The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-01
Social Thoughts
And Events.
Edited by Miss Mary Dingle.
"The MIX Of Human Kindness."

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Friends in loo ling around you o.
nearing OF and about people, have 70,
eyer stopped to ponder what il is tina
ILLS t1e heart. There is one IN dee,
distress, You know her MT, perhaps. OF
her brow are burrows which show som,
great sorrow is destroying her u ace
her battered gown bespeaks her pov.
erty, her rough hands, her toll, her
+ Iale emaciat d ch eks from whence all
f bloom has ilOwn never 10 return tells
OF bodily ills. What is that within
your i'm st being, which is c He'd
soul, rushcs forward and causes YOU to
stop her and intcrrogatc her, YOU Rear
her sad story Of tIightcd love and hopes
her pehuy and want, her work, her
illness, her distress, her stO~v is q - I
one, yet not unc mmon and your heart
Is submerged in a feeling that is rn-
ed-Sympathy,
Aye what Is It. Can you tell? If
only we could tell it as we
fett IT, its meaning would
be as changciu as the wind. II is
never In the same Il 'gccc it must diff
Ter with t9e man, change with man
and the object which has excited IT,
Psychologist baye classified svmpatbv
with the simple emotiO $, it is the term
applied to our feelings in reference to
tneJ Us or sorrows, the happiness or
misery of others. Tcnder-hcarted
emotional people can never solve the
mystery, how any one can pass the poor
iorlorn sufferer We have pictuJcd with
out feeling deep pa1gs of sympathy an |
compassion 'or The unhappy state Of
her eXl tence. Almost invariab thc
h'arts all go out t. Borrowing one,
ms sympathy for others sorrows j.
much deeper than The sympathy for
their happiness. The re l,on that We.
come 10 look upon sympathy as to mean
Enthusiastically TO be used in re cr-
ence to some sorrow il obvious. The
sorrows of life are more marked ardrv.
ceptlonal and hus affect persons moe
deeply tn N their joys 5, that onr feel
lagS Of sympathy are natural deem
Ihete Is greater need Of sympathy
III sorrow and i'y for the i1y alone
iltt' up the spirit while sorrow casts
IL down and inaycrdcn.y it reaches out .
Tor some support to stay ) ia limo .
strength, the touch Of friendly hand I
Is crayed. 1t Is sympathy that can J
heip to share its burden 'ris svmpa-
Inv that causes the generous heart tn
7corn the p 'asure which gives others +,
pam, 1t MAKES the humrn count,nanc :,
smile on tn So who smile, and weep $
with those who weep: IL is the very I
in souls taat is them for
each other, it searches out tn, points
Ot mutual affection and the qualities O
mind that Gear resemblance. syrlpar +
my Is tn. hand that sweeps the harm
u the human soul and avs upon tire
strings OF the human affections, blend AZ
ng the ton i" one grand ha moni. n
JUS symphC Y tn invites the
happiness and future DIES.
fnies of each human b inc al
nto one amending melody. All this G.
Toe s. mpathy, and more, when aroused IN
rous d she puts forth many efforts to e
ELEVATE the suffering, then there is
ne silent press Of the hand, the COM
PASSIONATE look of the eye, the gentle
'res, the unspoken word, sweet SYM r. ~
athy. =, u
Jean Paul says: There are eyes NJ
'hich need only 10 look up to touch de
very cord o. breast choked bv the ,"
'lhlng atmosphere of st II and stapnant OIL
ociety, and to call forth tones which
night become thu accompanying music ce
fe. The gentle infusion of mind I'll
ITO in'nd Is the secret of sympathy.
It's never understood, but ever felt 81 81
al whera 1t i al owed to exert is -
over 1t fills and extends INTEL ctuaI he
lie lar beyond the mea ure of ordi- at,
airy conception. to
sympathy Is necessity, it is requi
10 To our be NC, Die vnot tack the ne
'mpathetic tear; it tespeaks tender %
cart; repulse not the loving kin IN. s.. 90,
}, ouS rather cultivate low ne XII d. III
'ss toward y ur fellow.
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Died.
Two homes were made desolat, bear,s
loving parents were rent in twain 70,
ID two tiny onds of humanity which en-