The Talent of Appreciation
"THERE is one thing I like about Helen," said a girl speaker. "She has a genuine gift of appreciation. Whenever you speak of anybody, she always seems to bubble over with some kindly appreciation of her. When some one remarked the other day that Miss K— was not at all pretty, she broke in with, 'Yes, but then some people don't need to be pretty, they're nice enough without it.' It is always that way with her. She has seen the gleam of gold somewhere in somebody, that nobody else ever detected or thought of looking for. Her older sister is a splendid musician, and her younger is quite a brilliant elocutionist, but I don't know but I'd rather have Helen's talent of appreciating people than to have the gifts of either of the others. I believe she gets more joy out of it and perhaps gives more joy with it." It is a talent toward the acquiring of which we can do a great deal by practise, even if we seem to be lacking in it by nature.—Onward.