The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-06-11

BY KATE THORN.

Ie 1t is one of the shortest words in
It the language.
II 1t is word in common use, and
yet it is the hardest word to speak
in the whole English vocabulary.
J, 1t often requires more courage to
. say it than it would to walk up to
, the cannon's mouth.
The young man who is starting
out in life wants to learn to say no,
and to say it in such a manner that
: all who hear him will know he
means it. fh"-
| When he falls into the company
OF few good fellows, and the intoxi-
eating wine>bottle is glowing red in
the light of society and good fellow
ship, he wants to say no when it is
offered for his drinking. And when
he is jsered and ridiculed for his
Puritanism, as probably he will be,
he wants still to say no, and say it
with the proud selfrespect which
every man should feel when be puts
Satan behind him.
He wants to be able to say no
when he is tempted to dress better
than his means, and to borrow
money from his employers till to do
it with. And he wants 10 say it
with an emphasis which shall make
itself heard and felt all over the es-
tablishment.
Setting aside all moral and Chris
tain considerations, and looking at
the thing only in a temporal light,
it pays to say no at the right time
No man feels any better for drink
ing champagne, and getting up in
the morning with a raging headache,
and cross enough to split all creation
up into kindling wood The pleas>
ars of being drunk, if it is a pleas
ure is more than Cancelled by the
wretched sensation which comes af-
ter debauch, for if man feels half
as bad as he looks during the inter
esting process of SOLDERING off, ho
must be subject of sympathy for
men and angels.
He wants to be able to say no to
propositions innumerable. He must
say note betting, and gambling, and
lottery tickets, and host of small
vices which besets us all, and he
wants to be able to say no TO sewing
machine agents and tree peddlers,
and lightning rod men, and pretty
girls at church fairs who have pin
and tides for sale, and he
wants to say no to the came pretty
girls who dote on ice-crean, and
have such winning ways of looking
into the windows ofresteraunts, and
admiring the CANCEL cake, and con-
fectioneries in glowing terms.
The young man wants to be able
to say no when he gets married, and
it is proposed to have ''mother" or
Aunt Jane to live with us"
off he wants domestic peace, be
and his wife had better strike out
on their voyage alone. 1t takes two
or three years for a young couple to
get used to each other, and to be-
come recenciled to a few hard facts.
She has to meet and conquer the
dreadful discovery that Augustus,
whom she thought related to the
gods, is only mortal after all, and
a mortal who likes hot doughnuts,
and shirts fully supplied with but
tons, and who would just as soon
put his boots on the sofa pillow
as not 'r
And he has to learn that the angel
be led to the altar, whom he fancied
could exist on ambrosia, if seasoned
with love and sympathy, needs a
good deal of corned beef and Goldfish
to keep her in spirits. And these
facts cannot be properly learned if
mother or aunt Jane be there to in
terfere and offer suggestions. Young
people must fight out their battles
alone, and the less help they have
the sooner the strife is over. +.
Finally the young man wants to
learn to say no to whatever his con-
science disapproves, and to stick to
It, and his life will be better and
aappier for doing it.