New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-17
Kate Fields ''Hup.Hazard" Sayings

Kate Fields 'HupsHaZar0~ S"S"Ss'
Among other new books received by
George Ellis g. Brother, No. g. Camp
street. and added to their circulating
library. is "Hap-Hazard,' by Kate Field;
James K. Osgood g. Co., Boston. Miss
Field is regarded as the wittiest OF Amer
lean female writer's living From her last
book we make the following extracts:
The Frenchwoman was right in declaring
America to be ie paradis DIES DANES, and
those women who exalt European galantry
above American honesty are as blind to
their own interests as an owl at high noon.
There is nothing more pleasing to human
beings than to see somebody else make HIM
self ridiculous.
The worst thing after being Inter
viewed" is being swindled by hackmen.
The angelic men and women insist upon
marrying their Opposites-demons; conse-
quently, the angelic suffer, and the demons
carry matters with high hand.
A country steak suggests fried leather
rather than beet, and is graphically de-
scribed by John G. Sake as an infringe
ment on Goodyear's patent!
There is an eternal fitness in things; and
jokes, however mild, when launched from
high box pulpit, become thoroughly de-
moralized.
now am thankful when my gods and god
desses are not very wicked as to morals
and very frightful as to appearance.
And it is Just such little quiet men that
are the bravest
Shakespeare never conceived a truer line
than when he wrote, ut is as easy as
lying" Ii people only talked about what
they knew, profound silence would settle
upon society. and large reward would be
offered for an answer to the conundrum
originally propounded by Pontius Plate:
what is truth ~
Poor human nature likes to believe the
worst of its kind. and there are those who
feel personally injured at praise of others.
A woman weakly and amiably in the
right is no match tor man tenaciously and
pugnaciously in the wrong.
What pity it is that public schools do
not teach manners as well as reading,
writing and arithmetic!
As great English writer once said pri-
vately: people nowadays can be tickled
into anything, frightened into most things,
beaten into all but common sense, kicked
any where hut into Heaven-but talked
into nothing"
l once heard child declare that if cir
cuses were prohibited in heaven. she did
not wish to 60 there.
Michelet tells the sentimental world that
woman is an exquisite invalid, with pc
rennial headache and nerves perpetually
on the rack. 1t is a mistake. When gaze
upon German and French peasant women,
ask Michelet which is right, he or nature
Men who are brave enough to avow their
principles are brave enough to endure
SANDER, bricks, and worse, for the sake of
them. Persecution will only make them
greater heroes and increase the number of
their adherents.
Americans are the cats of humanity.
They have nine lives, and always alight on
their feet.
In London, gaslight is so infinitely supe-
rior to daylight as to tempt one never to 90
to bed-aId never to get up.
Philosophers are unpleasant to have in
the house. They always forget to market,
never take their meals regularly, never
comb their hair, never buy new suit of
clothes, always wear shocking bad hats,
never button their gloves, and are SO en-
crossed in improving the human race as
never to pay any attention to the individual
specimens about them. Last, but worst sin
of all, they never notice what woman has
on.
A woman accompanied to her carriage by
a loving husband is much pleasanter
spectacle than an empress escorted by
fawnng courtier.
ANY one who dares to tell the truth must,
as Mrs. Camp remarks, take the conse-
Quences of the situation
1t is the guilty who are always most Bla-
tant in the assumption of virtue. limo
cence rarely acts on the defensive.
In many instances, living in Europe rem
deIs Americans very narrow, very selfish
and very unpatriotic. Existence consists
of perpetual round of pleasure seeking.
To be in certain capitals and watering
places during the season, to dress better
than any one else, are the chief ends of
men and women.
The longer one lives the more one be-
comes persuaded that nothing is rarer than
common sense
English women generally will not
compare favorably with American, but
there are exceptions greatly to the
advantage of England. We have had
no poet equal TO Mrs. Browning
no novelist approaching George Eliot,
no scientist the peer of Mrs. Somerville, no
actress like Mrs. SiddOns.
To try to please everybody is democratic;
to be indifferent to everybody is aristo-
cratic consequently Americans, men
and women, are the best bred people in the
world.