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Show Rudeness Checked by Display of Courtesy The most effective weapon to be used In meeting rudeness Is courtesy. I sr.y that dignity and calm and good temper will alwjys check rudeness, even In a iM-rson who can be checked by no other means. The explanation Is that It Is Inv j possible to be disagreeable without knowing that one Is being disagreeable. disagree-able. And to be met by agreeable manners when one knows that one Is being disagreeable Is in Itself s severe lesson. The disagreeable person Is quick enough In wits to perceive the end of power, fie is quick enough also to make a comparison and feel a sense of Inferiority to the self-controlled agreeable person. Anger gives way to respect and respect re-spect to emulation. The disagreeable person, , conscious at last of an Infirmity, In-firmity, becomes apologetic. I have seen It happen. Tolerance, kindness call the response by any name you will are ail Indications that the possessor pos-sessor has attained to self mastery. The disagreeable person, however cultured. cul-tured. Is ssvage, and the savage will always be controlled by that which Is civilized. Kansas City Times. . s |