The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-02-04
THE DAY BOOK.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4

SATURDAY EVENlNG, FEbhOAhl g..
IMPoRTAcE OF NoTHING.-Nothing is
more important than to understand the
subject about which you propose to in
struct others.
Nothing is more acceptable to hun
CRY man than bread and meat.
Nothing promotes happiness more than
even temper.
Nothing is more likely to produce
wealth than industry.
Nothing will preserve wealth when
acquired better than economy.
Nothing bette. promotes health than
Temperance and exercise.
Nothing adds more to the respectable
itv of a man than a character for probity
in all his actions.
Nothing adds greater charms to beau
ty than modesty and affability.
Nothing is moro becoming in youth
than respect to their elders.
Nothing endears a servant more to his
employer than never to abuse his conf
deIce.
Nothing is, therefore. more valuable
than most things. For who possesses
nothing which renders him disagreeable
to his fellow men, Or in any wise dissat-
isfed with himself, must be the happiest
man on earth; and, since the philoso-
piers Stone has always been looked up
as the medium through which this hap
piness was to be obtained, it follows, we
think, logically, that the Philosophers
Stone is-n0thang.
A Pound CAKE SToRY.-Some years
ago, at large barbecue, gotten up in
honor of political triumph, the dining
table was adorned with monster pound
cakes, composed of saw-dust, and suffi-
Gent flour, and perhaps other things, to
give it a proper consistency and color
The company, knowing that it was in
tended for shoav only, the cake was un-
touched during tbs sumputuous feast.
After the crowd had nearly dispersed,
and the table pretty well cleared of cat
ables, old Jimmy Jones, who had been
delayed, arrived upon the ground late
and hungry. Seeing but little else, he
pitched boldly and without ceremony
into the big cake. He put large slice
in his bosom, and with another in his
hand started for home. Just as he had
taken his first bite, he was met by "a
friend. who cried out:
"Halloo! Uncle Jimmy, what have
you got there? ?"
''lt's pound-cake; but | believe, if it
wasn't for the name of the thing, |
would as soon have q piece of good corn
bread"
THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.-The follow
ing sketch is called the portrait of q true
gentleman, found in an old Manor House
in Worcestershire, written and framed,
and hung over the mantle-piece of tap
istried sitting room:
The true gentleman is Gods servant,
the world S master, and his oaon man
virtue is his business, study his recfea-
ton, contentment his rest. and happiness
his reward; God is his father, the Church
is his mother, the saints his brethren, all
that need him his friends; devotion is his
chaplain, charity his chamberlain; sobri-
ETY. his butler, temperance his cook, hos
pitality his housekeeper, Providence his
steward, charity his treasurer, piety bis
mistress of the house, and discretion his
porter, to lot him in or out, as most fit.
This is his whole family, mado up of
virtues, and he is the true master of the
house. He is necesstated to take the
world on his way to heaven; but he
walks through it as fast as he can, and
all his business by the way is to make
himself and others happy. Take him
in two words-a Man and Christian.
II have been told ~ SAWS Mr. More