Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-22
NOTES AND QUERIES.

droney way is awful easy work for your indo
lent, slipshod, overtasked, vagabond press
writer. It is our opinion that it is good BIT
easier even than lying-or gossipping, which
is very like lying and one of its quite near re-
lations When Hamlet asks the logging
courtier if he can play upon this pipe" and
in response to the negative answer remarks
that GO it is as easy as lying the first impress
sion received is that the Melancholy Dane
thought lying an easy task. But we are &C
quainted with people, who if their mendacious
capacities are to be gagged by their aptitude
for playing fife or other wind instrument,
are to be set down as persons who have great
deal to learn before they can be classified
among the good, strong aggressive able bodied
liars of the times. 1t is evident that the
Prince of the House of Elsinore either under
rated the art of music making or held to an ex-
aggerated estimate of the difficulties of round
ing the loose particles of human falsehood into
tangibility and presentable shape. (This is
to be taken as modern appraisement of the
facility of ie-making for it is of the history
Of the last century that the Father of his
Country was SO constructed as to be quite I'M
able either to play flute or tell whopper(.
But, maugre the depression, the common sort
of newspaper preaching is fatally easy of per-
Torrance. Doubtless this fact has become
only too evident to the readers of these Ms
and Q's; but once in a vein the vein must be
worked out or, mayhap, abandoned for idle
Il ll1r, 10,
the way of wishing that Carson could sustain
pleasant Club--a combination of leisure
place, library, tap, card-room, Rfree. and-easy,
and genuine, well bred, fairly virtuous good
fellowship. 1t would be amazingly promotive
of good fellowship, good tastes and good man.
ners. The ciyilizingest thing Virginia City
ever had is the Washoe Club. 1t has done
more to reduce the saloon business within a
reasonable limit than all other influences COM
bined. Now we are no temperance lecturer
of the Crusader stamp We believe that this
narrow world is governed too much, and that
the conservation of human virtues must be
largely left to the self-governing instincts of
mankind; but there is no denying that the
principal street of city, like street In Vir-
ginia, or Carson street in Carson, looks quite
as well and acts quite as orderly-hke when
the rum shops are four doors apart as when |
they are only two. But apart from this ques-
ton of dram selling and drinking is the more
general and comprehensive question of socia-
bility and well regulated acquaintanceship as
related to and influenced by properly con-
structed and wisely sustained Club. Here
are your books for the bookish; your billiards
for the billiard players; your decent tap for
the bibulous; your well ordered card-room +;
your decent hours (Which should be rigidly
insisted ON; your choice associations and the
general tone which is sure to come from the
asserting and assembling of the better male
elements of your vicinage. We believe the
Arions did our little city world of good, We
hope their organization may be revived and
perpetuated. Such societies are in the direc-
ton of classified and systematized taste. So
with such club as we hint at. The members
have their wits sharpened by frequent inter
change; they are put to their purgation Of all
coarseness and infelicitous demeanor and
thSy oio oPe " w ILeiI uIIuhlHS Will AHOueI-
alton and their card playing with choicer gifts
and graces. Anything and everything that
puts one on his honor or his best average be-
haviour, as it were, is always sure to promote
many pleasant and desirable social ends We
are not preaching for the Young Mems l
Christian Association; although we have moth ,
ing to submit in derogation of that institution; g
but we have no doubt that the future posi- |
bility of branch of that religious society in {
our little city has no small dependence upon t
the formation of Club or similar social con- i
trivance. In purely practical light there is S
the saving of money in a Club-real economy a
to those who like the pleasures of good COM S
pany and have a taste for the social amenities.
We think we know the elements here out of 7
which such society might be formed. Once +
well established, it would draw to itself all the
more desirable materials and have much to do r.
with the expression of taste for the pleas e
urable and refining things of this life. We i
drop the hint merely. because" says
Holmes, 81 say that the Atlantic Cable ought
to be built is no reason 1 should go and build N
it myself" "On what ground shall one that .
can make Iron swim" asks CARLYLE dealing
with the miraculous, "come and declare that "
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