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Show Rudeness Checked by Display of Courtesy seen It happen. Tolerance, kindness call the response by any name you will are all Indications that the pes- sessor has attained to self mastery I The disagreeable person, however cul I tured. is savage, and the savage will, always be controlled by that which i Is civilized. Kansas City Times. , The most effective weapon to he nsed In meeting rudeness Is courtesy. I say that dignity and calm and gomt temper will always check rudeness even In n rsnn who can be checked by no other means. The explanation Is thnt It Is tm possihle to be disagreeable without knowing that one Is being disagree able. And to be met by agreeable manners when one knows that one Is being dlsncreenhle Is In Itself a severe lesson. The disagreeable person Is quick enough In wits to perceive the end of power. He Is quick enough also to moke a comparison and feel s sense of Inferiority to the self-con trolled 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. 1 have |
