New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-18


looked at and enjoyed it seems wrong, that with such
picture passing before your eyes, your eyes should
he turned upon anything else Work, especially mem
tai work, is always painful; always thing you would
shrink from ii could but how strongly you shrink
from il on beautiful Summer morning! On gloomy
Winter day you walk with comparative willing
ness into your study after breakfast, and spread out
your paper, and begin to wriIe your sermon. For
though writing the sermon IL undoubtedly an effort
and although all sustained effort partakes of the nature
of pain; and although pain Can never be pleasant
stil after all apart from other reasons which impel
you to your work you cannot but feel that really II
you were to turn away from your task OF writing,
there is nothing to which you could take that you
would enjoy very much more than itself. And even
the faiTest Snmn er morning, you c0n,it you are
living in town, take TO your task with comparative
Somehow, in town, the weather Is farther oil
from you; 1t does not pervade all the house, az 1t does
III the country you have not windows that open INTO
the garden: through which you see green trees and
grass every time you look up and through which you
can III mIDute, without the least change Of dress,
paes into the verdant Thereis all the difference
iii the world bet the shadiesl and greeest public
garden or park even within a hundred yerds Of your
DOOR and the green shady little spot that up to
your very window. The former Is no very
great temptation TO the busy scholar OF rural
tastes; the latter is almost irresistible hundred
yards long way to &c, with purpose preperse OF
enjoying something so simple the green eaIth After
having walked even hundred yards you feel that You
need definite AIM Andthe grass and trees seem
very far away, if you them at the end OF vista OF
washing your bands aud putting on another coat and
Other boots and still more of putting on gloves and
hat. Give the little patc of grass, the three or
four shady trees the quiet corner of the shrubbery that
up the study window a1d which you can reach
without the formaliiy OF paseing through the hall
ana out by the front door Ii you wish to ENJOY nature
III the Summertime, YOU must attend TO all these Httle
things. What stout old gentlemen but knows that when
he is seated snugly in his easy chair by the Winter
evening resde he would take up and read many psges
in volume hch lay within reach VI hls arm, though
he would do without the volume II Ia order To get he
had TO take the slight trouble OF rising from bis chair
and walking to table half dozen yards oil Even 30
must nature be brought within easy reach OF even the
true lover Of nanIe otherwise or hundred occasions,
al sorts If little fandul bindrmCos viii stand between
him and her habitual appreciation. very small thing
may prevent your doing thing which you even wish
to do but which you do not wish with any SPECIAL eH-
element, and which you may do at any time dare
say some reader would have written months since 10
fend in India TO whom he promi cd faithfully to wilte
frequently, but that when he sat Gown once or twice
to write and pulled out lis paperdrawer he found that
all the thin Indian paper done. And sothe pshOt
is that the friend has been year ont; ana you nave
never written TO him at all.
But to return TO the point from which this deviation
proceeded | repeat, that fine Summer morningin
The country il is excessively difficult to take to your
work Apart flom the rerellent influence which " In
WORK Itself Won think that you will miss much
You 90 out after breakfast with IA wide-swake hat
and no gloves into the fresh atmosphere. You walk
round the garden. You look particularly at tie more
eminent roses and the argelt trees. lou go 20 the
stabe.y ard and what is doing tbeIc. There are
twenty things 10 think of nunberess little directions
TO give. NOu rec wecdy corner, and nat must not
be suffered YOU long spray Of climbing rose that
nee training. lou lock into tie corn-chest The corn
is almost finished. You have the fact impressed upon
YOU that the old potatoes nearly done, aud the new
ones hardly ready for These things Iartake Of
the nature Of IL you do rot feel very wel you
will regard them as wOrTlcs But II l. no care nor worry
gfratq f.l In lOtH
at The outline of the hills TO out with your little
children and walk slowly aopg the country lane out.
side your gate relating for the hundreh time the legend
Of the renowned giaut-kluer, OF the enclauled hone
that flew through the ar; to walk on till you come TO
the bridge aud there sit down and throw in stones for
your dog 10 dive after while various shouts very loud
10 come from such little uouths applaud his success
How crystal lear the water OF the iiveri IL Is sik
fee. deep yet you may REQ every pebble OF is bed
an undeiued laLness possessee you. You would Ike
to eit here, and look, and think. ell day But oil
course YOU will not give m TO the temptation
slowly you return to yonT door; uh"uhngy Son enter
il: reuctantly you take 10 your wok Jnul you
have got somewhat into the spirit OF your tack. you
cannot help lookiog sometimes st the rOsca which frame
your window, and tie green hill you zee through H.
with white sheep. And even when you have glt your
mind under control, ana the line. flow more willingly
from yOur peu you cannot bu' look oui OccasioDsiiy
into the suufhuy, shady corner IN your vicw aud think
YOU should bc there. And when lhe prescribed pages
are a. lengh completed, bow delightful TO lock hem
"
now than YOU were IN tie morning. The shadow OF
your work was upon YOU then: you may with
pleased conscience and under 10 sensc OF PIE SURE,
santer about, and enjoy your little domaiu Many
tbngs have been accomplished since you went indoors
TIE weeds Ge gone from the the spray Of the
rose has been trained The pOato-beds have been eN-
amined: the potatoes will be all ready in two days
more. hi down in the shade, warm yet cool OF
great tree.
A mingled tone of gayety and gravity charac-
49, al; In, NTH flt.
perience OF many, in his remarks on
SOLITARY DAYS.
Great numbers Of educated people in tbs country live
solitary liyes And by IA solitary life do not mean
life in feuOte district OF country with hardly neigh
Dor near hut with your house well filed aud noisy
with childrcns voices. BY solitary life mean life
in hch day after day and week alter week, you rise
in the mo,ning in filent dwelling, in which, save
servants there are but y0urself; i, which you
sit down 10 breakfast, perhaps set yourself to yonr
DAYS work all alone then dine by yourself, and spend
tbe q, ,enng by yoursef BaT1-tcrs living chambers
in some cases do this; young lads living IN lodgings,
young in country asonages, old bachelors IN
Handsome town bouses and beautiful country mansions,
old maids in quiet streets of country towns old ladies
once the center of cheeriulfames but whose husband
aud children hre gone-even dukes IN palaces aud
castles amid "a lonely splendor which must, would
think seem dreary and ghastly. But you know, nay
reader, we sympatLize tie most completely with that
NylirI we have ourp1 Ives exverio need. And when
hear Ieope talk Of solitary fe the picture called up
before ne l. TINT of young man WHO has always
lived a. ore u hourehOld considerable m nunbers
who get "A living in the Church, aud who having
sister 10 keep house for hu, goes TO II To 1--we quite
aIosc. How many of my friends have done pre-
eisely that! Was IL not a eurlous mode OF lie
thug il not made commonplace TO your own feeling
by the fact that hundreds or thousands Of human he
ings have eXycrienced the very same. And although
Gty Smits have done ii (all very clever feONe and
ffty Robus0ns have done IL l'ill very commonplace
and ordinary felows does not feel BIT the less
interest in recurring 10 tLat experience which, hack
neyed as it may be- is to you OF greater interest than
ali ofhar .yne5auce jn that IL IL VOur own Draw uD