The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-08-12
nIsAeREEAnLn PEOPLE.

a4fteAuif-~hoNtAef SINS anu now
ever formally polite you may take
pains 10 be TO him, II il disagreeable
when persons with whom YOU have
no desire TO be on terms Of intimacy
persist 10 putting many questions 70
you as to your private concerns, such
as your annualincomc aud your expen-
diure, and the Ike. No doubt It is
both pleasant and profitable for peo-
pie who are not rich TO compare notes
on these matters with some frank and
hearty friend whose means and out
eoings are much The same as their
own DO not think Of such case
bat Of the prying curiosity of persons
who have no right to pry, and who,
very generally, while diligently pry-
ing into your affairs, take special care
not TO take you into their confidence
Such people, too, while making pre-
tence Of revealing TO you all their Sc
creis, viii often tell q very small por-
ton of them, and make various state
meuis which you at the time are qnite
auare arc not frua There are not
many things more disagr-eable Than a
very stupid and Ill set old woman, who
quite unaware what her opinion is
worth, expresses il with entire conf :
dcnce upon many subjects Of which
she knows nothing whatever, and as
to which she is wholly incapable Of
judging. And the self-saiisfcd and
confident air with which she settles
the most difficult questions, and pro-
nounces unAyorable judgment upon
people ten thousand times wiser and
better than herself, is an insuiferably
irritating phenomenon. II Is a singu-
lar fact that the people have in view
invariably combine extreme ugliness
with spitciulness and sclf-conceit.-
Such person will make particular
inquiries Of GU as 10 some near rela-
live Of your own-and will add, with
malicious and horriable ugly express
sion Of face, that she is glad to hear
how very much improved your rcla-
tive now is. She will repeat the SEN
tence several times. laying great en-
phasis aud signi icance upon the very
much improved. OF course, the no
ton conveyed to any stranger who
may be present is that your relative
must in former days have been an
extremely bad fellow. The fact prob
ably is that he hns always, man and
boy, been particularly well-behayed,
and that really you were not aware
/ that he needed any special improve
ment--save, indeed, in the sense that
every human being might be and
ought TO be a great deal better than
he is.
THE DIsAcREEABLE RELIGIOUS MAN
il must be admitted, with great re-
gret, that people who make consid-
cradle profession Of religion have sue
ceeded in making themselves more
thoroughly disagreeable than almost
any other human beings have ever
made themselves. You will find peo.
pie who claim not merely to be pious
and Christian people, but 10 be very
much more pious and Christian than
others, who are extremely unchariia'
BILE, unamiable, repulsive, stupid and
narrow minded, and intensely opinion.
ated and sell-satisfed. We know
from a very high authority, that a
/ Christian ought TO be an episile II
cnmmendaiion Of the blessed faith he
holds. But i is beyond question thai
many people who profess to be Chris.
tiaus are ike grim gorsons heads
warning people of from having any.
thing to do with Christianity. Why
should a middle-aged clergyman walk
about the streets with d sullen and ma
flignant scowl always on his face, which
at The best would be very ugly one
Why should another walk with hii
nose ia the sir, and his eyes rolled uF
till they seem likely 10 roll oats Ani
Why should a third be always drabblee
over with clammy perspiratioa. ans
prolong all his novels 10 twice th,
usual ~ g'hY Il i, Indeed, mos
.aag. That people who eyince 1
.pirit 10 every respect the direct con
n tttsi n onr Blessed Reacemel