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Show ALL LOOK FOR GRATITUDE Nothing That Can Be Bestowed Is Able to Take Its Place in the Human Heart. Gratitude given or received is one of the best things in the world. We need far more of it and far better quality. qual-ity. Yet I have never read any satisfactory satis-factory account of what it so gloriously glorious-ly meanB. Its value begins just where the value of pay ends. Thanks are personal, and attempt to fit an adequate ade-quate response to the particular service serv-ice performed. Piy is an impersonal coin which has been handed out to many before it reaches you, and will go to many others when it leaves you. It Is yojr right and you -are not grateful grate-ful for it. But thanks are a free gift and enrich the giver. There is no nobler art than the art of erpressing one's gratitude in fresh, unhackneyed, unexaggerated terms which answer devotion with fresh devotion, fancy with new fancy, charity with sincerity. sincer-ity. Artists who get their reward only in money and in the stale plaudits; plaud-its; of clapping hands are restless for something more individual. They want to be intimately understood and beautifully answered. For such gratitude grati-tude they look to brother artists, to the few who really understand. There they find their best reward but even this leaves something wanting. The Atlantic. |