The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-12-17
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Those authors who saii ss. established Gus
toms, call them false and contrary h ne-
,ue, aud pirate ahcu, 'ccuven,ionai usage
are t@uen in haud in very amusing and
effective style. The writer says:
"Our commonest and most innocent
habits, u,easures BY these gentlcmen's
standard, will be exceedingly unveracious.
Are We all to walk about as in palace of
truth, and repudiate all the recognized
.courtesics of society because they are
: srhams? Am to say TO my good neigh
" Nor Lr. Tomkins, whenever meet him,
Tomkius, you are u bore, and you ought
!, V know IL; csu't waste my precious
sJmc talking to you about the weather, or
p sSeu about Mrs. Tomkins have mors
Sipportant futjects than these to talk
shout, and more agreeable people to talk
.,sto; 50 ! wish you very good morning
ar ritker, mean 70 say; don't care
you have good morning or bad
A.oac. I don't wish you amp harm, but i
'ts@snt 10 get rid Of your G whom meet
: Smith at the FolkestonasStation on his
autumn trip--he in his&utical costume
and Mr.. L. in her round hat---am to
sccost them in the sincere language Of my
hesrt--"Well, for two secsible middle
aged people, you have contrived TO make
the greatest guys Of yourselves l ever saw
In my life. am sure this would be
vemci,y; but would it be an improvement
Oh the whole, on the conventional type of
nnr ac+rai conversation under the circun
stances? "Good morning, Mr. Tomkins
hope sea you we'll these essterly,' &c
Sc How are you, Smith?-fond Of
boating as ever, see and Mrs Smith
looking really quite, &c. nc. It's sham;
I know it's; perhaps she knows it is; bu.
If she does, she knows il to be friendly
one. Were l to 20 back to my veracities,
might prefer, being in company with
fas.idicus friend, to cut the Smiths alt :
gethcr. The truth is, we live in world
Of shams and oonventionaliti-s, if YOU pre-
fer csll.ng thing by ugly names. All
civilized life is u ststo Of convention
Language itself is all convention; ask the
logicians. There is 10 reason, in tho ~
trinsic nature Of things, why II should
spell that All forms Of conversation ore
pure nvcntionslitice. WIS do we shake
hands What ceremony can &c so absurd?
The PsoiEc islanders rub noses so do
sheep Of the two, thesefore; the latter
may Or the more natural. Dr. Living.
ttone's friends, the Bakolos, BY way of
paying their rcppects, lay down upon the
ground, and elapped their thighs with
,hss sssas. laadly and snergstissly,
sud 50, perhaps, should we; but you see
Batsye seems TO dictate no universal forms
. Of polteuess the forms which do suggest
'boulaclycs 20 others, seem to US as I'M
meaning and uDgracetul us ours may to
them. No wise man among US laughs at
his British ancestors for painting theni-
selves blue; ia it mark Of such superior
wisdom 10 ridicule the outer coating Of so.
ciety in this nineteenth century?
Be al, We are told-bc genuine be
true FAY what you will, do what you will,
only let il be t. nth, and not falschood
j. sounds very grand; not quite go new a
gospel perhaps as its apostles fancy; this
living according 10 nature was tsvorite
dream Of old Ouly pool human nature
not being itself perfection, is forced to be
:. content with more elastic rule. If we
were angels, them 10 say all We think
~ould 30 very we'll, and TO act according
to psture would follrw Of course but AS
Thugs ere concerned in this far from an
Seiic world, there are great many tho is
Which Ne shall do well tie hide if possible
sveG from ourselves, and good many ac-
lions which we must disguise rs We can
with littlc decent hypocrisy. There is
20 more disagrcesblc per- on ON earth than
ba ~ l. ! =
ubosc mind. be it observed, lie almost al.
Ways unpleasant"
Again 10 remarks:
&" Skin Russisn," it il said, "and you
will find the Tartar underneath" The
p.olcsb may be true, in many senses, of
tho Englishman ca well as the Russian -
strip nisDy NJ Us 10 the core, and even
ar mos: intimate friends might fail 30
recognize ~ But is It absolutely ueces-
,ary 10 20 througb this miserable process a.,
An. wo ~ al the prettier to look at, and
quite * goUd tor Gsc, for little outside
los nUt nature herself give us lesson in
tb!s, that she couceas uuder fair smooth
c;!tic!c the system OF nervee, and siLcws,
and blood vessels, which, when uncover
-, make but Il. CHASTITY shoR Let US
oro.et, then, in the name Of common
sense and comfort, against this philosophy
If tho dissectipg room. Let us neither
s1stomiro others nor submit to b, thus
operoted upon ourselves. Let the play Of
life pioceed. Let us lend ourselves with
good grace to itszllusious; many of them
arc prc;ty and pleasant; fsw of them are
very miachicvous at any rate, we shall
gain little by 'aoking behind tho scenes.
That young lady in the silk AVID spangles
Is NJ r,al sJlph; granted but she
looks ,e'y nice. Why trace her home 70
tho g7areo boof-stlkes and porter Of her
lnur,al cnnnor2 IL Tie nullant helnre ~