Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-18
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! system OF rewards rs well as Of punish
rents.
| When you hear good sermon. stop
after the benediction and tell the pastor,
though you never saw him before that
! day. Your sermon did me good" When
mechanic does 4 good piece Of work,
| tell him it is well done. When a ply
stefan brings you out of a perilous i'll
ness. stop him in the street. and say,
| Doctor, you saved my life" When you
hear of q business man in some heavy
stress Of financial weather helping Trailer
craft into the harbor. go into his count
! ing room and say, Il hear you have been
! helping your fellow business man to out
ride the tempest of panic and | came
| in to thank you for the good advice YOU
gave and 10 let you know that all good
citizens appreciate what you have been
| doing" Go down the street tomorrow
aud thank somebody. There are hun
dreds of people who never get thanked
at all. Plenty of severe criticism, plenty
of fault finding, plenty OF misinterpreta-
ton, plenty of depreciation, but as to
gratitude-that Is a market in which the
supply does not equal the demand.
In the cultivation OF this habit Of
| Christian courtesy let It's abstain from
! joining in the work of defamation. The
more faults man has of his own the
more willing is he TO ascribe faults TO
others,
speak Well of One Another.
What a curse of cynics and pessimists
stiiicts our time. afiiicts all time. There
are those who praise no one until he is
dead. Now chat he is clear under ground
and a heavy stone is on top of him there
is no possibility OF his ever coming up
| again as rival. Some OF the epitaphs
ON tombstoues are so fulsC me that ON res
direction day n man rising may, il he
reads the epitaph. for the moment think
| he got into the wrong grave. Speak well
one oc another, and il You find yourself
in circles disposed TO SANDER and abuse
| be for the time rs dumb as the sphinx
/ which, though only u few yards away
| from the oyershadowing pyramid Of
Egypt, has not with it's lips OF stone
spoken one word in thousands of years.
There are two sides to every mans
| character good side and an evil side
| The good see only the good and the evil
only the evil, and the probability is that
Al medium opinion is the right opinion
Most of the people whom ! know are
doing about as well as they can under the
| circumstances. When | see people who
are worse than | am, | conclude that If
| had he same bad influences around me
all my life that they have had | would
probably have been worse than they now
are. The work OF reform il the lnoSt i'm
pOrtant work, but many. Of the reformers
! dwelling on one evil, see nothing but evil
and they get so used TO EnRthema they
/ forget the usefulness once in awhile of Il
benediction. They get so accustomed 10
| eNcorating public men that they do not
| realize that never since John Hancock in
boldest photography signed the Declare
| ton of Independence, ever since Column
bus picked mp the floating land flowers
that showed him he was coming near
some new country, have there been so
many noble and splendid and Christian
men in high places in this country as
now. You could go into the Presidents
cabinet or the United States Senate or
the House Of Representatives and find
/ plenty Of men capable Of holding an old
! fashioned Methodist prayer meeting
plenty of Senb tors and Representatives
aud cabinet officers to start the tune and
kneei with the penitents at The altar. In
| without looking at the book, recite the
, sublime words. as did Gladstone during
| vacation a Hawarden, Il believe in God.
| the Father Almighty. Maker OF heaven
and earth. and in Jesus Christ" and from
The Senate and House of Representatives
aud the presidential cabinet and from the
surrounding offices and committee rooms.
/ il they could hear. would come many
voices responding. Amen and amen
! "If You Please"
! Christian courtesy ! especially com
mend to those who have subordinatcs.
Almost every person has some one under
him How 80 you treat that clerk. that
! servant, that assistant. that eHployc?
| DO yon accost him in brdsque terms and
roughly command him to do that which
you might kindly ask him to do? The
last words chat the Duke Of Wellington
uttered were, III you please" That con
gueror in what was in some respects the
greatest battle ever fought in his last
hours, asked by his servant if he would
take some tea, replied, IF You please"
his last words an expression Of courtesy
Beautiful characteristic in any class. The
day lahorers in Sweden, passing each
other. take off their hats in reverence
There is no excuse for boorishness in any
circle 4 s complete Il gentleman as ever
lived was the man who was endorsed on
the road TO Damascus ana behcaded on
the road 20 Ostia Paul the apostle.
What mighty means pt usefulness il
courtesy! The lack Of Il brings e. many
dead failure, while before those who
possess Ii IN large quantity ~ me doors
Of opportunity are open. Ion ran tell
that nrbgnity does not come from st,dy
Of books Of etiquette although such hooks
have their use, but from Il mind fun Of
thoughtfuiness for others and heart in
sympathy with the conditions Of others
If those conditions be prosperous. n glad
ness for The success. OF il the conditions
be depressing, a sorrow FOR the unfavora-
bic circumstances. All. this world needs
Lighting up. TO those OF us who are
prosperous 1t is no credit that we are
in state Of good cheer but in the lives
Of ninety nine ont OF a hundred there is
a pathetic side a taking of. deficit. an
anxiety, trouble. BY n genial look. by
kind word, by helpful action, we may
liff itttia IF