Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-14
Selected Miscellany.
The traces of tears draw sympathy.

The traces of tears draw sympathy.
| WISDOM is oftentimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar.
The customs of an enslaved people
are a part of their servitude; those of a
free people are part of their liberty
MOntesQu1eu.
The fatigue of the limbs incident to
railwa y travel is occasioned mainly ~
the trembling motion of the floor under
the feet. Invalids will find great relief
by the use Of an air cushion for foot
stool.
WHAT student should especially see
to, both in respect Of health and of good
taste, is not to carry the breath of books
with him wherever he goes, as some
people do the odor of tobacco.-Prof.
Blackie.
"R1oHEs bring suspiciousness as
surely as over eating brings govt.
erich men are always defended by
men of business, the kind of men who
object to all schemes"
stNo man is securely loved except by
| those who know his foibles"
''Ihe statesman is worse off than the
circus rider: he must leap through his
hoop whenever it is offered to him.
"The tendency Of modern social life
is to knock the brains out of society,""
''The philosophers Of each age are
equally foolish; the common people
gradually increase III wisdom"
''The capacity for social enjoyment
with most persons goes on steadily in
creasing with age"
"We all begin by being pedants, ped
antry being peculiar attribute of the
young."- Sir Arthur Phelps.
IT is better for you to pass an evening
once or twice week in lady's draw
ing-room, even though the conversation
is slow, and you know the girls song by
heart, than in club, or tavern, or pit
of theatre. All amusements of youth
to which virtuous women are not ad-
mitted, rely on it, are deleterious in
their nature. All men who avoid female
society have dull perceptions, and are
stupid, or have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure. Your club swag-
gerers, who are sucking the butts Of
billiard cues all night, call female soae-
ty insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a
Jockey beauty has no charms for blind
man music does not please poor
beast who does not know one tune from
another but as pure epicure is hard
ly tired of water-sauces, and brown
bread and butter, I protest can sit for
whole night talking with well-regu
lated, kingly woman about her girl Fan
ny or her boy Frank, and like the even
ing's entertainment. One of the great
benefits man may derive from a wom-
ans society is that he is bound to be
respectful to her The habit is of great
good to your moral men, depend upon
it. Our education makes us the most
eminently selfish men in the world
Ihockeray.
Why should people read? and what is
thereal, solid value of printed matter?
There are three good reasons for read
ing, and we can think of no
others. They are: to be made wiser,
to be made nobler, and to be innocentiy
recreated Books which neither confer
information which is worth having, nor
lift the spiritual part of us up to loftler
regions, nor, by judicious diversion, re-
freshen the mind for further serious
efforts, are bad books, and the reading
of such is invariably idleness, and not
unoften the most dangerous kind of
/ idleness. Reading is not, as SO many
| people nowadays so0Ai W SUPPOSE SooA
in itself, as SO many things are which
are by no mean as highly thought of.
All energy that is not injurious, waste
full, or subtracted from some other
effort incumbent upon him who puts it
forth, is good; as waking, riding, boat
ing and the rest. But the reading of
which we speak cannot, under the most
favorable construction, be regarded as
energy. On the contrary, it is the very
LATEST form of laziness. People fly to
it when they think they have nothing
else to do, and they fatter themselves
that by reading they are really doing
something; and thus, nine times out Of
ten, they exonerate themselves from the
obligation of performing duty which
is distasteful to them. Temple Bar.