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That sort of teasing or raillery is the best condiment that can be added to conversation. It may be impersonally about a class, as well as a person. You can say, "These Quakers are a fearfully contrary people. They refuse to fight, they refuse to swear, they practically never talk — and when they do it is to say something good about someone." You say, "Missionaries are an ungrateful and irresponsible lot. They come around giving you a hard-luck story, you are moved, you give them half your wardrobe — and the next thing you find they have wasted your good clothes on a lot of heathen Chinese."
This is the sort of teasing a conversationalist should indulge in a lot. But if he cannot give his raillery a kindly twist he should avoid it. I would especially caution young people against caustic teasing. And I would tell parents and teachers to keep warning their youngsters not to tease harshly, hurtfully, unkindly. Boys have sometimes been called the cruelest young barbarians in the world. They are not only savage in their humor, they are also bullies — in that they keep directing it at the weakest, the most defenseless. It is written of the gentle English poet, William Cowper:
At six he was sent away to a boy's school, where he was terrified by young barbarians who made his life miserable. There was one atrocious bully into whose face Cowper could never look; he recognized his enemy by his shoe buckles (Wm. J. Long, History of English Literature [Ginn and Co., 1919], P-
Of another poet, Shelley, who later wrote the significant sentence, "the savage is to ages what the child is to years," it is similarly written:
... he suffered torments at the hands of his rough schoolfellows . . . they chivied him like dogs around a little coon that fights and cries defiance to the end (Long, op. cit., p. 413).
Charles Lamb in "Poor Relations" tells of an Oxford scholar who so feared the teasing of his fellows when they learned that his father was not in the professions, but only a humble house painter, that he left school and home both.
Truly, teasing, when not inspired by a wise and kind heart, is a fearful instrument.
Young men and women approaching the courting age indulge in an unbelievable amount of painful banter. It is as if Beelzebub inspired their teasing. When a new hat means so much to a girl, a boy will manifest his cleverness by saying, "Look at the gargoyle she acquired — they must have seen her coming." Many a coat or a dress, which cost a girl's father much hard-earned money, has been forever soured for a girl because of the thoughtless uncomplimentary teasing of some young conversational galoot. Having noticed it again and again, and most bitterly regretted some guilt of it in myself, I am sometimes inclined to explain this fearful plague in young people's talk as a sort of God-permitted prophylactic against their falling too violently and multiplicably in love with one another. As it is, their nature and impulses keep drawing them together, but their uncivil tongues, their "razzing" and teasing, keep them apart.
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