The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-07-28

gay and glltterlng, StreWed WIN HOW
ers of every hue and fragrance, with all
that art or imagination can invent: You
may fondly hope the scene Of rapture
will never alter, as you will not see the end
of the path-when YOU enter it. To some
it proves short one, and to you it may
appear very different in the retrospect.
Here, my dear girl, let me caution yon not
to dream of perfect or perpetual bliss; ii
you do, experience will show you that it
never existed on earth, save in visions or
visionary heads.
You will meet many productions in this
garden, which are charming to the eye and
pleasant TO the taste: but they are not all
so. Let me just remark-that you are car
rying into this garden one of the most deli
cious and delicate plants in nature--l mean
good-humor. Don't drop it, or lose it, as
many have done soon after they enter, who
seldom if ever found it again. 1t is treas
ure which nothing can make up to you.
When you get TO the end of the first
walk, which lasts about thirty steps, COM
monty called honeymoon path, you will
see the garden open in a vast variety of
views-and here must caution you against
some productions which are nauseous and
noxions, and even fatal in tendency to the
unwary and ignorant.
There is a low, small plant, which may
be seen in almost every path called indiffer-
ence, though not perceived at the entrance.
You will always know when near this
plant, though you do not see it, by Ger
tain GOODNESS in the air which surrounds it.
Contrary to all others it thrives in cold, and
dies in warmth. Whenever you perceive
this change your situation as soon as you
can.
In the same path is often found that ugly
yellow flower called Jealousy,-which |
wish you never to look at. Turn from it
as fast as you can for it has the strange
quality Of tinging the eye which beholds it
with stain which it seldom gets rid of.
As you go in, you will meet with many
little crooked paths; but do not go into
them. advise you as friend never to
attempt it; for though at the entrance of
each, is written in large letters, "Tn the
right way" when you get in, nine cases
out of ten, you will find the true name to
be Perverseness, and that you are in the
, wrong, and will not acknowledge it; this
often occasions endless dispute here; is +;
source of perpetual difference, and some
times of final separation in the garden.
Near this spot, you will meet sturdy
knotty plant, called obstinacy, bearing ;
hard bitter fruit, which becomes fatal whel
: taken in large quantltes.-Turn from it,
d avoid it as you would the plague.
+, Just opposite to this grows the lowly
t lovely shrub Compliance, which though
f not pleasant to the palate, is salutary g.
a sweet, and produces the most delicious
fruit in the garden. Never be without a
sprig Of it in your hand; it it will often b.
wanted as you go along, if yon do not
you will surely repent the want of it.
All over the garden you may find use
full plant called Economy. 1t is of thry
y ing quality. Take a good stock of it a
you are going in. 1t adorns and enriche
: at the same time. Many entirely overlool
= it, some despise it, and others think the
= want it. 1t is generally forgotten in tn
gaiety and hurry in which people ente
that place, but the total want of it is CON
: monty paid for with bitter repentance.
must tell you, unless both partake of it,
: will answer little end to either. You ma
If you please, carry some with you into tn
garden; but il is hundred to one, if yo
do not lose it going in. This is more usefl
- than what you will find therefor it is {
- another sort. Provide yourself and par
ner with proper quantity of it, as soon a
: you can when in the place.
- You observe, as you pass, two or thre
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