Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15


Remember the treachcrous beam life's
wave,
And ,catehfst through sunshine and storm to
The last,
Thus caimly and peacefully glide to the grave.
What Will Folks Think?
How often this vital (?) question is
asked! In parlor and kitchen, in the
city and country; erywhere, cuery,chere,
old and young, rich and poor, Gods
: people and the worlds people, seem to
defer more to the opinions of others than
their own judgment of what is best and
right. ssThe speech of people is the
greatest bugbear in Christendom. One
would suppose it to be much easier to
do as we please, as we find it convenient
or judgesit right to do, promptly and in
dependently, than to stop and turn
round to find out who is looking on and
what they will think or say, and then to
square our own conclusions according to
other peoples estimates. So it would
be--but We. don't always do the easiest
thing. We often work harder to cir
cumyent a difficulty, meeting a great
many more in our roundabout progress,
than we should if we walked with bold
face straight up to the first one and cen
quered it. And then the unpleasant
feelings we have to endure, the regrets
and accusations we inhict upon our
selves, when We happen to have done
aomething not exactly understood or ap-
proved by those ever-watchful, critical
. ssfolks" we desire 80 much to please
who can calculate them?
So mcditated as listened to talk
between Lille Robinson and her mother
the other day.
Lille says, "You know Jennie Samp-
son, mother?'
lasss "0h yes"
"You know she was at Julia Hatha,
ways birthday party y
sS tsYes.''
a,. "Youe know Julia only had two or
4 three little girls there, and | wore my
nerino dress and long sleeyed white
apron"
..Yes, remember"
"Well, Jennie Sampson had on beau
tiful silk dress. 1t had every color in
it-oh, it was such beauty. And what
do you think she said to Julia?"
81 couldn't possibly tell, said the
aWhy, she said, shouldn't you think
Lilfie Robinson's mother would dress
her better than that when she goes to a
party?' 8
"Who told you she said sol"
WaNWhy, Julia told mo herself this
affernoon."
1sWell, you don't care, do you, dear!'
tsYss, mamma, I'm sure do. It
makes me feel real bad"
ssWhy, Jennie didn't blame you; she
blamed your mother
Lille was silenced for q moment, and
her mother went or.
Now, TO be sure, good little girl
oughtto feel just as badly to have her
mother found fault with as 20 be found
fault with herself"
''Well, did, mamma"
s.But then good little girl ought to
te SO sure that her mother had done
right, that she wouldn't be troubled at
oil by what little child like Jennie
might think We mustn't regard what
Others say about us when We do what we
know to be right. Mrs. Hathaway,
like a sensible woman, gave a very
proper. entertainment to Julia, sending
for few little girls to come in the after
noon to have a good play; and your
mother, like sensible woman, too, as I
think, dressed you for the OCCASION
When sixty or hundred children are
invited to great party, where they can
do nothing but stand up round the
room to be looked at and get very tired,
why then I suppose it is right enough
that they should be dressed up like dolls,
and try which will look the prettiest.-
But when they are sent for as you were
Ito play and have good time-why
then they must be dressed in clothes
they can play in. Don't you think sol"
"Yes'm."
"Then your mother did perfectly
right"
sa+ aYes'm ~
"Well, then, why do you care what
little girl like Jennie should think
about it? You never need mind what
people think or say about you, my dear,
if you are only sure that you do right,
and act in proper, sensible manner
If they are good themselves, they will
understand and approve what you do,
and that, of course, will be very crafty
ing. But if they are SO weak and silly
as tolaugh at your conduct, you needn t
fear or worry about it"
q Mrs Robinson was right Blessed
be independence, thought l.. Why
must we trim and scud and tack about
to catch the wind of popular favor,
when the. honor which ccmeth from cd
and the appreciation of "conscience
void of ofense" are so much more salts
flying? If We have got to go all the
way through life with Julia Hathaways
at our elbow, to whisper what this one
thinks and that one says of US, striving
them to cut and contrive and adjust to
suit all the Jennie Simpsons around, We
may we'll exclaim,
II am weary am weary
Of the cares and tolls of life;'
for surely life is bereft at once of al
comfort. Blessed be independence and
moral courage. said I to myself again
drawing > good long breath Let mt
get above folks where I can breathe q
pure atmosphere and exist. The ides
gofsufocating, literally choking to death
down in the close, vitiated atmosphere
of = meddlesome and gossiping world
is to my thinking not at all agreeable
l@T The patriots of the Revolution
never uttered a more noble sentimen
than Governor Sprague of Rhode Islanc
expressed when he said: "Wealth il
useless, unless it promotes the publ,
welfare, and life itself but bauble, un