Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-09-09
rrn:.ipg Believe Very MucI,.

HsnikiDg Believe Very Much.
In the "Old Curiosity Shop" is
a pitiful little girl who is the only
light in Sally Brass dark kitchen.
That poor little epitomc Of wreth-
edness, with all her gloomy sur
roundings Of cold potatoes, black
beetles, deep solitude and deep
wrongs. had the happy faculty, as
Dean Swift would say, Of "extract-
ing sunbcams from cucnlnbers,"
could she have had the cucumbers.
When she made the acquaintance
of Dick Swiyeller, that literary
fop, she asked him if he had ever
drank any orange-peel wine. He
knew q great many things, but no
had to subject himself to the morti-
flcation Of asking her how such a
beverage was made. The process
was very simple-a bit OF orange
peel in tumblcr of cold water.
The "small servant added that it
did not have much taste unless you
made believe very much. ,
1t is so with a great many things.
For instance, children are fond Of
maple sugar, and city children eat a
good deal of it, purchased in small
thin cakes and when one sees
/ these cakes made by the ten thou
sand in single shop in this city,
and knows that only enough of the
essence of the maple is put in to
season, he has to make believe
nightly to imagine he is eating
maple sugar. In fact imagination
has to do vast deal Of sweetening,
or the "bitter pills" would predom-
, mate, and life would be a continu-
Gus round Of drugs. rl ar
There is genuine poetry often in
truth, and nothing is truer than
Longfellow's saying; "Things are
not what they seem" Herring
caught on the coast of Maine be-
come Labrador herring long before
they reach Chicago. They are
sold at retail in New England sea-
ports for what they secm--not
what they are. Haddock, in tho
, winter, thousand miles from the
! place where they are taken, are
. sold for fresh cod; and n person
| not much acquainted with salt
| water fish before they are cured
/ will not have to make believe much
h to think he is eating the genuine
: article. Smells can be consumed
4 for sardincs in the same easy way.
4 BY making believe, one need never
n cat any cheese but "IIamburgh,
d or use any horsc-radish made oi
II turnip.
J. By considerable making believe
nearly everything which people
/" wear is very nice, from heavy gold
i finger rings, which cost twenty-five
Is cents, up to gold wristlcts, which
cost 50. You meet young lady
y Mt church or tho opera, ard yor
imagine She has magnificent heat
a Of hair-and hasn't shc9 Yor
1t make up your mind that heat
which grows such crop must b'
ID frnitful Of sublime ideas. You SCI
: lady tripping along on the side
Id walk her dainty little feet unde'
her pctticoats, running in and ou
nc like mice, as Willis expresses II
e. and you imagine she wears tn
at incest goat, when it is only pebble
en-. grain COW hide, made into ladie
nd wear. -is aEe 80
ng Are we not having q great dea
er of erange-pcel Wine poured out =
nit us nowadays, from the pulpit. '"
ed certainly have large quantity G
Did gospel preaching with the gospt
loft ont. More properly speakin
Try perhaps, it is the gospel aceordip
10 70 this man, or the gospel accordin
- TO that man. The theme is nc
ar. much Christ cruciGed, as some ma
nd pommeled. 1t is as often the exu
nd tation of some clerical star as
'ur the Son of Righteousness. Mo-
than one "discoprse" finds its wa
'ou into the daily papcrseyery Monu'
cas- morning, without even the see
Of orange peel in it. The read
~ must make believe very much,
!. realize that he is reading q gosr
ne, sermon. t-A rrt aa-lh eiil
iIIr arr I aove ton cents n day fr(