New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-09-24
SENTIMENTAL PEOPLE.

some people deride others VIZ
are termed sentimental.
They think il a show Of weak
Mesa lack of strong-minded-
ness.
There was never greater mis-
AXE.
Sentmentality j but the out
cropping of euotion without
which humanity would be a cheat
md a fraud.
II doubtful if there Is man
II woman On earth who is really
levoid of some Seutmentallty.
The busy. brusque business man.
who often prideS himself on lis
,tolid Indifference. has a soft spot
somewhere within that can
lwayS be reached.
Without sentiment, life would
be almost wik4Srness. a waste
ana barren place of habitation.
Tbs matter S brought vIvdly
10 MUD when we think of the out
burst If spontaneous enthusiasm
hat greeted the presentation OF
Lucy Hayes, the granddaughter
of jefferson Davis, to the Conted-
rate veterans at their annual re-
union in Mobile. Though age had
whtened their hair and wrnkled
their checks, there was a sentl-
ment n then nature that dominat-
ed everything. and the little grand
daughter of the deceased Conted
rate cheftain was given great
ovation.
Ii was MT simply the sweet
Young girl, clad IN black, that
stood before them, that caused the
old soldiers 10 arise as one man,
and give her a great ovation. She
was the sponsor Of the South. the
living representative Of a great
man who gave his life for a cause
that he and they believed was Just;
| it was sentiment, if You please, "A
noble sentiment, that actuated
every heart. The old veterans
were not ashamed Of the fact that
Ithere was such great expression
| OF sentiment-an they need not
have been, Their hearts would have
been of marble had it been other
wise.
Then, again, when Col. Shipp,
[ Chattanooga, the gallant old
Confederate WHO had just come
from a Federal prison because he
| declined to shoot down white men
to protect worthless negro from
mob, was introduced there was
lanother manifestation that was a
most unequaled in the history II
reunions. They felt that their
comrade had been made martyr
without jus. cause, that he was the
representative of the old-tlme
South. and they could not restrain
their feelings. and tears fell as the
great oyaiuan was gwen.
1t may be called sentiment, it
may be called emotion, or wha;
ever you please, but it is feeling
that is worthy Of all men aud wo
men.
Some people have the idea that
sentimentaIty is confined to the
young only and that they always
act silly 1t may appear silly to
some. and no doubt this kind OF
sentimentalty should be discour-
aged to some extent, but there
should be some degree OF 1t, or the
young people would MT be natural.
Gush and silly snickering should
never be confused with sentimen-
tally, for the latter is deep and
abiding characterize.
Not long since j lady who was
reared IN one of the large citles'of
the country said that she had at
tended theatres all her life, and
nothing that she had ever seen
brought tears t. her eyes, that she
new it was the mimic Stage, and
was not real. She boosted that
there was no sentimentality about
her: that tears never came unbld-
den t. her eyes. The good lady
didn't even know herself, because
a few days later she was seen with
a book by her side and with the
tears trickling down her checks.
She was asked what the trouble
was and she said she had just
been reading the Leopard Spots
and when she reached the portion
Of the book that told of the awful
experience Of Tom Camp, she
could not restrain herselft She
had more sentiment, more gen
mne human feeling than she had
believed.
The man or woman without
some kind Of Sentimentality, some !
kind of tender heartedness. Is IN
a class that esn never feel the !
tender emotions Of life, and too,
the happier emotions-MeIadian |
NJ IS. Dispatch.