, 1884-06-10
NOT ALL ALIKE.
Mistakes Made by Those Who Think
the Human Raee a Unit.
Treat Less OF People in Droves and
Consider More the Individ-
uaI---From Diet to
Duty.

rae. H." in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Every human has its individual lot, con-
stitution, capabilities and compensations.
Not only its own eyes unlike any one else's
eyes, or, IL blind, its own conjectures of in
visible things; not only its own soul, which
must learn and suffer and grow in its own
way, but its own stomach, which has laws OF
its own; its own feet, whether small or large,
that will ache sometimes from tight shoes,
perhaps, or from rocks cutting their bare
coles, sometimes from a mountain climb of
miles. or, perhaps, from even three feeble
steps across n luxuriant rug.
CRAZY ON DIET.
"The cereals" shouts a food reformer,
Goods food for man. A diet OF rice, boiled
wheat, oatmeal, corn-bread is the only
healthy and proper no~urishment." Yes
But, my friend, l know people who cannot
digest any of these grains; they ferment,
and ~irritate instead of nourishing.
People should live on Eggs instead of
meat" another asserts. True. But, good
sir, l know n person who cannot digest an
egg, no matter in what manner prepared.
"Black pepper is injurious. Food should
be seasoned with red pepper always"
Exactly, but red pepper will give me the
cramp collie in five minutes.
Baked fish is most easily digested; fish
should never be fried" Yes; l might as
well swallow a billiard ball as a baked fish,
however delicate; yet fried fish does not
hurt me.
Rare beef and cold brown bread is a pre-
scribed diet for d~yspeptics. A man growing
worse on this food for three years, afraid to
take a bite of hot or rich food, at length de-
cided to die. and being Indifferent as to the
mode of exit, ordered hot soda biscuit, pork
chops and coffee. Found no inconvenience
from this meal, and living on pork and hot
bread entirely for six months, found himself
o far recovered that he could eat almost any
food placed before him. The stomach that
rebellei at beef and Graham seized gladly
upon pork and soda.
And yet people get wild over n hobby
which they imagine a prancing steed for the
world because it answers every purpose of n
live horse for them. People insist that
everybody shall live on Graham mush be-
cause it is good for some persons; that ills
can be cured by water, and therefore every
body ought to be pinned up in wet sheets;
that because they like checkers for an amuse-
ment, theatres should be closed and people
take recreation in a sensible way. 1 should
as soon stand guard in a churchyard for
amusement as try and find it in any game,
but need l insist that everybody else must
loiter among the tombs because | have tot
SHALL WE WRITE
There is an adage, What you do, do well,
or what is worth doing, is worth doing well.
There seems to be an impression that we'll
carefully-means necessarily slowly. Not at
all. The slowest are as often dull as correct.
One person cannot cut out a garment with
out an exact pattern, which must be labori-
ously pinned on and measured, while the
scissors pare carefully along the edge Of the
paper. Another person never uses a pat
tern, cuts rapidly, and by the eye alone, an
article quite as correctly as the precise and
pains-tnking copyist. What is the use of a
pattern il one does not need it'll And why
say that the copyist shall cut by the eyei
Rogers, the English writer, urged that per-
sons should write very slowly and seldom;
read it from time to time and copy often and
show to good judges" Miss Martineau in
sisted that the thought as first expressed was
preferable; that subsequent alteration, when
one was in a different mood and under differ
ent conditions, was injurious to the harmony
and spirit of written composition. She never
rewrote a line
George Eliot felt that no critic was as COM
potent as the author TO judge Of the matter
that had evolved from the writer's brain.
She refrained from a sight of the criticisms
on her books. What is the light rule, write
slowly, seldom and submit to many critics, or
lnPAAAI oAN 4 AhtIe IL
no rule. Each writer must be n law to him
self. One may write fresh, crisp, breezy
things, whose charm is their unstudied grace:
smoothed, remodeled and cut down to anoth-
er's standard, they lose their original merit
and become dull commonplace. We do not
need all the saplings for hoop-poles. Let a
few likely sprouts grow and fiaunt their
foliage, and bend their 1.-the backs under tho
weight of the merry boys in the woodland.
IN THE OF OLD SAWS.
Said an aged lady: "When l was young 1
was taught to think twice before 1 spoke. |
believe this is a mistake, and after a long
life l think that harm has boon done by the
repression which has become second nature.
l am sure my life would have been more
fruitful IL | had been allowed to speak out
the natural language of my heart, which
might be sometimes hasty, but never of do
liberate malice, or of set, doctored phrases.
/ have lost by my training my best thoughts,
| have failed in my happiest impulses,
have been cruelty wasteful, while careful to
to penuriousness. l have crushed the fra
GRANGE Of the hundred humble flowers, to
wait for tho slow blooming of the snowy
cereus, which opened majestically, only to
fail s~centless and ~fruitless at its birth"
The old saw, early to bed" etc., made
some men rich and left some poor. De-
frauded the boy who wanted to study by the
freight, while it suited the sturdy lad. who
drew inspiration from dawn and nature,
rather than from books and fagots.
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
We need, as a race, to treat less OF human
iy In droves, in classes, and give force to the
fact of individuality. Persons who are in
earnest, who think deeply and feel deeply.
are most apt to make this error. They see
only their own views, feel their own inspira-
ton, and at once proceed to force everybody
to see and feel what they indicate. There DO
a set of puppets that can be moved by the
thumb of any person who can wag the thumb.
But real mon walk usually without leading
strings, and resent being made to hop when
they want to doze in the chimney corner.
And yet, learned enthusiastics, reformers.
bigots, or whatever name they come under,
pound away with zeal on a million rolling
globules Of quicksilver, as IL they were one
horseshoe on the blacksmith forge. They
say-usualy women, very smart and savers
women, say this-"thatis aman's way. What
else could you expect OF a mani or course a
mar said that That is a mans tyranny
A man retorts, THAT is the woman of it,
with a sneer that does violence to his man
hood. Young men follow suit, and add,
THAT is just like a girl, . as IL every girl was
alike. every woman a Ounce, every man a
knaye, every Christian a cheat, every pris-
oner guilty, every bird a robin, and apples
were the only food.