Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-05-09
CONFINEMENT.

the saving grace of contentnent, and words
uttered On this subject will upon this, as well
a. other occasions, fall on stony ground or
meet the sun along with the weeds and tares.
We shall not neglect the preachment, how
ever, but tread the paths of duty and fuihi
our humble mission as evangelizers Of the peo-
ple as near as we are able, that when We are
gathered to our fathers no man can point to
our grave and remark, that being harnessed
and carrying bows, we turned ourselves back
in the day of battle.
No man with a dscoatented mind was ever
happy for moment in his existence, and it is
impossible to surround him with sufficient Of
the Injuries and good things Of life to make
him feel on decent terms with himself and hu
manity.
Elect John Smith a Constable, and he be-
gins to want TO be Justice of the Peace; should
he succeed, he sets his longing eye and grasp
ing hand on something higher, and if he is
moderately successful in politics he has visions
(born of late suppers in which wine and SAL
ads 6gure), of the White House and the Pres
idential chair. Politics may be the profession
to which he is least adapted, yet he persues
the ienis Jtatuas over the dark stretching po-
ltical morass, and drags his wearied body
through the mire and brambes until his char
acter and fortune are swallowed up forever.
Had he been content with a small office, and
<ko AM for
ing, how different would his lot have been.
A disconnected woman is her own enemy,
and everybody's. She springs from the foam
Of the wash tub, and sets her heart on being
leader of fashionable society. She is not con-
tent with anything less than the top. When
she is yet poor she is laying plans to be able
sometime in the future to dress better than
anybody she knows, and wear moro jewelry.
With good figure and sometimes q passable
face, she sets cut in the world hunting up some
internal lunatic with enough money to cover
her deficiencies of breeding and education. and
boost her along in the world. She seldom fails
in finding him, and her pleasures and his nis
cries begin about the same time. Go where
she will, associate as she can and dress as she
sees fit, the odor of yellow soap and the recol.
leetions of the hot starch pan will be her COM
pany. Content with nothing that is comfort
ing, homelike or respectable, she climbs to the
highest point that her husbands money will
carry her. flaps her wings once or twice, crows
few times and disappears on the other side,
falling at particularly lively rate to the level
Of soap suds and starch again.
The moment woman becomes disconnected
with plain clothes the chances Of her reaching
= bad end begin to accumulate. Her husbands
income is but $3.50 month and she spends
couple of hundred in dress. The public nat.
urally surmiss that he is thief or she is
worse, and the wife wonders why it is that the
tongues Of the gossips cannot let her character
rest.
The fellows who loafed and thrived thou
sand or 30 years ago were the better off after
all. They lived in rude huts and all being
alike no man envied the architectural proper
tons of his neighbors' habitation. The wo-
men wore few clothes and in most instances
none at al, and extravaganza of fashion didn't
SoOs0 WAC sooSu VI uAsSousOAs w bh"W VIC
heart. They had no politics to bother them
and their circulating coin was nothing more
than pieces of bark and animals. The lack OF
dress was the prime cause of their content
ment; woman with an extra goat skin hang
ing about her loins didn't cause another to
ask her husband to be . defaulter to the ex
tent of Eve fortunes to get her = skin with an
additional goose feather stuck in the top. The
absence of politics kept the men content and
there being no religion, none strove to appear
better than their neighbsrs. Thus BY follow.
ing perfectly proper course of reasoning, We
come slap up against the logical conclusion
that 20 bs content We must dispense with
clothes, houses. money, politics and religion.
To heave them overheard all at once would be
quite serious matter, and in order to sxper-
in,snt slowly, We suggest the plan of beginning
1t either end of the list and loosing oar grip
on one thing ut time At one end you discard
your clothes and at the other your prayer book
As far a. We are personally concerned, our mod
esty would be apt to have . strong influence
over rs in deciding 80 important question.
The carrier will now take up his weekly col
lection. ..
SPEAKING Of General Grants administration
Senator Blaine saws General Grants admin