The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-26


English gentleman, you lose the sturdy
purpose which should animate you daily.
Remember that America is not England.
No one is born to titled greatness here, or
to any other greatness here; he who gets it
must achieve it, and he who cannot achieve
it in some form is of small consideration.
We have no idle class, and [ trust that we
may never have. An idle life is worth
less and unhappy life.
Never go to balls or parties in term time,
and avoid late wines and suppers at all
times they always injure the health, and
without health life has scarce a pleasure.
From his birth Samson drank neither
wine nor strong drink, and those who are
trained for the ring initiate his example.
During our late war it was conclusively
proved that those who drank water only
escaped disease and endured fatigue far
beyond the others.
[ cannot too strongly urge upon you the
importance of early retiring to rest. In
vestigations into the causes of longevity
have shown that early sleep and early rising
are among the chiefest reasons Of long life,
and science has revealed the fact that the
magnetic rays of the sun are widely differ
ent in the morning from those of the de-
clinging day. As the sun goes down, most
of the beasts and birds seek their place of
rest, many of the flowers and plants and
trees fold their leaves, and the large sun
flower, which looks towards the sinking
sun in the west, is turned to greet him in
the morning toward the east. As he ap-
proaches to usher in the day all nature,
from bird to flower, seems animated with
invigorated life Then the mind of him
who has had refreshing sleep awakes with
it's best thoughts, its wisest plans, its larg
est capabilities But this can come only
to him who has spent the midnight hours
in sleep. Sleep restores the nervous forces
of the exhausted brain, and the best con-
stitution will soon be shattered, and the
best mind will become unstrung if sleep is
neglected. 1t was justly called
.'sore labors bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great ature's second course,
| Chief nourisher at lifes feast
Third. That economy is virtue and that
extravaganza is vice never forget
You never see a man of forty who re-
GREETED his economy; you will see plenty
who mourn their early extravaganza.
Lavish expenditure never wins respect. 1t
may win temporary fatterers, who despise
the fool they fatter. Pay ever debt you
owe, but
Neither borrower nor lender be,
| For loan oft loses both itself and friend"
Let not your vanity ever tempt you to
spend money. English young men are
awake; they laugh at the foolish Americans
who are so lavish. Remember that your
hope, your pride, your life, is to be in
America, a country whose future is unim-
agined and whose greatness and power will
surpass any empire in the world. You are
to be part of it, and if you do not one
day act as ambassador from the greatest
republic that has ever been to the most
powerful and advanced kingdom in Europe,
you will fail of your possibilities and of my
hopes.
Do not listen to the twaddle about the
decadence of England, who is not in decay,
but in the full vigor of robust manhood.
Great nations do not commence their fall
until their morals are corrupted. As yet
England has a sturdy moral sense, courage,
and capacity for self elevation of her youth,
and she believes in God and truth and JUS
tice. She has many faults and weakness
es She is not moving forward with the
colossal power of this younger bolder, more
rash, and fearless America her civilization
is an advance of ours, but she has inherited
many prejudices coming down from old
centuries which retard her progress and
from which we are free.
l would deprive you of no innocent
pleasures; that is not pleasure which Injuries
the health, jades the mind, and makes you
feel meanly and weak and euequal to the
labor which is to fit you for manly life.
Study well whatever the college course
requires, and never say that this or that
will be of no USE All is of use which dis
ciplines and strengthens the mind When
training for boxer you strike the sand
bag, you would not tell the trainer that you
do not expect to fight sand-bags in life, and
hence you will not strike them now. You
lift weights to strengthen your hands; you
do dry work to strengthen the head and
remember that you must do it; no one else
can do it for you; as well might you get
some one else to strike the sand-bag or lift
the weight which was to strengthen your
muscle.
Duties well done every day, and Difficult
ties surmounted as they arise, grow easier
continually, and finally become lasting en-
joyments.
Never play cards for money. 1t is no
pleasure to win a fellow-students money,
and it is pain to lose your own. The habit
is always bad, and oftentimes fatal; never
acquire it.
Dress like a gentleman; never be peculiar
or fashy, but dress as becomes you, not as
becomes some one else. Never talk about
your expenses or your money, and never
be ashamed to live with economy; on the
contrary, be proud of it. Your business
now is to acquire knowledge, and you need
not be anxious to display yours, especially
to older men; but always try to learn of
them.
Never say to another what It would be
! unpleasant to have him say to you.
J Remember that good manners are OF
: great Importance Manners should be
J frank and easy, with dignity,
Avoid fawning, toadying ways as you
would the foul fiend. Never fawn to a
prince or swagger to a peasant Be cour-
teous and manly everywhere and to every
body.
Let your manner be quiet; nothing is
more underbred than furried address,
with face wrinkled all over with grinning
} delight.
| The countenance can express pleasure
J and welcome without idiotic contortions,
| and when these appear, whether in the son
of duke or draymen, they are intensely
vulgar.
You cannot have good manners in the
drawing-room if your habitual manner is
bad; the habit will betray you; let the
habit be always good
} Far better that you look frigid, even,
} than that you degrade your countenance
: with silly hilarity.
Be gentleman, feel like a gentleman
, and you will look and act like one,
/ Sometimes you will be neglected, and
, your vanity may feel wounded. Never let
this annoy you; be absolutely sure that in