Smyrna times., 1877-12-12
On Being Found Out.

90 many people are now -a-daVS being
found out and shown in their true light
thanks to Mr.. Tweed and others-that
the following extract from I" Roundabout
Papers 10y W. NJ. Thackeray, the great
satirist, may not be uninterestng to the
public.
Just consider for a moment what life
would be 1t every rogue was found out
What butchery. What an indecency,
what an endless swishing of the rod. My
good trends, Will trouble you to tell me
do you 90 to church? When there, do
you say or do you not, that you are mis-
erahIe sinner? and saying so, do you be-
lleve it or do you disbelieve it? If YOU
are miserable sinner don't you deserve
correction, and are you not grateful if you
are let OFT?
Just picture to yourself everyb body who
does wrong being found out and punished
accordingly. Fancy all the boys in the
school being whipped and then the as
slstants, male and female, and the head
master himself. Why, the hand drops
Powerless, appalled, at the quantity of birch
II must cut and brandish.
TO fancy all men found out and punished
Is bad enough; but imagine ali women
found out in the social circle in which Won
ana have the honor to move There is
Mrs. Longbow, who is forever practicing
and who shoots poisoned arrows. too
when you meet her you don't call her a
scandal-monger, and charge her with the
wickedness she has done and is doing.
There is Mrs. Painter, who passes for
respectable woman and a model in secietv
There Is no use really saying what you know
regarding her and her goings on, or of
letting your children know what is really
the history Of that lady who is so hand
some and whom they admire so. \
am humane man. | am not one of
your Blubeards to 90 and say to my wife:
My dear, am going away for a few DAYS
to the sea-Shore. Here are all the KEYS of
the house. You may open every door and
closet except such a one" | don't say this
to woman-unleSs, to be sure, | want TO
get rld OF her-because | know that after
such caution she'll peep into the closet.
say nothing about the closet at all. |
Keep the key IN my pocket, and a being
"hom lovc-but who, as | know, has
many Weaknesses-out OF harms way, and
50 she can never be found out.
How queerly things are being found out
every day. Some time ago | wrote in the
papers about certain man-whom | will
call BAggs-who had abused me to NV
friends, who, of course, told me- Shortly
after that paper was published another
irend--Sacks | will call him--scowls
hercely at me in the street and passes with
out speaking. lie thinks | was writing
about hlm, and shows by his guilty con.
science that he has been backbiting me too
10 be found out must be painful and
odlouS and cruelty mortiiying to the in
ward vanity. Suppose for an instance. I
nOlfpOnn W;th
plentiful oaths and big stick, keen IN.
nevertheless, character for courage.
swear teaIfuly at cabmen and women. and
perhaps knock kown little man or two. |
and pass among my friends for whiskery
hre'eater afraid Of neither man nor dragon. !
But suppose some little chap steps up and !
gives me Gaming in the puElc street, |
with all the heads of my friends looking |
out OF all the windows? Ny reputation is |
gone. | brighten no man more Nv nose |
IS pulled 6y whlpper'snappers who Jump on |
chalrs 10 reach 1t. | am found out Yet |
Always knew | was a coward, and expected |
to be found out some dav.
Or suppose it is clergyman, who can |
pump coplous floods of tears out of his own |
eyes and out Of those of his audience. He |
thinks to himself, II am but a moor. |
chattering rogue. Ny bills are |
unpaid. | have Tilted several women
whom | promised to marry, and have even |
stolen the very sermon over which I have
been snivelling. Will they find me out ?"
says he, as his head drops down on the
cushion.
The idea of discovery must haunt MANY
public man as the trumpets are puffinr
his triumph. Hurrah for the immortal
Brown = shout the crowd. "This is all
very we'll" Brown thinks, (bowing the
Nhlle, smiling, laying his hand on his
1eartl' =" but there stands Smith; he has
measured me; he knows that little story
eoout Mrs. Browns black eye, and some
lay the others will find me out too" And
fet now many men have to work, to talk,
% . shlle' 70 20 to bed and try to sleep with
ms dreed OF being found out continually
)n their consciencesl What n wonderful
md beautiful provision of nature if is that
lur womandkind are not endowed with the
aculty Of finding us outl Tbev don't
ioubt and probe and weigh and take vonr
measure. Go into your parlor now and
litter a joke ever so old and stale, and IN
wager you sixpence the ladies will all begin
o laugh. Go to Browns house and tell
hrs. Brown and the young ladies there
Nhat you really think of him and see what
welcome you will get In like manner
o1 MN come to your house, and tell your
.ooo iady his candid opinion of you, and
"hcy now she will receive him. Would
you have your wife and daughters know
fou exactly for what you are and esteem
'ou precisely for what you are worth ? Do
,,ou suppose the people round your fireside
ion't see your homely face with n halo of
owe around itP You don't fancy Won are
IS you seem to them. No such tbing
'ut away that monstrous conceit and he
thankful that they, at all events, have not
ound you out. ''o'
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