The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-01-03
American Good Nature.


! One great aim OF American life Is
labor saving Wherever the mechnn-
tsni by which mans wants are to be
snnpl'ed consists In part Of hdman boz
lngs, the trouble Of getting Il TO work.
AMI nsequently the advantage OF DO
inc without, is enormously greaterthan
ia England In such cases. therefore,
submission becomes prudence, and sub
mission generates patience or good ma
turc. Yon cannot command so much
human machinery; and the consequent
C mplance with the resulting NEON
vonicnccs is sometimes interpreted ny
hasty persons as q result OF wicked
! oal6u.y. Take. for example, those
large Ii tes which were formerly peeul-
far 10 America. You are forced, said In
Ggnant travellers fresh from European
conf, rts. T. bc mere number Instead of
be,np the ob.oct OF personal attention;
and This illustrates the tyranny OF q ma.
'ority and It's hatred for individual pc
cuharltles. No such sentiment need DO
inferred. Whore every ody eats Ike
! hii neighbors. eats at the same tmo,
and submits TO Uniform regulations,
there IS IN en- rm Us economy OF labor.
| Two or three walters can serve oil the
guests ut q table d hote where, II each
man wishes Tor separate waiter to al
| tend to all his wants lust rs the wants
are ielt. q dozen would be insufficient.
The same principle is equally visible in
all the other arrangements which are
most obvious 10 a traveller Tie In
g,ish traveller. accustomed TO any
number Of porter, aud z ards and SUI
perintendents, IL disguised when he
i!nds n such array OF dependent
officials, and when he Is expected to
facilitate arrangements b. submitting
To do what every body else is doing, and
finds that neither tips nor obiurgations
are dreaded or expected. The readi-
ness with which lrenchmen form q
gucae on appropriate occasion has often
been mentioned as q proof Of the na-
,ional intelligence and courtesy. In
America the traveller is always forming
Queuc% be finds himself constantly
obliged to fall IN with some such spon.
taneOus arrangement, the final cause Of
which Is the saving OF all the elaborate
personal machinery SO easily provide
where labor is cheap. He frets and
fumes al the inferior quality of the ac'
eommodaton provided. and Is half
edited and half.sc andgllzed by thegood
nature OF the habituated The good
nature means, in fact, the habit OF sub
hitting to inconycn ences caused by tht
Independence OF your interiors; 1t IL the
quality deyelopol In 4 bachelor in cham
beers who 10 bulled bya slalternIy Iaun
dress aud despi ed for his tameness b.
the comfortable monarch OF q domest
cstab ishnent We do not presume 4
say how far this habit Of Remuneration
enters into the Indifference with whic
Americans too often accept politics
scandals and grievances, or the too cas-
forgiveness which they extend 10 var
Gus evil doors Neither do We ask hoy
far IL Is compensated by q 'yantages
the Ella ses " hose services are in d,
mani We simply observe that III
hn " traveller often assigns some occu
working Of democratic pr,n 'iples as th
cause Of what 10 simply due TO the scare
ity Of labor. In country where tn
raw material OF social machinery Is S
donr and 30 apt to di'pcr.e in o its cor
stitHcnt atoms, one learns 10 accept tn
alternative OF doing without, aud takn
deprivation AS easily rs. one can, b'
cause 40 amount OF scoldng will lead
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