The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-11-07

their very impaiiehce multiply them !;
but not the most placid, nor the best
endowed are exempt; and how Thick
ly lsoeyer our hedgeroWs may be set
with roses, we are certain to suffer
+ from the thorns.1 The owner of a
"place" suffers from the worry OF the
servants, and responsibilities. 1t is
very nice to have horses and carriages,
4 pineries and hothouses, deer park,
and fine estate enclosed in ring
! fence; but every pleasure has its at
tendant worry > and the owner of
.. many things has often cause to- envy
. the possessor of few. Horses fall ill
and carriages are run into; the pines
i are burnt up, and the fly infests the
peach trees the deer getathe rinder-
, pest; and the tenants will not pay
their rents. Everywhere comes an
a noyance while the awful sense of re-
a sponsibility oversE helms the eonscien-c
tiOus man with aesense ofunproiitabfe
stewardship, and takes all the favour
4 ont of his life for fear of misdirected
4 seasoning. On the other hand, the
worries of insufficienoy are Of the
4 kind which kHoWfno cessation gF
4 The, Worry of the weather, is the
4 Englishman's standing annoyance
4 You go TO the Lakes for months
4 holiday, and you have three fine days
out of Your TOUR weeks stay. You
! plan a pleasant pic mic or invite a
4 crack coquet party, and you have to
chant your disappointment and the
j worry9af an overstock of cooked food,
] 10 the symphony of the thunder and
| the rain WHICH never cease during the
day. You want coCl grey sky for q
j toiling expedition and the sun beats
] down as fiercely as ii Borrowdale was
Sahara and the Siye Head in the heart
] OF Asia. You want q week of blazing
/ sunshine for your harvest and your
] orchard, and you get a breeze from
| the icebergs which powders yonr
| lawn with rine and bites every plum
and pear on the trees. just when
you are recovering from a severe cold
and have leave to go out, the wind
chops round to the northeast. The
| worry of accommodating weather
! is indeed one of the conditions of lie
| in England, the shadow we must all
accept with the sunshine, just as in
| digestion and the doctor follow on
| the Christmas punch and plum pud-
ding, and gout lies at the bottom of
| the pleasant glass of champagne.
/ Visitors who come when you are
busy, and who sit with you unmerci-
! fully, are worries that almost deter
mine a man to turn hermit and re-
nounce the face OF his kind. Mr..
Prosy, who will discuss the Alabama
question with diverging lines and in-
ternational law; Miss Prattle, burning
| to pour into your ear all the news
how Mr.. Jones is going to be married
| to Miss Robimsoii. Meanwhile your
work is waiting to be done, and Your
! business is falling rapidly into arrears.
1 Yet you cannot send your incarnate
| worries away. Old Prosy is your
/ godfather, and he has more than once
limited to you what that means: and
Miss Prattle is your wife's cousin, and
your wife is sensitive as to the respect
paid to her relatives. You have TO
| sit and listen, and look as it you
| liked it; but you VOW savagely that it
shall not happen again; and in all
probability your family have cause to
know that you have been worried
when the door shuts on your torment
ors. and you are free to express your
mind. r..4sc
Certain unhappy ones seem born
predestined to the worry of unpunctu-
ality. 1t is really do fault of theirs,
but they can never make their time
hit the runs, and they are always just
five minutes too late which spoils ev-
erything. They are forever losing the
trainahd offending business men and
friends alike by not keeping to time
in their appointments. They are al
ways the last at dinner, and mistresses
shudder with dismay when they have
to be invited, and consult anxiously
with cook as to- the amount of time
the fish can be kept waiting. Business
men shrug their shoulders when they
book the day aud hour of their en-
gagetnefts, and calculate the loss they
must inevitably sustain by the known
unpunctuality with which they have
to deal. This failing, or misfortune,
is two fold worry, for it not only
distresses and damages the one who
is subject thereto. but also all with
whom he comes in contact. Indeed,
the unpunctuality ot the people with
whom we have relations is one of the
most annoying social worries, aud en-
tails as bad Consequences as any we
can name. But ii is common, and
when a multitude does wrong, each
individual thinks himself justified
through the bad example of the rest.
The worries that accompany house
holder are legion. The worry of
smoky chimneys which no sooty doc
tor can cure; of penetrating draughts
which are not to be kept out by cart
load of red baize sand bags; of insid-
ious damps that steal in trails of mil
dew and mould across your bread-pan
and your meat-safes, your preserves
and your pickles, and all tho farina-
ceous stores of the household. The
army of rats and mice, which not the
best mouser to be had can destroy;
the water pipes that freeze the els
terms that, overflow; the gas that
blackens gliding and gives no light as
compensation ; the drains that cam
not be got right, and the roof that is
always going wrong-these, with the
constant presence OF the tax-gatherer,
and the precision of the landlord, are
the chiet worries of the householder.
But the lodger suffers even more. And
unless he can make himself Indifferent
to eXtortion and discomfort and learn
to regard the presence of the mystic
monster the landlady's cat with calm
philosophy, he had better put up with
The worries OF Independent house,
keeping than rush into those of de-
pendant boarderhood. Do what we
will, however, we cannot get rid of
worry. 1t invades every sanctuary, I
and colors every tact of our lives. Ii
makes our bread bitter and our vino
sour; it tarpishes gold and sharpens
the keen edge of poverty. Wherever
we go, worry, like black care. sticks
to us, and we cannot shake him of.
The only weapon that seems to have
any power over him is that OF patience
and patience indeed, is the best meth
Cd of eXorcism for all those annoying
evils that afliict mankind, of which
worry is one of the chief, AS it is for
even graver thing and stronger foes.
HORSES that have not run for years
and can't be made to run in any salts
factory way, now run freeley at the
nose, and the amount of hacking
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