The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-18

oody Il pull out the props from under
MN, and then the people he's been
sookln down on viii look down on him
and laugh-just laugh. That's the sec
ond reason why the turned-up nose is
pad business. It spoils you, and then
1t spells your friends. For the habit
of thought that expresses itself in the
tuIned-up nose is fatal TO the kind of
seIf-esteem that everybody ought 10
nave, and it's fatal TO friendship
You see, honey, an elevated nose is
d good deal Ike one o. these oid-fash-
Toned blunderbusses-it hits a whole
lot of people that you didn't aim at
and whoever il hits it hurts Nobody
can tell where it's going to strike an
so they get the habit of dodgin' when
ever 1t comes around. There's a good
many folks you can scOld an abuse an
they'll take it goOd-natured an keep
on bein friends. But Just let 'em get
the notion that you're sneering at 'em
and its all off. Most all Of US have an
dea that we're about as good as the
next one. and nothin' makes US madden
than a turned-up nose; an the greater
difference between US in wealth or So
cial station the madden we get about it.
If you're gOin' to get the best there
is out OF the world and out of the peo-
pie in It you've got TO meet folks or
NtAt tt- IOu 10 uD 10 lilE Top VI q
skyscraper buildin' an look out the
window down at the men an women in
the street below, an they all look
mighty small-not more'n half as big
as you are. But when you go down in
the elevator an get out on the pave
ment you find they average up about
the same size as your self. It's all
matter of the point of view. and the
turned-up nose gives you a wrong per-
speCtiVe. It gives you false notions OF
your own Importance and your own po-
sition, while everybody else can see
that you're just one o the common run
o. folks an have no right to feel your
self better than they are An so you
get out o touch and out o sympathy
with the rest o the world around you,
an then you begin TO sour. That's just
as certain as that God made little APP
pies. A sneer in the brain is a sign
Of fermentation, an fermentation. YOU
know, comes mighty close TO bein' rot
ten.
Nov. then, settin' right down to
brass tacks, as the fellow says. the only
reason you've got for elevatin' your
nose at the people We was talkin' about
is that they don't run in your set. Well.
what if they don't? Is your set the
standard by which all others have to be
measured? 7 reckon not. 1t takes all
kinds o people 10 make a world as
you've heard before. an some O the
best ones in il make the least show
You can't tell by lookin at the people
YOU meet on the street how many of
them's beneath you an how many's
above you. You can't tell by lookin'
at a woman's clothes or cOuntin' the
money she's got in bank whether you've
got a right to look down on her or
She's got a right to look down on you.
You can't tell by hearing a woman
quote Ibsen whether she's better or
worse than you. II amt money or
clothes or blood OF culture that counts
when Il comes 10 measurin' up men an
women. The only yardstick that's good
anywhere on earth and in any society
is character That's common. OF un-
common, to rich and poor, an your
washerwoman may have as much of il
and be as much entitled to your re-
spect as the president Of your club. One
Of the two greatest men I ever had the
honor to know was a professor of Eng
lsh in the state university, the other
was a ditch digger who couldn't spell
his own name.
But even when you size up people
accOrdin' TO the standard of your club
it amt safe to turn W your nose, for