Middletown transcript., 1868-08-15
Correspondence Of tho Middlctown Transcript
MILLINGToN, July 31st, 1868.

ter from =" Lucius," giving q brief de.
scription of the citizens of Odessa;
want to know whether Lucius was speak
ing sarkustikup or not if not, then
Odessa must be blessed place: I'd
like to take up my residence there for the
rest of my mortal existence; the citizens
must go singing in their happy hearts all
the day long
ooh if there be an Elysium on Earth.
1t is this, it is this.'
In the words of the old gentleman in
Martin Chuzzlewit, or something else,
(who had to be punched and shaken up
every hour or two by his granddaughter,
to prevent his state of collapse from be-
coming chronic,) My eyes and liver, :"
I'd like to see Mrs. T. or Mis- J.. Cor all
the other letters from A to Izzard) in this
town, get bonnet and no one have any
thing to say about it-Our bonnets as we'll
as the rest of our "riggin," are picked to
pieces metaphorically speaking,) long
before the season is over; and as to beaux /:
I'D like to see a lady here, entertain
her gentlemen friends, on the porch. in
the parlor or in the sitting room, and
every one think it all right, and nobody's
business; 1t one were not an interested
party it would be real fun to see the peep-
ing round the house corner if one is on
the porch, or the waiting about if he is
IN the parlor, to see what ting he leaves
then the speculations as to whether he is
serious, or whether he is only flirting
bah how | dctest the word; and the bare
idea OF lady having confidence enough
in the animal Homo, species Amcricanus,
to treat him with frankness and candor is
horrifying. Must not all this have most
debasing influence on society? If a wo-
man cannot treat a'man with some degree
Of confidence she had better have nothing
at all to do with him; it is true, there are
those who wear the guise who have no
right to the title of gentlemen, but home
associations will generally protect us from
such; and to such I would saw, that if
from an evil heart they speak evil things.
this, I" one of the most dastardly and
cruel of sins" will never 20 unpunished
repentance avaAs nothing, for either in
this life, or that which is to come, some
grievous punishment falls upon every
such offender" Before / get too far off
the track allow me to ask your attention
to few verses, which I think some of us
might profit by.
is it anybody's business if a gentleman should
choose
TO wait upon lady if the lady don't refuse
Or, to speak little palmer that the meaning
all may know,
Is it any body's business if lady has beau ?
Is it anyhody's business when that gentleman
doth call,
Or when he leaves the lady, or if he leaves at all?
Or, should it be necessary that the curtain
should be drawn,
To save from further trouble the outside look
ers ona
Is it anybody's business but the ladys If her beau
Rideth out with other ladies and doesn't let
her know,
Is it anybody business but the gentleman if she
Should accept another escort, where he doesn't
chance to be2
If persons on the side walk, whether great or
or whether SMALL
Is it anybody's business where that person
means TO call,
Or if you see person while he's calling anycAerc
is II any OF yonr business what his business may
be there?
The substance of our query, simply stated |
would be this:
Is it dnybody's business what anohers business is?
whether 'tis or whether 'tisnt, We should really
like to know,
For we're certain if it isn't, there are some who
make it so.
+ tis, we'll join the rabbe, and act the noble part
VI the tattiers and defdmers, who throng the
public mart;
But if not we'll act the teacher. unt;I eocb ,ned-
=. dltT learns,
It were better in the future, to mind his Tor herl
own concerns"
Some may think all this "meddline'
very harmless, but I once heard the rea-
son why the crows are all so black:
The raven once, in snowy plumes was drcst
White as the whitcst doves unsullied breast:
Fair as the "guardian of the capitol''
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl:
lis tongue, his pratiag taague has changed him
quite
To sooty blackness, from the purest white"
The tattler cannot possibly con6ne him
elf, or (alasD herself to the truth it is
10 delicious to put in little to spice the
east, so the fib that was (perhaps) at first
What people call white, ends by being
lressed in the deepest mourning: I wish
We could all remember that, :" SANDERS
oming from beautiful lips are like spiders
rawling from the blushing heart of
ose," and if we had not malaio in the
eart, slander could not creep out. s'Sincc:
he good out of the good treasure of the
eart bring forth good things; and the
vii from the evil treasure bring forth evil
hings." !" And for every evil word we
peak, we shall give account thereof in the
ay of judgement" We might take for !
ur motto -" Do all the good you can, i
0 all the people you can, in all the ways
ou can, just as long as you can; Instead
f doing all the i'll you can" !
Then there is way of yelling the med
ling, tattling disposition under the guise
special interest: The tale is told, in
with assurances that the tel
IT is the special friend of the victim, in