San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-11
SUNDAY, AUGUST IL, 1895
BANANA FEELINGS.

whose saying all christendom gives
heed, remarked a few centuries
ago, "Behold, how great matter a
little fire kindleth." With equal
truth the preacher for the LIGHT
remarks this morning: Behold,
how great a human little banana
peel will floor. Who, among us all,
has not seen the careless stride OF a
man, in the pride Of port and the
dignity of good clothes, monarch of
all he surveys, in his mind, tread.
ing the pavement as though he
trod OMAR, unconsciously setting
his foot upon q bit of banana peel
thrown down by some careless
hand What fall was there, my
hearers. Hurt dignity is harder to
bear at the first than bruised flesh,
and 1t is in no enviable frame of
mind that the fallen one rises from
the stage of his discontinue a
sorer and wiser man. With what
increased care he looks to the way
OF his feet as he moves up the side
walk striving to brush the dust
from his garments and the sense of
personal injury from his soul.
As 1t is with the man so is it
with that other sweeter, nicer
human, kindly, dainty woman.
The same insidious slipperiness
turks around the corner, and on
the edge of the sidewalk, and just
in that particular spot whersasfall'
will be most inoppoytnne and con-
spicYonu Why itfis that the bana-
= 5 never thrown where the
y aid Of lamp or awning
IL may avail to prevent the
catass Pphe, has never been salts
factori1A settled. Neither has it
been shown n keneral satisfaction
why the idiotj who are so obliv-
ious of human rights as to throw
banana skins on, the pavements,
are permitted outside of the walls
of lunatic asylum, or allowed
to run the streets without either
q guardian or label. The world
is full of such strange incongrui.
ties, but there is some prospect OF
her Improvement, for there is
great moral less IN in the banana
peel.
The business man who starts in
life where he should leave of, who
puts on more style than would be-
fit sea shore dude in this fin de
steele age, who imagines himself
the alpha and omega Of trade sue
cess, who flames out in all the pur.
pie and fine linen Of impossible
failure, who proposes to teach old
brains how to run the machine,
who arrogates to himself all the
wisdom of commercial experience
and knowledge, and who marches
through the world as If it was per-
sonal territory, is the man who is
marching straight on a banana
peel. Watch him as he sails along,
his head in the clouds and his feet
unnoticed. See where that little
yellow imp lies about twenty.eight
inches in front of his dexter right
toothpick shoe. The ball of his foot
hits it in the slipperiest place and
down he goes. He has trod on his
banana peel.
When he rises, what change
How crestfallen and humble ht
looks. His airs have disappeared
as suddenly as his equilibrium was
unhinged. His eyes are good
deal nearer earth and he sees
whole blocks Of pavement that his
eyes never before rested on. HI
grows to distrust himself and IL
that knowledge becomes teachable
He consults the lives of other
who have pioneered business ant
made a success of it before he wa
..hornn nu1Fevises his knowledg
Ferhauling its content
kund respect for wha
know. He begins agail
1t round of the ladde
by tolls upward. HI