A,Dissertation On The Writing Of Mean Letters ,#

By Jack

Of all the habits that business men can 'contract, the worst is undoubtedly wife beating, and the second is un, questionably writing mCan letters.

Both are indefensible, both are cowardly, and both are entirely without justification, or return on the investment.

A man writes that mean letter, drops it in the mail box, and it is gone ! He can never get it back. The little thing that caused him to write it soon disappears and is forgotten. But the letter remains. And the bigger man you are ,supr posed to be, the littler that letter makes you appear.

The fellow on the receiving end of the line may not know the writer at all, may never have seen him, and may never see him. He must and will judge him simply by the meanness o[ his letter. IIe'tan't know that this may be just an unfortunate habit of the\ writer. He can't knOw that in his private life and his personal habits, he is genial, kindly, friqndly, possessing warmth of soul, and loving his fellow man.

All he can do is read the mean letter over, and wonder why God lets such crabs live on the top side of the earth; why He doesn't tip the sphere once in a while and rid the world of a Iew pests.

Most of us know such men. And the only feeling we can get from contemplation of such a habit, is one of sadness that an otherwise wise man may belittle himself and affront another man, for want of an injection of the milk of human kindness in his letter writing.

The man who is thoroughly worth while in this world, is the one who never willingly and knowingly steps on the corns of anothef fellqw,,either by wgrd,or act, . God and man both despise a grouch, whether he is grouchy in

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his letters, or in his personal liie. The man whose ambition is to make a good and kindly impression on those with whom he comes in contact-to make them feel better and brighter because they have talked with him or read a letter from him-is worth a dozen smarter men who let their tempers creep into their personal contacts.

There isn't the shadow of an excuse for writing mean letters. No situation that arises justifies them. Edmund .Bqrke said of Benjamin Franklin, "Everything is play to ,him." And that is the chief reason that Franklin's memory is loved.

Eugene Field's letters were written sunshine, no matter how sick, or how harrassed, or in how much trouble he was, and the world that knew him, loved him for it.

I have in my possession a letter from Peter B. Kyne concerning a mutual friend in which Kyne said: "He has known sorrow, and ingratitude, and treachery, and broken' faith, and unrequited love, and a long Gethsemane of pain, yet he has never been embittered, nor ever spoken ill to anyone, or of anyone.t' But that man never wrote a mean letter. And isn't that a lovely thing to have said of you?

Writing mean letters is much worse than saying mean things vocally. The words may be forgotten. The letter remains.

And remember this: there isn't a man, or woman, or child in this world, regardless of who or wherlthey are, whose ill will or whose bad opinion any of us can afford to have.

Never write an ungenerous thing to any man on any subject. It is just a plain blunder, every time.

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