El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-12

that we do in combating other people
idiOsyncrasies to walking around them
without humping into them We would
For it Is a rock-ribbed truth that
people will do things for US because
they like US that they would not 90
for US because il is our righJ 10 save
our lives. Our fellow creatures may
owe US certain obligations, but we've
got no way Of collecting them unless
they choose TO pay InaL IS WhaI
makes the ability to make friends
one Of the greatest assets anyone can
The art Of keeping the peace will
carry you further than any other one
thing in this world without It IN
dustry fails Of its reward and genius
dies stillbOrn- No matter how capa-
bic a man or woman may be, II they
cannot get along with other people
nobody wants them
Had to Go.
Zones is a splendid fellow, a glut-
ton for work, and he knows all about
the business" a merchant will say,
but I had TO let him go because he's
so cross and surly he was driving my
best customers away Smith Is the
best workman / ever had, but he kept
the shop in a ferment with his tenn
per, and so I had to dismiss him. a
factory owner will say Miss Brown
was an expert stenographer. but she
couldn't get along with anybody IN
the office, so we had TO fire her. is
the explanation Of why many a girl
loses a good job. of course, Miss 50
and So is the very woman for the
part" saws the theatrical manager,
but she's never been In a company
she didn't break up. I wouldn't try
to get along with her for a million
year"
These are remarks that we hear
every day. Moreover, we see how
they work out in real life. We see
the individual Of inferior ability. but
understanding the blessed art Of
keeping the peace, going ahead Of the
discounted genius. and we know our
selves that there is no quality in the
world that we consider more valuable
in an ebploye or fellow worker Than
Just being agreeable to get along with.
And II the art OF keeping the peace
IS valuable in professional life, in do
mostic life its price is above rubies.
It is the one and only panacea Tor the
divorce evil, for the thing that drives
husbands and wives apart is not some
great sin, but Just a million little
disagreeable tricks and speeches that
might just as well have been avoided
as not. If they had understood the art
Of keeping the peace
The Trouble.
The trouble with most Of US is that
we think that amiability and a pleas
ing personality are solely the gifts
OF nature, and we fall to realize that
they are traits that may be Cul-
tivated. Undoubtedly some people are
more Practically inclined than others,
but we can all learn to keep the peace
why should the ticket agent snarI
out replies at YOU when you ask a
perfectly civil question in a railroad
Officer Why should the shop girl bite
your head off, metaphorically speak
ing. If you don't buy the first article
she shows you2 Why should the
subway conductor throw an insulting
tone into his voice when he orders
YOU 10 step lively there2 Other ticket
agents and shop girls and conductors
speak 10 you civilly and graciOusly.
and. lncidentally,th they are the ones that
always move up higher, because they
practice the art OF keeping the peace
know a lonely woman who IS al
ways bewailing her friendlessness and
feeling hurt because she is not
invited 20 places TO which she would
why she IS left out. and yet she is
never in any company in which she is
not like a firebrand- She Invariably
selects as her topic Of conversation
something that will mrotify or offend
one or more Of the other guests Yet
70 be popular this woman would only
have to avoid saying the cutting and
sarcastic things she does.
How easy IL would be for a wife TO
keep the peace by avoiding the topics
that she knows affect her husbands
temper as waving red nag does
buIll What a little sacrifice il would
be for her to avoid doing the things ]
that irritate HIM How enormous the
rewards IL she would only refrain from I
naEging him about his little personal /
pecuIiarftiesi How simple for the hus- |
band 10 jolly his wife along instead OF /
knocking her
How beautiful the rewards for /
merely being pleasant, and vet to the /
great majority Of people the art OF I
keeping the peace is as much a lost /
art as making Damascus steel
IF YOU WANT RESULTS
every time and all Of the time. adver- /
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