Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-06-13

4 Worn ON Sf1ILEs-The necessity of
r~csortiHg % the smile in all such desperate
cases is felt even from earliest bOyhood.
Even in schonIdays, when events so fall
out that it Is difficult at the moment 10 call
to mind anything Ike them, they yet must
be linked to something or other and &C.
corjingly we hear how "Thwaites has
been pm hing WigIin's head like auyl
Thing p Like mhati II were, impossible TO
say but anything is better than nothing.
and the sentence could not be terminated
without q comparison. It ii on this prin.
ciPlc, found out 20 early In life, and hi the
consciousness IF this want which accoinpa.
MES Us al through il, that certain phrases
have been inveutcd and dispersed through
the world, as legitimate and recognized
substitutes for this too general and infinite
smile like anything" IT was felt, in the
process Of time, to be more dlgnifed to
mention more explicitly some one object Of
comparison, no matter for its absolute and
notorious non-ressmblance in the partic1t.
lar case and hence, by a happy social
fiction, profound as Some Of the fctions for
which tie law is famous, the ingenious OF.
preston "Ike bricks" rose into goualarf.
tv. To hear Of ministers putting on taxes
like bricks, Or Of public meetings Assem-.
bling Ike bricks Of snaggs drinking pale
ale Ike bricks, and Of Braggs smoking
mild Havana Ike bricks Of one taking
like bricks, and another boiling Ike bricks:
in short, ofman universally reading, wri.
ting, telling and begging Ike bricks paw.
ing their debts end cheating their creditors
like bricEs--s9oa became quite a. matter If
course. The admirable invention seemed
to be universally applicable, because It no
where applied it was even said Of persons
who have a passion for erecting new feno.
nents by the thousand, in every limo hes
prinkled suburb If London, that they are
5nilding houses like arfcks-fhe houses
being in reality Ike lath. 4 light varia-
ton, equally avoiding the chances O appli.
caJitdF, was now suggested bY a sense of
universal convenience, and dixie bIazesn
broke frequently on the gratifcd ear. The
tide was said % be running up ike blazeq.
or teetotaiism getting on like blazes. or
trade being open like bIazes. The apposi-
tences Of the smile was eve where recog-
nized and, as in the case ofbricks. If sa-
rcdthe trouble Of particui1rfzinr. and Iaa
all to the Imagination. Similar adeanta.
ges were GiscoverabIe IN the use Of tho
term "winkin = and lookin ike wiukfn.
riding like wiHkin, and spending money
Ike winkin, equally testified TO the vaLie
set upon a stock phrase, BY which n p1vste-
rious likeness 10 something not admitting
OF a definition was clearly implied. How
much better is it, since smiles in CONVEX
sation can no more be dispensed with Than
syllables, to have in this way a standard
image, whatever it may be, bricks Or win.
kin, set up as it were by proclamation and
national consent, to which all other images
as soon as they arise In the mind, must iu-
stinctlvely conform. Better, surely. than
to be beating about for similfndes stoD-
ping and stammering in the hurry Of dis.
course 20 pick out an exact object Of com.
Parison and afser all, perhaps, succeeding
only in suggesting, that the lady cried ike
the masin-man, while her lover went and
shot himself Like a partridge. Better. again
We say, than to he brought to a dead stand
still, with a smile sticking IN ones throat
"For all the world ke-like-lke-na and
no, nothing in all the world can one think
like It, because one has all the world &,
seek a Comparison in, '.where to Choose
Ldnca B~lGnchards Sketches from life.