El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-18

1T is unfortunate that in an over
crowded world we have to live too
close together. We get on other
peoples nerves, and they get on
ours and we mutually harass and WOr-
~ each other.
Probably there is not one of US who
has not some little irritating habit or
popularity, that is a continual annoy
ance to every one with whom we come
in contact, and that makes us all but
unbearable TO the unfortunates who
are doomed to live under the same roof
with us.
Considering that suicide is not only
/ unpleasant. but unpopular, and Illegal
and that we can't get off Of the earth,
nor can we seek a lodge I'm some vast
wilderness, even If we wanted TO, II Is
up TO all of us to try to make ourselves
as little obnoxious as possible to our
fellow creatures.
Therefore, as a mere starter, consider
the following list Of unpleasantnesse
in others and ask yourself II you are
guilty Of doing any Of them.
In the Family Circle.
DO YOU
In the family circle
Read aloud TO people who are already
reading themselves
Read aloud choice excerpts from a
paper to a person who has just read
Repeat ali the chestnutty jokes in
the comic papers that everybody has I
read?
Absent-mindedIy refuse TO listen to
what is being said until a long story /
has been told and then require it to be /
all repeated again2
Have everything that is said remind /
you Of something that occurred when |
you were a little girl or boy2
When the mail is brought in, DO I
you turn and twist every letter sCruti- I
MIXING its pOstmark and handwriting, ]
and specializing about whom It IS from Z
before you hand it over to the rightful /
Owner2
Are you filled with ungodly curiosity
about everything that everybody else /
IN the family does2
Do you demand to know Of all the /
other members Of the family who go /
outside Of the house, where they have
been, why they went whom they saw,
wat they said and why they didn't see
the people that they didn't see?
Do you simply grunt when spoken to
when you are in the privacy OF the
home circle2
Do YOU habituaIly throw cold water
on every plan that is propOsed2
Do you consider that you have the
right 10 boss every one Of your house
hold because he, or she, has the ms
fortune to be married to you, or to be
blood kin TO you?
Among Friends.
DO YOU
Among friends
spend your time talking about your
Are you guilty Of forever reminis-
cenciug about your travels and what
YOU saw in Europe and what you did In
California;
Do You brag about your success and
your triUmphs2
Do you make long suffering people
stand for anecdotes about your chill
dren and infantile bon mots2
Do you spend weary hours explaining
the mechanism and the advantages of
Your automobile to people who haven't
wheelbarrow and couldn't run one
If they had it2
DO you talk endless shop to people
who haven't any interest In any bust
ness but their own?
DO you consider that being an indi-
viduaPs friend gives YOU the right to
police that persons life and pick out
his or her amusements, friends and
clothes?
DO you butt into your friends affairs
with all manner OF uncalled for advice2
Do you get grouChy because your
friends won't get mad with other peo-
pie because YOU are mad with them
and won't so TO your milllner and
dressmaker and dOctOr2
Do you consider that friendship is
another name for borrowing. and that
YOU have q right to use your friends
belongings as IF they We're your own?
Do you descend on your friends, bag
and baggage. without waiting for the
fOrmality Of an invitation. OF the de-
cency To find out whether your pres
ence viii be convenient or not2
In Public.
DO YOU
In public
Sit in a street car with your legs
crossed and your feet sticking out in
the aisle where they will rub off on ]
everybody's clothes?
DO you sprawl over as much space
as possible in a crowded car?