Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-26
CONSISTENCY.

Sick OF people who think one thing, talk
another, and act a third. Sick of preach
ers who hold up beautiful standards of
morality before the public eye--talk with
silyery tongues, and kindly features Of
the blessedness following in the footsteps
of the just, and then mould their private |
/ lives into direct contradiction of their pi- |
Gus preachings. Sick of doctors who be-
labor their patients with long winded es-
! says on the pricelessness Of health, and
the duty Of living carefully, while they
disregard the requirements of nature and
common sense themselves. Sick of
1 Christians who lengthen their faces in
exact proportion 70 the hardness of their
hearts who pompously offer God the
hollow chaff of unfelt prayers; and while
one eye takes in greedily its fill of car
nal pleasures, think they are sure of sal
walton, so long as they keep the other
twisted in the direction of heaven. Sick
OF people who grind the faces of their.
home poor into thousand dollar donations
for the unsanctifed heather. Sick of
that miserable, belittiing ambition. which
tempts some persons to ape magnifcence,
at the expense Of solid comforts, and TO
starye themselves lean, on second rate
fare for the greater portion other lives,
in order TO give splendid entertainments
to their friends. once or twice year.
think I would 60 great ways for
tie sake of looking on a thoroughly con-
Sistent man or woman, either. Such a
specimen Of humanity would be a varie-
". in the exhibition Of which, Barnum
might easily repair his shattered fortunes.
To find merchant who ever made any
profit On his goods: a parent who thought
: his ueiahbors' children as good looking
as his own; hornely woman who wasn't
= ALWAYS before her mirror; an humble
Christian who wouldn't desert one church
for another. when their own minister's re-
marks began to get personal : a Wild
r over who didn't wear Grape and shed
= tears for his dead wife, at the same time
he vas looking round for a new one a
coQuettish girl y he refused her first offer
with the disdain ofa queen, and didn't
= repent Of her decision after she stood huS-
t baudleSs in the region OF false teeth and
: hair dye; apolitician, who toiled dIsinter-
estediy for the promotion of his party
and wouldn't turn a double somerset in
TO the opposite ranks, If the baitOf al Of.
0 flee with fat salary attached, drawn be-
P. fore his eyes-'o find one or all Of these
would be Il l;fe's labor well rewarded"
I have seen . great many scruPnlously
neat housewives, wao prided themselve:
z on sweet cupboards, clean floors and spot
a less fuTniture-wh0se Utmost souls seem
.r ed to revolt at the sight ola muddy foot
print, or pin-haad sized grease spot
" vet who carried filth enough about thei
. own persons TO deiiia & dozen decen
habita.icns. going round through theiI
! swept. busted and washed apartments
with uncombed heads finger nails urtrim
: med, and teeth grimmed over with re
e preventative particles Of dinners and sup
&, pers eaten when they were children, Il
n. say nothing Of bodies yellow with tn,
dried perSpiration Of ayear. Ihave seer
women fash out into the street in all tn,
: byiliiancy Of gorgeous APPAREL. witt
s plumcs tossing. laces fntterine, ribbon
IS ri -pling. and gay silks rustline, when
+. knew that their rich robes covered under
= garments which were robbing both tn
ID wash-tub and the rag-bag Of their rights
Of l have seen the daintiest silk stocking
= drawn over ankles. the color of whic
No might have been improved by baptism
Of soap suds. I have seen-bu. what
the use in telling
ID l know l am not consistent myself;
Ia don't pretend 10 be. / takevows of cell
ia bacy every day. and think all the tim
J. how very easy . certain somebody VIC
: of, could tempt NE 10 break them.
Ie detest silly writers, yet always read N
own productions first in the newspaper
a and had as lief see them copied as am
49, body's. an very brave, yet coulIn
be coaxed 70 walk through a grave ya1
2 alone, after dark-rery Independent, Y,
D. ike to be in he fa~hion a. well as the gel
w crafty Of my sex; and as you see, a
~ mos; consistently inconsistent, in wishir
=. to find in other people what DO not pc
u sess myself.
10 l remember of getting exasperatt
IN over glazing Inconsistency, or what
ass least seemed one to ne, in Bayard Ia
=. lor's Travels in Africa" After scoldir
" in a manner which aid him great cred
7u- about the people Who had sarcrilegiops
ey scrawled their names allOyer the walls
4 the grand old Egyptian temples. and /
ed reverenily pounded Of fragments
stone from pillars sculptured centuri
before their insignificant eyes opened n
rs on the world-after calling them 'snob
IN and a variety Of other names. which
,rs doubt they deserved, be very ccolly spo,
= Of pulling lock Of hair from the head
a female mummy, TO carry away as
II" relic. As IF It we're not worse 10 scalp
es; dead woman than to chisel ones nan
is. CT stone. [ had pitjed him, TIL the tea
~; came in my eyes, As | read Of his lo
= rides across the desert, with the hot, pi
jill less African sun beating down its hi
ten tering rays upon hin-pilied him
en- the drifting storms Of sand that filed I
Nj ears, EYES and moUth-pitied him I
- the cruel flies that stung lis neck a
turbanded head-pitied him for the he
OF that cracked his buttered nose, aud +
ian snakes that curled up in his ma;tra:
liz but when read that, / was glad Of it
~ jus; as glad as l could be
IF ] had been the spirit Of that 20