Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-16

popularity known a. tAS sA4AS'
on the contrary, an almost universal voice
would rise to ratify the assertion that mere
is nothing like the presence Of the suiks
Ito make TIE home, which should be " a IT.
tie heaven below" seem in so many WORDS
the very opposite.
You rise in the morning. the birds sing
ing in your heart. as the child said. sun
shine all about YOU. with never an echo OF
discord in your thoughts you feel well ana
young and happy; you run lightly Gown
stairs; YOU open the door of the breakfast
room gaily, and as if a cloud fell on you,
you are conscious. in a flash, Of different
atmosphere, one Of bIackness and gloom
and bitterness, let the sun sparkle on glass
and silver and china ever 30 brightly.
Wnat is the natter Nobody knows. One
solitary individual of the family has re-
treated into a shell-not that indeed, Tor
If it y ere merely a retreat into 4 she'll II
could be endured but it would seem near
er the truth to sav that that individuals
soul has left it, body. and has been replac-
Ell for the time being By sour and evil
spirit. Atauy rate all this blackness and
bitterness IS infused into the bright and
happy atmosphere Of the house, till 1t is as
dark as doom from that solitary individual.
What occtsioned ia Again, nobody
knows. It is perhaps, 4 case Of what
children used TO call getting up wrong
end lrst." Some inexp'icable offence has
I been taken; some slight has been snatched
! at where none was intended to be given;
some aforementioned contradiction has
rasped the sensitive nerves and been
brooded over in the watches Of The night
till it hiss seemed to he the throwing down
Of a gage: some careless remark has been
misinterpre,ed and kept ranking; some
real injury has been uGforgigen, uutorgot-
ten, and swollen into quintuple proper
lions; or else some too rich moFsel has |
produced a heavy Indigestion, and-hiHc
I.!R .alhrym9
We are not quite sure that a mind at
rest with itself, conscious Of no blame in |
the matter, can haye-if it is able to over
look the annoyance Of 4 disturbed equili-
brium Of the hou,eholi-much more
amusement afforded it than is afforded BY
the conduct Of 4 person in the sulks. The
Affected haughtiness Of comPosure, the
cutting silence, except for now and then
more cutting speech which is frequently
80 double-bladed as to cut the cutter, and
the dignity magnificent rs Marvolios are
AL frequently H. good as a play to the
" ookers-on in Venice For The person
who Is in the suiks unavoidably betrays
all the workings Of the mind 80 plainly
that they are quickly and thoroughly read
as one moving about in the lighted room
Is visible to the watcher in the dark out
side and if surprise at the pettiness gives
pain, entertainment at the pettishness quite
60 unteIac,s II, provided one does not be
come 50 provoked At the silly childishness
as to lose temper ones self. In fact, in
large house full Of people. when amuse
menl begins to flag a bad fit Of the suks '
does not come in at all times amss, and it
would lend quite an agreeable variety in
the way Of fun if it were not that ole is
apt to feel rs tie aucients used To do con-
oerning one possessed, that the person
IS sacred in its possession either BY angelic
Or denoniac power.
If this were the end of it, fit Of the
illks would not, perhaps, be so bad as it i,
painted, for one could bear having silence !
brought about where there used to be pleas /
INT converse, could bear the impending
neer, the descending feer, for a day or Sc,
Though that day or 50 is then like some al
hing blo.ted ont Of the year like An ink d
pot but the sulking disposition is also the
uspicous one; it is always seeing evil
where none is meant; and one is conscious. u
it has a kindred soul to answer it
mong The other inhabitants, of living in
he midst Of conspiracy. so that one fears 10
o grow like ones SURF findings, and pres Ii.
ntly suspects hidden meanings in limo IN
ent works evil in the handling of a chair, SC
olson in a cup. N
Iet when we have made the best of it, I
person with this sulking liability is i
cry uncomfortable companion, in 10 way
be relied on for comfort or enjoyment.
.nce so likely to fail Won on pinch. And
seems TO us that when the fit comes on. 4
the person has not discretion enough to
'ithdraw Voluntarily q request should be
lade in the name of the household for the Ii
ldividual's retirement to the secrecy of
rivate room till the inner weather has
earcd; for no one has right, through
ny reason under heaven, to poison the
eace Of those whJ have not offended. in
rder to retaliaye upon the one who does
lenj, even if the cffence is real; and
hen the offence is imaginary, the sulking
lrly Is no better than the insane and can
Ut complain Of such mild restraint. OF
purse 1t goes without saying that when S
&c poor sOal descends at last with smile, eel
notice should be taken Of the past.
Nevertheless. every wrong brings its
yn right, and the sulker is punished in
e su,As themselves, since the gloom of
uerne>s mus, he all but unbcarable to -
e person, who suffers them inwardlv. |
Id tiLds all the world rs black rs if fol-
wed up by cutie fish. And the pun
lmenl Is the more felt because, owing to
g very law Of compensation, the one
ost 81 Ject to the sulks is often spark
z, vieacious and pleasure-lovinge enough
nsn not jostled out of bias, TO make
,ht hours and gladness chase each other
out the Aouse.-Hl psr's Ba,tr.
LET IT DRY.-Mr. Spurgeon once went
preach in church little outside of
ndon. The day was wet and muddy NJ
d tue pants Of Mr.. Sturgeon were plen- ~,
1lly covered with dirt. A good deacon i-''
the vestry said, Brother Spurgeon, N
me get brush and take off .ome If
It mud; You can't 90 into the pulpit in
II state " Don't be foolish. deacon. y .
d Mr.. Sturgeon, in his usual good-hum-
ID way, don't you SEE the mud is wet So
i if you try to brush it off now. vou will t-.t
the stain into the cloth9 Let it drv
then it will come off easy enough and
We no mark There is an admirable
t. here for every one. When evil spoken lo'
.lnst' as we may be for the sake of truth D