The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-11 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

fate forrend -- untoward and now happily
altogether unexpected circumstances should
occur to cause His Majesty to declare war
against the Queen. He would have at h s
bidding thousands ensconced on our soil who
have sworn to fight the Fatherland's battle 4,
and who have been trained to arms for the
purpose. Here they are among us they
know every inch of our country, every
corner of its garrisons. Apart from the
consideration of how the presence of the
foreigner in such swarnas interferes with the
prosperity of British industry, the military
aspect of the question seems to demand an
attention it does not receive. We might
exhibit with advantage more circumspection
and a little less guilless trust in our demean-
our towards the aliens within our gates.

VirAITING.

THE different kinds of waiting that come
within the range of human experience are
more or less trying to temper and patience,
according to their nature and the circum-
stances out of which they arise. While the
commonest kinds chiefly affect the temper,
there are special kinds connected with the
serious affairs of life, private and public,
which impose a disciplinary tax on patience.
Waiting, in its ordinary phases, has cer-
tainly a decided tendency, to disturb the
equanimity of the placidest minds and cause
the shadow of frowns to fall upon faces
usually bright with smiles. The schoolboy
who calls loudly to his lagging companion
"Come on," and receives the answering
shout "Wait a minute," knows so well what
it means that he decamps at once rather
than run the risk of loitering about, kicking
kis heels for a quarter of an hour or more.
But sharp practice like this is only the
happy privilege of unconventional boyhood.
It is aggravating in the extreme to have to
remain at some particular spot waiting for a
friend who has failed to enter an appearance
at the appointed time. Many persons there
are whose want of punctuality in keeping
engagements is the source of constant an-
noyance and irritation. All such people
ought to be ostracised until they learn
better manners, and begin to comprehend
that an apology for the same kind of offence,
which requires to be repeated over and over
again, is tantamount to adding insult to in-
jury. If one of two lovers, who are parties
to an assignation, fails to come up to time,
the other is apt to indulge in evil surmises
and dark misgivings, and each passing
minute has its flight clogged with leaden-
weighted wings. Waiting for an overdue
train causes men of business to chafe with
impatience, and their mental state is not
impraved when they receive evasive.: off:n-
sive replies to questions which they put to
officials on the platform. - The impatience
displayed by business men on such occasions
has a striking contrast in the remarkable
patience exhibited by people who take pos-
session of seats long before the commence-
ment of a theatrical performance or a public
meeting, or the passing of a State pageant
along the streets. When signs of impatience
begin to manifest themselves in theatres
before the rising of the curtain, they are I
usually quieted easily enough by the striking
up of the orchestra, and it is now a common
practice at great political meetings to keep
the audience in good humour until the ex-
pected speakers emerge on the platform by
treating them to organ or harmonium music
or startling popular songs in which the '
voices of all can join. Strangely diverse are
the feelings that animate the assemblage in
a crowded court of law, where some cause
celebre has been under hearing for days,
daring the period of keen suspense which
last from the time when the jury retire till
they return, after due deliberatibn, with
their verdict. If the foreman of the jury,
instead of announcing any verdict, states
that they have not been able to agree, and
the judge recommends them to try again to
arrange their differences of view, the state
of suspense is prolonged and the interest is
intensified • Deep anxiety prevails among
the retatlves and friends of the litigants
present in court ; eager curiosity is on tip-
toe in the galleries ; the learned leading
counsel on both sides, who have achieved
feats of forensic eloquence, are equally hope-
ful of victory ; and the judge, whatever his
bias may be, awaits the result with the im-
pertrnable mien of a man accustomed to situ
ations of the kind. In the case of a trial for
murder the interval between the summing-
up and the putting on of the black cap must
strain terribly the nervous system of the
most hardened criminals, though they may
try to wear outwardly of dogged unconcern.
There are exciting scenes of expectancy in
the House of Commons when the members,
returned from the division lobbies, eagerly
watch the approach of the tellers to the table
and wait the announcement of the numbers
that will decide the fate of the Ministry of
the day. The cheers to which the victorious
side gives vent on such occasions derive
their rapturous ring from the rush of re-
leased excitement which was kept under
restraint in the previous state of anxious
suspense. Waiting for work, as realised in
the painful experience of thousands at a
period of prolonged and general depression,
is weary and dreary waiting, and all the more
so when earnest and ever-renewed efforts to
find employment end in failure day after
day, week after week, month after month.
Waiting of this kind, which is not passive
but active, differs essentially from the mode
of living practised by the Micawber class
who flounder in a happy-go-luck style on the
swimming bladders of great expectations,
To wait fo: something to tarn up to-morrow,
a month hence, or a year hence, and take it
easy in the meantime, is the surest way to
prevent anything from turning up at all.
In domestic life there are often waitings as-
sociated with weariness of the flesh and
anxiety of mind. The staying out late at
nignt of some member of the household
grieves the heart of many a waiting mother,
who ear eagerly'listens to the sound of every.
footfall. But the most trying form of wait-
ing is that which is undergone in the sick
chamber when the life of one, who is near
and dear to the weeping watchers, gradually
wanes till the last faint c'flicker fades for ever
away.

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