The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-07

" things beyond the sanction OF log.
c and common experience. He said
hat paintings were receptions, or hum
)ugs, and left us TO infer that therefore
human beings are all humbugs. Now,
ye deny that the transfer OF nature to
is a humbug, or deception. AS
We view the specimen Of artistic skill,
admire its rcsem blance to nature,
md imIsine we SEQ the leaflets vibrate
to the breeze, but we kaow it is only
tue delicate touch Of the artist that en-
chants us. There is no deception there,
and we do not invoke the sense Of touch
to determine II one mountain docs real
" overtop another, OF the sense Of smell
to discover if the Aower is really arose.
And in regard to fashion and social
life, upon which the lecturer dwelt to
extent: Say that in the parlor
there IS much light talk, mandy 'pamby
nonsense, if you wish. Does it neces-
sarily follow hat the conversatlonalists
are unbuss because their discourse is
not suited to our ideas? We hear
gray-haircd wisdom, ~so-callcd, fire.
Quentty berating the young for what is
called coquctry. They call it a vice.
Their own fires Of youth having waned,
they forget the divine impulse Of toler-
alton, and latter themselves they are
quitting Il vice when the capacity for
vice is quitting them. They lack the
tact and grace and magnetism which
captivaic the opposite sex, and will not
forgive those who are not thus def
cienl-call them humbugs, silly per
sons who, under plausible pretenseS,
win their way in the. parlor, where
sweethcarts are the prizes. And with
this seeming digression we are tempted
TO enter Il plea against the austere re-
strarnJ upon the ease and play OF social
intercourse between the young Of OPP
posite sexes, which restraint, we have
somewhere rcad) has a tendency to
stunt knowledge OF the world and il.
tellectual growth, while it often drives
into hypocritical excess what would
otherwise end in mere diversion and
~baIinogc. This disposition Of Puritan
ical society is to make young men prigs
and young women prudcs. And here
in we consider our schools Il mixed
good. There are too many fences and
not enough gates TO" social Intercourse,
for free mingling Of young people in
each Others society, and the school
room is too often a dressing room for
error, which expression reminds us to
give credit to Mr.. Patterson for the
beautiful smile that 1.-THE grave is only
n dressing room for Heaven"
Bat to return, The majority Of
young people are constantly involved
in tlirtations which they make it Il re-
ligious duty to conceal. But the young
people themselves are not deceived, and
We are ut 4 log to see how they are
humbu3s. The medical men employ
characters unintcliigiblc to common
folks whcn they write prescriptions, but
we must presume if we aver that they
do SO il order to humbug. Certain
cibali5tic signs appended to a written
prescription to show whether the pa
ticnt will bear u high charge on the
books Of the druggist constitute, in our
vocabulary, downright rascality. And
there is " pedantry in the signs and hog
Latin OF many prescriptions, We must
admit, for it seems 10 us that it would
be better to say EPSON Salts" than
"SuIph mag But it may be easier for
them to copy>it from the text of the
English book than to write their own
language, and We will not say they are
humbuss.
As to fashion, which the Judge dwclt
upon--we do not see any general hum
buggery in it, if we all know what the
fashion il, and why it is INDUCED. We
to see fashions 90 and return ;
to sec hornets fluctuatc between coal
s~cuttlcs and descrt-plates, hat brims
grow wide or narrow, skirts curtail or
lcngthcn, ankles to be coyly hidden or
coqucttishly displayed, and these mu-
Jations we will grant are for other peo-
pies eyes, proving that the Judge is
right in asserting to the fanciful say
IlIS Vi o'iilc viz CiSc liitI our Owl eN tS
cost only a pair Of glasses, but the eyes
If others cost us q great deal.
Blu. where is the humbuggery? In
,rief, was not the lecture Of Hon. Mr.
an effort for something tan
yible out of intangible propositions =?
Vas it not q theory based upon convic-
ions Us to how he would act under
Ike circumstances? In palmer phrase,
'as he not measuring other peoples
orn in his own half bushel? OF
curse, for he said "every man is a
'mhug.' He is a man. Now, if our
cduction is false, VIC are unable to see
=. But in justice to him, flor he is a
IOdel gentleman, we think, and a {
and in justice to every man, &
c assert that the first premise of the :
is false, vet il il his arpu