ware clod hat never been generally admired. Indeed we feel justified in. kicking it around. "Dull thing, say, "what can it know of the exquisite aufering reserved for sensitive souls like We despise 0 lod, we pity it, and woe let it do ull the dirty work The phlegmatic eled pum the more or less even te of tte way, glad to shield the tender spring from the cold winds of reality.
What of the claims of the impervious, the pachydermatous against those of the painfully ser ized? One could not wish to be as spiritually coarsened as was the mountain girl physically, who, when her mother told her that she was standing with her bare foot on a coal only drawled out: "Which fut, Maw?" But to have nerves +o de-ego is plenty of fresh air, cleared of prejudices, and cold baths of a bracing indifference. This treatment, with a diet freed from the lcloying and clogging sweets of flattery; should result in a hardening process which surely makes for }healthiness and happiness, not only for the person in question but for his associates, Ticately adjusted that ordinary impacts ae torture is even worse.
The person who states with pride that he is #0 sensitive that his feel-
Public opinion is undoubtedly on the side of the sensitive. Feelings are a luxury popularly reserved for the well-to-do in money, culture and sensibility, The poor are not supposed to have emotions, or at least to obtrude them upon those born to hyperwsthetic inheritances. Therefore, it being economically and socially desirable, those of us with tions to make the best of our-fand take a melancholy plea Of suffering with our better But is it worth the while? or may argue that the per-Son who feels sorrow deeply is just responsive to Joy, But this argue ment is outside the point, for this article the word feelings is Understood. to mean feelings about oneself. "If our personal dignity is affronted we suffer more vitally than ifa tornado sweeps hundreds out" of existence, Ts this rensonble? Also for one person who woul rather be right than be President there are thousands who would rather be wrong. than be Midlealous. This isthe Way We are conscious of the winds of pul opinion blowing upon his jersonality, in ikely to. take cold. in the droughty atmosphere. The cure for the susceptibility of the enlarged ings are easily hurt would hardly claim with equal haughtiness the distinction of self-conceit. Yet the difference is hard to discover. The ego-centred is naturally on the lookout for affronts to his pride and finds what he is looking for. It is the most natural thing in the world that we should consider ourselves and our personal affairs of supreme importance, but one mark fof the reasonable being is his ability to adapt himself to the universe around him and to rate, himself approximately, The trouble is that we are all x0 busy in making ourselves happy and other people good that we huve no time to reverse the process.
A person habituated to putting first things first must often find his personal affairs of secondary importance. It is only when we are Sick physically and mentally that four own concerns bulk disproportion? ately large. Interpret Arnold and Bishop Wilson as we may, balanced life which pursues "sweetness and light" and aims "to make reason and the will of God prevail" is not likely to find much time for hurt feelings. What we do to other people matters considerably in our scheme of development; what they do to us is comparatively trifling, entirely upon our own singing, here which 1 composed of producer and artist, not to sity fare 'Mater,' 'Gee, But You Babies fartists, It is something of a strain jate Wonderful Things' 'If -you fon one's credulity to sce.a dancer hadn't looked at me,' and the musi with the careless grace of an apple for Tae Baby's Smile" Yes, I at petal fluttering about the stage or range all the details of the produc-posturing with the lithe grace of a connected it, tout T do dele tion, every thing on the stage or velvet-footed pantheress, then to Sear her with finished becompanigate the business part of travelling meats at the piano, or singing in arrangements and) the "The to 2 variety of nuances, playing the violin or banjo, composing words Tt-was a comfort to find that and music for songs, and just for there was something this sweet-good measure designing costumes! voiced efficient entertainer wasn't Perhaps she is an architect or doing, for the interviewer was find-mural painter, too, It wouldn't suring difficulty in reconciling the roles prise us.
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