Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-01
You are healed" thereso fore you were

mann facture and rep ,ir all kinds OF tinware and
you are healed" therefore you wer
sick. Two whims make 6 humbug.
i Unfortunately for some people, thei
natures are congenitallv whimsical. Thei
loves and their hates are alike mer
whims. They grow terlibly jealous with
out reason, and that is q Whim. And a
last they blow out their brains on tn,
within that somehow that will set thing
right.
"Life must be whirn for such. people,
You are light-at least it is used up or
whims. Emerson wisely warns youne
people not to waste their force on trif1es
But whims are worse. They are the
breaking of the joints of the days. The
hours are dislocated. Ones deeds do moi
! know each other. But this does not pre-
vent the fact that very whimsical man
may be very good man. l know one
whose benevolent acts 90 in constant
succession. All his objects of tenderness
are whimsically selected. He does not
plan, nor even know an hour before his
acts, what he will do, but to be selfish he
can not. Dickens, in David Copper
field" drew one of the finest of such por-
traits in David's aunt, who, however,
finally proves to have settled down to one
grand life purpose.
Did you ever 60 to a picnic, madam?
OF course; every woman goes to picnics!
Can you tell me why it is that at pic.
mic woman never enjoys herself, nor
let any one else enjoy himself, but must
keep some one skipping about to wait
or TO ftvy
sorts Of trifles? "Simply because men
have whim that it's pleasant to be Or
dered about by pretty woman" My
opinion is that is amistake both ways.
1t is false understanding that ia thus
established between the sexes. The re.
suit is whimsical matches, that lead to
mischief. "Would you bring everything
down to insipid prosew Pose, my
friend, is not insipid. There's the mis-
take. A good deal of life's poetry
is insipid. I'd give more for one line of
honest sentiment and good sense than
for a basket full of sentimentalisms.
Love is sadly honey-combed with the
worm of discomfort and misunderstand-
ing. Our young people are taught that
falling in love" is the right thing. Now
we never suppose that it will rise to fall
in any other direction. Reason and
common sense are thrown away in the
care of the affections, and whims are
made the governing principle Nine
marriages out of ten are the result not
of sober good sense, but of whims. Then
comes the quarrel and the divorce. Free
love is continuation of the whimsey.
It is swapping one whim tor fifty whims. |
ALT an having made such fool of him
semonce, proposes to cure it by making |
a fool of himself fifty times.
Now you are preaching. You never
did have any sympathy for peoples
weakness" Exactly, madam. You
would call love weakness. In nv
judgment it is, and it should be a
strength. and not whimsical strength, !!
but permanent, unyielding power.
But as matters 60, all the ideal of lite
is in the honeymoon; then comes the
reduction of whims to hard matter OF
act. swell, for my part, professor, l
think married men never get over their
A man is never happy with
'ut love and something to love. If
nome does not furnish it he will seek it
elsewhere.
snow, professor, permit me to ask you
WY you tOlO my daughter Bella Edith
hat she was full of whims7" These are,
lbove all others, intellectual whims, my
lear woman. People go butterfying
bout at brain work. Slipping a drop
lere and a drop there, and really get
ing no clear comprehens;on of any
hing. "Well, so long rs the honey is
nade"-butterhies do not make honey.
they are nothing but gaudy creatures,
hat are the mothers of worms. Now,
hese intellectual butterflies are never
ducated in any proper sense. The,
oore they study the worse for them.
hey had better have one hour of steady,
sreful observation than q year in the
vhlm-chasing. It's within for botany;
ben whim for music, and whim for
and a whim for q dozen
1ore things, and not one of them mas
cred or comprehended.
Thank you, sir. But my daughter
hall study what she likes I'll not !;
rive her to disagreeable work. If she'll 1.
My take to books it's all one to me-" I
book-worm is bad enough, my good
oman, but q book-butterf1y is abomina- I
le.