The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-10
PUTS HIS HEARTH 1T
THE MAN WE LOVE TO MEET AND RE-
GRET TO SEE DEPART.

There are some persons In the world who |
are special favorites 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 az friends almost as soon as one has
made their acquaintance No one Is ever
mot at home" 60 such IA man; his visit Ia
anticipated as n pleasure, and no one feels
disposed To part with him without tho cor
dial inquiry, when shall we see you
AGAIN." There Is an exuberance OF happy
life about him which seems to diffuse 1t
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 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
deems himself fortunate whose chair In
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 cordial COM
panion, and old age values him as pleas
ant and estimable friend And yet 1t Is not
to his personal comeliness that he Is in
debted 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 to
boast of, never made pun perhaps In his
| life, scarcely knows what an epigram Is,
IL quite incapable Of setting the table In
Il Ia tcti m oh mott hpr for his
| fine clothes nor his long purse. One quail
| ity, however, he possesses, which proves
an oyermatch for every distinction-name-
| ly, transparent, kindly nature, desire
to promote the happiness Of all around
him, a generous warmth OF feeling,
frank, cordial bearing, a universal sympa-
thy-in one word, heart.
| 1t Is refreshing, amid the cold conyen-
| 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
O long absence. What u mutual pouring
out Of soul, as IL were, Is there on both
sides. What an infectious gladness Is that
| which beams on their countenances. Who
has not, with 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 Developments
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 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 MOI
30 sourly proud as to disdain the sports
and pleasures of his youth and who, while
} he has learned to think as a man has not
forgotten to feel as a childS
This quality of "heart" commends itseli
so powerfully to every ones best feelings
that It's development Is pleasing even tc
the most stoical and needs only to be seer
| to be initiated. IL Is singular to observe
sometimes the changed behavior of the
sons of pride and fashion in the presence
D of q man OF heart How strangely viii
n fashion forget Its effeminate lispings ant
blush for its own squeamishness, ready u
I forego the applause even OF its butterfly
y circle TO hang upon the lips and bask II
the glad, honest countenance of one wh'
0 IA a disciple of nature. How out Of love 4
will seem with it's own sickly insipidity
Z how DESTROYS to emancipate itself from TIN
n iron tyranny of it's bondage, as 1t contem
2 plates the moral Robustness Of one VIII
= dares to DO natural
1t is to be regretted that in the educa
o ton of the young so much Is done towar'
q discouraging the natural manifestations O
I"heart" No sooner Is the child able to un
I derstand than 1t is taught not to max
q free with the servants 1t must not asso
4 ciate with other children unless they ar
q very respectable 1t must not laugh abov
: a certain standard of loudness and mus
obey 1000 other conventional laws whic
tend only to destroy naturalness In charac
Ter and substitute cunning, hypocrisy
pride and host of other hateful pests
private peace and social harmony. AS th
= boy grows older he becomes still more art
ficial, frightened, as 1t were, Mt the shado'
q of his own feeling. He Is taught to despis
whatever Is common, to hate what Is WI
gar. and that self respect which, judicioui
" encouraged and wisely directed, Nigh
n have been of the greatest use in inducin
q becoming spirit and preserving from d.
basing pursuits, is pampered up into a
;. arrogant and offensive pride. The mani
Is forgotten in the gentlemanly;" honol
y morality, duty, are words only used q
texts for witless jokes; the stream b.
comes more contaminated as 1t reced'
u from the source; the youth grows old'
p only to grow worse.
The conflding trust, the truthfulness an
the uncalculating generosity OF youth 500
merge into the cold, suspicious seinshne'
,e Of manhood. The head Is disciplined at Il
Expense of the heart, and the boosted wi
&c dom of age In but q poor substitute for tina
1t freshness Of feeling which 1t was unhapp
ly the first effort Of education to discou
age and eradicate -,
a To the manifestations of this qualit
:, some Of our most favorite authors al
n poets chiefly owe their almost univers
70 popularity. This has made them write
~ and poets for the mass and rendered the
thoughts and words familiar with all WI
read and think. Shakespeare, Goidsm't
b Dickens and Thackeray stand conspicuo'
for the development Of heart In the
writings, and whose writings are re'
TO more extensively or retain more powcrfu
|. " their hold on our affections and mel
10 cryf Others, with acknowledged geni
n and undoubted learning, have for TIN
rs slared meteorlike upon their wonderil
fellows, but they only dazzled the blind
eve for the passing hour; their light W
=. rather the cold and lifeless radiance oil I
u moon than the warm, lifegiying brightne
n of the sun, and they have consequent
n been unsuccessful In gaining the aiiccto
lie or even the prolonged attention. oil I
mass. Household Words