Evening star., 1925-01-02

thousand and one times before.
Suddenly some day Bill, to our in
tense amazement, arrives with a bang.
He gets there" with a smash, and We
secretly wonder how he did 1t.
The next time we meet him in the
street we greet him with restraint.
He Is somebody and we are painfully
aware of 1t. We are chagrined that
Se never noticed 1T before. 1t is all
our fault, too, because he is just ex-
actly the same man now that he was
before.
If we had been more intent on find
ing his good points we would have
been the first to point him out as the
big man he really was. That is why
the discoverers of Presidents and
others who finally arrive" are so
proud to tell the world that they
were the Original So-and-So man."
Properly estimating others Is that
rare.
Employers often fail to recognize
the worth of their own employees. 1t
is in this matter as in the, popular
song Of the musical comedy, Every
body Else's Girl Looks Better to Me
Than Mine"
Since this is a fault of human ma
ture in general and not confined to
bosses" no specific blame can be at
tached. 1t is human nature, that is
all, the most contrary, curious thing
in all nature
Employees, in their turn, are wont
to fail to appreciate the good points
of their employers. They look with
envy on the jobs up the street. They
are on the outside, looking in, so they
| do not know the bad points Of the
other place.
Here, as in all the other walks OF
life, the prime necessity is to look
with eyes of understanding. SO many
persons seem to be born with some
thing in them that constrains them to
resent people, happenings, things.
Everything that exists calls for re-
sentiment. Just why this curious
phase of character exists is matter
for angels, not men, TO solve, and 1t
will take the former many aeons to
do the job properly, but the simple
fact of it's existence is evident to any
one who will think for a moment
The hearty, outdoor man resents
the indoor. studious life of another
and fails TO take in the many good
points the little fellow has. There
fore he underestimates him and con-
sequently has no regard for him.
The little fellow. on his side, is
just as apt to underestimate the big
brow. Each is wrong, wrong not only
from the others standpoint, but more
especially from his own, for there is
nothing surer than that as a man
thinks in his own heart so is he.
The fact that we resent, that we
| laugh at others. that we generally
underestimate them, rebounds more
on our own character and life than
1t strikes the other man.
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We ought to properly estimate
others more for our own sakes than
Especially we ought to try to see the
those who come as near to being
our civilization.
Check up on all the men and women
you know and make a particular list
you are inclined to laugh at or even
sneer at.
Then let US ask ourselves this
question:
What is wrong with US?
Not what is wrong with them. No
The big question is, what is the mat
| ter with us? There is an old saying
and it is a good one-about there be-
and so much bad in the best of us
that it hardly behooves any OF us to
| laugh at the rest of US.
This is a hard lesson to learn-this
| of not Understanding others-but
deIestimate US, as we will deserve
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