National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-12-25
there Louis Napoleon, Bismark,
Abraham Lincoln, and Gen. Grant.

With Others the continuous theme
Is ventilation. We have wrecked
too many sermons and lectures on
ill-yentllated audience rooms not to
, understand the value fpure air.
We have more venelatiom for every
other antiquity than for stale air.
Atmosphere that has been bottled
up for weeks Is not quite equal to
Balm of Thousand Flowers Give
us an old log across the stream to
sit on, rather than an arm chair in
the parlor that is opened chiefly on
Christmas and thanksgiving days.
While waiting for this years turkey
to get Drowned, we do not want to
t smell last years. There are church
i Easements SO foul that we think
Y some OF those who frequent them
=. for devotion get sooner TO the en- d
of their earthly troubles than they
would if there were less dampness
III the walls; some of them suffering
from what they suppose to be too
= much religion, when it Is nothing
= but wlnd-collC. Still we may put too
long a stress upon ventilation.
Here is Il man who sits with the
doors open, and whilc your teeth
are chattering with cold, descauts
: on the bracing weather. He sleeps
with his windows up with. the ther.
mometer below zero. His prescrip-
ton for all the worlds diseases is
fresh air. Ana IF the case be chron-
: ic, and stubborn, and yields not to
the first course Vi treatment, then
more fresh air. If the patient die
, under the process, the adviser will
= say, "IhlS confirms my theory !.
J Don't you see the diticultye His
= only want was capacity to take i'll
. the air :"
A Pride Of ancestry is with others
7 the chief mania. Now We believe
: i'll royal blood. 1t is a grand thing
t to have the right kind Of kindred.
!, There is but little chance for one
} badly born. II we belonged to
= some families that we know of, we
+ would be tempted at once to give
/ ourselves up to the police. Bat
/. while far from despisins family
= blood, we deplore the fact that so
: many depend entirely upon heral
Z dry. They have not been i'll your
e company n minute before they begin
y to tell you who their father was and
If their mother. The greatest honor
; that ever happened to them was that
n of haTing been bcrns, 1t is 4 con
nj
If mechanic in their line, an,, nc ho.,'au pai
build the fist steamboat. They
o were no possible relation to one 81
(. mon, a tanrer. The only disgraciu
o thing i'll their line, as far back a.
! they can trace it, was that thei
e first parents in Paradise were gar
1t deners. There was biz pile o
$, money somewhere back, coat o
:" arms, and several fine carriages
'e They feel sorry for Adam, becaus'
d. he had no grandfather. To hcal
S. them talk YOU would suppose tha
d the past was crowded with thci
ID great progenitors, who were lords
Of and dukes, comrades of Wellington
le accostumed to slapping Gcorg'
rs Washington on the shoulder, call
Or ing him by the first name shall iel
" low we'll met with Thomas Jelter
~ son. AS if it had taken ten gencr
Is atious of great folks to produce ont
Id such Smythc. He is no relation t
IS. Smith. That family spell thei
'e rmmc differently. But you fine
TO that in tie last seventeen hundred
Id years there were several breaks II
e the broadcloth. DO not say any
u thing about their Uncle George
5. couutouud the fellow he was black
.e smith, Nor ask about Cousin Rach
lc cl. Miserable thing She is in th,
e. poor house. Nor ask what has be
to come of his oldest brother. He wa
r. shot in hen roost. Nor lnquir
at about his grandiatheiS politics
e. He was Tory. Several oftle fam
er lily practised in the High Courts G
OF the United States and England
pd as criminals. One Of their kindre
Sc was Il martyr to chiCgraphy, haN
'ic ing written the name of John Ratl
lis bone & Co. under promisSory not
10. and written 1t so well that JohI
Rathbono s. Go. Were jealous, AM
Ii, seriously objected But all this !
n. nothing so long rs they spell Smit
to with y in the middle aud an c &
is. the end. They have always move
all in the circle OF the Rittenhous,
Ne and the Miniurns, and the Grinncl
Gle aud the NauderbeltS. They tai
ur. much of their silver plate to ever
pss body save the assessor In the ye?
he 1900 they had an ancestor that roc
Ny in the carriage with the Lord Ma
eel or of London. Yet n boy one da
no. had the audacity, with n piece
he chalk, to erase the armorial bearing
of from the side Of their coach, aud,
allusion to tho industrial pursni
ain charged on certain members Ell ina
rLe high family, shetched in u pia'
,ad thereof, as coat of arms, par
nw. SOAP and shoe last. On thus aV
= a rul age of homespun and big knu
,,r lrg We would all have goi
IN back farther than we have IA VI
,ia search of ancestral stars ana ga
.,ni ~" ,crs. crest and scutchcon, but W
'"i, I are so afraid falling into kettler
~ - tried tallow, and beds oil mortar
I'M and pans of dishwarer.
are When God has given us so man
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