The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-07-01
Thoughts, Serious and Facetious,
Incident Thereto.
Tho Day rs Viewed from Many stand
Points-The Spartan Mother-"Yonng
America" Let Loose : Tho Con-
ventional Picnic.
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1AWeAA bone OF theiree-born ca
gle there is no day in the ealendarfraught
with so much and SO diverse interest.
There is no use talking, the Fourth oil
July double-discounts any thing In tho
line OF holiday yet familiar to the
American mind. 1t is on the Fourth Of
July only that the American heart makes
its most formidable demonstrations oil
patriotism and Hshows up what itean do"
And the American heart by the way-not
to speak boastfully--is capable OF consid-
cradle. All it wants is a chance; and that
chance the Fourth affords.
The Fourth presents as many different
phases as the moon. according to preiu-
iices, favorable or otherwise, through
which tits observed, and these depend large
" upon the age, nerves and proptrty in
volvsd OF the person conducting the OBJ
servation. Some, 1t must be confessed, do
not possess that patriotic spirit which
should temper their Judgment. Many, it
is possible, look upon the national day as
n necessary evil-as grievous as the re-
turn OF a Iady's birthday afterforty; some
hail it's approach as the harbinger oil ex-
auisite delight-the glad tidings oil great
Joy; while many. it is probable, diligently
strive to persuade themselves that it is n
blessing in disguise, deluding themselves
with the ianciful idea that somewhere in
this holiday there turks an indescribable
pleasure which only the continuous .'fiEs'
- ,a.-..:L.tf "a thar d;atra ctin0 arenta
prevent them from discovering. To such
as thus make chimera OF Fourth OF July
Joys, it is scarcely necessary to remark
that their expectations are never realized;
the delusiye vail Of powder smoke and sui
phurous odors scarce ever rises sufficiently
to reveal the hidden joys or dispel the
illusion.
To those who look upon this glorious
anniversary merely as an aggravated
outbreak OF feeling and fire-crackers, it is
probable that no class is more conspicu-
GUS than mothers. The regulation Ameri-
can mother, it may be said without ex-
aggeration, looks upon the Fourth as a
terror sort OF epidemic of punk, pow
der and disfigured small-boys; or an i'm
personated destroyer OF youth, sizzling
with hot breath and red rockets, going
about with "nigger- chasers," and hor-
rible gun-wads, seeking small-boys to de-
your. The average females conception Of
the instruments OF destruction used by
this -exterminator, it can not be de-
MED, are somewhat vague; she does not
know whether it be punk or gun-wads
that constitute the most formidable
demolishers OF boyish thumbs and ears,
or whether it be "squibs" or torpe-
does that most insiduously puncture
the youthful flesh and despoil the
comeliness OF the childish coun-
tenance, but she has an idea that
any OF the fiery mediums through
which the exuberance OF the Young Ameri
can finds vent are wretched denominations,
likely to Ego off at any moment, and sh'
abhors them accordingly. In this, it must
be admitted with chagrin, the American
mother does not entertain that noble ant
selfshdevotiontoco country that actuatet