The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-12

From the London Saturday Review
There are two ways of dealing with pinching
shoes. The one is TO wear them TIL you get &C.
customed to the pressure, and SO wear tnem easy
the other il to kick them Cd ana have zone WIN
them altogether. The one 10 founded on the &C
commcdatng principle Of human nature oy wnicn
il IA enabled to fit itself to circumstances, the
other is the high-banded masterfulness whereby
the earth is subdued, and obstacles removed; tae
one is embematic OF Christian pauence. tae
other of Pagan power. Both are good In certain
stales and neither is absolu ely the best Tor ali
conditions. There are some shoes indeed. WHEN,
do what we will, We never can wear easy. we
may keep them well fitted on our feet al our me-
loyalty accepting the pressure whichfste and nus
fortune have imposed on rs; but we go lame snd
hobbe In consequence, and never know what us
to make free step, or to walk on our way WIN
out discomfort. Examples abound Tor among
all the pilgrims toiling more or less painfully
through life TO DEATH there Is not one whose SHOES
do not pinch him some where how easy soeser
they may look and how soft soever the material
of which they may be. Even those prove,oiai
possessors of roomy shoes, the traditional king
and princess, have their own private little bed
room slippers, which pinch them undetected oy
the gapping multitude who measure happiness oy
lengths of velvet and weight, OF golden EN-
brodery; and the proverbial owners OF the treas
ure vhi,h all seek and none find, might stand as
Instances of sorrow than Of hsppiness-examples
of how badly shod poor royalty Is and nov. lsr
more than meaner folks, 10 suffers from tne pinon-
| ing Of its priucely shoes.
| The upgenisity of profession into which man
nav have been forced by the ipJuolclous over
ruling of his lends or by the exisencies OF family
position and inherited rights, Is one form OF the
| pinching shoes by no means rare to hnd And mere
| az ain, poor royalty comes in for share OF the
grip on tender places and thesconsequent hobollng
| meant by nature to be nothing but plain country
gentleman at the best-perhaps even less many,
| like poor Louis Capet," would have gone to the
end quite happily and respectfully If only they
| might have kicked of the shoes OF sovereignty,
| and betsken themselves to the highlows OF the
herd-if only they might have exchanged the
scepue for the turning lathe, the pen for the FOWL
ing. piece. Je deteste mon Deetter de ro1." VIC
| tor Emmanuel is reported to have said to Re
| publican friend who sympsthized with the mo.
parch's well known tastes In other things besides
| his hatred of the kpgly profession; and history
| repeats its frank avowal In every pace. But tue
purple is almost as hard to be got rid OF comfort
aby as Dejaneiras robe for the most part carry
the skin along with 1t. and trailed through pool
| of blood in the act Of transfer, which is scarcely
what royalty, oppressed with its own greatness
and willing 70 rid itself of spectre and shoes that
it may enjoy itself in list slippers after more
| bourgeois fashion, would find in accordance with
| its wishes. Lower down in the social scale we
find the same kind Of msft between nature aud
| position as q very frequent occurrence-pinching
shoes productive of innumerable corns aud tender
| places.
swathed in cassock and bands. and set up in the
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tithes were large, and the living lay In the family
gift But that stiff rectoral shoe of his will never
wear easy. The mans secret soul goes out to the
, | psrsde.ground and the mess-table. The glitter
and ginele and theatrical display of soldiers
life seem to him The finest things in the whole
| roupd Of professions, and the quiet, uneventful
life of village pastor is OF all the most aohor'
rent. He wants to act. not TO teach. fet there
| he is penped in beyond all power OF breaking
| loose on this side of the grave bound to drone
| out muddled sermons half an hour long and emil
. nently good for sleeping draughts, instead Q,
shouting terse and stirring words OF command
| that set the blood on fire to hear; bound TO rou
the shadowy enemy Of souls with weapons he car
neither feel nor use instead of prancing of at the
head of his men, waving his drawn sword above
| his head 10 a whilwnd OF excitement aud marua
| glory to rout the tangible enemies OF his coun
try's flag. BE loves his wife and takes mild par
sonic pleasure in his roses he energizes III
schools, and beats up recruits for his parish penn
readings he lends his pulpit to the missionar
delegates, and takes the chair at the meeting 10
The conversion of the Jews he does bis duty, poo
man. so far as be knows how, and so far as natur
gave him, the power; but his feet are 10 pinchm
shoes all his life long, and no amount OF walking
!. | on the clerical highway can ever make thel
!. | pleasant wearing. Or he may have passionst
n | love for the sea- and be mewed mp IN lawyer
Office, where his large limbs have not hall enoug
T | space for their natural activity, where he
| percbed for twelve hours out OF the twenty lou
on a high stool against a desk instead OF climbn
catEke up the ropes, and set to engross Ions
winded deed Of conveyance, or to make ia
\. COPY of q bill of costs. instead OF bearing nan
a in a gale, and saving his ship by pluck ana qucl
ia ness He could save o ship better than he ca
" engToss a deed- while, as for law, he can not x
ey as much of that into his heavy BRAN as wou
We enable him TO advise client on the Simplest ca
or OF assault but be knows all the differences OF
~ rig and the whole code of signals. and can e
YOU TO a nicely about The flags or ali nations, al
a, the name and position OF every spar ana stay az
sheet, and when TO reef and when 10 set san, WI
al info rruQ
hooks and chance cruise as far as the Nor
That pen behind his ear never ceases TO 8 all al
fret his thOe never ceases to pinch aud TO u
: last day of his life the high stool in the lawyer
n Office will be place of pensnce, and the sailor
quarter. deck the very heaven of his ambto
No doubt, by the time the soldier wrongly LABEL
n. I as a parsOn, or the sailor palniuiiy woikng
10 legal tesdnsill comes TO the end OF his care'
ua | the old shoe which has piDched him so long "
yo. | he worn comparatively easy. The gradual dec
rue of manly yigor and the slo" but sure destructi
a., of strong desires. reduce ones feet at last
sii- masses of accommodating pulp but what sun
snt ipys we go through before this result can
ess stiained-what years Of fruitless yearning,
nj | fierce despair, of pathetic selfsuppressen.
iii srrIDg dircord between work and fitness, mt
ue- pound all the life out of Us before our bones
come like wax and pinching shoes are ira
ST. formed 10 easy fitting slippers. For itself slo
not counting the beyond, il would scarcely Be
that such life was worth the living.
Another pinching shoe rs to be found 10 elm
and locality. A man hungeriDg for the busy
of the city has to vegetate in the rural distriS
IN. where the days drop one after the other
lesden bullets and time is only marked by an
cessiou of dullness. Another, thirsting for
g. Tepose of the country, has to joslle daily thro
New Cbeapsioe. To one who thinks Canadian saln
| fehing TIE supreme of earthly happiness,
SI. gives The chance Of chasing butterflies In Bra
the 10 another who holds the common objects OF
that ! seashore' OF more account than silver and 3
sase an adverse fortune assigns station 10 tne mio
| of plain as arid a. II The world had been 10
without water; and q third, who cares for
thing but the free breathing OF the open mo
or the rugged beauty Of the barren fells Is DR.
ned down into the heart Of narrow valley wi
he cannot see the sun for the trees. At hrst
matter Of locality seems 10 be but very 81
grin on the foot. not worth second thoui
but IL is one Of certain cumulative power
possible TO describe, though keen enough for
who suffers; and the pinchiog
of uncongenisl place is quite as hard to
as that of uncongeni4l work. Again
. man 10 whom intellectual companion
On means more than it does to m
Is thrown into Deighborhood W
he cannot hope to meet with compensation,
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