The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-25
A Nuisance.

Do you number among your friends
any man who is a cross betwixt Paul
Pry and Mark NEEDLE? A self-licens-
ed busy-body who considers it his PRIV
ilege to overlook all your domestic
concerns, and thrusts his advice upon
you at every turnf you do, then
you are pretty we'll acquainted with
the exasperating peculiarities of fussy-
bodies. As rule, they are very. good
tempered, and really try to please their
friends, firing themselves in the SER
vice of others with zeal which would
be pleasant to contemplate were it not
their unsolicited services do more harm
than good. TO them, it seems a mat
ter of minor Importance that they know
nothing of the business with which
they concern themselves; so long as
they are allowed to rush frantically
hither and thither, without any special
object in view but that ofrushing hith-
and thither, they are satisfied, and
hatter themselves that they are of al
most incalculable service. When they
are encouraged to act in this manner,
their citation becomes almost too much
for them, as is evidenced by their de.
meanor. Their friends are, whenever
an opportunity occurs, pounced down
upon, buttonholed, and are told of the
prodigious feats that are being per-
formed. They are informed how the
fussy-bodies have not a single moment
to spare, how they are nearly worked
off their legs, how they are stirring up
others, how they are influencing Messrs.
Brown, Jones and Robinson, and how,
in short, they are making martyrs of
themselves for the good of their fell
lows. Having furnished this interest
ing intelligence, the energetic beings
proceed to state that they really do not
know how they shall manage to get
through their self appointed task.
Then they rush off somewhere or 9th
er. If any one were to take the trou-
bic to follow them, it would be found
that their efforts principally consist in
talking over matters in such manner
as to conclusively show that they are
comparatively ignorant concerning
them, and undertaking to do many
things that they cannot PERFORM
They may be seen walking into aplace
with no apparent object, and coming
out again with less, with a mien indie
alive of the most supreme self-satis-
fac ton. The number of times they re-
qu,re to be told how things are getting
on is simply astonishing. 1t is un-
kind, perhaps, to hint that they are
generally in the way, and retard that
object they are so professedly eager to
advance. But such is the ease. Their
constant interference, their needless
questionings, their spasmodic and reck-
less attempts to really do something in
order to satisfy their consciences that
they are Of great importance, cause an
am cunt of confusion and delay difficult
to estimate. Those who really under
stand what they are about, and pro-
coed with their tasks in a workmanliko
manner, are seriously incommoded and
often justly irritated and yet, the fus-
sy-bodies being, 10 general way, men
OF some little importance and infu-
ence, and lit being most impolitic to
offend supporter, those who are real
~ Of use are almost powerless to strike
a blow in their own defence.-TWa-
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