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Show H Too Sensitive By Half IT IS difficult to get along with too sensitive persons; those who seem to be always on the NH watch for someone who is going to slight them L m or say something which may have a double mean- Hyfl ing or upon which they can lay a claim that H something was meant as a slight. Such people, H for their own comfort ought to keep pasted in H their hats the saying of an old soldier and dip- WM lomat which read as follows: "No one can insult H me unless he tries to." To commit that to mem- H ory and make a rule never to be offended until H convinced that the intention was to offend, Avould H save many a man and many a woman a great deal H of unhappiness; all save that class which are H never happy unless they can find something to H be unhappy about. H And it applies to nations as well as individuals. H A case in point has just been sprung. The Amer- H lean Atlantic squadron has just made a run across H the Atlantic; it called at several ports and the H officers and crews fraternized with foreign naval H officers and crews. But it seems they did not call H at any German port, and now all Germany is hurt, H and the German press is saying uncomplimentary H things and that "Germany wants nothing of the H United States, etc." All of which is clear proof H that the Germans do not wear in their hats the B words: "No one can insult me unless he tries to," H for if the German press and people would stop H to think, the United States has had two wars H with Great Britain, one with Spain, on two oc- H casions have come very near to a war with H France, but have never even had any contention H which even pointed toward a war with Germany. H Moreover, so great is the infusion of German blood H in American veins, that in many states German H beer is the national drink, and Bologne sausages H are included in eveiy lunch room, and the life H of old Fritz and the writings of Goethe arc K a part of every American library. We are not like H the German editors. We in America want much H of Germany, her literature, her science and more H than all her friendship. |