The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10
For the Democratic AdrOcdt
SENSITIVENESS.

! Some Ancient thought that the person
who would discover remedy for wander
ing thoughts, would do a great service to
mankind and | have often wondered that
safe and sure remedy, in the medicinal
line, has not been advertised by some Of
our universal nostrum makers. There Is a
luxury at times in loosing every swaddling
tie of thought, and allowing it to roam
wherever it will, and gather treasures
wherever it may Bold and daring are its
flights it goes upward where the heavenly
dare not look, downward where the living
would not gaze, forward where no human
eve has looked, and backward as far as ex
ternal thought can reach, and it often re-
turns from these flights and momentous
journeys, bringing back to our hearts
beautiful and noble offerings sometimes,
they are vain and worthless, and sometimes
they are buried sorrows, which | would
not again have uncofhned, and they bring
the burning tear and heaving sigh, which
sympathy and time had washed away
again they are gifts, pure and precious as
the wing of Time can bear, or the cup of
memoary hold. Childhoods home! there
is tie in every heart that will awaken at
these words. Coming forth from the re-
straints of early years, man steps out into
the world, proud, self-relying, full Of ex-
pectation, to build his own fortunes. And
woman, too, may mingle in the fashionable
circles, and you might judge from the
proud curl of her lip, and her haughtiness,
that her heart was cold as an icicle, yet
will a word, kind glance, d strain OF
music, send back her thoughts to early
scenes, and she will retire from that
fashionable crowd to weep alone over
cherished memories, and renew her earnest
hope, that her youthful home may be also
her last resting place. We fear the sweet
and gentle maiden is not appreciated and
loved as she should be; not as in the good
old times, when simplicity of manners, and
truth of heart were more than all things
else The idea of the present age is to
follow up the most snowy and attractive
lady; to promenade with her the Broadway
of kindness; instead of seeking the lanes
and sidewalks, the humble abodes of want
and sorrow with that sweet childlike girl
of heaven, who, unseen of the world, visits
the widows and fatherless in their dis
tress, wipes away the teary sorrow, and
gives the garment of loveliness for the
one of heaviness. There is class of
people in the world, and the class is
not small, who are always ready to
imagine themselves wronged or insulted,
They seem to be ever looking out for
something of the kind and all the time
hold themselves in position like certain
species of birds, prepared to meet the at
tack from whatever quarter it may come.
They are seriously sensitive on this point,
and the mind is moved by it till it becomes
morbid and diseased, and the slightest
touch causes it to quiver like an inHamed
nerve. They imagine ofense where none
was thought of, and presently put on a
frown of resentment and are ever ready to
retort. A careless word, verbal or written,
to which we are all liable, is misconstrued
into an insult, though perhaps it had not
the least allusion to them-and at once
fying into passion they set to work to
repay the imagined insult by inficting a
very serious injury on the unconscious IN
dividual. Now such people are very un-
comfortable personages to deal with, or to
come in contact with in anyway-it is
always dangerous to utter word without
very careful previous deliberatlon.-
Every thought must be weighed before 1t
is spoken. Such individuals not only
makes themselves disagreeable, but ridicu-
lous in the eyes of all others. There are
those who seeing how easily such fdgetty
bodies can be put into commotion, admire
to stick them, and see them sputter and
hop about. The right way, therefore, is
by dignifed demeanor, to let these and
all others know that they have no such
mower over us. This will command re-
snect is. G.