Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — Praise and Appreciation. [ARTICLE]

Praise and Appreciation.

There are persons in this world—and the pity is that there are not more of them—who care less for praise than appreciation. They have an ideal after which they are striving, but of which they consciously fall short, as every one who has a lofty ideal is sure to do. When that ideal, is recognized by another, and they are praised or commended for somethihg—let that something be important or not—in its direction, they are grateful, not for praise, but for appreciation. An element of sympathy enters into that recognition, and they feel that they have something in common with the observer who admires what they admire and praises what they think Is most worthy of praise. If Christopher Columbus had landed among a people like the denizens of Fire Island, the settlement of America might have been delayed several centuries. They were more gentle savages where he first came in contact with them.