Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-06

be always ready to help another, TO
have a bright smile for everyone, and
speak a CHEEKY word. All who do tn Sc
things will find the true secret of hap
liness. do a kindness to someone
every day Let this be your motto.
No life Is really happy until 1t is help
full; is really successful until ii is radi-
ant with Joy and gladness-the gladnes
Of good cheer, of goodwill towards
everybody, says Orison Marden in Sue
cess.
Oniy by giving ourselves can we hold
what we have, can we grow.
Like hat wonderful substance ra-
dunn. which filings off itself mill ions Of
particles every second, yet never seems
to lose anything, never grows smaller,
no matter how much we give of our
selves, how much we fling off Of help
%fulness, of good cheer and encourage
ment, there Is not only no ~difninut,on
of Il supply, but, on the contrary, the
more we give. the more we have; the
more we fling out of life. the more
h~elpfulness, inspiration, encouragement
and hone come back to US.
Yet there is a strange wea kness of
human nature which blinds manv of
lis to the GOOD IN others and which de-
liehts In making us say unkiud things
ooout them, hurting them instead of
h hing them
We have all met the habitrai e~litfler.
who never sees any good in ANYTHING
which does not Immediately concern
himself. advance his interests. the mar
who is always fingins ont his scr
|, casms, sticking a knife into other peo-
pies backs, making lieht of Others mo
tives. finding faults and detects IN
their characters, and Implying that hoy
arc o waht they ought to be or pre-
tend to be.
1t is positively painful to the small
soul to hear a competitor compliment
ed or spoken we'll of. He always tries
to minimize the virtue inc quality OF
the praise of another by a malicious
"if' or but" or e~ndeavors in SOM
way to throw doubt upon the character
of the person praised.
The habit of belittling is a comics.
sion of weakness, of inferiority, of 6
small. Jealous. envious nature; a con
fession that ones life is not. well poised
we'll balanced. The large. magnani
nous sou has no room for jealousy fol
the belittling spirit. 1t magnifies rh'
good and minimizes the bad.
A spirit of generosity and Kindness il
ar indication of greatness of soul
Jealousy. envy, a disposition to keel
from others the credit which belong.
to them arc marks of q small nature
a pinched mentality. A kindly spiri
always accompanies largeness o
nature, breadth OF character. The mai
who belittles a competitor. who main
tains a mean silence when he SHOULD
praise, only exhibits to the world hi
own n~arrowness and stinginess OF soul
A man with a really large nature il
generous and charitable, even to hi
worst enemy.
The belittler does not realize that il
disparaging others. in discounting tn
achievements of competitors, he is ex
posing the limitations of his own sou
the smallness of his nature, and no
only that, but all the time is maxim
the person he Is talking to think les
Of him. We little imagine that whel
We draw a picture of others we dray
one of ourselves. A small. mean sou
sees only small. mean things in an
other. A really great nature sees onl,
the good qualities of others.
1t is the generous giving of ourselve
that produces the generous harvest
Many people are so stingy of thei