Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
PEOPLE WITH wRISIs.
Demonstrations which Become Part
of our Character.

Beware Of the man who thinks n,
has none, for he Is the man most likely
to be permeated, saturated whith
whimsicalities.
Our whims become part Of our char.
acter, just as our virtues or vices; in
deed, with some Of us they become sc
prominent that they overshadOw every
thing else In our natures, and We would
not be recognized BY our friends II, like
Christian at the Beautiful Gate, we
should suddenly lose the burden, and
appear before them.
/ know q wOman-a noble, generous
hearted woman in most things-who
tips the scales at 200 pounds, whose
principal whim is that she is not 50 large
as she looks. Wherever she goes she is
the terror of the modiste. Her first re-
mark always, to new one, is to be sure
to remember that she is not so large as
she seems at first sight. She is contin-
ually changing, because, as she SAYS
they don't understand her figure, and
always make her look larger than she
is.
l know a man who fancies that his
early teachers spoiled first class artist
by not encouraging his school day carl.
catures. He never speaks of art and
artists without bringing up the thought
that many an embryo Raphael has been
killed by the frosts of disapproval. AS
he always supplements this assertion
with his own personal experience, it is
quite patent to his friends that when
he says many one he means particu,
larly the one who wears his shoes.
1 know another man so grotesque in
feature that his face would make good
illustration for a comic almanac or O
copy of Dickens, whose favorite whim
is that he bears great resemblance to
the illustrious Benjamin Franklin.
Never having crossed the path of any OF
the old statesman's heirs and acquaint-
ed them with his belief, he has lived to
a good old age. He derives great COM
fort from the statement of the mental
scientist who affirms that if two people
look alike it betOkens a similarity OF
mind. Difference in surroundings and
circumstances only have prevented his
attaining the learning and enfinence OF
franklin.
In the suburbs of a distant city lives
a CLlIHuIcSo Oiu COuplC WIN, WHcl past
middle life, suddenly became very rich
through the legacy of a relative. Their
previous life had been very simple and
narrow, as far as any knowledge of the
world outside the simple village life
was concerned but they Immediately
set to work to live as other moneyed
people do. The old lady took up the
study of the dictionary to improve her
conversational powers. The old gentle
man went to Europe, to Rome, and
proved good angel to the struggling
students, many of whom found an un-
questioning purchaser of their produc-
tons. He come home with the most
wonderful collections of statuary and
pictures, the most incongruous mass
one could imagine. He made his house
one vast picture gallery from the base
ment to attic. The large grounds about
the house he dotted with statuary, till
a stranger would imagine he was COM
ing to a cemetery when he first caught
sight of the cleaning marble through
foliage. Some of the results of the old
lays dictionary study have become old
in the stock of local funny
isms of the community. For instance,
a neighbor calls: "Good morning, Mrs.
B., is Mr.. B. at home?n Eyes, he is
out on the merandum pursuing Shakes
peare." Another time, in answer to
the same query: "Yes, he went out on
the lawn-to-to-pleander among the
shrubbery. Chambers Journal.