BALM FOR MISS JILT'S VICTIMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 112, 2 May 1908, Page 3

BALM FOR MISS JILT'S VICTIMS

Vilmt a wealth of pity y „„ till.' man wlm has been jilt.-.l by „ Willi whom ibeen i„ |, IV( .. ' In many casus, however. Hie man who >:'s been rejected is dually lu u ," 11 li'i« I'ft'Ji absolutely the making of some men. Take, for instance, some voun.. r..|Who. when 11,; have j !, lIJI lilt.. innaiwod. fancy themselves litlle tm gods, ilrcss m . dandilicd fashion I smoke very fat cigars, drink their whis."',s l "" 1 '""I liv to look as If thev Had l,e;i> so all thei,- live-. Ih,-y frequently live jia-t their incomes, gel into i ,-1,1, ami, in short, make awful asses ol themselves. -I lien cm,., „ iii„o w1,,, the young mail tallri in love, and lives in a sort id P.' 1 "" 11 ' 1 ' for the lime being, and thinks j hinisclt great, because lie can trot a "ill ' about. " fie escort- ll,e lady lu !|, t . ij,,.,.,! and to supper afterwards, or. weather permitting, spends a day on til,, river anil lunHie., at a swagger hotel. I'lile-,, tile young man is very wealthy. IbU ><oit i»i 'iiiuo', carried on for aiiv ]cn <i !i of lime. i« foolishly extravagant, ami one day (h,. girl throws liim over course she does, for she probably realisethat she would be getting a useless son j of hiisliand were she lo marry him- -o i.if she got*. At first he is genuinely upset, and K situiition brings him up with a j.-.-:. l";i'l«'rly sobers him. lie looks' t!itbmg in the face, and (maybe for the first t-nne i ( i his life) begin- to tlii;,|: seriously, and acknowledge* to him.,el' what n fool he has been. Xo num. ..'vis for him! lie will work. In a little Time he bas paid oil' his debts, and; at the same time, dropped his swagger. The mere laet of Ills being jilted bas made ; l man of him. ft is, indeed, the k-st tiling that could have happened to him. Jlcre i ri a recent ease, taken from the bul.y newspaper. It concerns a man whose name is now well known as a apitalist: As a young man, li c was engaged to a very pretty girl, who, after i time, rejected him. All hi s friends •yiupalliised deeply wit], him, and he ' mill rally felt thai it was a terrible blow .o all hopes for the future. All the ender-liearted girl* of his acquaintance aid among themselves, "Poor fellow!

liou- sad lie. looks! Hasn't he altered'!"' Jlc Itiul, but, instead of being "a centre ornamnet lor (lie drawing-room nig, he became a. thinker. and lo some [)iii"|H>so, lie made up his mind lo go abroad to drown his thoughts, and he sailed for South Africa.

One day he 'was manning about up country somewhere, when he chanced to see lying on the ground a piece o, quartz, which looked odd. I'pnu exaai ining it. he found that it contained gold. If(i took it away and commenced mi think. Then he began to theiv might be a fortune for him, if he worked for it. and that life might hliving a'ler all. So. making the nr.•<•••sary preparations. he sel to work to dig. and so iiileni was h<> that he soon found his great trouble growing le>> and \v->.

He discovered thai successful lovemaking does not alone make th,» world go round, and that, though a man m<u b:» a very poor love-maker, he . may, neverthele-s-,. be a very great man. So. having failed in Cupid's realm, he made a determined effort to .succeed in the realm of hard work. And he won.

in a few years he came back to Kngland and fell in lo\> again, and now Jie had more to olVev than a well-groomed ligure and society manners he had a good balance at the bank besides. To be thrown over by a girl is an undoubted shock to a man's conceit, and no oiip will d.'iiy that undue conceit in a man tends lo make him regard men and matters in an exaggerated light when he compares them with h;mseH and }\W possibilities Why is it that the youngjnan. thrown

upon his own resources on a hard ant unsympathetic world, very otten be comes a better man than he with a gooi homo ami a lack of all money trouble* shielded I'vOm all the icy blasts of or dinary every day care- and worries? I is simply because, in tin- first case, th stem school of experience has taugb the man to become self-reliant, and h ha,, found mil. that he lias no use fo petty vanities. A jilting :i very mild dose of Ihi bitter medicine, and in the majority o rases it does the man real lasting pom Of course I'm not saying that it's nice thing 10 be jilted—it's derided!; unpleasant; but I Uo emphatically fin that it frequently bring* out all th hest in a man. and knocks 00 per ecu' i)f the conceit nut of him. So if "Mi-is dill gives von a bad hal tour, take heart: it may prove the be< uck you ev<v: ' u ad.