Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-24


daily toll, and has holiday so rarely tha
he does not know how to use il when i
comes, but even what Ethey. in their ignor
ance, would call the unproductive classes
have not, if you would believe their owl
Piiiable story, moment to themselves
They are SO busy always. In the name o
the great Busy body, busy about what!
Seven hours to sleep. to heal,hfrl labor seven,
Zen 10 The Id allow-and all to Heaven"
Now, the man to whom this distich is at
tributed is generally allowed te,have brough
something to pass lin bis generation. Blu
l suppose the days have grown shorter since
then. One remembers an old form of ex
preston, "droppiDg in to see a friend;" 1
barbarous idiom, adapted to the sauage state
of-may we call it society ,lamong our fore
fathers. | protest, with the exception O
my friends Smith and Jones-who are con.
fessedly behind the age-I should shrink
from trying that experiment at any house OF
my acquaintance.
should expect to be dropped out again
pretty quickly, and thankful if it were not
out of -pair-ofstairs' window. l did
that kind Of thing once, remember, in the
days of my comparative youth and simplici-
ty, in the case of the Rev. Byron, who had
been good enough to say he Should be sal.
ways glad to see me-" l rode over there
about the uncanonical hour of one, with a
view to possible lunch, let me say as am
about my confessions. The confidential
servant was struggling into his coat IS h g
opened the door for me, and was startled in
to a confession that he believed "master was
in his study" he would see. So | was
ushered into very cold drawing room, and
after giving me time to get exceedingly un-
comfortable, my reverend friend made his
appearance. We were both, of course,
full of apologies-I for my unreasonable
interruption, he for having uDavoidably de-
tanned me. He gave me to understand, of
course in the most delicate manner, that he
was always much engaged in the morning
Now | happen, since those days to have
learned the Interpretation of this mystery.
At the time, of course, thought he might
be editing a new edition of the Fathers, or
an original explanation of the Articles
days. But Browns confidential servant
happens to be lover of my cooks.
If you want to have all your private habits
known, keep one of these modern "conf-
dentials" by all means. Brown buys all
his sermons cheap-lithograph in MS
That's the last fashion. Perhaps, in his
case, it's just as well for his hearers. 1t
don't take many of his mornings, at all
events, to "prepare for his duty as Mrs.
Byron terms it. But Browns morning of
study is pretty much as follows: Breakfast.
9 to 10; Times newspaper, 10 to IL, yawn;
look out of the window; cast up yesterdays
accounts; write two notes (twice over) and
three school reward tickets. That carries
us on till Aalf-past II. Try the Times again
perhaps; clerk calls about wedding or
funeral; chat with him about the family af-
fairs of the parties concerned till the lunch
con bell breaks up the conference. And
Brown has been every bnsy'--he tells Mrs.
Brown so, and he thinks so. Such man
ought not to be interrupted. | knew man
who wrote his sermons on horseback, (cer-
tainly they were not like Browns MS and
another who wrote Roman History, or, I
Nigh say, the Roman History, in his DR. aw
ing-room. surrounded by his children at
play; bu. then they were not studiOus char
acters, like my reverend friend. Then,
again, Mrs. Brown is "sorry she has so lit
tie of Mrs. Smith" She would so mucf,
like to be better neighbors; but her time is
SO fully occupied with the "dear children. "
GA most devoted wife and mother" so am
told | am heartily glad she stands in Meth.
er relation TO me. Those "dear children"
never look half 80 pretty, half so Innocent
or or half so attractive, as | saw them one
day, escaped from mammals and mademoi-
selle's surveillance, gallo2ing round Smiths
paddock on his old rough pony, and Madele-
inc (the Countess's godchi'd) dancing wild
with delight at old Ponto's grave face under
her best bonnet.
Poor child! it was very naughty, no
doubt-quite against the rules of her Z" bring
ing up;" it was very incautious to have left
her for a moment under the projection of
that notoriuuSly rude Tom Smith, and she
won't be taken out again with mamma in 4
hurry to call on those kind of people; one
can't be too particular, as she very roperly
says, with whom ones children associate.
So my pretty little Madeleine will grow up
drilled according to rule under mammals
own inspection, and come out in due time
with her manners perfectly formed, trained
and pruned, till there is not an inch of ma
tural growth about her, according to the
precise pattern of twenty other young
ladies' of my cquaintance-girl who might
have been Jewels, but are now little centres
of va2id self Efficiency set in crinoline.
THE RIGHT OF FlsITATIoN.-Judge Kent
is very generally ackn owledsed to have
known some law. "IH order to enforce the
rights of belligerent nations against the
delinquencies o. neutrals," says Kent IN
his Comme rtaries, "and to ascertain the
real as well as assumed character OF all
vessels on the high seas. the law o! nations