The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-01

that merciful Providence compassion,
ating his weakness, never laid off much
for him to do. Because you have nothing
to do, it does not follow that you do
nothing On the contrary as a rule, you
are quite busy. If you are doing moth
ing on the farm, or in the store, Office,
shop or other place of business, you
are apt to be sauntering around behind
a dog or two. with gun in your hand,
or standing on the bank of some pond
or water course. much to the disgust of
frogs and snakes, and the great delight
of musquitOes, watching to see if any fish
is foolish enough to commit suicide, by
hanging himself on your hook
Nothing to eat This is another i'll
that flesh is heir to-chiefy female
flesh. The suffering is greatest whilst
entertaining party Of friends at dinner.
And during its whole course the fair
hostess is complaining that she has
nothing to eat-nothing to eat, when the
table is loaded down with the good
things of life, and all afFording indubita-
be proof of her skill, in the culinary art.
There is no oficinaI remedy for this
i'll.
Nothing to wear This is a very ex-
pressive phrase and is used chiefly by
young ladies, whose wardrobes are e
! millinery store, and museum of fashion
com bined. 1t is ambiguous too, for
sometimes they mean by it, that they
have nothing ft to wear Now this is
strange; no doubt each little grumble
ness has duplicates of each of the l0l
articles that go to make up her toilet
Let US hope the dear creatures will live
until their present stock of nothing to
wear" is worn out, and replenished,
over and ever again, and in the mean
time scear name by which they are
not now known.
Nothing to write. There is about as
much truth in this. as there is in " moth
ing to do but much less regret is mani,
tested, if you really have nothing to
write. Having nothing to write, must
mean that there is no subject upon which
you can, or will write, or, that you choose
to remain voiceless thought" Now
there is no drouth of subjects on, or
about which, to write They are thick
as leaves in Vallambrosa," and of all
moods, from grave to gay, from lively
to severe" Every day life is full of
incidents on which somebody could
make an interesting, perhaps instructive
commentary. You need not go three
feet to find subject about which to
write, but l don't know how far you
would have to go to get the ability to
write on it. Writing in its nobler sense
is not so easy as the thoughtless think
Try it young man, you will not find it
near so easy as pitching nurse shoes, or
sucking one end of cigar. There are
many subjects upon which very little
has been written, because writer's are
divided into two classes; one class hav-
| ing too much sense 20 attempt the task,
and the other not sense enough to carry
out the attempt, when made. BY the
| grace o. euiCOFsi anu TIE cAuEiLy u
readers, the effor-s of writers for news
/ papers. are not all condemned TO waste
! their sweetness on the desert air" The
kindness of large majority of readers,
in this age of soft and dainty words, is
shown by the fact that they characterize
! email fry articles, (such as this for i'm
stance,) as hebdomadaI, instead of a
,ceak3y contribution to the public. True
it is, that there are few cynical read-
ers of the snubocratic order who cannot
endure anything however good, or harms
less, that does not flow in the ru,s of
their thoughts. They invariably re-
frain, however, from chastising the au-
dacieus scribbler, and he attributes this,
to their goodness of heart, and-good
sense. JOSH.