The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-12-09
PUTS HIS HEARTH 1T
THE MAN WE LOVE TO MEET AND RE-
oRET TO SEE DEPART.

Those who Have the Power tn Charm Us
Have Heart" and Give IL Full sway.
The Great Wrong of Incrusting Our
Young with Artificial Training.
There are some persons in the world who
are special favortes among all who know
them, who find or make friends every
where, whose company every one enjoys,
and from whom every one is loath to sepa-
rate. Their frank and easy manners inspire
confidence at first sight and one numbers
them as friends almost as soon as one has
made their acquaintance. No one Is ever
mot ut home 10 such man; his visit is
anticipated as IA pleasure, and no one feels
disposed TO part with him without the cor
dial inquiry, when shall we see you
again. There Is an exuberance of happy
life about him which seems TO diffuse it
self among all around, and his presence is
felt TO be an addition TO the general amount
of happiness in the circle privileged with
his company. In selecting a party Of friends
his name always suggests itself first, and
the absence of any two others would be
less disappointment than his Every one
seeks his side at the dinner table, and he
the social circle is next TO his Innocent
childhood loves to sit on his knee and
prattle its earnest nonsense in his ear; i'm
petuous youth finds in him "a cordial COM
panion, and old age values him as pleas
ant and estimable friend. And yet it is not
10 his personal comeliness that he Is in
iebted for this popularity, for his exterior
Is often far from prepossessing; nor TO his
intellect for even his best admirers do not
imagine him a Byron, nor does he turn
down his shirt collars to be thought such.
He has no remarkable vein of humor 10
boast of, never made pun, perhaps, in his
life, scarcely knows what an epigram Is,
Is quite incapable of setting the table in
roar and is distinguished neither for his
fine clothes nor his long purse. One quail
ity, however, he possesses, which proves
an overmatch for every distinction-name-
ly, a transparent, kindly nature desire
TO promote the happiness Of all around
him, a generous warmth Of feeling,
frank, cordial bearing, universal sympa-
thy--in one word heart. -
1t Is refreshing, amid the cold coIven-
tionalism of the world, to meet with these
men Of heart or to see in any one devel
opments of naturalness. He must be mis-
anthrope indeed who can witness without
pleasure the hearty shake Of the hand of
two friends at an unexpected meeting after
long absence. What mutual pouring
out of soul, rs IL were, Is there on both
sides. What an infectious gladness is that
which beams on their countenances. Who
has not with IA fine chubby little fellow
seated on his knee, listened with delight
TO his enthusiastic narration of some trivi-
al incident which has been engrossing his
interest? How his meaning sparkles in his
full eyes and struggles for utterance in his
speaking features. What clumsy, dull
things words seem to express those intense
feelings which are swelling up in his heav-
ing bosom. What charming development
of heart is there in that lisping elo-
quence. Who again has not felt charmed
at the sight of an aged man romping with
child and entering heartily into the sports
and feelings of YOUTH Who has not adj
mired the verdant old age of such IA one,
his feelings unchilled by the freezing in
fluence of threescore years and ten, still
| fresh and glowing as in his childhood!
Who has neither become SO falsely wise nor
so sourly proud as TO disdain the sports
and pleasures of his youth, and who, while
he has learned TO think as IL man has not
| forgotten TO feel as "a childY
so powerfully to every ones best feelings
that l,s development is pleasing even TO
the most stoical and needs only TO be seen
TO be initiated. 1t is singular 10 observe
sometimes the changed behavior of the
sons of pride and fashion in the presence
of q man of heart " How strangely will
fashion forget its effeminate lispings and
| blush for its own squeamishness, ready TO
| fnrasrn IA N
circle, TO hang upon the lips and bask in
the glad, honest countenance of one who
| Is disciple of nature. How out of love it
will seem with its own sickly insipidity,
how DESTROYS to emancipate itself from the
iron tyranny of its bondage as it contem-
| plates the moral robustness of one who
dares to be natural
1t Is to be regretted that in the educa-
ton Of the young 50 much is done toward
discouraging the natural manifestations Of
"heart. No sooner Is the child able to un-
| derstand than il Is taught not to make
free with the servants 1t must not asso-
| ciate with other children unless they are
very respectable. 1t must not laugh above
a certain standard of loudness and must
obey / 900 other conventional laws which
tend only TO destroy naturalness In charac-
ter and substitute cunning, hypocrisy,
pride and host OF other hateful pests TO
private peace and social harmony. AS the
boy grows older he becomes still more arti-
fetal, frightened, Us 1t were, ut the shadow
OF his own feeling. He is taught to despise
whatever Is common, TO hate what Is vul-
gar, and that self respect which, judicious-
ly encouraged and wisely directed, might
have been OF the greatest use i'm Inducing
becoming spirit and preserving from de-
basing pursuits, is pampered up into an
arrogant and offensive pride. The manly
Is forgotten in the 'gentlemanly;" honor,
morality duty, are words only used "a
texts for witless jokes; the stream be-
comes more contaminated as IL recedes
from the source; the youth grows older
only to grow worse
The confiding trust, the truthfulness and
the uncalculating generosity OF youth soon
merge into the cold, suspicious selflshness
Of manhood The head is disciplined at the
expense of the heart and the boosted wis
dom of age Is but poor substitute for that
freshness of feeling which it was unhappi-
ly the first effort of education To discour-
age and eradicate
| 10 tho manifestations IF this ouality