Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-09-03
Cultivated Mind is Retirement.

Every body looks forward to a time of rest
not only in the future but this world. There
I Is not small shopkeeper, but is working with
birds eye view Of cottage and plenty OF
leisure far off in the haunting distance
There is something delightful in sitting down
in pleasant twilight and making fancy pic.
lures OF the home that may some day be ours
The neat cottage surrounded with fruitful
grounds, with woodbine or some less ambitious
creeping thing, turning in and out among
the tres work, or hanging its curling ten.
drills over the doors and windows. The COW
that shall be such pet and supply US with
the sweetest milk and freshest butter, while
our city neighbors coming out of summer
days to eat our fruit, ard solace themselves
in our shade, shall almost envy us our quiet
happiness Or to the man of more ambitious
tastes looms up the beautiful villa with its
rising ground, its garden rich with every va
rlety OF floral treas ure, its glorious orchard
and wide view Of varied scenery; its cattle
yard well stocked with sleek cows, and cack-
ling poultry. He means to enjoy himself;
there are no narrow views in his prospects if
there are narrow lanes on his premises; be
will sport his "5ays," and his "browns," and
regale has city friends with choice rides in an
elegant equlpage that shall be quite as recher-
cite as the Presidents own. And SO the dry
details are rendered strangely pleasant BY
this mixture of fancy sketches, and the lede-
er is sometimes changed to a prancng steed
with him on his back, leisurely caatering
through country roads
But alas for him if he has devoted soul as
well as body to the exciting chase after wealth
If newspaper offers him nothing of inter
est beyond its advertisements and accounts
OF stock, if he prefer learning how much su-
gar is per barrel, or the rise of produce in
Europe, or how many bars of soap came by the
ASIA" or the "Fying Cloud" to a sound
treatise or an elegant editorial, we would not
give fig for his leisure. Ono must have
his brain well stocked as well as his purse in
order to find any sort of pleasure in retire
ment. 70 be sure he can get books painted
upon his library shelves, or order any num-
Der of gilt bindings, but il be never enjoys
within them the "feast of reason and the flow
of SOUL" they are only sccrners of bis igno-
rance. If he gazes only with the eye Of a
Spectator on the gently flowing river that
meanders along its banks, and vanly wishes
to build saw mill to monopolize its beauty
and turn its silver drops into baser coin
what soul has he for elegant retirement?
All many have found to their cost, that
man must not bring his gold alone to the free,
beautiful country. He must love nature with
all his heart before he presumes to bring her
his offerings. He must store away ia
his mind, choice thoughts to bear with him to
her "dlm aisles" and "lealy solitudes." He
must love to go alone and hold converse with
the birds and the flowers, watch the upspring.
ing of The tender grain, and the ripe frui,
bursting its rich conines-for to cat, to see
to inhale fragrance, will not constitute the
refinement Of pleasure And if he cannot lay
up store of intellectual love, let him stick to
the day. book, and sit of evenings at the door
IN the crowded city, watching the passers by
end looking for customers he will find pleas
ure in nothing else.-Bosion Olive Branch.