These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men\u2019s persons in admiration because of advantages. <\/p>\n
\u2014Jude 16<\/i><\/p>\n
1725<\/b> Electronic Applause<\/b><\/p>\n
The Pacific Organ Studios on Clement Street is selling something that might lessen man\u2019s insecurity. It\u2019s an organ called the Chamberlain Music Master, which includes a button that delivers, via tape, a round of applause \u201cof concert-hall size.\u201d You play \u201cChop-sticks,\u201d press the applause button and bask in the distant patter of 2000 paws. Think what this does for the ego. <\/p>\n
\u2014San Francisco Chronicle<\/i><\/p>\n
1726<\/b> \u201cYou\u2019re Beautiful\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The telephone company in an English city is planning a service known as MOR (for Morale). When Dad goes off to work in a huff or forgets a birthday or yells at the kids, Mom can run to the phone, dial MOR and hear a soothing male voice coo: \u201cYou\u2019re quite, quite beautiful, you know.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Alton, III., Telegraph<\/i><\/p>\n
1727<\/b> Gardenia And Feel Important<\/b><\/p>\n
Eternity<\/i> magazine once told of a sidewalk flower vendor who was doing very little business. Suddenly a happy thought struck him, and he put up this sign: \u201cBuy a gardenia; it will make you feel important all day long!\u201d Almost immediately his sales began to increase. People love to feel inflated, for their innermost nature thrives on any attention that caters to their pride. <\/p>\n
1728<\/b> Capitalizing On John Smiths<\/b><\/p>\n
John Smith is still the most common name in this country. It was for that reason that Mark Twain dedicated his story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog<\/i> to John Smith, \u201cwho I have known in diverse and sundry places and whose many and manifold virtues did always command my esteem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twain figured that anyone to whom a book is dedicated would be sure to buy at least one copy, and since there were thousands of John Smiths, his book would be assured of at least a modest sale. <\/p>\n
\u2014Bits & Pieces<\/i><\/p>\n
1729<\/b> A Black Heart? <\/b><\/p>\n
Sam Jones, the great white evangelist, on one occasion preached a sermon to an immense concourse of colored people. After he had finished a stout, old colored woman waddled up to him, seized his hand, and pumped it up and down vigorously. \u201cGawd bless you Brudder Jones! You is everybody\u2019s preacher, black as well as white! You may have a white skin, Brudder, but you sho got a black heart!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
1730<\/b> Russia\u2019s Saloon Of Beauty<\/b><\/p>\n
There is in a Russian palace, a famous \u201cSaloon of Beauty,\u201d wherein are hung over eight hundred and fifty portraits of young maidens. These pictures were painted by Count Rotari, for Catherine the Second, the Russian empress; and the artist made a journey, through the fifty provinces of that vast empire of the north, to find his models. <\/p>\n
In these superb portraits that cover the walls of this saloon, there is said to be a curiously expressed compliment of the artist\u2019s royal patron, a compliment half concealed and half revealed. In each separate picture, it is said, might be detected, by the close observer, some hidden, delicate reference to the empress for whom they were painted. <\/p>\n
Here a feature of Catherine appears; there an attitude is reproduced; some act, some favorite adornment or environment, some jewel, fashion, flower, style of dress, or manner of life\u2014something peculiar to, or characteristic of, the empress\u2014so that the walls of the saloon are lined with just so many silent tributes to her beauty, or compliments to her taste. So inventive and ingenious is the spirit of human flattery. <\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
1731<\/b> Also Regions Beyond<\/b><\/p>\n
At one interdenominational meeting, a minister from the same denomination as the speaker made the introduction. Eager to impress the audience with the speaker\u2019s qualifications, he said, \u201cOur speaker is known in the churches of our denomination throughout the world\u2014and probably in regions beyond!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014New Christian Advocate<\/i><\/p>\n
1732<\/b> High Oratory Reaches Satan<\/b><\/p>\n
Many years ago the famous radio preacher, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N.Y., addressed a great men\u2019s meeting in Center Congregational Church, New Britain, Conn. The pastor, Theodore A. Greene, introduced the celebrated cleric with a sudden burst of oratory. <\/p>\n
Dr. Greene said he had been backstage in a great radio station and had looked upon the electrical equipment, the batteries, generators, the sparks, lights, powers of the air. <\/p>\n
Increasing in eloquence, the New Britain pastor cried:<\/p>\n
\u201cThink of the radio ministry of Dr. Cadman and his incredible ministry across the air-waves of the nation every Sunday afternoon, the millions who listen in spellbound! I have introduced the king of the electrons, the ruler of the airways, in fact, the prince of the power of the air! <\/p>\n
\u2014Philip Jerome<\/p>\n
1733<\/b> Diplomatic Reply Of Womans Age<\/b><\/p>\n
At a reception in Washington a young man was asked by a widow to guess her age. \u201cYou must have some idea,\u201d she said, as he hesitated. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have several ideas,\u201d he admitted, with a smile. \u201cThe trouble is that I hesitate whether to make it ten years younger on account of your looks, or ten years older on account of your intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Capper\u2019s Farmer<\/i><\/p>\n
1734<\/b> The Fickle Crowd And Phocion<\/b><\/p>\n
Hidden in the obscurity of time is Phocion, the Greek statesman-general (c. 402\u2013317 B. C.). When he returned from his successful campaign against Philip of Macedon, at Byzantium, mobs crowded the streets of Athens to cheer him. Berated by an aide for failure to show exhilaration at the experience, Phocion said: \u201cThey will cheer just as loudly when I am hanged.\u201d He never lost his disdain for the mob no matter the honors heaped upon him. He carried his arguments to the people, and once when he addressed the citizens of Athens his speech was interrupted by thunderous cheers. The accolade continued unabated for several minutes and finally Phocion turned to his aides to inquire: \u201cDid I say something stupid?\u201d<\/p>\n
His remark following Byzantium was prophetic, for the Athenians forced him to drink hemlock. Later, as though to emphasize his conclusions, the mob repented and raised a statue in his honor. <\/p>\n
\u2014Gerald Lieberman<\/p>\n
1735<\/b> Sword of Damocles<\/b><\/p>\n
On the island of Sicily in the fourth century B. C., there ruled a tyrant named Dionysius (the elder). He had in his court a certain \u201cyes\u201d man named Damocles who sought advantage by flattering the cruel king. <\/p>\n
One day he extolled the virtues of Dionysius so eloquently that the tyrant proclaimed a magnificent banquet in his honor. In the midst of the festivities, however, Damocles happened to look up and discovered to his dismay that a naked sword hung suspended over his head by a single hair. <\/p>\n
\u2014Stanley C. Baldwin<\/p>\n
1736<\/b> Book With Fictitious Famous People<\/b><\/p>\n
The policy of the editors of Appleton\u2019s Encyclopedia of American Biography<\/i> was to accept in good faith all material received by mail. This opened the door to an unknown practical joker who sent them at least 84 biographies of fictitious persons between 1886 and 1888. Although these individuals were figments of the imagination, their achievements and books credited to them were supposed to be well-known in their particular professions. <\/p>\n
The fake entries went unnoticed until 1919 when 14 were discovered by a librarian. This started a more thorough search which brought to light 70 more by 1936. <\/p>\n
1737<\/b> Son To Reign By Candlelight! <\/b><\/p>\n
King James I of England was visiting in the Northern Countries when, upon passing through a small town, he was greeted by a deputation of the town fathers. They proceeded to unroll a parchment and their spokesman started to read a long and elaborate address to His Majesty. In the most high-flown terms they prayed that the King might live as long as the sun, the moon, and the stars. <\/p>\n
\u201cFaith, man,\u201d interrupted the King, \u201cand if I do, my son must reign by candlelight.\u201d<\/p>\n
1738<\/b> Pastor Watches Own Funeral<\/b><\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (AP)\u2014The Rev. Ivory W. Mizell commemorated his 64th birthday by watching his own funeral. \u201cI think it was good. It was much better than I expected,\u201d he said after Wednesday night\u2019s service at the First Baptist Church of Piney Grove. <\/p>\n
On the programs printed up for the service were these words: \u201cThis, my funeral service, is being held because I have no pleasure in words I cannot hear, flowers I cannot smell and friends I cannot see.\u201d<\/p>\n
1739<\/b> Showing Friendship Now In Funeral<\/b><\/p>\n
A man of 69 in a small town in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan invited about 20 business friends to his home and held his \u201cfuneral.\u201d Ritually, it was a full-dress funeral, complete with funeral sutrachanting by two Buddhist priests. He even held the customary rites for the seventh day after his \u201cdeath.\u201d<\/p>\n
What was his idea? Marutaka Kogane, director of the local soft drink dealers\u2019 association, explained: \u201cIf my friends have enough friendship for me to attend my funeral when I die, I should rather they showed their friendship now.\u201d After the obsequies, there was an evening of revelry with gay entertainment. The \u201cmourners\u201d ate, drank, and made merry. Said the \u201cdeceased\u201d in satisfaction: \u201cFrom now on I\u2019ll forget myself and work for the trade and for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Japan Times<\/i><\/p>\n
1740<\/b> Epigram On Flattery<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 I can live for two months on a good compliment. <\/p>\n
\u2014Mark Twain<\/p>\n
\u2022 Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. <\/p>\n
\u2014Samuel Johnson<\/p>\n
\u2022 Robert Montgomery\u2019s advice concerning applause: \u201cEnjoy it, but never quite believe it.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Good News<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 The chances are about 10 to 1 that when a man slaps you on the back, he wants you to cough up something. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Bible Friend<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 Sigmund Freud once refused to attend a festival in his honor, remarking, \u201cWhen someone abuses me I can defend myself; against praise I am defenseless.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer. <\/p>\n
\u2014Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n
\u2022 According to Hindu law, lying is justified in only two cases: in saving a person\u2019s life and in paying a compliment to a lady. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Never praise a woman too highly. If you stop, she\u2019ll think you don\u2019t love her any more; if you keep it up, she\u2019ll think she\u2019s too good for you. <\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 Imitation is the sincerest flattery. A girl would wear a beautiful dress, and few days later, many would be seen wearing the same dress. <\/p>\n
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