The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-29

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Yon Come and Incidentally learn
How Many Folks You DON'T Know.
Did you eycr have the experience of
walking down Main street. with i man
who Il ruMning FOR office. An the thine
Die II bowling right aid left 10 people
yoa meet Several times IN Il block he
will stop 10 shake hands With al ae-
analns-sce.
You seem to know every one yon
say 10 him almost enyiously.
That's right he replies. not With
our some pride. 4 guess do know
everybody worth knowing
Yet how many people does he lnowY
How many people do sou know your
self? Did you eyer Try 10 figure il OUT
What proportion Of the people IL the
United States do you know. Certainly
you don't know the one-hundreth part
Of them. Even the president OF the
United States doesn't and couldn't II
he kept travelling I'LL the time. making
host 0f new acquaintunees every dry.
To knew the o.ie-inndredtl part Of
she people In this country would be TO
knew Ia the neighh0rhood Of million
persons. No: II II perfectly safe to say
that there Is ne person In the whole
world thai knows million other per
SOIls well pnougll 10 tail each 0f them
by name. Think whit Il million mc;us,
suppose You said the names Of MI the
people you know ,,s fast rs you could.
II you couid enuuciale twenty names
minute You would be doing marvcl
nusly we'll. Even 1T TINT rate, working
steadily eight hours day. Il would
ls.se you nearly four moAths Just TO
name the people you know There isn't
a lueinury III existence that would hold
. million names
We'll. siu sou suppose you know n
hundred thuusandg Lets see; that
wanld be about one-ifth Of the pppu,
iaflon III Rhode Island, Imagine yolir
SELF sitting III the railroad station at
Providence watching the people come
through. No: that Is hardly Il fair
tesE. for unless son live hi Providence
ynn do moi knew as man. people there
as III the city IN which sou live SIT
III your own railway station apd count
the people coming through So mattcr
lsnw well known you are or how many
people you know. you cannot help hui
b. Impressed With The fact Of how
many people there are that you do not
know III you know one IA Il handrca
persons son know far more THAI the
average.
let Ms try to get nj L In another
way. You make on the average, say,
twu new acquaintance i week. or
course there are weeks and weeks that
sou make no new acquainmnces at all,
ansl then there are times. such as pic
MI week and vacation week and
church fair week. when you meet a
lot of people. so TINT two a week is a
fair average You have been meeting
people say. for twenty-five years.
That's a..Na. isn't itg
Is Il possible that you know only
2.50O reopies You thought the num-
Ter would be FER mere than thatg
3ut held on You don't know nearly
that maay There IRE lots anlslo
of people whom yeu knew twenty
years ago that you don't know now.
You cannot even remember their
names or what They looked like.
just sit down and Try 70 remember
the names Of an the boys and girls
that were IN The same room in the
public school with You. You cannot
remember half Of them or third Of
them or fifth Of them. II Is safe to
say thar Of every two persons YOU
met In an your life you have forgotten
one. The chances are thai the NUM-
her Of people sou know by name is
nearer LOCO than It is a,Oco.
0f course preacher with thou.
sand members IN his church n expect
Ell 10 know them all by name. But
all the same you will find him saying
10 his wife:
my dear who was that Young lady
who spoke 10 MS Just kRowTf
II Is business. too for a merchant to
remember all Of his thousand custom.
ers. hut very few merchants are able to
Do Il. Possibly some of The politicians
and public lecturers may know Il cou.
pie OF thousand persons by name. hui
very few other persons know that
many.
II this estimate seems roo low 1t Is
easily disproved All you have to do
q 70 take pencil and paper and begin
putting down the names Of Your ac-
auaIninnccs start with your own
family and then put down your cousins
and your second cousins ana your
wires relations Then put down the
names of the people you know IN the
town you as live III ana the PEG
pie you know ocally Follow that up
with the peaple' you know in business.
then
lsuf TQR tan'r dispute these figures.
r. II too much trouble 10 think Of all
1he people you know you'll never do II.
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