The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-12
JERRoLDIANA.

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The following are among Douglas Jerrold's
pitby sayings: st
"What women would do if they onld not CRY
nobody knows. They are treated badly enough
as it is, but if they could not cry when the,
liked, how they would be put upou--what poor,
defenceless creatures they would BEL
Nature has been very kind to them. Next
to the rhinoeeros, there is nothing in the world
armed like q woman. And she knows it."
Out of which follows this advice to married
ladies':
" Cultivate your nerves You can't pet them
too-much. Something will always be happen
ing in the house, and, unless your husband be
worse than q stone, every new fright will be as
good as new gown or a new triuket to you.
There are some dome stio wounds only to be
healed by the jeweler"
He says of an honest Benedict
" He loved his wife in plain, straightforward
fashion; and, as he was never lsvishly tender
to her before company, there is the greatest
reason to believe that he WAS neither savage
nor silent 10 her when alone. For some m arried
folks will keep their love like their jewery, for
the eyes of the world; thinking it too fne and
too precious to wear every day at their fire
side
What fine thought is this, on the mind OF
childhood.
"Is not the mind of childhood the tenderest,
hottest thing this side of heaven? Is it not to
be approached with gentleness, with love-yes,
with heart worship of the great God, from
whom, in almost angelinnocence, it has pro.
| ceeded? A creature undefled by the faint OF
the world-unvexed by its injustice-unw eared
by its hollow pleasures. A being fresh from
the source of light, with something of its uni
verssl lustre in it If childhood be this, how
holy the duty to see that, in its onward growth
it shall be no other2 To stand as watcher al
the temple, lest any unclean thing should en-
ter it,"
| And this, on q command reversed
"'And God said, Let us make man in oul
image
What fine creature is man, so long as ht
always has these words before his eyes, and &c
tries to do nothing but what ehall be some way
worthy of his likeness To do this, is to make
the world pleasant place, and to have every
body happy about us. And God said, Let us
make man in our image!' This is. beautiful
but it is ssd-it is melancholy work-wheI
man says, Let us make God in our image
| What trenchant sarcasm it was, when hs
said of fawning fellow, whom he calls q pos
ture master, his principal feat was the snake
trick tcteneuer has other tricks failed, he be
gan to creep, and success sods certain"
Sadly true is this paragraph on the slippery
path of life:
"How few there are who, starting in youth
animated by great motives, do not at thirt,
seem to have suffered second fall VIVA
angel purposes did they woo-snd what bag
gard realities have they married2 What Rs
chefs have they thought to serve for-and whs
LEANS has the morning dswned upon?"
Speaking of an Anglo-French alliance, b
said:
"The best thing know between France an
England is-the sea f" of the law, " It's a pref
ty bird, and has charming wings; it is quite
bill !" of a scoundrel, He'd sharpen knit
upon his fathers tombstone, to kill his mother.
Whatever dirty-shirted philosophers ma
say to the contrary, hattery is fine, socis
thing; the beautiful handmade of life, castinI
flowers and odoriterous herbs in the paths @
men, who, crushing out the sweets, curl up bel
noses as they Snuff the odor, and walk half al
inch higher to heaven by what they trea'
upon"
"Work for ready money. Take no bill
upon posterity; In tho FIRST place, there ar
many chances against its being paid and il
the next, if it be duly honored, the cost ma
be laid out on some piece Of bronze or msrbl
of not the slightest value to the original"
A very popular medical gentleman called OF
Jerrod one day. When the visiter was abou
to leave, Jerrold looking from his library win
dow, espied his friends carriage, attended b
servants in flaming liveries.
Jerrold. "What, doctor, l see your liver
is measles, turned up with scarlet feverl"
Jerrold and Lamar Blanchard we're strollinl
together about London, discussing passionate
ly a plan for joining Byron in Greece. Jer
rold, telling the story many years after, said
" But shower of rain came on, and washe
all the Greece out of u.s."