Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Over-Polite. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Over-Polite.

Perhaps perfectly frank people, who tell you candidly just what they think of you are not the pleasantest friends In the world. But, on the other hand, if you are thrown into the company of an unusually polite—an over-polite—-person, you almost immediately distrust him. There comes to you, acting upon the nervous part of you, of which you know so little, a sense of doubt. You are not averse to polite bearing and manners—nay, you like them; you even find it pleasant to receive the compliments so readily and glibly offered to you; to see the amiable smile, to watch the bowing head; and there is something in the sense of reverence and respectas.expre.ssed towards yourself which is very flattering. Yet, in spite of it all, you are not sure of your companion’s honesty. You are inclined to supect that there is something cynical behind that smile; sbmething unreal in the look of regard. And you. do. not know in the.least why you have it At the same time, you find it so agreeable to be made much of, to find your opinions suddenly of value (or assured value) in the eyes of your fellow, that you lull to rest the spirit of. doubt w’hich rises within you, and you resolve to believe your new friend an exceedingly polished and very delightful man.