Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-17


SWANS gin justing ride;
Maidens lifien him in pride,
1t is a very common occasion of regret with
sentimental people, that the good old days of
chivalry have passed, never to return. The
busy, practical, hard-working circumstances
which surround them, tempt them to give
fictitious renown to times which were quite
as despicabe as ours There were as many
cheats and imposters who watched the gay
tournaments OF the medieval period, as there
are locking to the watering places and the sea
shore, in the summer of our lord eighteen
hundred and sixty. The fellow who gave his
name to our continent was pickle dealer in
Seville, and the patron saint OF Great Britain
was only bacon seller, and rogue at that
They are very ungrateful children who under
rate the opportunities of their own household
in vain and covetous lamentation for the goods
of Others They are the children of folly who
are miserable in this years sun shine, because
other years seem to have had an illumination
more attractive than our own. If there were
historian of modern recreation-such a his
toran as Alexander wished he might have
celebrating little things, as little things are Of
ten celebrated, and in a style fit to survive
him, there would be little longing for the old
time, which, however fair it may seem to the
Imagination, is really dust and ashes.
The faithful reader of the daily newspapers,
especially at this season, does not escape the
inhiction of innumerable narratives of pleasure.
seekers, from the seashore and the admirable
IL, -,
like those which the Spy publishes, some
rather tiresome, but all revealing the passion
of our Woodworking people for air and rest.
The carnival OF the American is no wild and
senseless frolic of which the purpose is to
appear as monstrous as possible, but only
quiet practical effort for the restoration of ex-
pended strength Some foolish people, to be
sure, throng to the popular watering places,
and, after brief and exciting period, go home
weaker and worse than they left it. Some
who can't get away so far undertake laborious
excursions, which last from sunrise till mid.
night and return very weak and very cross
in season for short and uncomfortable nights
rest. There is no fun in such recreation. 1t
is very high style of misery under a very
shabby disguise. However fair and clear u
day gives its promise to the hunter, he is
certain to return with less TO show for his lost
ammunition than if he had been contented
with the birds of plumage which fiuttered at
his own door.
But the sensible class OF pleasure-seekers,
who 90 on short excursions and never attempt
10 overdo them, or who find out the quiet
places, where air is pure and men are honest
and this is the growing class-will justify an
abiding confidence in the virtue of that style
of summer recreation. There is little comfort
for the twenty who ride in an omnibus which
was made for only ten. To crowd the pleasure
which belongs to two days into less than one
is against the law, and the judge before whom
the case comes to inevitable trial is not ac-
customed to show mercy. Recreation, to be
satisfactory, needs to be diffused you cannot
put your hand under sun glass without
getting scorched. 1t may be fashionable,
but it isn't wholesome. The more excel.
lent way which we speak of, and commend, is
becoming fashionable and will be indispensa-
bic. 1t is better for men of sedentary habits
to fish for sharks than TO receive doctorate;
and, the times GO, the sharks are worth
quite as much as the diploma.