The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-24

hood. This method indicates serious
functional and even organic derangemen
of a mans moral system, and cannot, b,
the widest flight of fancy or the mos
reckless use of language, be called lux
ury. 1t is met with, however, not un
frequently; in fact it is rather more com
mon than unclothed truth.
MIR. A. Blower, with a grand air, speaks
to an acquaintance of his "place" in the
country; and # he converses with 8
stranger, before that strangers vision
floats panoramic view of undulatine
fields thickly set with waving gram; Of
pastures green and dewy meads, on
which wander countless herds of lowing
kline; of noble park, through which
broad, winding avenues, shaded by elms
and lindens and ancestral oaks, lead to a
baronial mansion, whose turrets rise SO
picturcsquely above the foliage. But the
person to whom he speaks is acquainted
with that portion of the State in which
the Wanted "place" is situated, and
knows we'll that it is a barren patch which
nOurishes no vegetation less hardy than
the indomitable Lockwood and the in.
eradicable thistle; that its forests are
composed of scrub-oaks and stunted
pines, and that the only creature which
| Can find sustenance there is the lonely
| sheep that browses unappetizingly up
| on the isolated mullen-stalks which,
scntinel-like, rise here and there up
ON the arid waste. The baronial
mansion, when viewed under the it,
Illuminating ray of truth, is frame
building containing two rooms and an
| attic, and is totally destitute of any tur-
rets. This kind of making believe is
without excuse, and its usual and we'll
mcrited result is discontinue and morti-
tication. A. Blower is not disgraccd by
owning farm which is not worth the
taxes levied upon it, but he has no right
to go about deluding people into the be-
lief that it is the combination of comfort
and grandeur which the human mind
naturally associates with the title Of
"place."
But the philosophical nature of the
Marchioness is exhibited by the fact
that when she could get nothing more
palatable than orange-peel and water
she gloritied it by the exercise of vivid
imagination into beverage ambroslal
and nectaric. She not only made the
best of it, but even little more than the
best, and manifested cheerful content
mcnt truly commcndablc and worthy of
imitation.
Most OF US are frequently compelled
to limit ourselves to things in life cor
responding in tastelessness and want of
attractiveness to orange-peel and water
Shall we grumbie and groan because it
is not Chateau Margaux and Amontilla.
do; or shall we come down to it with a
good grace, and, shutting our eyes to its
lmperfections, solace ourselves by a
wholesome making believe that it is
delightful beverage? A due regard for
the happiness and comfort of ourselves,
and not less Of those by whom we arc
will doubtless lead us to
choose the latter frame of mind.
But notice that it is the lururv of max
ing believe, and should not by constant
habit become necessity. The life
which thrives only in the ideal is untitled
for the hardships and struggles of the
real. TO meet these we must he armed
with spirit of endurance and deter
mlnation to bear unmurmurlngly what
ever may be our lot; but if we mingle
with these little of luxurious making
believe, may not the effect be to tighten
the cares of the way and dispense the
darkness of the path? May not the
warm, rosy tints of imagination be
pleasingly blended with the colder glare
Of fact?-Uea,th and Home.