The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-28
CHE 8utland 1ailu Globe.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1874.
tFor the Rutland Globe.)
Fireside Chats with UHHns.s.D

We haven't transmitted to you of late,
dear GLOBE, our usual, scmi-occasional
| packages OF valuable information, inter-
spersed with chunks of wisdom and moral
reflection, for the reason that we have been
away. We have been wandering around
over certain sections of this great and glor-
Gus country in the cars and partakrg Of
our daily bread under various and efectual
DISCUSSES at divers and sundry way stations,
which we don't desire to recall to mind by
any more specific mention. We don't want
to reflect either on the unuttcrabc miseries
Of railway travel, in the winter, when your
feet freeze and your head boils when you
can't read your new book because of the
snow light in your eyes; can't think because
of those five babies Give is the average
number, established by careful computation)
in the car; can't go to sleep because of both
the light and the babies and in fact can't
do anything but internally and sometimes
profanely wish you were "there." We
don't want to recall you, but you pervcrsely
insist on coming, memories of the rail, and
we desire tremendously to cut the acquaint-
ancc of Mr. John G SAKE for coaxng his
muse to sing in your praise.
True the irascblc old gentleman in a seal
skin coat and railway rug, with insignia of
wealth all around him and in his face, ex-
cites our speculative interest for time, as
he sets in naughty silence scanning the
fresh pages of Tribune and scowlng at
plebeians but ere we have woven the ro-
nce,in which we place him, up to its Sec
ond chapter he gets out at a suspicious
looking railway restaurant and comes back
munching doughnut and so!ing his I'M
maculate kids Herewith, which proceeding
of cnurse, finishes him as a hero of romance,
and taken in connection with certain APP
poplectic indications which we now discover
ish him Cor this nun anc sphere also 'ere
long. The young minister nearly opposite,
who is going to exchange" with a brother
shepherd, is scanning his sermon with such
common human kindness, look at him.
He is in such delicate state as regards
contact with the world that a curious or
critical glance would fetter him from the
crown of his shiny new beaver down to the
foundations of his theological training The
independent spinster who can travel from
Maine to Texas without asking Cor receiv-
ing) favor from any man, for some rca-
son fails to fascinatc us. She is rather an
gular and certainly and undeniably is not
beautiful. This is singulary fortunate for
her, because beauty will always command
admiration and be followed by it, and she,
in order to be consistent, us, on account Of
her sex, she ofcourse would he under all
circumstances, would have to repel admir-
alton expressed or implied, which, were she
beautiful, would involve her in perpetual
warfare with horrid man. We often mar
vel at the neat way in which Provid cnce
manages such things.
The timid young girl who confidently eX-
poets to be carried by her stopping place and
lose her trunk forever, the cXertions of
every able bodied man On the train to
herself on the protection of the old gentle
man two seats in front OF us with such an
abandon of helplessness, that we are jeal-
ously disguised with her, and wickedy and
malciously hope her fears will be realizo d..
The omnipresent newly married couple
away in front shrink from observation and
toward each other until they become al
most invisible and only when he rushes to
/, shut door, or window, or bring SOME cot
fee or water to his darling or she re-adjusts
the cravat and longs to encirclc the manly
neck of her darling, do we catch gimpscs
of their personality and oneness and bliss.
The baby just in front of us means and
bowls alternately and is inundated with
milk and hacked with fragments of sponge
cake till we tremble TOR the result. Mamma
is pale and tired with good reason as she
divides her time between feeding and trot-
ting this infant and dexterously managing
c the two others of nice gradati.n in year:
and inches who climb and nestle around
her.
Papa, of the better grade of working
men, sits opposite and is half pleased witt
the holiday and half dispeased with the un'
familiar feeling OF his shiny black coat
You have seen them, or their prototypes
on every train since you can remember and
SO have we, SO we feel almost too well ac
quainted with them to interest ourselves il
2. their uneventfal history. One thing We
notice however-did you ever think of it
Papa gets out at every station that he ma,
lose nothing worthy his observation an,
little Johnney who has been climbing OIL
his knee, trots down the car aisle lttl,
way and whimpers because he don't quit
dare follow. Mamml says Come bacl
Johnney' and repeats the command at in
tervals of five seconds with variations, bu
= the young man only whimpcrs the more
BY and by mamma calls; Come Jchnney
and take care of papa's coat for him where
upon the little fellows cloudcd face clear
and running back to papa's seat he pounce
on papa's coat and looks defiance at thu
whole car full, guarding like young New
iuuhuiuHu thc ph'elh '"iu"oiNS' law
quickly love and vaor blossom in the hon
est young heart, and if no chilling wind
came to blast their sweet flowers, what
garden the world would be Win they bio,
across you, little Johnney, and freeze You
life up into selfshness or mould il in cheer
less, mechanical toisomeness such Ms ha
IS left its imprint on yon laborer's face, whic
is stolid as his attitude over by the stove
It. or will you, by and by, guard your man
hood and the happiness of those who ar
dear to you, as faithfully as now you keo
- n fancied ward over papa's poor threalbar