Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-16
HOW DO YOU
OPEN THE DOOR?
Your Character Can Be Told
by the Way You
Do II.
DIFFERENT WAYS
The Method You Employed on Closing
the Door Is Also a Good Line on
Your Personslity-How to
Tell Energy.

Chicago Tribune: A persons char
acter is inseparable from him. Never
san he extricate himself from its dom
ination. 1t is his partner for life.
Every word he utters, each step he
takes, his very laugh. cough. sneeze. or
the way in which he eats his lunch,
gives him away.
Nothing that we do serves to make
Us known to those whose perception is
keen enough to decipher its meaning.
But although ii is an undeniable fact
that character" "a be read from a
persons exterior, is ii, after all. so far
fetched a theory to hold that the man-
ner in which such a comparatively sim
pie feat as opening a door happens to
be should be entirely without signif-
alice?
Six Different Ways.
You admit that the mode of writing
or recorded pen gesture-of speaking
and of salutation, perhaps, carries a
meaning along with 1T; yet do you
deny any meaning to an act, at once SO
spontaneous and so individual, as that
of opening a door?
Well, let us see how many ways there
are OF opening a door. There are at
least six of them. The door may be
opened abruptly, or it may be opened
slowly; 1t may be opened gently or
promptly; and 1t may be Knocked at"
for one of two reasons: First, be-
cause the person about to enter the
room may be doubtful as to the de-
STABILITY OF doing so without tapping
first OF all; or, secondly. because the
door, ont open unless he nearly
smashes it off its hinges.
How to Tell Energy.
For instance, consider the case of the
man-oh, yes, Ii may be a woman, for
that matter-who comes in without
any ceremony whatever. The handle
turns quickly, and he stands before you
almost before you have time to look
up from what you are about. 1t is al
together illogical or absurd to believe
that such an individual ESQ quick and
determined in doing a small thing like
opening a door, should be energetic,
b~rusque, bluff, perhaps tactless, but
nevertheless hearty" and able to go
about everything he does with a viii,
In right good earnest? The door open
ing achievement was, after ali, only one
among HIS many voluntary efforts, and
as such. since it was an unstudied act,
should not -. altogether without the
trademark of his personality.
Or take the opposite way of door
opening-the cautious, slow manner of
entering a room. 1t takes the person
Some time to turn the handle. and he
seems TO be quite a long time before he
appears to view. What will such a
person be like? Well, a person who
takes upward of half an hour to open n
door viii take, in all probability, a solid
year and a half to do anything else.
In other words, he will be slow, tardy,
anxious and much inclined to put off
doing what he should do today until
tomorrow.-or. at least. until as late
today as he possibly can Such a per-
son generally needs his battles fought
for him by a forcible, spirited individ-
ual.
Opens the Door Noiselessly.
The gentle, timid. quiet soul opens
the door noiselessly. You don't even
know that he or she has come into
the room at all. Their football is al
lmost inaudible, and save for The testi-
tmony of your sense OF sight you would
say that nobody else was present. This
person is wanting in strength OF char
.acter, lacking in decision, so do not
put your faith in him too much. He
will back out of difficulties and should
not be relied upon in any great de-
gree.
On the other hand, the brisk. PROMPT
turn of the door handle, followed al
most Immediately by the opening and
closing Of the door. suggests anima-
ton, resolution, alertness and depend
ability in an emergency.
Those people who bang at the door
are uncouth, unrefned and more vigor-
Gus n well intentioned than subtle
or discerning. Those. however, who
tap gently possess feeling, and are SEN
sitive and tenderhearted. Mirthful peo-
pie perform a regular tattoo on the
door; while sober minded individuals
rap seriously and deliberately.
Closing the Door.
Some people regularly burst the IGOR
open. If IL does not yield to gentle
pressure at once they throw the weight
OF their whole person against It and
literally force II open. These are the
self-willed folk-the people who have
hot tempers. who are terrible when
reused. and who, when stirred into ac-
ton, are thorough and never half
hearted about anything.
Now and then we find people who
have contracted a habit or actually
shutting the door carefully behind
them. They belong to the careful, at
tentive. Commemorative. reserved class.
Other persons bang the door to: they
VIII disclose. on closer investigation, an
absolute indifference for the feelings of
others-will be s~elf-centered and ego
tistic.
People who only half shut the door
never carry anything to a finaiity.
They lack completeness. and Will not
take the trouble and pains to make
their efforts successful or productive.
--ley are the people who abhor detail
and dislike close observation, and will,
therefore. make successful stu
dents of character from noting the way
In which other people open the door.
The foregoing hints, while not by
any means exhaustive. will, IL is be-
Heved, serve to put the curious upon
the right tracy and fhnoa x.,hr N ~ $50
fciently interested may derive pleasure
and no little profit from the warnings
which, the manne in which their
friends enter the may In this way
afford them.
GROWING A SECOND CROP.
A successful farmer living near