The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-01
HAVING THINGS TO FIT.

| NHOAS w LAS OhS
day, just after the tailor had been
| measuring me for new suit, "can you
tell me why the tailor measured you?
Why did be not make your clothes
without giving himself so much
trouble?'
ooh, uncle" said I, eff he had not
measured me for my clothes, he would
| never have made them fit"
"Yery true" said he, "and now l
hope you will learn something from
the tailor If he should make your
new clothes too large or too small for
you, trouble enough will you have with
them, but if they should fit you why
then they will add greatly to your
comfort. Much of our happiness in
the world consists in our having things
to fit"
Though I understood what uncle
meant about my new suit fitting me, l
did not quite catch his meaning as to
the other things. l suppose he saw
this, for he went on talking thus:
Things must be fitting to give COM
fort. If poor man, who cannot keep
himself, keeps dog, if man sets up
in business which he does not under
stand, if one ventures into deep water
who cannot swim, or bids at an auction
for what he cannot pay, these things
are not fitting, and cannot answer.
Uncle saw that was listening and
proceeded thus:
"If people would consider how they
could help each other, they would find
themselves better fitted to do so in a
hundred instances than they suppose.
"How shall [ get my potatoes to mar
ket?' said one to his neighbor, for
you know l have horse and no cartr
Oh replied his neighbor, Il know one
having potatoes to sell, who, at this
time has cart and no horse; you are
Just suited to one another. The two
potato sellers gladly agreed to help
each other, and being well fitted to do
so, all things went off pleasantly
Uncle kept looking at me to see if I
we'll understood him.
"Some time ago | heard of blind
man and cripple who wanted to go 10
the same place, but could not tell how
to get there. AS to helping one an
other that seemed altogether out of the
question. Nothing is easier said
by-stander, for if you take matters
right, you are just suited for each
others benefit. Let the cripple use his
eyes and the other his legs, and arm
in arm, and the affair will be settled
And so it was; they could not have
suited one another better"
My uncle's meaning was plain
enough now,
81 once was acquainted with
clever tradesman, who knew very we'll
how to get money, but be did not know
how to keep it. advised him to take
a partner, and recommended to him a
plain, honest man, not one of your
spend -thrifts who run through all they
get, but one who was frugal and pru-
dent. The partners did exceedingly
we'll together. The one did the get
ting, and the other managed the saw
ing; they were exactly fitted for one
another"
No one could deny the truth of every
word spoken by my uncle, who then
said:
"All that is done by our heavenly
Father is done suitably. Spring, Sum
mer, Autumn and Winter, harmonic
for the good of the earth; the bird is
fitted tie fly in the air; the fish to swim
in the water, and animals to live on
the land. Man is adapted to his situ-
alton aud furnished with faculties to
enable him to do good and live to the
glory of bis Almighty Maker. What
can be better suited to one ignorant of
himself and God than book of wis
dom like the Bible? With little re-
fection, Henry, you will be satisfied
that as it is in the clothes you wear so |
it is in all other things; to enjoy them
and to get good from them, they must
fit you and be suited to your condition"
The more I have thought on the re-
marks of my uncle, the more have L
f:oEod oP4 4 Il hoar |