Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-10-11
Stray Leaves
From a Quaker Girls Diary.

How very much improved this world
would be if everybody were kind and
sweet and CHEEKY. How much nicer it
would be if they We're even only court
c0us. 1t is really such little effort al
ways 10 be polite. One would think, even
If it didn't come natural, everyone would
make the attempt for the sake of the
pleasure ii would add to living.
1t is just as easy to say no firmly,
but courteously, to the book agent as it is
10 roar Get out and heaye an inkstand
ut hint. The book agent has a heart
which is wounded by inhuman treatment
as easily as is his head by contact with
the inkstand Most of us are courteous
on big occasions. and when company is
around, but so many lapse in small af-
fairs. And polltenesS. ever and always
present, Is as CHEEKY aS ever present sun
shine
We are taught in our copy books that
honesty is the best policy, and if a man
is honest merely from that motive, the
world reaps benefit. | think there
ought to be another maxim added for us
to practice our Spencerian penmanship
on, and that is. Courtesy Is the best
policy And again would the world he
better off If it were practced, even
though only from such motive.
The polite. courteous, kindly man or
woman is always more successful than
the boor. If child can be given no
other Inheritance. let him have that Of
good manners. 1t costs nothing Ia i'm
part, but it is worth kings ransom.
All of which mora LIKING was deduccd
from the study of business woman of
this town, who is what is known as "un-
Fortunate She never succeeds. She
gets one good position after another.
never. however to hold it long. Yet she
has undoubted ability. And if She would
only take course IN common civility,
she might yet hc able to heat her house
with anthracite. Put if You do her a
favor, She accepts your kindness most UNI
| graciously, and plainly indicates by her
manner that it was merely your duty to
have acted rs you did, and that Won
might have done Il great deal more. 4
friend who had secured her position.
stopped into sec how she was getting on.
She gave her henefactress clammy
handShake, mechanically twitched her
| lips into an Nutomaton smile, and in the
voice Of an iceberg Said How do" and
then went on with her work Needless
90 say, her henefnctrcSS want out in n
huff, for we are all human. And VET
this woman is always complaining that
every ones hand is against her.
There is mau in the market built on
the same lines. If You ask a question
about his goods, he growiS like an Arctic
bear. II is safe to say customers pass
by on the other side.
Ii only as matter of policy, it pays TO
be pleasant. And how much cheericr the
world would he if all this cold, liscourte-
Gus boorishneSS We're wiped out. To run
M against one OF these glum people is
like running into London fog. And
since each of us must do his share. if
the world is to he as bright as we would
like. next time the peddler comes with
matches. let Ms light his way with a
courteous refusal if we cannot brighten it
with the gleam Of 4 nickel. He may not
like it quite 50 much, but he will surely
prefer ii to Il scowling "no."-Philadei-
phia Evening Telegraph.