really can't
understand what pleasure you will ex.
pect in such place, or how you car
abide such and such people. She
never falls In with any OF your plans
or in any wise aids you to compass OF
fulfill them. She has never word O
cheer or praise for any effort, how
ever laudable its motive. BY some
strange perversity she seeks out thu
flaws and defects. Like "Iagon-was
1t "lagoP" have not my Shakespear,
by me-she is nothing If not critical
She performs the part of a wet blanke
in the house, chilling and dampeninl
ones enthusiasm in every thing. Sucl
II person, man or woman, is sad dis
enlargement, any thing but well
spring OF joy in house, smoke to the
eyes and vinegar to the teeth.
All such people, taking them collect
ivoly now, are permitted to exist fol
the trial If our faith and tho perfect
Ing of our patience. They are tn
means of n wholesome discipline o.
our road TO sainthood God grant tina
we falter not and fail not before W
reach that blessed consummation
But rs for 70 and me, gentle reader
let us not lend ourselves to be sue
ladders to elevate others, let ther
work out their own salvation. Philo
delphid Press.