Grass Valley telegraph., 1853-12-15
HE IS KILLING HIMSELF WITH WORK

like operas, and a few prefer to stay at home
Nature has provided that in their tastes and
dispositions there should be healthful vari-
ETY.. But in one matter they are alike. or
nearly all there possibly may be excep-
tions,, we are not much acquainted in the
south-wf land there is strip of land cir
cumja Petapsco Bay, of which we are
not CO It to speak from experience. But
generally, all wives agree in thinking that
their dear husbands are killing themselves
with works good wives we mean, of course.
If there is such thing in all creation as q
lazy, good-for-nothing woman. si,e VIII dress
out her helpmeet as lazy va too
idle for anything but to eat tbs tha g
buster. hands have earned for nn s,4
smart woman is full es chaeiY poor
husband is working himself TO deasn every
day. He has not aeminuta 20 spare foI his
family; he grows haggard with The perpetual
excitemeaC of his business. His best days he
shuts himself up from the bright face of ma
tufe, and in his shop or his Office pores per-
petually Owe" his work. He dreams Of it
nights. He salks of it days. He falls asleep
when he goes to church-poor man, he is so
tired and dOzes in the company of the most
Interesting ladies, unless the circle of the con-
versation is made to embrace his all-engross-
ing business. True, he does 90 out with her
Evenings, occasionally but he does not seem
to,relish it. He does not weigh as much as
he did year ago. For the work he does, he
ought to be better paid-albeit the boss pays
no man better in the shop. If he is in bust
ness, he certainly must do twice as much as
his partner; and his vacations are not half as
long. To believe what the wives say. you
would tremble for the race. lestYts constitu-
cI 1oo IL
ldeerepitude of age creep in upon the terribly
khard-W yorker, before his sun has attained the
meridian.
But there is respectable number of mid
dle-Gged men yet SURVIVING, ana busy bees
yet at their work. They go smiling aas hep
py abon the streets, with sharp appetitcs fer
the news, more active than they were twenty
years ago, ara kprightly as young men about
their business. Their wives enjoy tbeir V or
rying as well as ever sigh eyer their hus-
bands imprudept exertioas, repueva taem
daily fer trying to do too much and ST i fear
That they viii Gle young men in coAse@43 renee
teess dver-S1ssrti0r
&. Den their men get old heTsarres heause
they I'D continue their excessiv labor
lbey 81 confident thev will not ike out half
,a3lr days il they keep on al such a r. te Ii
,as well enough to stave ahead when they
were young; but now they are old, they
should favor themselves. Working all day,
and part of the night. is well enough for peo-
pie in their prime but old folks cannot do it
with impunitv. All their constitution was
ruined in their youth. The old man smiles
as it is said.-he rather likes to remember
how he used to ruin his constitution, and
thinks if he were young again. he would turn
to better account a good many hours that
were wasted.
We repeat it. wives are all alike; their
husbands all labor too hard they are killing
themselves with over-work
A REMARKABLE CIRCUMsTANCE-We saw in
market on Saturday morning mulatto man
named William Thompson, who for the past
ten years has been gradually turning white,
and is now of as fair color all over his body,
with the exception of his face and hands, as
white persons who stay indoors a great deal.
His hands are nearly as black as R1ll blood
ed negrO's, probably because he works in the
sun and wind a great deal, but hi ace is of
the color of an ordinary mulatto's.
The process of blanching is now grad
ually spreading to his face and hands. and
there is no doubt that in a couple of years he
will be entirely white. The skin is of a heal
thy color, and the old gentleman, who is sew
'enty-eight years of age enjoys as good health
as could be expected of one of his years. He
is industrious, cheerful, and communicates the
singular circumstances of his physiology with
freedom and pOliteness. He has quite spir-
it of indenei pee about him, and says he
has rejectcd a. Nffer of $4,000 which show
man made hin for an engagement of two
years, to travel and exhibit himself TO the
public; also Several other similar offers. He
says that he is able to make living, and viii
not resort to such mode of making money
His parents were mulattos and vas
born in Pennsylvania. He.lives W
miles from west of the city, where "a
farm which furnishes produce to SD our
t.-L'adi0n0pOliS Joar.
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