Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-05-01
Sometimes fine feelings are hurt by

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Sometimes fine feelings are hurt BY
no greater barbarity, than that which is
contained 10 a joke. People with fine
feelings are seldom able to take a joke
and you will hear them relating with an
injured accent, and as serious ac-
cusation. the merest bit OF nonsense
some one may have flung Off atrandom.
Even at the most common OF social
gatherings-wha. we may call home
gatherings and which We take great
pleasure in attending, such as qulltings,
carpet-rag servings &C., you must be
very careful and not crack joke" or
throw a ball for YOU may disturb the
equilibrium Of some one endowed with
fine feelings.
There are parents, too, who are so
wonderfully endowed with fine feelings
that nothing please them. Every thing
their children do must be severely crltl-
cised. and scolded about. Mothers in
the house are continually fnding fault
with their daughters bred was not
knead enough, the pies are too sweet,
too rich or too poor-thisiis out OF place
and that is out of place, from morning
until after night it Is one continued
thunder storm. Fathers on the farms,
Or in whatsoever business engaged,
think that nothing is properly attended
to. unless they attend TO it. They give
their sons 10 opportunity to gain
practical education. The sons are
given the drudge wOrk--are held as so
masy servants and when they make
misstcp, their father, instead OF point
ing out the mistake in a loving fatherly
manner. instead Of giving them some
GOOD, wholesome advice. and words o
cheer. will, at the time give them a
severe chassisement. and scold about u
for six mouths or more afterwards. The
result is that their children will soon
drift into that spirit OF Il don't care
or be driven away from home. where,
having lost all confidence in man, ana
naynsno care for SELF they ireque tly
end their lie in the poor house. in the
penitentiary, by suicide or on the
yallows. All the result Of the fine
feclin.s, the lad tempcrs, OF Their
parents.
There are fine feelings which express
themselves in exceeding irritation at
moral and Intellectual differences OF
opinion-fne feelings bound up in
questions Of faith and soundness OF
doctrine. having taken certain moral
and theolosical views under their special
patronage. and holding all diversity OF
Judgment thcrcfrom a!personal offence.
rhe people thus afflicted are exceed
lnclv I'm comfortable folk 10 deal With,
and manage to make those around them
uncomfortable ; for as a general rule
they have n very poor conception oi
faith and Christian theology. You
hurt such peoples fine feelings so con-
tinually and so unconscously that you
might as we'll be living in "a regin OF
steel traps and spring guns. aud set to
walk blind fold among pitfalls and
water holes" It's an every day oe-
currence tor Us to express an opinion
upon some topic. without attaching
much ifany particular Importance to IT,
but the consequence is. we trample
upon the fine feelings that oppose II,
and unless we wish 10 have Il quarrel
we must retract or apologize. As ithc
worst temper generally carries the day,
and as hne feelings are only bad Ten
pers under another name, we very
probably do apologize; and SO the
matter ends.
Other people show their fneness OF
feelings by the impatience they exhibit
under pain. and the tremendous grley-
E ance they think it that they should
suffer as others, they complain so much
more than others. These are the peo-
pie who are great on the theory OF
nervous differences, aud who maintain
that the impauencc under pain means
an organization like an Aeollan harp
for sensibilty. The Oldest part OF their
nature is the contempt these sensltlyes
have for other persons patience and
endurance. aud how much more refined
and touching they think their own SEN
sbil.ty. But this is characteristic OF
humanity all through, the masquradlng
OF evil under the name Of good, being
one of the saddest facts Of an imperioc ct
nature anda confused system Of morals.
evil, lie thou my good,'
Is their system of morals. II all
things showed their faces Without dis
suise. we should have fae feeling S
placed under the category OF bad tc1lpers,
aud the world would be richer by just
20 much addition OF truth.
AMICUs.
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