Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Unintentional Offense. [ARTICLE]

Unintentional Offense.

Want of thought, not want of heart, occasions many of the evils of this life, It is doubtless because it is a little troublesome to word a phrase differently from the form in w hich it crudely presents itself to the mind that so many persons acquire the unfortunate habit of unwittingly offending their friends. A little careful study of the mode in which a disagreeable remark can be made positively palatable will be found a most useful accomplishment. Such a study, so far from checking, as might be supposed, that spontaneous expression of feeling which some value so highly will be found, on the contrary, after a little, to have increased the tone and suppleness of those who practice the art, and to liave become as facile a habit as the expression of the more outspoken, unvarnished truth. It is the wit and polish of the man or woman of the world which enables so many malicious little remarks to be uttered in a tone of such exquisite breeding as to render it impossible for offense to be taken. Then why not expend as much thought upon the smoothing over of disagreeable truths which should be spoken for the benefit of all those concerned ?

There is a man in our town And he is very wise, sir. When e’er he doesn’t feel just right One remedy he tries, sir. It's just the thing to take in spring The blood to purify, He tells his friends, and nothing else Is he induced to try ; because, having taken Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to cleanse his system, tone it up, and enrich the blood, and linding that it always produces the desired result, he considers that it would be foolish to experiment with anything else. His motto is. “Prove all thingsand hold fast to that which is good.” That’s why he pins his faith to the “Golden Medical Discovery.” Walking advertisements for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Are the thousands it has cured.