Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-28
Good Nature Il

To become a quality worthy of ad
miration good nature should be asso
ciated with regard for justice and a
sense of duty. When good nature is
simply form of weakness it finds eX-
preston in kindnesses that work in
| Justice. The man who is free and gener
Gus with his companions is called good
| natured, but his character appears
somewhat different to his creditors If
| his bills are unpaid. or to the wife
whose weekly allowance is cut down
that he may enjoy his selfish pleasures
| There is such thing as good nature.
and it is very great virtue, but when
it is worthy of the name it is coupled
with consideration for others and Is
| manifested in such a way as to do no
| injustice to any one 1t is better, after
all, t. be ju-t han generous, unless we
| can make sure that orr generosity i
| founded upon and supplementary to
| Justice. In the social state men and
| women are bound together by lnnu
merable ties, so that molten by an in
| iiyidual in one direction affects more
Or less the mass 1t is only with our
surplus time or money or Otheragency
| that we can play the part of good
| natured man without injuriously af
| fecting hose to whom we are bound.
| The good natured young man who
serves on committees and attends to
public or semi-public business with as
| much zeal as he could bestow upon his
| private affairs is much to be commend
ed, provided he does so by sacrifice
of time that is wholly his own, but if
he robs his employer of the hours de-
voted to charitable or church or public
work, his good nature is exhibited by
a sacrifice of duty. So, also, If. hav-
| ing grown older. he neglects his family
to care for the waits of society. he is
disregarding his duty. though the
worlo. being ignorant of such neglect,
may applaud his public spirit. To live
rightly one must first discharge the
obligations that are created by bust
ness, family and social ties. When
duty has been done. hnt not-until then.
is the time for the display of such
graces of disposition as distinguish the
man who fairly cams distinction for
his good nature.
The grossest misapplication of the
term, however, is when it is applied to
men of convivial habits. who ruin
themselves and others by their social
| ed good nature. 1t is, indeed, a very
ill nature, for it is the very essence of
selfshness. The good natured drinker
seeks first the qualification of his own
depraved appetite, and he does this
without consideration for any one and
| too often at the expense of other PEG
pie. He may pay the bills, it is true,
and with money thatis nominally his
Town, but upon which creditors and
Relatives have unsatisfied claims. Yet
he takes credit to himself for being
generous and good natured and is too
often accorded it by the unthinking.
The social state might perhaps be i'm
proved, in some degree if men would
take a more just view of life and draw
proper distinctions between the sur
face indications of good nature and
good nature itself.-B0ltiBOre San.
+ 81 don't like the breath of that
stove!" exclaimed little Ethel one day
Ewhens the gas was escaping from the
sitting room stove. Coal-gas is like
the perfumes. of India" compared
with the breath of a person afflicted
with catarrh, but among many other
i symptoms the sense of smell is often
deadened, so the sufferer is uneon-
scious of the offensiveness of his pres
ence. Why any one aCiIJ endure such
painful, dangerous and offensive
disease, when DR.. Sages Catarrh
Misunderstanding only 80 cents-will
cure the most, stubborn case, is one OF
the many mysteries. The proprietors
are so confident of the success of this
CAtarrh Remedy, that they offer to
, forfeit $500 for any case of catarrh they
cannot cure. 1t would be suicide fol
their remedy, for them to make this
offer. unless they understood it's exact
MOWERS