The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-13
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CULTURE AND SWINE EVERY
WHERE.

i DITCH leel tnht tne uoyS VI NOW ercs-
land are not badly of, shut up safe, each
one In his own cask, with nothing to do
but take what is offered, whether it be for
his physical or mental good. So situated
their faults are not placed upon the outer
world. To all appearances they are quiet,
well-behaved youngsters, who never make
faces, call names, pull hair, or do anything
but absorb food aud learning, and grow
and develop into that higher life, that up.
per stratum, rather that topmost layer, for
which all boys yearn; that gratifying, soul.
satisfying period In which they may don
long .skirted coats and stiff-rimmed hats
and be called MEN.
Ofcourse, probably every boy of them
does scowl trighttully and may even call
his preceptors ring.talled balloons. But
then, as before intimated, nobody knows it
but himself; therefore, nobody is annoyed
by it.. Not so is it on this continent. The
foibles of some of us are painfully apparent
at times. Witness recent communications,
Ideal" and otherwise, in The BULLETINS
columns, by which we judge that the
CREME DE LA CREME Of Cairo is considera-
bly, sgitsted. The agitation seems to cur.
die it, too; or was it already sour and ready
to be churned, just like ordinary creami
For ideally intellectual persons to reach
such condition is quite astonishing and
their present. perturbed state tends to disa.
buse rustic minds Of the idea that "educa-
tionsl advantages of high order" are SO
very elevsting, after all.
For example, professors of music from
abroad induct scientific method Of man
aging your lips in singing; and no sooner
do you begin to rival flock of mocking.
birds, than along come elecutionists to furth-
er drill your vocal chords. This last rem
i@rs your articulation distinct, clear and
pleasing to cultivated ears, and as a result,
you ali can settle your grocers' bills in
chest-tones deep enough for bsss-drnm
and order soda water, RASPBERRY flavor
with Trolling thrill that would do erred
it to snare drum. These advantages
and many others, and yet-some of you
are not happy.
Why this ecstasy Of unblissfu!ness among
the chosenl Have they become faint at
heart upon realizing the distance their frai
parachute, so tenderly fashioned, has blown
from the great balloon of eastern culture2
And do they moan because adverse breezes
dropped il 80 far into the barbarous west2
No doubt the pretty prattle about life
work, the molecular system, susceptibility
Of education, the subjective objective capa-
billlies of mind and the intensely utter
ineffability OF delight derived from perusing
Thoresu and Emerson, all lose an apprecia-
BILE incandescene this far from the transcen-
dentalism of the fountsin-head
Hence the complaints of the lack Of east
ern culture, eastern refinement and eastern
breadth OF intellect. What are those con-
crete attributes2 OF what import is that
word easternl Is there something peculiar
y edifying in the "eastern" model search
the lexicons in vain for definitions Of that
sort of refinement and breadth; the poor
benighted compilers evidently thought
with me, that refinement is refinement, ir
respective of locality, among the truly re-
fined of really broad intellect. Yet we
can not we'll deny the existence Of what we
hear of on all sides.
Yes, there must be something decidedly
peculiar about culture that allows tho
roughly educated, accomplished girls of
high social standing, to firt and elope
with their fathers coachman, and enact
romances with BARRIERS and news.boys.
There is slight difference, to put it mildly,
between the sort of refinement that allows
western feet to be shod with goet-skn or
cowhide, and the variety that impels the
eastern pedal extremities to spuru such un-
tutored stuff for comfortable slippers and
shapely buskins made of the skins of the
animals INTELLIGENT ones-slaughtersd at
Tewksburg almshouse.
One man takes upa claim in certain
portion of Dacotah another buys in a par
ticular county OF Florida; third finds it
possible to reconcile his wife to living in
Wisconsin or Michigan. Why3 Because
some families from the east, consequently
Of the required culture, had gone there be.
fore them. Therefore lite in Cairo, tor the
same reason, should not be insupportabe
large number of the citizens having i'm
migrated from the same classic region, OF
thcreabouts. OF this number there are
those Of charming manners, delightful hos
pitality, GENUINE culture, refinement and