Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — How to Be Popular. [ARTICLE]

How to Be Popular.

Every one would like to have a gracious manner, to be popular, to be loved by everybody, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. It is a legitimate ambition to be well thought of and admired by our fellow men. Yet the majority of us are not willing to make any great sacrifice to acquire this art of arts; in fact, we are all the time doing things which repel others and which Inevitably tend to make us unpopular. have to take infinite pains to succeed In our vocations or any accomplishment worth while, and should we expect to gain the air of arts, the charm of personality, the power to please, to attract, to interest, without making great efforts? Selfishness in all Its forms is always and everywhere despised. No one likes a person who Is bound up in himself, who is constantly thinking how he can advance his own interests, and promote his own comfort. The Becret of popularity is to make everybody you meet feel that you are especially Interested In him. If you really feel kindly toward others, If you sincerely wish to please, you will have no difficulty in doing so. But If you are cold, indifferent, retiring, silent, selfish; if you are all wrapped up In yourself and think only of what may advance your own interests or increase your own comfort, you never can become popular. Lucifer’s ambition wak his undoing —but look at the free advertising he got out of it! The tug is the only thing that has its tows behind.