Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-07-16
Jottings About Town.

Jottings About Town.
TIE HUMAN HEART--The heart, by many,
is supposed to be curious affair. Like the
Thermometer, it is affected by the weather
has its rising and falling, according to the
warmth or the coldness of the bosom's atmos.
phere. Like the sea- it heaves and swells
when the storm of passion RACES and the winds
of excitement blow, but is as placid under tile
blue sky of contentment as the surface of a
silver lake in mid summer. Like moist clay,
| it is almost sure TO harden in the sunshine of
wealth and prosperity. Like an apple, it is
| the most soft and mellow when the worm of
woe, sorrow or grief is gnawing at its cOre.-
| Like an earthen pitcher, it is easily broken
| and like clock, it ceases TO beat when the
weights of life have run their fullest length.
But all the heart is indeed q gloomy and
i desolate mansion when deserted by hope,
friendship, and even love. Hope to the heart
brings sunshine upon the dark side of one's
soul. Like the bright sun silvering the rough
and Jagged edges of a thunder-cloud, it warns
the cold soil of despondng heart causes the
nower of joy to spring up and bloom OH the
bosom's barren desert, and often causes the
dews of delight to glisten in the eye, like the
dew-drops that gathered upon the flowers Of
Eden before the serpent brought trouble and
sorrow in the world. HOpel What is it II
is spider that weaves its web sometimes in
the darkest corners of despair, for the sake Of
Matching the uncertain flies of the future. If
the tickle fabric should happen to be swept
away by the mischief, making broom of dis
! appointment, it falls to spinning anew, with an
assiduity that well might astonish the ant, as
well as the busy bee Fancy paints very nice
pictures to the heart OF humanity, but without
s the aid Of Hope her twin sister-all her ef-
n forts would prove as unavailing as the attempt
+ to pick feathers from tailor's goose. Hope
I and Fancy to1ether make tho young and
: middle aged many beautiful promises They
cast costly Jewels at their feet twine for them
- the loveliest wreaths, and for them they gather
- gay garlands in the unweeded and everbloom
4 ing garden of imagination. Hope blilds fol
9 the heaIt green garden amid the december
sorrows of age, the verdure of which neve
= fades, nor from which a single leaf ever falls
II She can never be cast down by adverse cir
" cumstanoes nor dismayed by threatening
storms. She sits quietly in her chimney
N corner, and smokes her pipe ol peaco whit
i the storm RACES. The heart that is a strange
Ia to hope has moi much to hope for. The hear
a unblessed with the elements of friendship, i
a as miserable a thing as the one without hope
and is not worth its weight in sawdust. Ii
= order to be happy, we must not let the milde'
!, of melancholy gather in our bosoms; br whe
i, the moths OF discomfort once commence gnaw
- ;, ing in the heart, it is astonishing how fas
- they snap the fine thread of feelings SO nicel
interviewer in the texture of human nature
se Make as many friends as you can, by a
lie means, for without such the world is but
to dark, dreary waste and in so doing, look
re your address as we'll as your dress Tie lat
: ter helps to make the gentleman, particular
in SO when Flanigen is the purgeyor of your Ooo
a and shoes, Sixth and Market streets, whel
I'd fashions hang upon the outer wall
WRoSG SIDE OUT.-Quite coniab has bet
,g going ON in Milford for some weeks past as
,r. whether some goods made mp by a tailor, wi
r.. is called lrst-class ono, were wrong side on
II. The tailor has offered to stake his money al
Al. reputation on the result A Pennsylyan
manufacturer has decided the goods we
wrong side out, and offered to bet 800, QUO
W. it. When Muhlhausen, King street, belc
on Fifth, makes up goods, there is never al
a., question as to their being right.
a. SHALL FRRT-The New York TriJRae on
" published n long article ON the varons styl
IN of feet and ankles displayed ON Broadway
NJ different nationaities It was very prett
"a written, and universally admired. of cour
W the reporter found excuses for any lack
nh symmetery he detected, in the fact that th
r. shoes were often mis- fits, as they were not
purchased at Birnie's, 60s Market street, "
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