Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-14
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The sturdy son of the English church. the
bishop OF Manchester, recently, in the course Of
public speech, made some sharp remarks on
the frivolily OF social life, and read the follow
ing letter from young woman to illustrate:
I'VE breakfast about 10. Breakfast occupies
the best part of an hour, during which we read
our letters, and pick up the latest news in the
papers. After that we have to 90 and answer
cur letters. and my mother expects me to write
her notes OF invitation. or to reply to such Then
1 nave TO 90 into the conservatory and feed the
caIar1eS and parrots, and cut off the dead leaves
and faded flowers from the plants. Then it is
tine to dress for lunch, and at o'clock we
lunch. At my mother likes me TO go with her
wren she makes her calls, and we then come
Rome 10 a > O'Clock tea when some friends drop
IN. After that we get ready to take our drive
III the park, and then we go home to dinner
and after dinner we so to the theater or the
opera. and then when we get home am so
dreadfully tired that | don't know what to do"
This is all exaggerated picture, of course, Or
al least, however true OF English society girls
could hardly be asserted OF any considerable
portion OF this community. Yet the cares or
what are nagnifed into cares of some people
can hardly be OF greater Importance than feed
ing the canaries and parrots and cutting off
dead leaves and faded flowers. There is a
fatal facility in multiplying cares about no.
thing, until we seem to be absorbed and COM
pletely taken up with yanitieS and nOthingS
The more complex civilization gets. the more
burdenSOme it becomes, until we are tain to run
away III any direction from the tread-mill
which we have built for ourselves. Take, for
instance, the single item of the supply of food
10 our human necessities. Plenty Is the first
essential: then we must have variety and deli
cacy, then line ware from which to eat and an
experienced servant to care for it as well as to
prepare the meals; other retinementS are grad
ually added, until the performance OF satisfy
ing hunger amid plenty becomes q feat of Or
ganzatlon, cooperation and execution, not at
all inferior in difficulty to the original problem
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finally comes to this, that there Is more dis
treSs over the failure OF the domestic to scrub
the silver or brush up the crumbs than there
would once have been over the absence of the
dinner entirely. Perhaps 1t is still truer OF ap-
parel that the demands OF fashions impose on
this generation more labor and yexatiOn than
the weaving and home manufacture of gar
mentS did upon the celebrated grandm0thers.
This tendency of civilization to complicate
rather than simplify our lives should be resisted
at every turn. Let us be sure that these mod
ern 'c0nveniences" are not traps to impose
some new and embarrassing letters, quite
different from the opportunity for enlarging
life which Is anticipated from them. Keep the
necessities OF life well within bonds and find
something outside OF them, of a more ennobling
character, for all the leisure which can be made
1t IS very easy to I'LL up leisure with clancy
work" and "loafing" and imagine oneself tired
from mere absence OF exhilarating mental
EFFORT or personal experience outside Of the most
ordinary selfish ways of life.
1t is sometimes a good moral discipline to
think over ones burdens, separate the real and
the necessary from the fictitious and the need
leSsly assumed. The value OF the practice goes
beyond personal life into public affairs. The
difficulties of public problems arise more from
manufacturer obstacles to Improvement and
reform than from real ones, however real the
former may sometimes be made to appear
lSl9 inGheh Republican.
BISMARCK's VIEWS OF ENGLISH Statesmen
Some OF the most interesting and not least
characteristic judgments of Prince Bismarck
view OF English statesmen. Whenever come
TO close quarters with the English government
and feel its pulse the more am struck with its
complete want OF systematic and consistent
ideas. They wayer, and you find that there has
been an election or q meeting or newspaper
article which has thrown them into panic. 1t
is just the same whether Lord BeacOnSield or
Mr.. Gladstone is Minister. No Turkish PashaS
are more afraid OF the Sultan than are these
English Grand NHierS OF public opinion. and,
unfortunately, this Sultan IS not less capricious
or less uniformed than the other" Some one
having observed that Lord BeacOnSfield was a
great party leader and that Mr.. Gladstone was
great financier. the Prince added: " IL Lord
BeacOnsfield really deserves the reputation he
must lead his party much better than he does
his country, and ii Mr.. Gladstone's finance is so
admirable 1t must be conducted upon very
different principles from those or his foreign
pO!icy."-t Load0n World.
CANDIDATES for employment as teachers in
the san Francisco public schools are compelled
TO undergo an examination. Printed questions
are given to them simultaneously, and they are,
in theory, made to write out the answers with
out previous special preparation. 1t now trans
pireS that copies of the questions have been
given beforehand to such candidates as employed
a certain tutor to prepare them for the exam
nation. The price was $780,
ANOTHER FIRE in the great flour mills at Min
neapoliS, having the same origin as the pre-
yiOus very disastrous one-an explosion OF the
impalpably fine flour dust In the air-must
cause fresh alarm to the milling and insurance
interests. Upon the occasion OF the former fire
its cause was Investigated with some patience
and fair degree OF scientific accuracy and
While 1t was pretty distinctly ascertained that
such dust was produced commonly In mills OF
modern construction, especially those that were
run on the ''high milling system, and that the
danger Of its being igni1ed by contact with fire
and then exploding was quite serious no eIe i,
tive measures have since been adopted to avoid
fire. though not causing SO heavy a loss as thf
first, brings the subject up again and enforce.
its claim to energetic treatment
sEReplying to query why Mobile oshoult
not Get the $100,O0 prize in the IOuiSania lot
terry this time,n the New Orleans Democrat saws
! because the winning number will not be In tn,
| wheel"
eE-A commission, composed of EXPERTS. will
| meet in Berlin during the Easter holidays &
| decide on the measures to be taken for the com
| pulsOry teaching of drawing in the highe
schools.
TEA curious petition has Just been laid he
| fore the municipal council at MarSeilles beggi \
| that the clergy may be forbidden to sorna Nh
] death KEEL every Friday In commemOratton q
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