The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-07-06
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One way to Kill Comfort.


DIR. Hall a very pleasant essayist. and withal
a popular but practical medical adviser. says
of eover dress for pleasure.traveliDg
Oar wives and daughters lose three fourths
of the pleasures of summer travel, BY the in
excusable. the excrable perversion of the true
taste aud common sense in dressing for rail
car or steamboat as if they were going to a
court reception it does seem that they have
no more sense Of the fitness of things than
IDIOTS Cannot some few gentlemen have their
own way for once. and thereby set the fashion
by dressing in the families for summer trav
ell in plain. substantial garments. allowing no
member anything beyond what a small carpet
bag wonld contain. and which should be the
sole article which each one was to take care
Off Let us all put ourselves npon our be,
havior,' and not in our dress. The fact is. the
clerks and proprietors of hotels, the captains
of steamboats,. and the conductors of railroads
seq at the very first glance the real Status of
/ traveller; the dullest chamhermaid. the most
stupid cabin boy, and the LATEST waiter, are
neither dull nor stupid, ror lazy, nor erring,
either, in the estimate they make of people, as
4 if by intuition. 4 -al. rs
The Doctor still further discourses Of jour
! neying and pays very pretty compliment to
4 the sex, by mentioning the advantages of
4 x Pretty Travelling Companion.
IF it is in contemp plation to spend several
y days at time in hotels or cities, or small
4 towns, or to be a good deal in steamboats, !;
4 to do so with the largest amount of comfort
and complacence, in consequence Of having
the hest and promptest attention from land
lords. clerks and servants, traueI ,oith a hand
some scomen There is nothing like it. No
fairy wand will .trausmogrify things so-
Beauty rules The roast everywhere. 1t com.
mands everybody from hosrler to host. You
NAV yourself he nobody;yo may have pug.
nose, red hair; you may he perfect duck
of man--so short and fat that you cam I
make even a respectable waddle your face
may be pock marked your back may be
bumped your shank perfect spindle, and
your leg how-only have magnificent wo
man along and for her sake, you will he treat
A ed all vopr journey through as menials trea,
a master "a couriiers treat their king We
have tried it reader in earlier years and later
and know its delights; not bothering ourselves
with anv over nice Determinations eomfor
is comfort whatever may be the motive from
which it springs. A diamond is q diamond
although washed from the mud by blacka
moor
4 The Tin Tglmpet "a new publication
gives an exposition of
The Feelings of Lover.
A man who, in his anxiety to obtain posses
sion of another, has lost possession of himsei
Lovers are seldom tired of one another's SC
ciety. because they are always speaking &
themselves. Let Us not however, disparag
this fond infatuation. for all its tendencies ar
elevating. He who has passed through lif
without being in love, has had no spring tim
mo summer in bis existence; his heart is g
"a Towering plant which hath never blown
never developed itself-never put forth i,
beauty and its perfnne-never given nor re-
ceved pleasure. The love of onr youth, lik
kennel coal ia so infamable, that it NAV b
kindled by almost any match but if its tran
cient blaze do not pass away in smoke, Il
fame. too bright and ardent to last long, SOC
exhansts and consumes ITSELF The love
our mature age is like coke, which. once igni
ed, burns with steady and enduring hea
emitting neither smoke or fame. No won
er that we hear SO much of the sorrows
love, for there is pleasure even in dwelliI
20, ra;Do Ravoll;nr, -, xoa.,