San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-10

consciousness of self. To be pleasant
requires a constant forgetfulness of self
and the remembrance of others. The
smart person is the social clown and
ringrhaster. The pleasant person
does nothing in the world but make
you comfortable. AS being comfortable
is the thing most needed in the world
the pleasant people are in demand.
There is nothing in the household so
conduces to its comfort, as to have
pleasant people in it. Nothing so de-
lightful as a pleasant child in the fam
lily. Nothing so charming in the neigh
borhood as a pleasant family. The
poole with whom we best like to asso-
ciate and whom we most regret in alb
are the pleasant people. The
people whom we like for companions
on our travels are the pleasant people.
The people whom we invite to our
homes and to our outings and of whom
we make the most are the pleasant peo-
pie. Above and beyond their smart
ness or their wealth or their knowledge
Of their genius is their -pleasantness.
This is the home quality. The quail
ity hat lasts. That leaves only de-
lASllNLuA AAlCAAO4A g bCLlAAAN I pOSSNoooA.
The fundamental essence of this
quality is a desire to please. True,
there are those who are born good
natured, and these are really delight
full persons to he thrown in contact
with, but these are only the negatively
pleasant people. The really pleasant
people are of a much higher order of
development. The good natured per-
son is only unconsciously pleasant, and
may or may not be, as happens. She
or he, is not ready to TAX offense, puts
up with the small annOyances and the
inconvenience without making a fuss
over it and are not difficult. The pleas
ant person is consciously so. She
makes effort to be pleasant. Sees the
need of oiling things. Has real tact.
The pleasant person has good temper,
trained so, perhaps, and that is better
than mere good nature.
Good nature is to some extent the
raw material out of which pleasant
people are manufactured. Pleasant
people are not born so, they are made.
They are the fruit of experience, care
full training, an unselfish view of life,
a strong desire to smooth the rough un-
even paths of human existence and
make the road of life easier to travel.
The pleasant person has more tina
good nature, a good deal more. She
has a good knowledge of human nature.
We say she, because to the women of
this western world the life of social
things is committed. The pleasant per-
con considers the material that there
is in the life around her, the society in
which she mingIes. She sees where
harmony may he evoked and discord
deadened, and she adjusts herself to
the conditions.
The pleasant person is the outgrowth
of a pleasant home, nine times out of
ten. 1t is only on the branches of the
home tree that the fruit so desirable is
grown in perfection. There are those,
stung to action by the memories of an
unloving and ENJOYABLE home, who,
later in life, do all that circumstances
and a rigid self dicipline can accom-
plish in making themselves the minis
ter of the pleasures of others, but they
cannot do it naturally or easily. The
pleasant people are those who please.
They may do it in a variety of ways
but they do it. Not always by agree
ing with you, perhaps as often by dis
senting from you, but they add to your
pleasure either way. 1t is not the pro-
cess hat is considered, but the Ulti-
mate result. Pleasant people are
pleasant.
Pleasant children make pleasant
adults. The home training IS respons-
ible for the making or unmaking of
pleasant people. With IN unpleasant
father or mother, or both, there is lit
tie prospe It of the children being DIFF
ferent. Blessings on the head of the
parents who make home pleasant.
These are the pleasant homes. Here
is where the pleasant people live. Here
is where the pleasant children are
bread and trained. The pleasant home
is the mandatory of pleasant peo-
pie. It is the same old story. All
roads once led to Rome. All paths
lead to Home. Take up any depart
ment of life or action, and you will find
its beginnings lead back and center in
the home. The pleasant people are no
exception. They are the products of
pleasant homes.
1t is we'll worth the while OF the par
ents to cultivate for themselves the
quality and habit of pleasantness, for it
yields the sweetest fruit of living. 1t
not only makes the home the center of
all that is sweet and delightful, but it
educates the children to give pleasure
in whatever homes or circles of life
they may in future be the inmates. 1t
fits them for making all their own lives
rich with the blessings hat invariably
follow the patti of the pleasant people.
Better than beavty, hat divine thing
is the quality of be ng pleasant, of con
ferring pleasure. 1t is the divinest
quality known, for it kills envy, dis
arms suspicion, provokes no j~ealousles,
smooths the rough of earth
and opens in the social circle a little
heaven.