Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-31
C0rYeSb0ndence.


work OF the country is done in the summer
except that which the poor editor must do
whose daily or weekly "tale of brick" is
oXacted whether he has the straw or not
Most of us have tried the lassitudc of ho
day and dull winds, and felt the sudden re.
bound and awakening of energy and ner.
Nou1 power, when thunderstorm clears
the air and bracing wind comes from the
north.
We can't tell you much of such things OF
late-men and animals were alike prostrat.
ed, and the record was very sad ,-"Found
dead in his bed" "Died on the night oil
July -, of the great heat" event to seer
on the roof rolled off and was taken up
dead" With your Green Mountain breezes
You can have little idea of doings like
these.
When we have time in these days we read
What was written in cooler weather, and
now and then Il live article is quite refresh
ing. Sometime ago the Atlantic Monthly,
which absorbs much of the best magazine
writing Of the country, had an article by
James Parton, very true and just, "Does it
pay to smoke" showing chiefly that it does
not pay.
Now he asks, "Will the coming man
drink wine?' and with sage and quiet I'M
quiry pursues the subject till he concludes
that the looming man" will not drink wine
rs he will be better without it, and will be
fully convinced that he is better without it.
will not quote from the article, most men
and women will read it, if not, they ought
10. Two or three papers of that kind would
make grand volume for the enlightenment
of the coming man."
1t is good to see people look forward. A
man who has settled down, quite satisfied,
is u hopeless being. You can do nothing
with him. 1t is not good to see people rest
les dissatisfied, "a trolling stone gathers
no mOss;" but it is good to be ever looking
for Improvement. Man always hoping for
better days for our country, in the govern
ncnt, in its religious state, in our schools,
i'll the people; always "there's good time
coming" and the looming man" will be
something wonderful, to say nothing of the
coming woman, who is to be Just right, and
to have her just rights.
Here something comes up. Somebody
writes story, and by way of recommend
ing man in the matrimonial line, says he
was always an "indulgcnt husband" And
pray what does that mean? Why not an
indulgent wife? I'll tell you what it gen
orally means. 1t means that man holds
the purse strings and gives his wife what
money he sees fit, or just so much as his
spirit, liberal or close, will allow him. If
he was married according to the forms of a
certain church, he says, "With all my
worldly goods thee endow," and then he
metes out to her just what he chooses. And
ii she, being careful and prudent woman,
administers her affairs carefully and makes
herself and children comfortable, and his
home pleasant, because she has the means
to do so, he is, forsooth, "an indulgent hus-
band, as if he had right to be anything
else. You can have no idea, unless you
have noticed it, how much men get praised
for being liberal and indulgent, when they
simply do no more than their duty.
80 Il magistrate or Il judge gains world
of praise sometimes, for his course, when
it is simply doing his duty.
Well the coming man" will be better
Specimen than that, and therefore you may
expect b. Ter things from the coming wom-
AN.
There is great hope for us. Man going to
learn h'w to live, and science is coming to
our aid We are no more to be poisoned by
bad air, we are to learn how to ventlate or
public halls and churches, and a food of
new light is just about to be poured upon
the subject. We Lave CROPPED in the dark
and tried experiments long enough. We
are not to destroy our children with poor
food or rich food, which sometimes means
the same thing; we are not to smoke our
selves to death, or drink ourselves to death,
or even into feebleness and misery. We
are to learn how to spend our money wisely
when we have it; and not to waste and ex-
haust our land by taking off and never put
ting on, ergo, no man will raise tobacco.
We are to have better cooking and better
food.
One thing which we have refined too far
wants looking to. We must have done with
superfine flour. The "white loaf" and all
that sort of thing have been very poetical,
but the white loaf helps to starve man.
Our children want nerve, and bone, and
muscle, and we take from the wheat lust
that part which contributes to their growth
and leave them only the part which may
produce fat and heat, but adds no whit to
their strength.
Fact! We get even the figures from an
alysis. Graham tried to show this, and in
troduced the flour which bears his name;
but now we have figures, proportions. Such
and such kinds of food keep us warm, such
and such kinds give us strength, these make
fat those Stimulutt. uS. Soma binds aro
better for us in hot weather, some kinds in
cold. We shall not eat at random, fat pork
in summer and watery vegetables in win
ter. Men study what is best for their stock
and the best food for their land. Some day
they will begin to think of themselves, and
perhaps of their children The looming
man" will be brought up on brown bread,
and he will have sound chemical reasons
for it. If man wants 10 use his brain he
Will take the food that will feed his brain,
and If he wants blacksmiths arm he will
eat that which will make muscle.
Children will learn these things at school,
and IL will seem no more strange 10 them
than II would formerly have done to learn
the elements of chemistry or the principles
of natural philosophy.
Some OF us who are growing old are sorry
we Snail not live even to see the dawn of
that day. Sorry, because it will be a better
day morally. Men find it easier to be good
and TO do right when all is smooth in their
physical system. They say rheumatism is
caused by sour, sharp particles in the blood,
rasping the nerves and causing pain and
irritation. And anger and wickedness may
come from the rasping of triangular part-
Giles. We want all smooth and round. no
rasping nor grating
This sounds rather wild, but there is truth
in it; and you will see how many things
there are To learn.
"God made man upright, but they have
sought out many inventions :" and evil in
ventions must be done away. X.
THE P.gIEFEC R.IILRO.ED.