Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — To Be a Good Neighbor. [ARTICLE]

To Be a Good Neighbor.

To be a really good nolghbor demands the possession of many excellent qualities—tact, temper, discernment, and consideration for other people’s feelings; and, if we possess all, or some of these uualltlos, innumerable and never-ending are the benefits wo may confer on each other, and a great deal of pleasure will be the result. But, becauso we are neighbors, wo need not necessarily be close friends. Wo may be friendly enough to enjoy the pleasure of doing them little kindnesses and receiving the same in return. Being kindly disposed to all by no means implies that our house is to be open from morning till night to visitors. The typioally good-natured person, who is at every one’s beok and call, is likoly to bo greatly imposed upon and to please no one really; one must be able to say “No," and to decline being made use of by every me. *