The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-21
The Reiectors.
By JOHN ID. HARRY,

| Tie mas large acquaintance among the I'M
portant people of the earth.
! Nevertheless he is one OF the most unhapp,
men imaginable. The reason is that he has tn.
habit OF expecting human beings to live up to hi:
standards. With severity he judges those h.
meets. If they do not satisfy him he rejects them
He has grown more and more severe in hi:
attitude toward life. Consequently, life has grown
more and more severe toward him.
! And yet in spite of his years of bitter expe
rence. he has not yet discovered the truth of the
saying which nowadays, in varying forms, we hear
echoed and re-echoed, that life is mirror reflect
| ing back to us ourselves.
There is literary S.dSo my acquaintance
who takes simiar~xttitude. He insists that all
| the people he makes friends shall be interesting
that is, intellectually interesting The people he
does not find intellectually interesting he despises
| and speaks of with scorn. Consequently, he often
finds himself isolated. He also suffers good deal
! from his own scorn.
| In spite of all his intuition and knowledge OF
the world, he does not know that scorn is a
poison.
We all aware of the existence of that large
class of persons who reject others on account of
| consideration of birth or social connections or
wealth.
In fact, as one looks about. it is pitfu to dis
cover how much rejecting there is in the world.
And amazing is the pride people take in re-
jecting. They seem to think that rejecting reflects
| credit themselves. The more people they re-
ject the more convinced they become of their own
superiority.
Meanwhile they remain unconscious that
| through their reflections, they are putting a tax
upon themselves, sustaining a loss.
And yet have noticed that the rejectors of the
world always alert for themselves. They show
remarkable skill in securing what they believe to
be their advantage. Nevertheless they are invari-
ably losers. In nearly every instance il you will
watch you will find that they unhappy.
Meanwhile those who think about re-
jccting others, who accept others human beings
exactly like themselves and get the best out of
the people about them, go comfortably through
life.
After all, it is a matter of adjustment The
moment we demand that the world shall adjust
itself to us, we lose. The moment we make up
our minds that the only course is to adjust our
selves to the world, we gain
Sometimes it seems to me that here lies the
whole secret.
d
1t is caring not for oneself, but for the people
and the things outside.
And the less one cares for oneself and the more
one cares for the things and the people outside
the more gains for oneself.
In acquaintance we all know rejcctors
Sometimes they reject us, either openly or
covertly.
Often hear them boast of their capacity for
being bored They forget that it invariably &C
companies the capacity for boring
AS you hear any one say that he is
easily bored, you may be sure that it is easy for
him to bore others, and that others often suffer in
his presence
For superiority that is conscious of itself is
burden, not merely to oneself alone, but to all
those obliged to meet it.
At this moment am reminded OF friend who
during the past few years has sustained bitter
trials and dlsappointments. He has been going
through OF those strange periods when
troubles come not singly, but in battalions
Some of his relatives and close friends worry
about him and pity him. But their pity and their
worry wasted. He can rise above any trouble.
The reason is that lifelong habit OF forget
ting himself and becoming absorbed in interests
outside himself has given him freedom He has
never been reflector OF good He has accepted
it or it has come his way. He has rejected only
evil
He recently sustained a terrible loss by death
1t was though that he would be crushed with grief
He was grieved, deeply and sincerely but his in
tcrest in things outside him saved him from being
Frustrated.
Those who started to offer him sympathy and
TO grieve with him were surprised and in some in
stances disappointed that he did not show more
grief.
They thought that his attitude showed ndiffer-
ence 1t did show noble indifference to self, one
of the hardest things in the world to reach and
one OF the richest in its rewards, the saving grace
Bull Moose Second Thought.
If the Republican leaders act with the smallest
degree of discretion they heal the breach in
the party and present united front. The Pro-
grcssives are anxious to act with their old friends
Many of them have formally renounced their
heresies of 1912 and are finding congenial sur
roundings among their old political associates
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