TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
their jobs once in a while. Most men don't even try to avoid it.
Every business or profession develops a characteristic expert keenness of vision in one direction; but with it, according to the laws of compensation, there comes a corresponding blindness in another direction. For instance, some venerable and lovable old clergymen we know have a way of referring most casually and familiarly to the Deity. If you were to venture to suggest that this offends some people, they would probably give you a silent look of hurt surprise, and perhaps pray for your evident lack of devoutness. That shows their blind spot. Likewise, many a business man, owing to his blind spot, can see only real estate values and factory sites where others can see sunsets. Newspaper men see only a stunning first-page beat in what was meant for a confidence. College professors who are supposed to furnish you with an equipment to live with, sometimes go lusting after mere knowledge, and forget to acquire wisdom, for their blind spot makes them over-
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