New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-14
THE LAZY MAN


The mere contemplation Of the movements OF
eS- President Cleveland last week was something
sufficient 10 tire lazy man more than following
10 trout stream for twenty miles and not getting
La nikble His actions certainly forever placed
him beyond the united support Of that growing
but unobtrusIye body. the Lazy Mems National
Association.
Mr.. Clevelands example OF industry is unpar-
a1eled. Time WAS when the ant was held up as
q model worker, and the bee was pointed out as
NJ insect usually quite actively engaged, but IL
u doubtful II either will compare favorably with
the ex-President Mr.. Cleveland was President
up 70 Monday noon. lie had held the Office and
done great deal Of hard work for four years.
When his term expired ct noon he entered pri-
vate life for the fist time In eight years. Il IS
presumable that he was kept quite busy Monday
afternoon and Tuesday preparing 10 leave Wash
ington. Wednesday was taken up with the trip
to this city and getting settled at his hotel
Where do we find him Thursday morning. TAX
ing o welLearned rest ?-overhauing his fishing
TICKLE and planning for next summers piseato-
Dial trip? No; he was in his law Office hard &C
work. and has been there every day since. This
10 the very essence of industry it is oerdoing
the ant; it outbees the bee The man with
happily little streak" Of laziness In him con-
templates such scene of industry as this and
retires 70 the nearest couch to snatch little rest
Mr.. Cleveland's course was. we suppose, COM
mendable-that is, great many people will say IL
was. IL win be cited as an illustration Of Ameri-
can enterprise and Hiking for hard work We sup
pose perhaps after al that t IL better 10 wear ont
than TO rust out-though there be many excel
lent men who will lie on their backs in the nyIt-
ing shade Of a large tree on warm day and
question this point. IL does seem rs IL Mr.. Cleye-
land might have been content TO have rested tho
remainder OF the week, ut least. and started In
bright and early Monday morning. Is there no
one left to sympathize with the cricket in the
old song concerning this frivolous insect and the
Woodworking, Puritanieal antS After AL Is not
the ant too industrious? Would not an occa-
sional vacation improve the busy bees temper?
The song.writer and the worthy instructor OF
youth may say all they choose Of our friends the,
ant and the bee but the fact remains that It
eannot be proved that they enjoy life more than
that amiable though INDECENT household visitor,
the blue.bottle fly. While the ant Is struggling
In the wrong direction with lump of clay larger
than itseh which IL has no use for In any direc-
ton, and the bee is flying furiously along
picket fence looking for picket blossoms the
bluebottie fly sits calmly on the window-pane,
lelsnrely braids his legs, and Is happy. We offer
the cricket our sympathy. Winter may have
found him poorly provided for, but he had had q
good time during the summer, It Is not oil ~
hfe 80 get no early In the morning and work hard.
This leads US TO say word for the lazy man.
Not the man who IL too lazy to do any work, bat
that happy individual possessed Of the strsals7
befon referred 10, lie is tho balance-wheel Of
society His calm, unrufied example holds hack
these rushing excited PERSONS who find fanlt IN
o loud tone Of voice because every year is act .