Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-05-02
A Word to Stupid People.
BY GAIL HAMILTON.

sons acquaintance. Lord ChrNierleid'
little more polite, substitutes circumiucn-
ton for the outspoken Anglo Saxon
.fools, bu, his statistics exhibit similar
result shall therefore. not be without
authority for assuming that am address
ing three. iourths of the readers Of the
CnngregatioRaiSt--an audience large
enough to justify the the space required.
| shall endeavor TO speak plainly.
There is such disease--especially in
New Engand-as consumption. 1t is
greatly dreaded because it is supposed to
he incurahle. | don't believe in it my
self, but there are many who do. 1t Is
not a positive thing that rushes at you
and strikes you down in q day, has
fierce fight and is thrown eff, or throws
YOU off in six week.. 1t is a lurking,
sly, subtle foe, that you never can be
sure Of. Now it knocks at your lungs,
nov it dips into your blood, now it gra'ps
in your throat. Now it is gone, 1t
torn. Up MS bronchitis, or dyspepsia, or
Iaziness, or nothing at all. The people
who think they have it, don't have it
People who do lave il, may be brought
to death door twice year, and die OF
old aye at last. You never know where
10 find i, and when YOU have found it,
YOU don't know what 10 DO with it. OF
all things, however, don't you do this -
If your neighhor's wife has been weak
and hstless. and unable to turn OIL work
for the Inst year OF two; if her step is
grown manfestiy feebler, and her cheek
paler than it used 10 be; il her husband
has taken her TO tie seaside, and the
springs. and the mountains, and has con-
suited all the doctors, and even looks
with interest at the column where the
patent medicines are advertise d it, not
withstanding she occasionally loses her
voice, and speaks in q whisper, perhaps
for months together, begins to lie in bed
late IN the morning, and to trcmble before
the raw northeast winds, don't you 60
and kill her with kindness You may,
if you like, send in oranges aud grapes,
cooling fruits and simple delicacies, to a
limited extent but do not form the opin-
ion that woman not in robust health is
vanity dragon, and can devour by the
bushel, cakes, jelley, pastry, highly-sea-
soned meats, and all manner Of picked
and potled things that are enough TO
give a picket-guard the dyspepsia-be-
cause it is not true. | never was sick,
and don't know what sick people like,
but common sense teaches that there
cannot be much comfort in seeing your
self surrounded by things which you
cannot touch. / should think that a
bunch of flowers, or a single flower, or a
curious moss, or pretty engraving, or a
pencil sketch, would be vastly better
anything that takes the invalid ont of
himselt-dlrects his attention to some
thing else, which is one Of the roads to
recovery. But the sight Of food that lie
cannot eat, forces his attention to the fact
that he cannot eat, and your carefully
prepared dish ia not only useless, bat dis.
couragng to all except the Irish girl
in the kitchen, who fares sumptuously as
long as it lasts.
. Another thing. Don't you keep ask
ing your ueighbor how she ia. She doe
not know how she is. And don't you
ask her husband every time he hcaves
in sight, how she is. He does not know
either. IF she were suffering from al
acute and violent disease, whose aspect.
have significance every hour, and y hose
elimination is monently expected, 20,
would be excusahle. But she i, not
She is in precisely the same condition on,
day that she is another, so TAR as can b,
seen. if there is a change is is imper
cep;ble. She and her friends are living
and waiting, and hoping and trying Die
you ever think how much difficulty she
finds in answering Jonr inquiry. Pref
ty well, thank you, is out Of the question
because she is not pretty well.
She cannot file bill OF particular,
every day, and what resources las she
Do be quiet. Snow your sympathy il
some other way. BE patiently recep
tive, bot not ttiieiously inquisitiye 0
facts. When there is anything Of mo
mentyou will learn il one way or another
Ask the doctor, and if he snubs you, he
feet that it was best you should be snub
bed, and rejoice that you asked enc wh,
bad right TO do il, and not your neigh
Dor, who would have been restrained b,
gratitude.
And above all things, ii you max
sny pretensions 10 social rank abov
sagapes don't ask vonr pairhhnr's Inns