The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-02
Filgety People.

tWigS to make a bed. In like manner
the perpetual motion of the tidgety man
suggests a previous stage of existence,
before the process of evolution had
changed his ancestral weasel or cavy
into the prevailing human likeness.
We say fidgety man advisedly, OBJ
seryation showing that men are far more
given to fidgeting than women Merry
Gus persons are byeno means necessarily
tidgety, while tidgety persons have been
heard to declare that they had no nerves.
Your true tidget cannot keep still save
when asleep. A novel, for instance,
may seem to capture his consciousness
completely. Presently finger will
escape captivity. and begin to scratch
the book cover, hand will steal out of
bondage to play fantastic tricks with the
paper-knife, ayleg will swingsitself. ora
foot wag in its slipper.
At table the tidgety person upsets the
spoons, wreaks its restlessness upon the
salt, and with napkin-rings and forks
displays INSTRUCTED constructive powers.
In the parlor he disturbs the sequence of
your argument by twisting up small
curl5 of paper 10 fire at the CRATE. Or he
walks up and down the room, avoiding
certain figures of the carpet, as DR..
johnson used to avoid the cracks in the
sidewalk. Or he successfully balances
in his hand all the small moyables on
bookcases or shelves. There are both
monotony and variety in his incessant
movement, and each is more exasperat-
ing than the other.
We admit the existence and even the
general distribution of the fidgety wom-
an. But we maintain that she is less
pervading. less obtrusive and less fla
grant than the rnaft Of the species. Per-
haps it is because girls are, taught from
infancy to CONCEAL their feelings perhaps
because they are more ptInetilieus in
forms of behavior perhaps because their
hands are sthooled to al sorts of grace
full uses, that they Acan usually 3" sit
straight and keep STILL" as children are
told TODD by way of penance, -esI
We have no doubt that crochet ool,
aud worsted-needles are powerful com
ductors to carry of that superfuous ele-
ment, Whatever it be, which otherwise
difluseS itself in mere senseless motion.
81 But anv dentistor doctor will bear wit
ness that women endure pain with far
more fortitrlde that men, far oftener
keeping down all expression of suffering.
And the same capacity of self-controI
keeps their hands folded and their feet
quiet, when the impulse to fidget has
quite .oVerpowered the weaker will OF
man. ..5 a
Nay, there is no doubt that the habit
of fidgeting exhibited by their lords and
ctar-y 4
Moral turpitude is nothing to it. To sit
by. day after day, evening after evening,
and make no sign, when the man whom
one has sworn to love, honor and obev
tumbles the smoothhess of the maya
zines, dog sears the corners of the books.
stirS-up strife among the various tribes
that inhabit the work basket, spins the
scissors around his index fin gar sffty
times in Succession, IS to BE & riidrtyr1 by
fle pang without the palm. But Tie
nianheho is capable Of fid5eting i. il
Notwithstanding, and the wise
Nfsrefraina fHoin Auseless admonition
Amas snt renlely should beayith-
These s o,se Nj, a sortsof mora
hdgetiness, and ID this offense are usually
more teepl ST eped than men, Some
nraes, though not always, physical re st.
Rssness is the outward and sfsible 81 an
ef moral fnssip But the latter vice
Nwaas puts a. Efae form of Il Firtue. III
bay E1aSq lafsa Il is the. spiIItofs punetn-
Hity sseV mo clock break fast bel dc
Ehc misfwinter rude, the mistfes of The
house, esnsh in hand win poke abdat
aksixssshiadeEias ' the eeok,r-aist,lrbi1lg
tho piecitns last nal, of hen. spouse; il
not pfofane lfers H. fbcrofhif1g the III
elting-eaalse of profanitythat IS in others
and all that q, half-prepared meal NAV
pe hall served fwenty, saiautes beforesit
y needed IN the sacred name,of prompt
hess.1 "A witty writer used to declare
That if he were' sentenced to be hanced
a ten, hisswife would rouse him, at i've
with the admonition, "fhomas, Thomas
4 You don't make haste, Won will be too
ate. = And that excellent lady was but
one of a large, sisterhood. = sr j
Sometimes The ffemals idget finds her
housekeeping a Sufficient instrument OF
{ torture: .s1we@er three people invited 10
dinner make her life an intolerable bur
sSlens anything sbossM 20 wrong, Ii
the roast shota l BE oyerdoae Or the Fl fish
raw. slie feels that she could never look
her guests in tile face again. Visitors
Z staying in the house area still heasier
eress, possibilities of-dolnestic failare
being iilde6Hitely suultlplied Prase1ltly
the pleasant habit o. hespitalitv faiis
altogether (the husband thin lsing Il moi
worth the perpetltal fret it costs, and
all the family,are the, losers, :,
r. Perhaps the most wearing manifesto
ton of moral fidgetiness. is. exhibited by
the fidgety MOTHER From the first coli
of her first baby to, the last headache OF
I her last betrothed son under the paternal
roof she has seen the grim spectre OF
death lurking in the background. She
can not bear to give her boys guns, on
Let thcuf join ! gynnasiurn, ~ 81 allow
tlieaI boa s, oreYen permit skating ever
deep water. for sfear of fatal conse
squences. Her girls are coddled and
shoused and restricted, lest they should
be Slain by the touch Of the north wind.
She is~neNer happy~ when the children
arsstnIt ofshe SIGH &C and, as "a conse
Il uep g. they ara sci iom b al,pv " hen in
g. She fidgets about their dress Stleir
6f 'fcs, their amusemepts, their seum-