Weekly Chemawa American., May 23, 1902, Page 7, Image 7

CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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Sensitiveness and Success.
Many people are kept bunk, iu their ef
forts to Ret aluutf in Hie world, by over-sen-8iitvenean.
We know able young uieu aud
women who are well educated iind well
fitted for their callings but m extremely
sensitive to criticism 01 suggestions that
they never rie to I lie pi am to which their
aliili'ies entitle them. Their feelings are
constantly being wouuded by fancied
slights In the office, the "hop, the store,
the mill, the factory, or wherever else they
may happen to be. They carry about with
them, moat of the time, a Be use of Injury
which not only makes them unhappy, out
also to a great extent, mars their efficiency.
Over-sensitive people are nmially very
finegrained, highly organized, and intelli
gent, and, if they could overcome thla
weakness, would become capable, con
scientious workers. This fulling for it is
frtilinu, and a very serious one, too, is an
exaggerated from of self-consciousness,
which, while antirely different frmo ego
tism or conceit, causes Bel f to loom up in
such large proportions on the mental retina
as to overshadow every thi ng else. The vie
tim ofitteels that, wherever he goes, what-,
ever he doe he is the center of observa
tion, and that all though 8 are focused up
on him. He imagines that people are crit
icising his movements and his peison,
and making fun at his expense; when, in
reality, they are not thinking of him, and
pern Hps did not fee him.
This supersenaitiveness, ho destructive
to happiness and success, and, incidentally,
to health, for whatever destroys harmony
destroys health, betrays, iu a sense, a
lack of self-respect of which no man or wo
man should Voluntarily he guilty. To be a
complete man, one must be conscious,
but not in au offensive way, of his own
worth and dignity. He must feel hiirifelf
superior tn envious ridicule. When some
one told Diogenes that he was derided, be
replied: "But 1 am not derided." He
counted only those ridiculed who feel the
ridicule and are discomposed by it.
The ffureai wav to conquer morbid sen
sitiveness U to mingle wiih -people ha freely
as possible, and, while appraising your
own ability and intelligence at least as im
partially as you would those of a frlnd or
acquaintance, to forget yourself. - Unless
you i'n become unconscious of self, you wilt
never either appear at your best or do the
best of which you are capable. It requires
will power and an unbending determina
tion to conquer this arch unemy to success,
but what has been done can be d.me, and
many who were held down by it for years
have, by their own efforts, outgrown it
and rlceti to commanding positions. Sue-
Don t Do It "Just for Now.'.
Many young people form h ihils which
cripple and baudioao them for life by doitiu
things "J nut f.r now" They let things
drop wherever they happen to be. "Just
for now," thinking that they will put the
book, the tool, the letter, or the article of
olotbing, later, where it belongs.
When these young people grow up to
manhood and women, they find that the
habit of puiting things down anywhere,
"just for n w," Iihs heooniH a tyrant that
lilU tbelr lives with confusion and disorder.
It takes no more time oi effort to put a
thing where it belongs, in the first place,
than U doew later, perhaps less; and "the
chanced are that, if vo i do not do so at the
proper tittle, y m never will!
Evan if it ooais y,pu a Utile inconven
ience, the moment, to put everything in
its proper place, to do everything at the
proper time, the orderly and methodical
habits which you cultivate iu thi way will
increase you power aud usefulness a bun.
dredfold, and may save you mucu trouble
and mortification iu the future, Success.
Education should bring to mind the
Ideal of the individual.
'Develop the thinking power of the pu.
pi In in the school rooms, aud they will ,
then learu to rely oo themselves,