The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-04-23

a, it were, and make him feel so uneasy
that the door leading to the street will soon
be placed between him and his would-be
victim All men are not equal to the emer-
gency though, and suffer with the patience
aud fortilude Of martyrs: Sometimes they
ay from the bore as they would from
pestilence-'tis not often, however, that this
can be done, for it requires Infinite tact and
fnesse, the bore sticketh closer than bro
ther, his tale is interiuinable, seems ohave no
end, and he continues to gabble and 10 stick
even to taking hold Of the button of coat
TO prevent the escape OF his victim, and all
the while laying the sweet unclion to his soul
that he is decidedly entertaining. Reader,
are you guilty of this uglineSS in any OF It's
mu.titudinous forms? Ii so, repent imme-
diaiey.
We saw poor friend the other day, fee
ing as it were from the wrath to come, and
no man pursuing, for he had LETT the bore
snug in bis room. We felt for him, having
been all over the same rough road many
times ourselves How long he remained out
to the neglect Of business, and prey 10 the
most miserable feelings, we know not.
Every day this hsprens-so common is the
bore The minister trying to get to his
filthy aud lastly, the lawyer endeavoriug to
make up a good brief, the printer porlng
over a bad piece of manuscript. the merchant
adding up a column Of figures, the editor
cogitating for an idea, the busy housewife,
whose every moment of time is needed for
some important duty, and many others, oil,
all are thus at times, alas, often times, made
the victims Of miserable fellow, whose only
recommendation is that he is full of gas aud
can stick. Bah.
SOMETHING FOR THE BoYs.-There are
50 many le-a.bed, as well as hard 10 ge;-a-
bed, Johnny'S, Billy's, IIenry's, Jo<ies, Bar
tow's, ETC., in the world, that we suppose
naturally enough that there arc q few even
in Ncwbcrry, in fact We know there are. and
who are as careless OF the kind call Of their
mammas, and as prompt to obey the sharp,
stern mandate of their fathers, as the John
ny" mentioned in the paragraph below by
the "Danbury News" that we insert It for
their benefit. And no: only so Is It with
boys. We might pick out scores OF Elias,
Mary'S, .Alicc's, Susan'S and James, who are
equally as bad. Read the paragraph, boys
and girls, and acknowledge if the cap docs
not fit your heads exactly, and then promise |
to be more obedient and smart in future:
"Calling boy up in the morning can hard.
" be clasSed uuder the head Of 'paStineS,
especially if the boy is fond of exercise the |
day before. And it is L little singular that |
the next hardest thing TO getting boy out |
of bed is getting him into il. There Is rarely |
q mother who is Z success at rouSlnS boy.
All mothers know this; so do their boys.
And yet the mother seems to so at it in the |
right way. She opens the door, and Dsna-
a,ingly observes, "Johnny" There is no
response. "John-ny!' Sill no response.
Then there is short, sharp john follow
ed q moment later by prolonged and en-
phatic John Henry" 4 srunt from the
upper regions signifies that an impression
has been made. and the mother is cncourag-
ed to add, You'd better be getting down
here to your breakfast, young man, before
come up there an give you something you'll
feel" This so startics the young man that he
Immediately goes to sleep again. and the
operation has to be repeated several times.
\ father knows nothing about this trouble.
He merely opens his mouth IS Il soda bottle
elects its cork, and the John Henry" that
cleayeS the cir of that stairway goes into
that boy like electricity, and picrces the deep
est recesses of his very nature. And he pops
out of that bed and into mis- clothes and
down the stairs with promptness that is
commendable. It is rarely boy allows him
self TO disregard the psternal summons.
About once year is believed to be as often
as is consistent with the rules Of health.
He saves his father q great many steps by
his thouchtfulneSs."