Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — Modesty. [ARTICLE]

Modesty.

Modesty is a quality mainly noticeable in folks who would lose by j having attention called to themselves. ! The most modest man we know has two or three other names on his waiting list, and there are, oh! so many places lie can’t go at all. Greatness is characterized by a tendency to efface oneself. This is true of great modesty also. The ! man we know who claims the most ' modesty has one of the sorts of I modesty that has effaced itself so I utterly it must he very great modI esty, One wouldn't notice that man’s , modesty at all unless one's attention ; were called to it, as it is sure to be by the owner thereof. The girl with ankles too thick or tdo thin is mo d est about the hi. Sh e doesn’t care much what color of hose she Wears, and she keeps her I skirts low. Also, if her neck and shoulders are scrawny she thinks ; these oiie-more-struggle-and-l-am- . free gowns are immodest. In fact, she is sure of it. We have it on | good authority that the homeliest of the Turkish women are the ones who manage to maintain the custom of going about vieled to the eyes. Animals are not expected to be modest, and think nothing about j those tilings, so they are comparai tively happy. They escape modesty while they live and hell when they die. Some people are not modest about telling of their ability but are extremely modest about displaying it. j aftef they get the job. Their mod- ( esty vanished again, temporarily, at i each pnv day. . I 'j. Synonyms for modesty are selfdefense, timidity, laziness, hope-of--1 attracting - attention - to -one-self-by- | pretending-to-be-so, etc. j We know absolutely nothing of modesty, except by hearsay.—Judge.