The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-15
SEEING oTaeR PEOPLE.

at church or in the street is often mis-
interpreted. There are, of course, ce.-
tain people who are snobbish at heart
and try to confine even their bowling
acknowledgements to the rich and pow
erful: nut the major types of what we
may cali the non-observant classes
have quite different motives. Much de-
ponds upon the place where ones man
ners have been learned. 1t is almost
impossible for a man or woman VINO
has been reared in great city to get
into the habit, so easily acquired in VII
lagos, of seeing and greeting everybody.
A New Yorker, for instance, who passes
a quarter of million people every day.
all of whom are strangers to him, never
thinks to look for familiar faces in the
street or in public assemblies. He has
learned to go about his business ana
let other people go about theirs; ana
this habit follows him to church, 10
the theater and even enters into ms
relations with his next door neighbor
or with the firm in the adjoining offices.
When he takes his summer vacation IN
the country he learns to his dismay
that he is called a snob by the villagers.
He never has heard himself SO described
where he is best known.
Rich men acquire the habit of nom
observance through the instinct of self
preservation. This class of people is
the most misunderstood in the world.
Among the rich are just as many good
fellows" as among the poor; but they
are bounded as none others are by peo-
pie who have axes to grind Some ink
ling of the seamy side of the pluto
Gratis life is given in the current Cen
tury magazine in 1.-THE Journal of al
Millionaire an article which every
man who envies the possessor of great
fortune should make haste to read. Butt
this study, far as it goes, does not tell
the whole story of the annoyance tol
which rich men are put by people who
want to get something out Of them by
fair means or foul. BY perfectly nat
ural process, the growing lesson of ex-
perience, the millionaire acquires an
armor of reserve. He seeks to protect
himself from an everlasting invasion of
his peace. 1t is not that he is over
proud or disdainful or uncivil or un-
kind of heart. but that he wants to en-
joy some of that wholesome privacy and
inattention from the public which other
men complain of as a social indignity.
He does not go bowling and Sinking
through fife and SO, in the fateful book
OF reputation, he often Is listed as a
cad.
The preoccupied man is also on the
list. Deeply Immersed in his private
concerns, only dimly conscious OF the
passing show, he goes through IRE with
the name of being suriFs When the
mans home or club life is examined the.
public is astonished to hear that he
sometimes smiles and jokes. But that
is phase the street does not see and
it jumps at conclusions which do in
Justice, oftentiInes, to the friendliest of
natures.
Those who complain are often alb
normally sensitive. When one is al
ways expecting sights he finds them
or what he mistakes to be them, on
every hand. He wears his skin inside
out" as the old saying goes, and every
bit OF sand that blows against it smarts
like burn. Here is where the acquisi-
ton of other kinds of armor comes in
well-the armor of good nature. of in
attention to small things, of a pride
that Ignores the possibility of an
affront, and more than all else the armor
OF civility to others. One who protects
himself with that need fear NO snubs,
but will soon see the essential truth in
the saying of wise old Kaa. the Rock
Snake of Kipling's tale, who told the
forest boy that a brave heart and a
civil tongue would take him far through
the jungle.
The Bulletin, which did all the harm
it could to the Republican ticket while
pretending to be it's friend is distressed