Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-03-16
Meiserllaneons. q
Social Bores.

II il not always easy TO fnd out Just what
some people know, they are so modest in
the display of their intelligence, so appar-
emily insensible of their own knowledge
and mental worth, and pay such studied
Difference 10 the views of others. that we
have not the heart TO explore them.
They commend themselves to our tender
! consideration rather than invite rigid ex-
animation. But there are others who have
the courage and beldnrss | wont say ego
tism) In bring TO the front on all occasions
social, as well as public. all the resources
/ OF their mind. all the ,realh OF their ac-
/ quired knowledge. intersperscd aud illu-
/ minated by the flashes of their genius. un-
/ I'll YOU are at loss To know whether to CON
graduate yourself as being the object of
/ such meteor-like and sublime display Of
human greatness. or to deplore your own
! insignifcance under the sense of person.
/ ality so overwhelming.
I such persons undoubtedly belong to the
class who believe in. and practice this de-
/ lightful and generous christian truth. 1t
| is more blessed TO give than 10 receive"
/ Instruction.. The charge OF parsimony
/ connot be laid at their doors, for if out
of the abundance OF the heart the mouth
| speaketh" surely they must be large
| hearted people.
! As the water gushes out from the noun
tain side without coaXing, or urging, or
polite requesting, so these tlresome and
treless takers, surface thinkers, and self
conceited public benefactors yield up their
hidden treasures in torrent or incesssnt
and gratutous speech.
/ They were made TO shine like a lamp
/ but, less modest they don't wait 20 be
/ lighted.
They live In land OF free speech. and
they need no patent right on their thoughts
to protect their utterance, and why allow
a sense of delicacy TO restrict Gcd-given
right.
They can see no propriety in this simie
that as the purest water lies deepest in the
soil and has 10 be forced to the surface, and
as tine richest mines often lie deeply embed.
ded in the earth. and Nature has 10 be tap
ped, and sometimes petted, to yield her
best products, SO the purest spirits and
loftiest geniuses often afford no clue to
their existence until some external agita-
ton brings them to the surface.
The more person lies TO the weather
the more he is apt TO corrode.
The consciousness of strong reserve
force is one OF the most essential elements
of courage and victory.
! We hear a great deal said about cousti-
tutional rights, political rights. natural
rights &c. but seldom hear any thing said
about social rights. The constitution of
the L. s.. doesn't mention them, and the
statutes OF the States entirely ignore them
For their surest protection, we look 10 the
refinement of taste and the sense OF propr-
e,y which accompany good breeding. And
just in proportion as society Is cultivated
and refined, do we approximate equality
social rights. The more one learns to re-
spect himself the more he respects others.
\ careless indifferent manner or a restless.
uneasy movement OF TIE body while one is
conversing with you in the society of 9TH
ers, is an ofiense against good taste. aud
betrays lack OF respect for him who ad
dresses you. But there are occasions when
this mark of disapproyal becomes rirtue.
when you are made the recipient of hom-
ogeneous mass of unwelcome intelligence,
concerning which you have no righ. or in
terest.to know.
When the sanctities and privacies of do
mestic life are laid bare. and your friends
and neighbors are exposed TO merciless
fire of criticism then if you are man, and
well-bred you will resent with indignation
the spirit which prompts such violations of
good taste.
An evenings social pleasure is often
spoiled by an insipid, uncouth, indiscrim-
mate, and unceasing talk-r, who has in
perfection the faculty of saying little in
much. and that little, something that had
better been unsaid, whose sentences are
like tickets in lottery enterprises hun
dred blanks to one prize. who if he should
chance to utter a rare bit of sense, or send
forth spark of wit, would be as insensible
of it as of the various expressions Of his
countenance. pei son so unmindful of the
prophecies of social life and the feelings Of
others. SO thoroughly submerged in his
own seif-consciousness that no evidence of
disgust is plain enough, no hint broad
enough, no effort on the part of others to
dam the flow OF talk by injecting words
and sentences sufficient. nothing but the
imperious command shut up Sir can
bring him to his senses, and tie up the
tongue that never tires. ]. NJ. II.
No papohSrof March