Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — Medal for Good Nature. [ARTICLE]

Medal for Good Nature.

A medal for pure and unmitigated good nature was awarded not many days ago to a youth in a public school. He had not made a noteworthy record for progress in learning; he had not even reached a point beyond the average among his fellows; he had simply eclipsed them yll In amiability of the kind that accepted rewards or punishments with urbane and equal philosophy. And the fact that a medal \vas deemed not too honorable for him under the circumstances Is significant evidence of the high esteem In which good nature Is held. How it does oil the creaking wheels of life, to be sure! How smooth it makes the path I What a comfortable aud comforting companion a truly amiable person Is, If bo Is only a dog! When everything and everybody else have ruffled one the wrong way, and made every individual set of injured feelings one possesses stand up like quills upon the fretful porcupine, how soothing to step Into the atmosphere of the amiable person 1 Serenity enters, peace sets In, you laugh, he laughs, the world turns rosecolored again. Amiability accomplishes what no scrum could. 4ls an Immeasurable Influence for good. It with satisfaction that w* note the presentation of a medal for the good-natnred boy. Why would It not be a valuable custom to introduce Into all our schools?—Harper’s Weekly.