Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-08

for Sperry.
In the first place, we all need IL.
From the president at the white
house 70 the newsboy on the street,
among, clerical, legal and medical
professions, in business circles of
every grade, with the journalist and
the farmer, there is a demand for an
attrac tive, winning disposition.
Good looks by no means insure
it. John Wilkes, the London agita-
tor, was an ugly man with protrud1
ing eyes and horrible squint, and
yet he could fascinate and charm one
by means of his forceful personality.
He boosted that he could lead captive
at his will the fairest of women. On
the other hand how often the reader
meets people whose faces are fault
lesSly beautiful and their characters
utterly guiltless and void of any at
traction whatever Colorless mani
ties, doing neither good nor harm,
they move in life without a friend or
foe. A handsome appearance may
aid brilliant mind and sympathet-
ic heart, but alone and of itself it is
rather hindrarce than help, since
It leads us to expect what is not
there, and is a fair promise which
gives no performance.
Here is the first and one of the
best recipes for your success in life,
and it is given to you because we
have proven it again and again, and
it never failed: Cultivate wide sym
pathetic relations with men.
Avoid, as you would a pest, the
little notions and bigoted cycles
which confne and tyrannize over
ones thought and action. You must
do so to understand men, for none
ever saw the truth through the
colored spectacles Of prejudice. And
when another man sees you appreci-
ate and appraise him somewhat cor
rectly, his heart will open at once,
and the way to your purpose is clear
None know all this better than those
tricksters who trade on confidence.
How adroitly they play the game
until the prize is bagged.
If you visit a musician, talk of
music, hum your favorite airs, tell
all your "reminiscences Of famous
players and great concerts, This
scarcely ever fails. You can sell a
book or tickets, or drive any bargain,
commercial and religious, when you
faithfully follow the rule. And by
varying it to suit each mans hobby
and following, see what wide and
prosperous field is at once open to
the exercise of your talents.
1t is wise to avoid haekneyed and
trite sayings and subjects if you
wish to make your individuality felt.
Say something that will Stick
the offspring of lively, vigorous
thought. Surely nothing is more re-
markable than a man who dares to
violate false conventionalities in
order that he may find fresh ways
and means for his best expression.
Don't go around mumbling that man
is moral being, and expect people
to adore the coming philosopher.
That is no more of truth than If
you said, "A cat has four feet" And
yet, remember how infinitely ludi-
crous it is to observe people who are
always doing this, and expect you to
become the willing trophies of their
prowess.
But mental gifts must be supple
mented, one may almost say origi-
mated, by wide capacity for love in
the truly magnetic person. The
wounded soldiers would turn to bless
the very shadow Of Florence Night
ingale as she passed along the hospi-
tai ward, because she loved them
with a great love. You could not
hear Phillips Brooks preach without
recognizing his passion and yearning
after his fellowmen. 1t shone in
Lincoln's face. This faculty Of a
loving spirit is the battery magnetic
ing all, Illuminating the plainest
faces and giving feeble brains the
guileless simplicity and singleness Of