Evening star., 1933-03-30

making one feel at home In ones own
world!
They make one feel as II he amount
ed to something, that he Is very much
worth while, just as he Is; that he has
no need for "bettering" himself, ac-
cording to some poorly conceived plan
which some one on the outside at
tempts to thrust upon him.
The blessed person who manages to
find us acceptable, as we are-is he not
bearer of good tidings, too?
Here, all the time, II we were to
believe this other sour-faced creature.
We were not quite appropriate in the
setting into which Nature had plainly
put us.
And now comes this happy one. this
fine fellow, who shakes us heartily by
the hand, who assures us, without a
touch of putting it on, that we are
distinctly to his liking.
At every word we begin to puff up.
BY the time he has left us we are
fully an inch taller, our chest Is out
at least full inches, and our head,
undoubtedly. has expanded q full size.
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This helpful attitude Is something
which one must be born with, evidently,
because no amount Of taking. no matter
how well intended, quite achieves it,:
there is a wholly false note which does
not carry conviction.
Cynical persons, unable to COM
prehend this. will feel loath to accept
true bearers OF good will at their face
value
They will be inclined to brand them
with labels well understood in the ver-
nacular, but not appropriate for paper.
They will question their sincerity, in
other words.
The truth seems to be, rather, that
few men are more sincere. For this
good will of theirs, rather than being a
matter OF the mind, where insincerity
turks, comes mostly from the heart.
One has it, or one hasn't it.
And he who has 1t not, but who real
ICES the need for it, can never think
himself into the full perfection of it.
He is willing to admit the full stature
Of the natural born.
The happy soul who cheers us by ac-
cepting us for what we are, without
covertly implying that We ought to be
somehow different, does more for us,
perhaps, than he who loads us with
honors.
He restores our self-respect.
IL Is only necessary 10 tnlnk OF the
various modern conditions which, subtly
enough, tend to strip so many human
beings of the last vestiges of this sub
lime clothing of the mind. heart and
spirit, to realize the supreme offerings
of this simple soul who values us for
what we are
If we are clerk, then we are clerk,
to him.
If We are a president, then we are
president.
If we are an executive secretary, we
are an executive secretary.
If an apple seller. then an apple seller.
If bulldog, a bulldog, nor is any de-
mand made that the creature be a chow.
Our happy friend. by his simple ac-
eral roles into which life has cast us,
or into which We have cast ourselves in
life, or into which we have been cast
by others, does great deal to restore
our confidence.
Confidence, in all ways. is the need
OF the hour. but perhaps it is the hour
which does us a service by revealing how
essential confidence is for the good life
Part OF confidence must be confidence
in ones SELF commonly called self
confidence. He who helps restore 1t to
those whose grasp has been rudely
shaken by time, and tide, and various
other shakers. is he who deserves and
continually shall have the praise and
thanks OF those who still regard graft
tude as something worth while.