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Image 9 of About people, BAO HEM Rue ml ok @n a bac BY KATE GANNETT WELLS ¥ if i, - Ki j Fp. | NOV 98 1884 , BOS T OR ee JAMES R. OSGOOD AND…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 10 of About people, ~ Copyright, 1884 KaTE GANNNET WELLS All rights reserved Rockwell and Churchill, Pia inters, Boston.- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 11 of About people, Iwo or three of these Essays have pre- viously appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and a few pages of the others in various periodicals.- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 13 of About people, N oY DM R & ° CORN sen ale S:: PAGE AVERAGE PEOPLE . : ° : . 9 INDIVIDUALITY : ‘ : ; s 35 STRIVING . : : - :…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 17 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 3 Dye people are the ballast of the world. Notwithstanding their usefulness, how few people are willing to be ranked as average! How many secretly feel that they are beyond…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 18 of About people, 12 ABOUT PEOPLE. and the relative proportion of their attributes is plainly visible. Insignificance is never greater than when it thinks it is just above the average. Endeavor- ing to avoid its…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 19 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 13 The women want some loftier mission than house-work, the men something more than clerkships. So many win the public-school diplomas that they are sure they can also suc- ceed…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 20 of About people, 14 ABOUT PEOPLE. calamities to those who take ‘‘ uppishness”’ as their motto in striving. That restlessness may often have a physical basis; may be fostered by temperament, —if so, to be…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 21 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 15 is no longer the blessing it might become. Above culture rises the power of character, as cure for all the evils that beset us, and as the lever inserted…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 22 of About people, 16 ABOUT PEOPLE. history and literature classes of women but an excuse for spending a morning elsewhere than at home. ‘The culture thus sought comes from books alone, when the mood of…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 23 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 17 with restlessness, are decorated with cheap textiles of old-gold shades and ancestral dis- colorations; books are laid over literary ink- spots on the table-scarf (not table-cloth) ; chairs, purposely…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 24 of About people, 18 ABOUT PEOPLE. Those who are below it are rough and coarse, honest or not, as the case may be; but ever aterror. They are self-opinionated, care- less in dress, words, and…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 25 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 19 of speech, such self-asserting, executive ability and dominant purpose, that in rebounding from this type of femineity, we would almost rather accept the sentimental heroines of the novels of…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 26 of About people, 20 ABOUL PROFLE. can easily be left aloft in its shining isola- tion. The average man or woman understands arithmetic, spells correctly from memory rather than by intuition, is industrious, cor- dial,…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 27 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 21 On the other hand, average men or women have such a real simplicity of pur- pose that in evolution they skip the abortive growth of the average gentleman or…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 28 of About people, 22 ABOUT PEOPLE, cicerone of their requirements, for each one stands as a whole, not as a collection of points with intervening spaces. ‘Their. conversation does not consist of social items or…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 29 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 23 round with religious tenets, which prevents our ease and our hospitalities, stifles our loud laughter, and generates the well-bred smile, makes us dread our enthusiasms and our heart friendships,…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 30 of About people, 24 ABOUT PEOPLE. intelligence. They are guardians of their char- acter, abiding within their limitations, hard as it is to do so, and happy because needful to the spot in which they…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 31 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 25 gives them calmness and self-poise. They take duty as the substance of existence, gladly accepting whatever joy comes as its lustre and letting life find its justification in growth.…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 32 of About people, 26 ABOUT PEOPLE, of these average people that is described by William C. Gannett in his poem IN TWOS. Somewhere in the world there hide Garden-gates that no one sees, Save they…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 33 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 27 When no nook in all the lanes But has heard a song or sigh, Lo! another garden-gate Opens as the two go by! In they wander, knowing not; “Five…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 34 of About people, 28 ABOUT PEOPLE. Then a quiet walk again: Then a wicket in the wall: Then one, stepping on alone, — Then two at the Heart of All! In this average home there…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 35 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 29 ~ who gives the good-night kiss at each bedside. It is still the average father who bids his boy place emphasis on hozor and wse, instead of on popularety…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 36 of About people, 30 ABOUT PEOPLE. and they know that any utterance of what they feel would lose its power through their awk- wardness. ‘They see men reverenced for that at which they thrill but…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 37 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 31 themselves, crush their half-shaped, might- have-been-bright answers, utter the remem- bered commonplaces, and do the little kind- nesses, and are true to their circumscribed sphere of duty. These are…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 38 of About people, 32 ABOUT PEOPLE. contentment with circumstances going hand in hand with acknowledgment of varying heights of mental stature, which humbly per- ceives that to-day’s highest result may be to- morrow’s future mediocrity.…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 39 of About people, AVERAGE PEOPLE. 33 mands utility as reason for daring to exist, and that, therefore, average people must justify themselves by organization if they are bent on accomplishment of work in any large…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
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Image 40 of About people, 34 ABOUT PEOPLE. strength, not in endeavoring to arrange human society according to the latest invention pat- ented by the latest philanthropist, but by trying to do whatever duty lies nearest, while…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
About this Item
Title
- About people,
Names
- Wells, Kate Gannett, 1838-1911.
Created / Published
- Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1885.
Contents
- Average people.--Individuality.--Striving.--Loyalty and liberality.--Transitional woman.--Personal influence.--Who's who.--Caste in American society.
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 233 p. 15 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PS3158.W615 A65
Library of Congress Control Number
- 31029359
OCLC Number
- 2775316
Online Format
- online text
- image