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ily and naturally have room in it for all those kindly courtesies which were characteristic of Mr. Stevenson. His sympathies were broad and generous. He found a real joy in doing kindly things, and no human being ever appealed to him for help in 52 ADLAI EWING STEVENSON vain where it was within his power to meet the request and so rare and gracious was his tact and so genuine his love, that he always left the recipient with a feeling that it had been he who had granted the favor. For his friends he was ever ready for any sacrifice. He loved young men, and many are the men to- day who owe not a little of what they are to the start which he helped to give them. Mr. Stevenson's nature was one of supreme good will and graciousness. One of the marked evidences of that kindliness was to be found in his rare and winsome humor. His like in this sphere many of us will never see again. With men of dominat- ing selfishness, humor becomes a thing of satire words barbed, or with a sting in them. They fly forth to maim and to wound, and leave some heart bleeding. But when humor is the gift of such a temperament as that of Mr. Stevenson's a tender, pure and gracious soul it is made to play about life with the light and winsome joy of a magician's wand. And there is not one of us here today who knew Mr. Stevenson well, who cannot recall the times when with rare power he drove away from leaden hearts dull care, lifted heaviness of spirit, and made us feel anew that, after all, it's a kindly, good world in which we dwell. A man with such a power goes through life radiating

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