The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-07-15
Tn, Anatomy Of "Eads,"

NiNliiLhtloH, ErauuillS reducing INC
rough, awkward Municipalities until
they conform to the typo which has
been found to be the most comfortable
for all, has established a sort of COM
monplaceness which, says the Kansas
City Star, is irksome to the meelest
member of the great human family.
Everyone strives in some small way to
make himself stand out separately
from the great body of his fell
lows. If he cannot rise above them
he ut least wishes to have some kind of
n circle drawn around his ego which
shall mark him an individual, a person.
nlity, not merely a resident of d certain
city or n member of a certain family.
1t is this instinct which makes q man
sensitive about his name; which makes
him feel a passing resentment when his
initials are transposed, which fills him
with bitterness when he hears of "a
nan who looks just like YOU" and
which makes him cherish IL grudge for
ever against the person who mistakes
him for somebody else.
Another manifestation of this same
instinct is the taste for making collec-
tons, the adopting of fads and the rid
ing of hobbies. These come from the
desire of the individual to distinguish
himself. There are of course collectors
who love the objects they collect, but
did anybody on earth ever love postage
stamps? Yet many are the people who
cherish an ambition to be known as the
owner of the finest collection of stamps
in the town, state OF nation, the size of
the territory over which he wishes to
rule being bounded only by the collect
or's ambition.
AS to the young ladies who adopt
each seasons fad as it comes along
who put q frieZe of love letters around
their rooms n year, take up base ball
as their favorite diversion one summer
because it is fashionable. and follow it
up next year by some other affected
preference--their genuine motive is
only the wish to acccntuate themselves,
to stand out as Miss Somebody, who
does suchznnd such, to be differentiated
in some way from their friends who are
only charrniug girls.
The queer idea of adopting a f~avorite
color, n favorite flower, or author, or
musician, OF book, II favorite tree, or
month of. the year. or amusement, or
occupation, is part of this attempt to
round out a personality. Is it possible
that any one color is IL perpetual favor.
tic with any human being that the color
in the blue Sky, the white clouds, and
the green grass does not each at some
time seem the most grateful and beau.
tiful thing that the eyes ever rested onf
As to n favoritc author, did one writer
ever meet all moods. grave and CAV,
lively and severep Does not the
same reader Mt different times enioy
dozens of different novelists and half a
dozen poets? There are moments in
most lives when ever Shakespeare
would not be welcome and vet he
surely has more claim than anyone else
to be 4 favoritc author. sThe people
who are passionate tennis players
sometimes would desert the game for
n comic opera; and rs to favorite flow.
ers, they are Il mockery. Nobody coult
wish for a rose when the first breath oil
the spring brings the violcts or wher
the lilncs blossom in the old garden.
What satisfaction is there in hot
house flowers? Does not the air ant
the sunshine cry out for the flower
which nature has fastened for each
passing season?
10 cxalt any one object into r
'favorite' it is necessary to close tn.
mind to some other source of happiness
t? narrow the sympathies, to miss some
thing which is worth having, for whlcl
the building up of a Fictitious TASTE
and an artificial individuality offers nc
compensation.
Unless the Unborn taste, the natura'
bent of the mind takes some particula,
direction there is infinitely more pleas
urc to be enjoyed by gathering up hap
piness out of all the things of The
earth than is ever to be found in ar
bitrary specializing of tastes and pur
suits. Take beauty wherever it is tc
be found, aad you may be sure Mt lcas'
that you do not miss II of tho hap
pincss that the commonplace enjoy by
seeking to get more happiness out o
some n thing than ordinary PEG
pie do.