Evening star., 1925-08-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Some time ago. in this column,
wrote: Mankind Is like the alternating
current, now attracting US, now re
pelling. We need the rectifier of, love
to receive the best Of their impulses
and to filter out the bad"
Let us consider this repulsion to-
DAY, having on more than one occa
sion In the past treated of the attrac.
tion or our fellow human beings. For
one time, at least, let us deal solely
with the bad.
Few there are but at some time or
other have felt real repulsion upon
meeting some one. 1t was in nc
sense physical, for that person may
have been very attractive, clean, well
Sroomed; yet there was a sense of re,
straint there we could not overlook.
An old verse hits this feeling of
neatly:
| do not like thee Dr. Fell.
The reason why cannot tell
But ] do not like thee, DR., Fell.
Every one of us meets many DR.
F'ellS in our journey through life
strange trip from a station we do
not remember to one we know less
of, and are none the wiser from our
many meetings.
All we know is that we do not like
the fellow!
What is the explanation of it?
MysticS have one that runs some.
thing like this: From each person is
given off an invisible aura, or ema.
nation which strikes one within the
radius.
This aura provokes a hostile feel
Ing If 1t does not fraterniZe we'll with
the aura given off against it. Such
a theory, while hard to believe, IS per
hapS not more SO than some others
one might name.
x x X x
Luckily for mankind the man who
repulses you may be eminently at.
tractive TO me, and vice versa. Thus
the world goes round,
The man A likes will be anasthema
to B, while the close friend of the
latter c, A will mot be able to stand"
Thus comes about the common stu.
alton that we find with regret that
the person we imagined our friend
would like the latter does not care for
at all.
Consequently every one has an un.
pleasant evening, which no one can
attribute TO any one, because all are
to blamei
Or. rather, the Invisible repulsion of
mankind is the trouble maker. Let
me hasten to say that ], personally,
do not believe in the sura.business
sketched above. / regard IL as a nice
theory. that is all.
"A more likely explanation, it seems
to me, is this: That this is a pretty
big world, and has been In existence
a mighty long time. In such a huge
place, and during such tremendous
interval OF time, certain types of men
talitieS have been evolved. These are
very far apart in their standards, so
far apart, indeed, that there is no
reconciling them. From these ideals
have grown ways of expression, ways
of action, even motions, that are in
herently opposed.
So when the twain meet all the
kings horses and all the kings men
cannot put the two of them together!
There is no use trying, in the la st
analysis. The best we can do is to
try to remain friends on the surface.
Except on some such ground as this il
is almost impossible to explain the
friction which goes on every day be
fore our eyes.
Men work together. all seem more
or less alike, but one man has certain
friends, and certain others who do not
care rap for him; and so it goes the
group being split into various smaller
groups.
Difference in daily habits. too, ex-
plains large part of the repulsion
of mankind.