The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-06-15
HOW DO YOU
OPEN THE DOOR?
Your Character Can Be Told
by the Way You
Do L.
SIX DIFFERENT WAYS
The Method You Employed on Closing
the Door 10 Also Good Line on
Your Psrsonsiity-how TO
Tell Energy.
SIX DIFFERENT WAYS

Chicago Tribune: A persons char
acter In inseparabie from him. Never
ean he extricate himself from It's DOM
ination. II IL his partner for life.
Every word he utters. each step he
takes. his very laugh, cough. sneexe. or
the way In which he eats his lunch.
gives him away.
Nothing that we do serves to make
IN known TO those whose perception Il
keen enough to decipher It's meaning.
But although II In an undeniable fact
that character can be read from n
persons exterior. In II. after all. 30 far
fetched q theory to hold that the man
ner In which such q comparatively sim
pie feat al opening q door happens TO
Dc should be entirely without sisnin-
Six Different Ways
You admit that the mode OF writing
-or recorded pen gesture-of speaking
and OF saiutat.on. perhaps, carries n
meaning along with it; yet do you
deny any meaning to an act. at once 80
spontaneous and 30 Individual. m that
OF opening a door,
Well. let US see how many ways there
are OF opening a door. There are 1t
least six OF them. The door may DO
slowly: II may be opened gently or
promptly: and IL may be Knocked at"
for one OF two reasons: First be-
cause the person about to enter the
room may be doubtful as 10 the de-
STABILITY OF doing so without tapping
first OF all: or. secondly. because the
door. won't open unless he nearly
smashes IL OF It's hinges.
How 20 Tell Energy.
q Al.
man-oh. yes. IL may be woman. for
that matter-who comes I'm 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. II IL al
together illogical or absurd 10 believe
that such an individual ESQ quick and
determined In doing a small thing like
opening a door,, should be energetic.
brusQue. blum. perhaps tactless, but
nevertheless hearty" and able TO 70
about everything he does with n will.
In right good earnest? The door OPEN
Ing achievement was. after all. only one
among his many voluntary efforts, and
as such, since IL was an unstudied act,
should not iss altogether without the
trademark OF his personality.
Or take the opposite way OF door
opening-the cautious. slow manner OF
entering a room. II takes the person
some time TO turn the handle. and he
seems TO be quite long time before he
appears To view. What will such
person be like? Well, n person who
takes upward OF half an hour 10 open a
door will take. IN all probability. n solid
year and a half TO do anything else.
In other words. he will be slow. tardy.
anxious and much inclined 20 put or
doing what he should do today until
tomorrow-or. ut least. until as late
today an he possibly can. Such per-
son generally needs his battles fought
for him by forcible. spirited individ-
ual
Opens thu Door Noiselessiy.
, 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 II al
rnost inaudible. and save for the testi-
hnony OF your sense of sight you would
say that nobody else was present. This
person In 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 I'm 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 ANNA
tion. resolution. alertness and depend
ability In an emergency.
Those people who bang at the door
are uncouth. unrefned and more vigor-
Gus and well intentioned than subtle
or discerning. Those. however. who
tap gently possess feeling. and are SEN
sitive and tenderhearted. Mirthfui peo-
pie perform regular tattoo on the
door: while sober minded individuals
rap seriously and deliberately.
Closino thu Dear
Some people regularly hurst the door
open. II IL does not yield to gentle
pressure at once they throw the weight
OF their whole person against Il and
literally force IL open. These are the
seif-willed folk-the people who have
hot tempers. who are terrible when
reused. and who. when stirred into &C
ton. are thorough and never half
hearted about anything.
Now and then we ind people who
have contracted a habit OF 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 self-centered and ego
tistic.
People who only half shut the door
never carry anything TO a nnality.
They lack completeness. and will not
take the trouble and pains 10 make
their efforts successful or productive.
They are the people who abhor detail
and dislike close observation. and win.
therefore. never 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 In be-
lieved. serve to put the curious upon
the right track: and those who are suf-
ficientiy interested may derive pleasure
and no little profit from the warnings
which the manner In which their
friends enter the room may In this way
afford them.
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