, 1862-10-18
Stick.

To get on in the world, you must be content
to be always stopping where you are; TO advance
you must keep down. Following riches is like
following after wild geese you mnst crawl after
them on your belly; the moment you pop up
your head, off they CO. whistling in the wind and
you see no more of them. If you have no art of
sticking by nature, you must acquire it by art ;
put couple of pounds of brd-lime your office
stool, and sit down on it get chain on your leg,
and tie yourself to your counter like a pair of
scissors, nail yourself up against the wall your
place of business like weasel on barn door, or
the sign of the spread eagle; or what would do
best of all, marry an honest poor girl, without a
penny, and my life for yours if you don't do busi-
ness. Never mind what your relations say about
genius, talents, learning, enterprise, and such
stuff when they come advising you for your good,
stick up to them TOR the loan of a sovereign, and
if you ever see them on your side Of the street
again, shiver me in welcome but to do any good,
tell you over and over again, you must be a
sticker. You may get fat on rock, if you never
quit your hold oft.
WHY so MUCH BEAUTY IN POLAND because,
says Bayard Taylor" these girls do not jump
from infancy to young ladyhood They are not
sent from the cradle to the parlor to dress, to sit
STILL and look pretty. No, they are treated as
children should be. During childhood, which
extends through period of several years, they
are plainly and loosely dressed and allowed to
run, romp, and play in the open air. They are
not loaded down, girded about, and oppressed
every way with countless frlls, and superabundant
hounces, so as to be admired for their clothing
Nor are they rendered delicate and dyspeptic by
continually stufling candies and sweet-meats, as
are the majority of American children. Plain,
simple food, free and various exercise, and an
abundance of exercise during the whole period of
childhood, are the secrets of beauty in after life"
A GooD PRACuCE-When Spaniard eats
peach or pear by the roadside, wherever he is, he
digs hole in the ground with his foot, and COW
ers the seed. Consequently, all over Spain, by
roadsides and elsewhere, fruit in great abundance
tempts the taste, and is ever free. Let this prac-
tice be initiated in our country, and the weary
wanderer will be blest, and will bless the hand
that ministered to his comfort and Joy. We are
bound to leave the world as good, OR better than
we found it, and he is a selfish ohurl who basks
under the shadow, and eats the fruit Of trees that
other hands have planted, if he will not also plant
trees which shall yield fruit to coming genera
tions.
A SCOTTISH XANTIPPE.-James Ferguson and
his wife led a cat-and-dog-lif life and she is not once
alluded to in the philosophers autobiography
About the year 1850, one evening while be was
delivering to a London audience lecture on as
tronomy his wife entered the room in passion,
and maliciously overturned several pieces of the
apparatus, when all the notice Ferguson took of
the matter was the observation to the audience
Ladies and gentlemen, / have the misfortune to
he married to this woman"
ABOUT So.-A man is the healthiest and the
happiest when he thinks the least either Of health
or happiness. To forget i'll is half the battle
it leaves easy work for the doctors.