The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-04-04
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Any body tau work hut II takes Ishilusu
phrr 10 rest. Given certain amount Of brait
aud sinrw, bone and muscle just 80 much u
do aud Just such time to do IL in aud il at III.
day's cnd the day 5 labor Is not complete, oul
cnieula,ion must he very much out Of Joint some
where But when the sun Is down, the hank
ate shut and the shipping Oitces clOsed, aud ou
workman goes home 10 begin the other half o
his rXislrncr-Trsting, in nine eases Oui OF teG
he don't know any more hor To do il than yot
or !, NV friend, know how to get at the secreI
spring OF Perpetual Motion
Aud, what j. worse. there is no sshool, moi
college, nor conservatory whrrc the science !.
taught; and that Is the reason why our men nj
lurty grow bent aud wiinklrd, aud our women
put On sIsrciaclcs at the same age, aud begin u
pull out the gray hairs when they brush lhcii
cOifiurcs a. n mourning
"woik work T. says tie father, aud ih,
schooimasltr, aud the adviser ; but nobody
stands by To >iy, Rest, rest - Americans nced
the latter admouiIion, rs - general thing, much
more than the former.
Summer Is the season when city people most
need frs,-tlir scaSnn longrd Ter aud looked tor.
ward To, ior three quarters Of the year. A mau
eau endure n far heavier pressure Of brain and
body when he looks ahead 10 drawing q long
breath 10y aud by. Bu, how seldom does the
promised hour OF relief arrive well rest Tor q
Few weeks" says the business Man, when he
lFNtH N'Nhrf nothtNhNN vgt ou t1e
railroad, or engages summer board under the
shadow Of pa,Tiarchal New England NAPLES. -
And hc rushcs hiIhcr and yon, buying air-cush-
ions, aud inosquiio-net,ing, and caInp-chairs,
and patent csntriyances that turn into anything
from an iToning-taLle 10 u bedsiead. At thirty
seconds notice, With = diabolieAl ingenuity
which. two hundred years ago, would certainly
have strung their inventor up tor wizard and
his wife lays in siotes OF things that ''may he
wanted, I" and had better lie taken along, aud
tina, Ill wouldn'i 10 TO be without" and scws
herself into a sort Of fever, in order that 1.-The
tL.i'r may look decent" That Is the way ibey
get rvady 10 rrs,. and hy the time they aud their
trunks aud landbOxes reach the new destination,
iur Gaoiru q; Eden iis'lf would present no at
'r.riiuns io their jidr,l bodies aud over wcafed
minds mach less an ordinary farmhouse, with
ordinary green grass rdging It's doorstone, and
ordinary leaves iiu,tering IN the sunshine over
head
And nov the question is, now 10 rest Our
business man comes up Saturday night, rushed
onward by express train which he catches at jus,
the last moment, with both arms full Of news
papers. oh, why does he not leave the great
world behind for one brief day, with its cares
and trials. and the fall o. stocks and the rise Of
gold And he walks up aud down the piazza
With his hands behind his back, thinking-ihink-
ing-ihinking Of business periis, aud the risks
OF his last venture, and the telegrams from Eu.
rope. and all chances and changes that hang
ever the "down-town" horizon And the chill.
dren don't dare TO show him the empty bird 8.
nest in the woods nor the misletoe growing on
the old dead tree, nor the buiierAy's wing they
found, nor the nests 10 the fragrant hay Of the
old barn. "Papa's busy" says the mother,
with warning uPlified finger so they creep away
10 their woodland haunts, and feel q sensible re-
lief when papa" Is gone back once more TO the
city, Ter express train.
Nor does the wife understand the science Of
rest much better. She thought she was going
To have so much leisure in the country, and
50 her trunks went down, filled with rolls Of
work, and bundcls Of unmade shirts, and there
they lie, like so many Juggernauu on her con-
science, night and day, while the children alone
thoroughly enjoy the summer sunshine and the
birds and the brooks, as God meant they should
be enjoyed
Now, TO rest, my good woman, you should
have left your work at home, and brought only
few scrviceable garments that grass will not
stain, nor rain spoil, nor little clinging hands
rnmple You should have gone out into the
woods with the children, day after day, or with
friendly gossipiug book, and dreamed away
the long summer hours with that abdndon which
is TO the mind what tonics aTe 10 the body. You
should have shut the door OF your mind rcso-
uicly ON the past and future, and admitted only
the great, genial Present. That wouli have
been the true meaning OF the word rest
As for your husband, he should have turned
hoy with his little ones, lain on the NOISY banks,
brealhcd in the spicy hay scents, brought homo
ha,iul Of wild berries, and forgotten Wall
Street altogether for the twenty-iour hours Of
rcpricve he had given himself Twenty-four
hours II should have been twenly-four Days :
but when, alas will people leave oG trying TO
work and play ut the same time : Not in our
time, We fear, nor in that ofour children, -ghTes.
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