The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-19
TWELVE GOLDEN MAXIMs.
ON C9ESTANCY.

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thou mayest perform, so perform that
thou mayest preserve. Variability is
the badge of infirmity.
ON CONDUCT TOWARD A FRIEND.
Hast thou friend. use him friendly
abuse him not in jest or earnest conceal
his infrmities; privately reprove his er-
rors. Commit thy secrets to him, yet
with caution, least thy friend become thy
enemy and abuse thee Bishop Hall.
HOW TO USE PROPERTY.
So use thy property that adversely
may not abuse thee. If in prosperity
thy security admits no fear, in adver-
sity thy despair will afford no hope he
that in prosperity can fortell danger
can in adversely see deliverance.
ON SECRET ENEMIES.
He that processes himself thy open
enemy arms thee against the evil he
means thee but he that Ensembles him>
self thy friend, when he is thy secret
enemy, strikes beyond caution and
wounds above cure. From the first thou
mayest deliver thyself, from the last
good Lord deliver thee.
ON ANGER.
Beware of him that is slow to anger.
Anger, when it is long in coming, is the
stronger when it comes and the longer
kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
When fancy is the ground of passion
that understanding which composes the
fancy qualities the passion; but when
judgment is the ground, the memory is
the recorder and this passion is long re-
tanned.
ON LAW AND PHYsIC.
II. thou study law aud physic, endeav.
or to know both and to need neither.
Temperate diet, moderate and reasonable
labor, rest and recreation, with Gods
blessing, will save thee from the physi-
clan; peaceful disposition, prudent and
Just behavior, will secure thee from the
law. Yet, if necessity absolutely COM
pei, thou mayest use both they that use
either otherwise than for necessity soon
abuse themselves into weak bodies and
light pulses.
CHARITY ALLEGORIZED.
Charity lis naked child giving honey
to bee without wings. Naked, because
excuseless and simple; child, because
pleasant and comfortable; to bee, be-
cause bee lis industrious and deserving /;
without wings, because wanting and help
less. Ii thou deniest to such thou killest a
bee if thou givest to other thsn such
thou preservest drone.
ON DIET AND REGIMEN.
If thou desirest to take the best adj
vantage of thyself, especially in matters
where the fancy is mostly employed,
keep temperate diet, use moderate exer-
else, observe seasenable and set hours
for rest, and let the end of thy first
sleep raise thee from thy repose then
hath thy body the best temper, thy
soul the least incumbrsnce; then no
noise shall disturb thine ear no object
shall divert thine eye then, If ever, shall
thy sprightly fancy transport thee be-
yond the common pitch, and show the
msjorim of high invention.
ON COMMUNICATING NEWS
Let the greatest part of the news thou
nearest be the least part of what thou
believest. lest the greatest part of what
thou belieyest be the least part of what
IL true and report nothing for truth, in
earnest or In jest, unless thou know it,
or at least confidently believe it to be So;
neither il 1t expedient at all times or in
all companies to report what thou know
est TO be true sometimes 1t msy avail
thee IL thou seem not to know that
which thou knowest. Hast thou any e.
cret, commit 1t not to many, MGR to any
unless well known unto thee.
ON DRESS.
In thy apparel syoid profuseness, si,.
gularity and gsudiness; Let it be decent,
and suited to the quality of thy place
and purse. Too much puDctuality and
too much morosity are the extremes of
pride. Be neither too early In the FASH
ion, nor to long out of it,::nor too precise
" in II. What custom hath civilized
hath become decent until then 1t was
ridiculous. Where the eye 10 the jury,
the apparel 10 the evidence the body Is
the shell of the soul, apparel 10 the husk
of that shelI, and the husk win often
tell you what that kernel ID. Seldom