Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-01
tFor the PerrysburG Journal.l
RECREATION,


"All work aud no play makes Jack a dull
boy"
Perhaps the philosopher who walked the
streets of Boston with piece of ginger
bread in each hSnd and another under
each arm If he did that-wss the author
of this proverb. II sounds like his crisp,
pat savings, at all events, and If lie orig
mated it, his surviving friends need not be
ashamed Of it.
The adage has the semblancc OF rhyme,
yet "play" hardly jingles with "boy."
No, the dirinus a67.dus is rather wanting
in it. But to make up that absence, the
sentence contains diamond of fact. 1t
| borders on the rhyu in both thought and
structure, so that, of it, we may fttingly
declare, in we'll known words, at contains
more truth than poetry"
About that ginger bread story has it
struck you, dear reader, that such scene
was fearfully out of place in Boston, the
| Athens of American Stop ! was it in Bos-
| ton? Was it not in Philadelphia, the
"City of Brotherly Love, or in New York,
the metropolitan, American Gotham"
confess am befogged on that point. When
| | frat wrote the foregoing sentence, or
rather, when | wns writing it, ! had no
! doubt that Franklin ate gingerbread in
Boston, but the more query over it. the
less likely il seems.
Reader, has this occurred to you, that all
men of note spring from uneventful and
nnrcnowned bOyhoOd? Is il not n fact--I
ask you-tell me know of but one in
stance of philosopher being nobly born
that of lord Dundreary-and lie was
but n titled iool-not the only one fear.
But his theory of the milking process-you
remember it-pumping with the cows tail
i. worthy Of less idiotic origin. And
Dundreary will be remembered when the
great Totheni is forgotten.
But / must pump something of interest
out Of my Reconsideration. BY the
way, first wrote that pioverb quite differ
ently-it was but slightly disSimilar in
construction but wonderfully unlike in
meaning. How small differences produce
momentously different results! A drop of
rain is tiny thing, and many drops are
comparatively insignificant; 80 a slight
ridge OF land is Of little importance, and
il seemingly makes no difference on which
side of the ridge the rain drops fall yet
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the rain falling on one side OF which finds
its way to the Atlantic through Lake Erie
and the st Lawrence River and Gulf
while that on the opposite side runs to the
same ocean by the way of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers and the Gulf Of Mexico.
II requires but slight stretch OF the i'm
aginaiion TO conceive the one drop meeting
tho other, somewhere in the mysterious
Gulf stream. Could they observe, reflect,
remember and talk, what wonders Of earth,
AIR and water one might to the other reveal.
forgot to say that the change in the adage
was in transplacing the words "Work" and
4" Lack a.day." / have but little of my
seli-alloled space left and not word o!
what might be said on my subject have
written. Well what shall say concerning
Recreation? Where shall begin on this
boundless exPNnsel How can justly con-
slider such theme at So late period II
Is impossible, aud think l will not try.
Saving what would say till future time,
/ will remind you Of having read long
piece Of gOssiPy nonsense aud close.
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