The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-07-20
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the el&RL nQur RUE, Or It's equiv
salehG 10 all the avocations of
life would be much more obvi-
GUS il the time thus snatched
from the jaws Of work-day la
Dor were something which
every individual could call his
own, and as such could dispose
of according tothe wise econo-
my of various hungers. AS a
general principle, the right of
man to employ his time to sat-
isfy the imperitige demands OF
his nature will not be denied.
But when it comes to the en-
ployment of that portion Of
your time commonly called
leisure, there ARE thousands
ready to tEample upon this
principle without remorse, and
totake away from you, without
an.iota, q shadow, or the faint
est hope of compensation, your
means for the healthful gratifi-
cation of q hungry mind, soul,
heart or body. You may feel
In the depths of your nature
that there is no such thing as
''spare time," any more than
there is conceivable void space,
and that those hours which
others are so bent on taking off
your hands and consuming, are
the most precious and produc-
tive to you of the whole TWEEN
ty-four. You may have hoped
to make within them a garden
as rich andrare as Kubla Khans
in Zanadu. There You may
have fondly imagined that you
could turn, when need should
be, TO refresh the eye with flow
ers of celestial hues and odors,
to cheer the heart with wine of
more than Falernian vivacity
and mellowness, and to heal
the hurtsreceiveti in the battle
of life with medicinal ointment
of Incompatible virtue. But
you soon find that the way to
these inestimable felicities is
'beset with innumerable harass-
ments and impediments, the
generic name Of whichis shore"
The bore may be a person or
an institutions social con-
vention or an individual pro-
aelfvity--anything, in short,
that interferes with the discre-
tiOnary use of your hours of
leisure, aproperty which ought
to be the most sacred, but
which is, in fact, the least re-
spected of ALI other properties.
This protean monster, this ON
nipresent fiend, is certain in
some Way to sow bitter and ug-
IL weeds in your garden, to in
fuse souring ingredients into
your wine, and to place dead
flies in your precious ointment,
giving the whole a sinking
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You are in the meshes of a
! conspiracy, as wide as, society
itself, against your happiness.
7 Your most golden moments are
constantly liable to be eclipsed ;
theibest partsof your existence
exposed to the alternative of
being 4 swallowed by some
Charybdis or broken to pieces
on some Scylla of illimitable
boredom. And experience will
teach you that there is no help
for itias long as you remain in
q social being. That is to
say, unless you seek the Sc
elnsion Of Robinson Cruose, of
st. Simeon Stylites, or of the
prisoner of Ohillon, you must
expect to furnish food for bores
out of your most valued stores,
until death shall summon you
to entertain worms at a subter-
ranean supper. There is at
least one consol ation, however,
whiOh you may count on with
perfect confidence-namelv,.
8hatthe terrors of this summons
will DO greatly mitigated by
yUur previous ordeal. s a.s
g R,k for Tho
mass Of men there is no guar
,antee against that species of
boring which consists in out