The Portland daily press., 1874-02-12
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sPSeSu, oy Velleu SdrcdSu w cACiLinS
Curiosity ro,,y which they will not gratify, by mar
ratlne pretended facts. by sinister compli-
enenls' e.' oy rallying one when circumstances
tsil;na af py, oy equivocal praise, by blunt
teiIng OF some truth that had been n liter left
uasa,o' ana by hundreds of ingenious ways
main % mon ne e,oS Moula ial TO tell, people nAict
Those who in the main arc s.r;,;, a.
make friends happy will have one Hack
thread in the web of white. Those NH, .''s,
ly love each other have strange fondness for,
stirring each other up
There is an innocent and even pleasure-
producing method OF rallying which, If deftIy
and gracefully d'ne, heIghtens the enjoyment
OF society. One may touch discord If IL
lapses into true chord Somtimes, when
we have good news to tell, we are bewitched
with desire to opel the matter as ii 1t were a
great trouble that We are about to break.
There Is gentle badinage. an innocent ar
row-shooting, which fatters and charms.
But life is full of the other sort. If Darwin
is right in thinking that Een asceDded from
monads by gradual evolution, then it is very
certain some men came up by the way of the
mosquito, thu flea and the biting fly, and th at
their ancestral traits still linger in the blood.
Common Sense.
hold," says correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, ''that if the ladies'
would study housekeeping and cooking in all
their details as thoroughly as their husbands
study law, medicine aud bookkeeping, or
any other occupation they expect to follow.
we should soon see a different state of affai,s
in the domestic department. And this is to
the point" This is not to the point, for the
very good reason that no lad es expect to fol-
low housekeeping and cooking, you know.
Or, as Copper ield's Dora had it. with the
compacency of one who had solved a great
problem, why, tie cook will take care Of
that" But, oddly enough, the editor of the
Inquirer indorses the proposition, and there
is excellent reason for the supposiiion that
he knows what he is taking about. He
says: .ep
''There is steling ring of genuine COM
mon sense in the above direct anpuaoe
which IS worth ten times more than ali he
lectures and speeches ever delivered by all the
Mrs. Stantons and Miss Anthonys Nor does
1t follow that from such sensible views that
ladies' must be merely housekeepers. There
are in Our midst many ladies who excel in lit
erature, who have achieved wel-,eseryed
reputation on both SIDES OF the ocean, and
who attend to household duties, lust as most
of our bankers, judges, professors and mer-
| chants purchase and send home the family
| marketing, by tn. stock of coal for home
/ use, and impress upon the shoemaker the
imperative necessities of stout soles for the
boys. The fulflllment of commonplace do
mestic duties is not Incompatible with the
| performance. Of graver work. The little
| cares for hearth and home may and should
| be made the variety which the homely adage
pronounces to be the spice of lite."
EDITORS AND THEIR TEMPrATIoNs.-Edi-
tors are subjected to peculiar temptations.
They sit at the focal point where politics and
religion and commerce meet They have
priced favors to grant which are hidden for by
| all the seductiveness OF money, OF appeals to
| principle, and appeals to meaner motives.
| They are lauded aud cursed. Mirrors OF pop
ular sentiment, they become more or less iis
/ creators, Every vice attacks their exposed
| freedom. All the temptations way-lay them
which come of night-work, emergency pres
sure, glowing occupation, and variety associa-
tions OF the highest and lowest. 1t is not af-
fection to plead lack of time tor the calmer
/ culture OF character, TOR religious exercise, tor
Sabbath rest. The American editor is not
bad material. He is intellectually peer with
| his brethren OF either of the learned profess
ions. His industry Is heroic-the range Ct
topics he discusses limited only by the civil
ization of the day Ibis power for good or i
simply incalculable. So far from his intin. acy
with the current world being any hindrance
to piety, it teaches him to discriminate h..
tween shams and realities. He ought, from
his knowledge of present human pstnre and
the status OF affairs, to take the place OF the
ancient prophet-warn and exhort, and set
the example in all holiness. Pray for the
weary, tempted. preoccupied editor-tbat bis
pen may be ever dipped In truth, bis soul
human thought. There Is no class of men
| whom the church of Christ more needs, to
hasten the coming of the kingdom OF God
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