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Show j-'-v A WORD OF PRAISE. '.jl ' "What's one man's meat is ail- !('f. 1 other man's pois.ui," is a homely illt'l hii.vIiis hand'd down from all - i1 ri'e when people were In the habit y'jl'' of thinking, and of applying iihil- U'fl osoiihy to every day life. And the 11 old iidaKe is true, absolutely. It Is 'I'l true as to meat, ns to medicine, j'i" . nnd In fact Is universally true. ,1. ' And In no Inxlnnec Is it so true ns 'id in KiviiiK praise. j:u' Jfiich ndviee lias been Riven ns to -t,i'i " the yaliie of n word of praise. '( '' , Praise is in n yny Hie elixir of ' ''p life. Tinier its stimulating inflil- 'li-i.' eneo, wonders ean he done by ..,""' d i)j ; ii- some persons. 1 J,' 1 1 A word of praise encourages the j 'r; 'li weary in well doin', and also the! -(i I' beginner in well doimx. V ; r t'o llie worlier, in many instances, r f t the word of praise is the incentive .''r'V- to belter efl'orls and to belter re- . "fi"' Bulls. ... I ',', s To the efficient person, who has I 1" n reasonable re'ai'tl "for his own 1 j. 1 efficiency, but wlio is also aware ll: that there are others equally if not J 'i j , more efficient, a word of praise and ' t r. nppreciai ion also is a palh to better! 7. .''' tilings. To all of these, praise, ill 1 1 ; I , i so mc"'- i H i( And now, how about the poison? j 7 u Can such a beneficent thins as I ,u n praise become "the other man's i'. , poison?" Assuredly so. Xo great -g'i keenness of preeeptiou is ueees- ii '1 sary to realize this. jir, There are persons and they may ! ' be met in all walks of life who are j so thoroughly in love with 'hem- selves that they are immune to the t very thought that there nii'lit be n , defect in them or in their work. They have no hesitancy in praising themselves on any and nil j occasions. If they nre women, they will boast of their housewifely efficiency, of their clothes, of their 3oeial triumph, in fact of everything. every-thing. But regardless of sex, they stand : upon a pedestal and' demand that all their world give them adulation. adula-tion. If they are not praised, they will more than supply the deficiency. To them, a word of praise is as n spark to gunpowder. They will immediately, figuratively, swell to I lie bursting point. Even the person per-son who gives the ill-advised praise wilL.bo regarded as a poor worm of the earth, who should be glad of! 'an opportunity to burn incense at the altar of the egotist. They will soak up praise like n sponge but tliy will give .up none of it. The self-conceited person, it will be observed, has little praise for others. . Xot being nble to see their own defects, these praise seekers naturally can not learn. They are perfect, in their own estimation. Their ways are the only ways. And to see them at their worst, just try I n word of praise. I |