Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-07-05

of the pond lilies. You take me to the stalls
and kennels where you keep your fine stock,
and here are the Durham cattle and the Cor
don settlers, and the high stepping steeds by
paving and neighing, the only language they
can speak, asking for harness or saddle, and
a short turn down the road Then we &c
back to the house, and you get me In the
right light and show me the Ken
sets and the Berstadts on the wall.
and take me into the music room,
and show me the bird cages, the canaries in
the bay window answering the robins in the
tree tops, Thank you'll never enjoyed my
self more In the same length of time. Now,
why do we not do that way in regard to the
characters Of others, and show the bloom
and the music and the bright fountainsi No.
We say come along and let me show you
that mans character. Here Is a green
scummed frog pond, and there's a filthy eel
lar, and guess under that hedge there must
be black snake. Come, and let US for an
hour or two regale ourselves with the nui-
sances. Oh, my friends better cover up the
faults and extol the virtues, and this habit
once established Of universal friendliness win
become as easy as it Is this morning for a
syringa TO food the air with sweetness, as
easy as It will be further on In the season
for a quail to whistle up from the
grass When we hear something bad about
somebody whom we always supposed to be
good, take out your lead pencil and say; Let
me seel Before / accept that baleful story
against that mans character, will take off
from It twenty-five per cent. for the habit Of
exaggeration which belongs to the man who
first told the story; then l will take of
twenty-five per cent. for the additions which
the spirit Of gossip in every community has
put upon the original story. Then | will
take off twenty-five per cent. from the fact
that the man may have been put into cir
cumstances of overpowering temptation. So
have taken of seventy-6ve per cent But
have not heard his side Of the story at all,
and for that reason l take off the remaining
twenty-five per cent" Excuse me, sir, don't
believe a word Of it.
DEFECTIVE MAXIM
But here comes in a defective maxim, so
often quoted: "Where there is so much
smoke there must be some fire. Look at all
the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro
Queer of vaccination; and the smoke around
Columbus, the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and
Calico, and Paul, and John, and Christ, and
tell me where was the firel That is one of
the Satanic arts to make smoke without fire
SANDER, like the world, may be made out Of
nothing. If the Christian, fair minded com
mon sensical spirit in regard to others pre-
dominated in the world, we should have the
millennium in about six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion, COW and leopard lying
down togetherl Nothing but the grace Of
God can ever put us into such habit Of
mind and heart as that. The whole tendency
Is in the opposite direction. This is the way
the world talks; put my name on the back
Of . mans note, and had to pay 1t, and will
never again put my name on the back Of any
mans note. gave beggar ten cents, and
five minutes after I saw him entering liquor
store to spend it, Twill never again give a
cent to a beggar. helped that young man
start in business, and 10, after a while, he
came and opened a store almost next door to
me, and stole my customers. l will never
again help young man start in business ]
trusted in what my neighbor promised to do,
and he broke his word, and the Psalmist was
right before he corrected himself, for all
men are liars" So men become Suspicious
and saturnine and selfish, and at every addi
tional wrong done them they put another
layer on the wall Of their exclusiveness, and
another bolt to the door that shuts them out
from sympathy with the world. They get
cheated out of a thousand dollars, or misin-
teFpreted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and
higher goes the wall, and faster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock others
out, they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up to find themselves imprisoned
in dastardly habit. No friends to others,
others are no friends to them. There's an
island half way between England, Scotland
and Ireland, called the Isle Of Man, and the
seas dash against all sides of it, and l am told
fhoE tbara IL No mara loryalxy nlora than that
Isle of Man; but when man becomes insular
in his disposition, and cuts himself OFF from
the main land of the worlds sympathies, he
is despicable, and all around him is an Allan
tic ocean of selhshness. Behold that Isle Of
Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by divine
regeneration, got right toward God and hui
manity, and you start out to practice my
text: "a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by all forms of
appropriate salutation. Have you noticed
that the head isso poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give nod of recognitiOnl To
swing the head from side to side, as when it
is wagged in derison, is unnatural and IN
pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo
but to drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little exertion that all day
long and every day you mightpractice it with
out the least semblance Of fatigue. So also
the structureof the hand indicates hand shak.
ing; the knuckles not made so that the fingers
can turn out, but so made that the fingers
can turn in, as in clasping hands; and the
thumb divided from and set aloof from the
fingers, so that while the fingers take your
neighbours hand on one SIDE the thumb takes
it on the other, and pressed together all the
faculties Of the hand give emphasis to the
-,
hand urge US to hand shaking
BE KIND TO EVERYBODY.
Besides this, every day when you start out
load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind
words, kind expressions and kind greetings
When man or woman does we'll, tell him So
tell her so. II you meet some one who is i'm
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
girth and color, say; "How we'll you lookT
But if, on the other hand, under the wear
and tear Of life be appears pale and exhaust
ed, do not introduce sanitary subjects or say
anything at all about physical conditions.
In the case Of improved health, you have by
your words given another impulse towards
the robust and the jOcund; while in the
case Of the failing health you have
arrested the decline by your silence,
by which he concludes: IF l were
really so badly of, he would have said SOME
thing about it." We are all, especially those
of a nervous temperament susceptible to kind
words and discouraging words Form a con
spiracy against us and let ten men meet us
at certain points on our way over to business,
and let each one say; "How sick you look"
though we should start out well, after meet
ing the first and hearing his depressing salute,
we would begin to examine our symptoms
After meeting the second gloomy accosting,
We would conclude we did not feel quite as
well as usual After meeting the third, our
sensations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless We expected conspir-
acy, we would go home and so to bed, and
the other six pessimists would be useless sur
plus Of Encouragement Ny dear sir, my dear
madam what do youmean by going about this
world with disheartenmentsl Is not the sup
ply of gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough TO meet the demand without your
running factory Of pins and spikesi Why
should you plant black and blue In the world