The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-10

in their pleasures, well pity them in their
distress. When the rich give Of their abundance
to those who want bread, it may be supposed to be
done for very shame, or under the cons'rant OF
common humanity. When they take order for the
instruction and discipline of the poor they are con-
ferring species of benefit, for which, however es-
sential, they must not expect return in gratitude
affection. But if they bear in mind that amuse-
ment is in truth necessary of life, that human ma
ture cannot dispense with it, and that, by the ma
ture of mems amusements, their characters are In
great measure determined, they will be lead so to
deal with the poor, to make it manifest to them
that they like to see them happy, and they will be
beloved accordingly"
Nor is it merely those who are rich in this worlds
good who have the power thus to dispense happi
ness around them. Well would it be for each
one to remember that every man who breathes,
whether master or servant, employer or employed,
young and old rich and poor, each has 1t IN his
power, he passes along his liie-path, either
to shed ray 9f sunshine that of his fellow man,
to darken it by his shade. Well do l remember,
though many year has passed since then, how
pleasant to me was such little act OF kindness,
shown by who was herself dependent upon
the bounty Of others for her daily bread. Old Bes-
sic Milman had the charge of an empty house
which we were furnishing, and while it was still In
an unfinished state, | went thther during several
successive mornings, tempted by a new piano. to
practice before breakfast. Poor Bessie thought
hungry, so long without her breakfast" and ne yer
shall | forget the look of anxious kindness with
which she came up to me in her neat od-fashoned
white cap and well-folded kerchief, carrying nice
roast apple, surrounded with crumbs OF bread,
which she thought might "perhaps be able to
RELISH" nor the pleasure she seemed to feel when
she saw that | was gratfed by her kind thought OF
me. This may almost too trivial ali incident
to notice, but it which early impressed on
my mind the conviction, that the poorest as well
as the wealthiest has it in his power either to
| bestow fo,cer upon his neighbor, or to plant a
thorn in his path.
| Which of us so fortunate as not to remember
among the circle OF acquaintances, some from
whose society shrink with a sort OF instructive
dread? not account OF any moral evil in then
| character disposition, but simply because We
leave their presence without feeling as some
one has rather quantity expressed it, as if we hat
been rubbed up the acrong aoay." They may be
in reality, most kind hearted people. II you had
| fever, and required their care, they would watcl
over you night and day; but in your hour Q
health, and, as they conceiUe, of happiness, the
| would never think Of "gtUtng you O Foacer,'
they would not even be able to understand VIII
| you should want one.
On the other hand. we not each recall t
mind some happy belng-whether he be rich Q
| poor, it matters not-whose very presence seems t
cast oil upon troubled waters, whose kindly tone
cheer the dropping spirit, whose look Of sympath
| and love is balm to the wounded heart, and t
whom the poor, the suffering, the little chile
will turn if by instinct, and feel assured ths
there, at least chilling repulse is to be tearet
but that such he has," even if it be only
fo1cer, he will give it to them with an ungrudgin
| heart
Happy, notwithstanding all the ills that fes
is heir to" would this world be, if we were eac
one, in our own sphere, to cultivate more OF thi
| spirit; to seek, as we pass onwards through m
for opportunities Of gladdening the heart OF fe
low-man, and being ever ready to
| Give and forgive, do good and love;
| BY soft en!earments in kind strife,
| Tightening the load of daily life''