The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-10-18
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can keep the health unimpairod and the
Train vigorous He then wakes up an
the household and assemblies them III
the library, hy eaudle-light. and after
quoting the beautiful lines
% Eafiy 70 bed sud etrif ic rise
Makfa mah healthy, wesiihr, AMI sire.
he appoints each individuals task for
the day. sets him at il with encouraging
words aud goes back 70 bed again !
mention here with no tault-fnding
spirit. bat with the Difference Justly due
to man who is older aud wiser and
worthier than !, that he snores awfully
In momen Of irritation once, ] was
rash enough to say never would sleep
with him until be broke himself 81 this
unfortunate habit | kept my word
with bigoiod and uuwayering determi-
nation.
At half past eleven o'clock Mr. Gree
lev rises again. He shavcs himself
He considers that there is great virtue
aud economy in shaving himself. he
does il with duh razor, sometimes
humming a part Of tune, be knows
part of tune aud takes innocent de-
light in regarding il as the first half Of
Ola Hundred; bat parties familiar with
that hymn have felt obliged to confess
that they could not recognize II, and,
therefore. the noise he makes is doubt
less unconscious original composition
Of Mr.. Greeley's) and sometimes when
the razor is especially dull, he accom-
panies himself with an emphatic for
mula
He then goes out into his model gar
den and applies his vast store OF agri-
cultural knowledge to the amelioration
of his cabbages after which he writes
an able agricultural article for the in
struct on of American farmers, his soul
cheered the while with the reflection
that If cabbagcs were worth eleven
dollars apiece his model farm would
pay.
lie next goes to breakfast which is a
frugal, abstemious meal with him
and consists of othil z but just such
things as the market affords, nothing
more lie drinks nothing but water -
nothing whatever but water, and coffee,
and tea, and Scotch ale, and lager beer,
and lemonade with fly in it-somc-
zines house fly, aud sometimes a
horse fly. according to the amount OF
inspiration required to warm him up TO
his daily duties. During breakfast he
reads the Tribune all through, and en-
icvs the satisfaction of knowing that
ali the brilliant things in it, written by
Young, and Cooke, and Hazard, al d
myself are attributed to him by con-
fding and internal public.
After breakfast he writes short edi-
toriaI, and puts large dash at the be-
ginning Of it thus -s), which is the
same as if he put Ii. @ after it, and
takes a savage pleasure in rejecting
that none of the understrappers can
use that dash, except in profane con
versation when chaing over the out
rage. He writes his editorials in his
own hand writing lie does it because
he is so vain of his penmanship lie
hired out once, in his younger days, as
a writing master, but bis enterprise
failed. The pupils could not translate
his remarks with certainty. His first
copy was g Virtue its own reward, :
and they got it '4 Washing with soap is
wholly absurd, and so the trustees dis
charged him for attempting to convey
bad morals through the medium Of
worse penmanship. But, as was say
ing, he writes his morning editorial
Then he tries to read it over, and can {
do it, SO he sends it to the printers /;
and they try to read it over and can
do it, 50 they set it up at random, as
you may say, putting IN words they
can't make out, and when they get
aground on a long word they put it
reconstruction or universal suf-
frage," and spar off, paddle ahead, and
next morning if the degraded public
can tell what it is all about, they say
II. G. wrote it (; and if they can't they
say it is one of those imbecile under
strappers. and that is the end it.
On Sundays Mr.. Greeley sits in a
prominent pew in Mr. Chapin's church
and lets on that he is asleep, and the
congregation regard it as an eecentrici-
ty Of genius.
When he is going TO appear in public
Mr.. Greeley spends two hours on his
toilet. lie is the most painstaking aud
elaborate man about getting up his
dress that lives in America This is
his chieiest and pleasantest ioiable. He
puts on his old white overcoat, and
turns up the collar he puts on soiled
shirt, saved from the wash and leaves
one end of the collar unbuttoned. lie
| puts on his most dilapidated hat, turns
| It wrong side before, cants II on to the
back of his head, and jams an extra
dent in the side Of it. lie puts on hls
most atrocious boots, and spends iif
teen minutes IN tueking the left leg o.
| his pants into his boottop in what
shall seem the most careless and IN
Istadicd way. But il is into his crayai
that he throws all his soul, all the
powers Of his great mind After fixing
al il forty minutes before the glass, II
Is perfect it is eskew every way--ii
Icverhows his coat collar on one side
and sinks into oblivion on the other
lii climbs and il delyes around about his
neck the knot is conspicuously dis
played under his left car, ard il
stretches one Of IFS long ends straight
ont horizontally, aud the other goes
after his eye in the good old Toodlcs
Z fashion and then, completely and mar.
yelously appareled, Mr Greeley strides
forth. rolling ike sailor a miracle q
astounding costumery, the awe and
wonder Of the nations
But haven't time 70 ten the rest q
lis private habits. Suffice il that he Is
an pur5ght honest mSu--a uFactica|