| Show Hard io to Account for the Likes and Dislikes Common to All Mankind l Taste Is not the only thing for whIch there Is no accounting said Mid Mr Cato Likes and dis- dis dislikes dislikes dis dislikes likes are ars ar quite as unaccountable Most of or us would be pretty hard putto rut put putto to It to explain some sonac of ot our own and as for tho those e of ot other people people- people well they are Ley beyond 0 lilt reason renson We nil all of ot us undoubtedly dislike some people that considering everything e that Is known Imo about them th m we 0 should like and we all of us like some ome peo peo- people people people that we know from what we know about them we should not like I doubt whether this state of affairs Is distinctively human luman The action of dogs often Indicate that they ther feel the same way about It and I am in- in inclined in inclined to suspect that lint It extends to all animate nature Likes and dislikes that concern food drink and amusements are ure quIte as divergent dl and quite as un- un unexplainable un explainable e This has lias long been noted and entered In the records which show for Instance that one mans man's fish Is another mans man's poison polson and that what Is whitebait to one man Is bete noir to another all another all ot of which w would tend to Indicate that we are as erratically dis ds- discriminating discriminating criminating as mentally or temper temper- temperamentally temperamentally Perhaps temperament has more to do with It than either physical or mental digestion There are some most worthy persons who are most attractive e but perhaps when It Is considered that there are also worthy orthy persons food drink and amusements that are unattractive the situation with all its risks and temptations averages up In the way vay worldly af- af affairs af affairs fairs usually do Many persons have declared that life Is complicated and In a detached de de- detached and e mood most of us will agree to this but com com- com com- comparatively comparatively ely few v people suspect It ex- ex except etc ex except c pt on special occasions and In embarrassing emergencies The rest of the time it seems to be pretty humdrum ns as It Is with a dally routine that Is more often n a bore than n a problem This Is just as well as In the tune long run It seems certain that nerves ner and blood pressure will with more forti forU- fortitude fortitude endure being bored tude than being mentally mentally racked nature cal cal- 1 which The skill with simplifies condition to our louses us liS Is the complications of our likes and dislikes For the most part we dont don't There take them very seriously seriously what what what of It Those they are-and are whom we dont don't like we vre old avoid those whom we do like we seek seck To be little relationship becomes a su-re su sure the seek Involved In when those whom we dont don't like us but they have ha the usual protective mechanism and It satisfactory nil all works out with a n fairly tory tort degree of tranquility Buck uck I said I I suppose that dout dont people that you there lucre are some like Ill I'll s say there are arc he exclaimed plenty of them I 1 And others that you yon like m Um mm Um m m well yes yes yes-a a few I feel the same me way and I sup sup- suppose suppose pose that everybody does Why do you suppose It Is so Its Its merely a wise provision of nature to make the world more In Interesting n Indianapolis Indianapolis News |
