Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-21
THE PHILOSOPHICAL BEGGAR.
He Relies Not on Sympathy Alone But
Also on Mems Vanity.

He Relies Not on Sympathy Alone But
Also on Mems Vanity.
I'm begging" said the philosophi-
cal beggar, much. very much, de-
pends on the manner Of approach.
THE old. old way Of saying, I
walked the streets last night and I've
got to walk 'em tonight and I haven't
had anything to eat for seventeen
days the simple and commonly
clumsy appeal to sympathy. is still
the way most often followed because
it is the easiest; but not all men are
svmpathetic and then the person ap-
pealed to in this way is always ready
to detect a flaw in the story, the pur-
pose of which is thus defeated by it's
OVERRIDING.
"Exaggeration is the fatal defect in
most begging stories, defect that
not only defeats the beggar but gives
| the person to whom appeal is made
two distinct satisfactions. In the first
place it gives that person chance
! to take credit to himself for detecting
fraud, and then knowing that he
has the further satisfaction Of keep
ing his money, he doesn't have to give
up.
so these crude appeals, careless
ly and bunglingly made, and address
ed to the sense of sympathy only, al
most always fail. My appeal is more
carefully considered, and besides, as
| far as it is possible, it is adjusted to
the particular person addressed; and
often it is addressed primarily not to
sympathy but to vanity.
THE application Of a title to man
| is a great help if you know the title
to give him and just how to apply it.
Many a man likes to be addressed as
| Judge, a great many men are nightly
| pleased with being addressed as doc
| tor and there are men who like to be
addressed by military titles. 1 might
say that some such men l address as
colonel. but more as major, and there
| il sound reason in this. Plenty of
men would not aspire to or would not
expect to attain to the rank OF colo
mel, and they would shy if so address
ed. though they might consider them
selves fully equal to and fitted for the
rank of major.
In military titles l never go be-
| low that rank. l never call anybody
| captain. there is no man who doesn't t
consider himself fit for higher rank
than that. and l very seldom address
man as boss. though that may some
times do, and do well.
so now with this appeal to hu-
man vanity TO be used, if it may be,
as an aid and an opening wedge, l
compose my story. l know on sight
what person | can strike with some
hope of success, and l don't waste
time on others; and then l must de-
eide on sight as to the form of the
appeal and as to whether IL should
be made to sympathy only or to both
sympathy and vanity.
| Here now is begging that calls
for keen discernment, quick action in
decision as to the precise nature and
| the extent of the call and sound judg-
| ment as to the opening approach.
Such begging is indeed an intellectual
pursuit. calling into operation all the
| faculties of the mind, with an added
tincture of the heart; and just as
surely as does success come to every
man who follows whatever pursuit
with intelligence and with complete
devotion, so does such begging bring
its own rewards to the beggar. -
New York sun.