Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — Persons to Avoid. [ARTICLE]

Persons to Avoid.

No class of people can inflict such martyrdom on their associates as those who are given to the habit of reminding others of their failings and peculiarities. You are never safe with such a person. When you have done your very best to please, and are feeling kindly and pleasantly, out will pop some bitter speech or sneer* but too well aimed to be misunderstood. Setting aside the unkindness of the habit, and looking at it entirely from a worldly point of view, it does not pay to say disagreeable things to those who love us, as our ill-nature will in the end recoil upon ourselves. More than one-half of 54,000 children lately examined in Germanywere found to be suffering from defective vision. In some schools the proportion of the short-sighted was as high as 70 and 80 per cent.