Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-26
Boots.

Some wag furnishes the Cincinnati Gazette with an
essay on boots, from which we take some extracts:
1t would be great folly in me to pretend that am
acquainted with all varieties of Boots, for they
various and infinite men. There is manner of boot
believe, peculiar to every people as their manner of
speech handwriting Thus there are nationaties
of men and of boots and there are Municipalities of
men and of boots. The German boot, quaint
mixture of sodity profundity and transcendaation is
unlike the boot of the gallant, cowardy, vruous Vi
cious faithful, false Irishman of whom love is said to
be the SOUL those two people unlike The French
mans boot
Long, narrow. light-the Gallo boot of love-
A kind of cross between the boot and glove,
Is only when by Frenchman, their language
is never French except when spoken by Themselves
The English boot sympathises in all the preudices OF
its wearer, and announces him everywhere, in a stify
naughty bullying fashion while the American boot ia
full of vanity pretence pluck dash and humbug the
American himself.
AS to boot Individuality you have but to go upon the
street to remark it upon every man you meet. There
is not any need that you should look further up than
mans foot to whether he is proud nsolent, vain
cruel generous, kind, ruffany gentle! Tennyson,
whom you quote to weariness Octavus Augustus,
dersood very we'll that Mauds brother could have
gorgonzed her lover with stony British stare had he
not been at the same time
Leisurely tapping glossy boot
which must have contemptuously inflicted the lovers
sovenly misanthropc Wellingtons. If you weak,
undetermined, vasclating man, be your boot will
betray you for to-day it will be shapely enough and
tomorrow run down at the heel with tendency to lop
when set outside your door at night. If, the
contrary, you strong resolute man. your boots will
be miracles of sefrespect uprighness and briancy.
The politicians boot is observable for family audi
be nsinuating or conciatory screak which has learnt
by walking into Office Nothing be more complas
ant than its lustre which to be borrowed from the
boots of everybody ese and yet decidedly peculiar
and it is a boot capable of assuming many different
phases of character, without ceasng to be shrewd
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common to boots and men, believing themselves inscru
table, yet exhibiting their weakness to every phlosophc
eye. We behold in them too plainly the man who has
scrupled at nothing that would advance him the shut
fling foe the false friend the dangerous ally Witha,
there are boots that battle verbal description and per-
haps they could no more be painted than ga dying
grOan."
The editors boots what stories of unrequted labor
thankess striving wasted health, are written in every
seam and wrinkle They are never bright like the
boots Of other men, on Sunday and they have
quick nervous eager look that betrays their wearer
anxiety to make article or an item out of everything
they bring him upon. cannot regard such boots with
out emotions of the most painful kind for to me the
mute leather is eloquent Of an insane devotion to call
ing that out soul and bodynor makes robust the
purse of long nights of scribbng and scissoring OF
wanderngs among uncouth people and strange places;
of singular sacrifice of self for the sole satisfaction Of
being held answerable for unanswerable articles.
AS had said BEFORE boots are as infinite in their
riety men and it vain to attempt to classify
them. Indeed there is one boot (never on the right
fOOt) which might, of ITSELF form the text of sermon.
1t is often the backs of seats in the pit of the
theatre where it disputes popular applause with the dar
ling actress of the hour it is frequently heard to tap
snatches of tune the door steps of saloons and to
perform extempore and agumentary shufles within
looms 1t is a shabby, dashng boot, patched and run
down. yet with Irresistible expression of good fellow
ship about it and indeed, it belongs to who is
known as goodhearted fellow among his acquaintance
"a weak, kind, well-natured creature, hurting
but himself honest when be may be- and always gener
and partly drunk. Such boot wore Dick Swivel
er and such men will always be known by such boots
Then there is calm, negative, methodical boot as
unwordly as it is cody conceited and selfconscious
small but not shapely thin, but not flexible which is
onIy to be found a certain species of cergymen-a
man of whom you feel, when you see him, that he is
only chaste because stone, only gentle because afraid.
with lips depressed, as he were meek
Himself unto himself he sold;
Upon himself himself did feed
Quiet, dispassionate, and cold.''
l. should weary you were / to animadvert at equal
length upon the farmer boots, yellow and coarse and
stiened and deormed by sore labor the merchants
boot solid, smooth and respectable; the vagabonds
boot exaggerated in its raggedness rundownness and
redoent with the unwholesome presence of unwashed
cruel the fathers boots that seem to have been made
to play music upon the home threshold the grandsres
boot, paralytic, tottering, broad and low.
We learn from the Salisbury Waterman that a case
of Small Pox occurred at Gold Hill, Rowan county,
week before last The authorities of Salisbury have
taken prompt to prevent the disease reaching
that town by passing Ordinance forbiddng any per
from Gold Hill any other infected region visit
ing Salisbury under penalty of $50 fine if white per-
son. 80 lashes if slave: The Intendant authori