Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-04

m ouse, to be content with the cheese. BLESSED
are they who the most nearly approximate
TO the timid plzciditv Of that small rodent,
for they shall be called the peacemskers.
But, through no fundamentally OF their
own, my lieges, the large maj DrIty OF them
have been endowed sith mental and emo
tionzl organism that impsrstiveiy demands
exercise of their fdoctiOns as the conditions
Of vitality above the brutes. R=verse the
cases, for the sake of argument, and observe
what a small proportion Of your life Is des-
icated to The groveling question OF diet! In
fact, the higher a man essays to climb on
the ladder OF greatness, the further he puts
from him, az , temptation TO grovl, the
base confederation OF "victualE and
drink" his diet is regarded a. mere
| NJ csssily for preserving the vital forces oil
| his higher organism IN good working order
| fuel, 80 it were, in the fire engine that IL to
| move the world by force OF Irresistible power
| up a stiff grade toward the summit OF prog
ress and enlightenment. He takes his VIC
| tusls and drink" en- peasant, then on agsin
| into The brisk, brs,zy, tTrsn outer world, mat
| is as thick with soui-stirrins and brain.
nerving projects az June sunbeam ls oil
! NOTES. Imprison him a week, give him the
| privilege of going from the nursery to the
| diuiug-room, thence to the parlor, with The
added felicity of staring out the parloi
windows TO note the breezy gsity OF foiki
out If doors, Cypress him with the necessity
for looking hilariousy happy and snTtelleC
~ilh enjoy meut, as soon as the well-knoWr
click of a latch-sey smites upon the ear, anS
then heaven help him, or, rather, HEAVIER
ne p those about hinl
Since the word b-gsn women have beef
clamoring for something beyond victual ant
drink a condition OF quiet. The die
furnished in the garden Of Paradise evel
fsiled to sllay that Unborn restlessness tina
comes of fsmishing heart and levers
brsia. And for this same ind, finite psrio
Of time men have been exclAiming agaIh'
he unreasonsbteness of that unreasonable
ness, and tssayirg TO feed them on the sweet
/ that cioy on the whipp, cres m and syllsnu
IF life, 80 croTnng delicsciss TO the vIctna
| sud drink which must bring content. Val
: effJrisl Acknowledge, manfuliy, that ,h-r
! are higher nerds, more ess-nusi ailm-E
that must be theirs before they sre quie
E Permit Them TO snare your IN eilectual leas
as we'll as your bread and meat. Let theI
feel as if they were aids add he'll
r meets TO you in your struggles WI
l. the problems OF If, and not =impl
I superiuteudeDts of your lsrderH Recngnii
= The absolute necessity for comp, esslDg son
n brightness and light aud ,yousness into Il
8 dai routine of her dull e1islencel EIpar
o the humble plea, "Give US this day Of
l. daily bread" into a broader measure
d liberality-give her each day her daily pc
+ lion Of sympathy, consideration and recre
0 lion, and my word for it, if she be a womi
e with her "victuals and drink" she ell q
II be found ambitious of willful starvation
y = Further historical research brings 60 zig
b the fact that "Mother Goose" of rhythm
It memory, was not a wom ans rights shriek'
70 Living, as she did, somewhere about I
e year 1897, she would have promptly be
g reduced 10 the condition of roasted goc
d if she had undertaken TO air any liber
n views on this subject in Massachusetts,, whe
3 she held forth, pouring into the ears of bat
< and of suckings, within the sacred precl nj
D. of the nursery, the profoundest rtfectio
lie and the most astute observations on men a
IT thinss, reasoning from cause to effect, wi
h a clearness worthy Of that great inductl
ID philosopher Bacon himself.
, MOTHER GOoSE