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Show AS TO PfUISING OF MEN One Man Who, Crown Older, Hal Chanfled His Views on This Somewhat. "I used to think," said a man now older than he was, "that no man ought ever to be praised, that It was up to every man to do his duty and to work to the best of his ability without praise or coddling, but I think a little differently differ-ently about that now. I think now that occasionally when a man has done a good thin.-' It does no harm to pat him on tlie back a little. "You have to use discrimination about this, I will admit. There are men who If you praise them, get a swelled head, throw out their chests and think they are the whole works and straightway begin to deteriorate or to requlr raise all the time, but there's an asionlshlng number of men of quite another sort "I know lots of men who work not only faithfully but well, men devoted to duty who take a pride In w hat they do whatever It may be and who think of that only, never looking for praise; but, like the nst of us. they are still human And cow suppose some day such a man pulls off a Job that U really a little betier than his dally good work? "Why. what I feel like doing what 1 do now is to say to hliu, 'Pllly, It was a good thing,' and 1 rind It does no barm, but on the contrary I used lo think that It was up to c man to do his duty and that If he didn't he was a poor sort, and us far us that's concerned 1 think that way now, but now I think a little praise now and then does no barm, and It may be for the man that gets It a source of very great comfort and pleasure." |
