The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-22
PEOPLE WI. ~ WHlMs.

Those Who Fancy All Sorts Of Things.
More or Less complimentary to Self.
Beware of the man who thinks he
has none, for he is the man most
likely TO be permeated, saturated with
whimsicalities.
Our whims become a part Of our
character, just as our virtues or our
vices; indeed, with some of us they
become so prominent that they over
shadow everything else in our natures
and we would not be recognized by
our friends if, like Christian at the
Beautiful Gate, we should suddenly
lose the burden and appear before
them.
know a woman-a noble, gener-
GUS hearted woman in most things
who tips the scales at 200 pounds,
whose principal within is that she is
not SO large as she looks Wherever
she goes, she becomes the terror of the
modiste. Her first remark always, to
new one, is to be sure to remember
that she is not so large as she seems at
first sight. She is continually chang
ing, because, as she says, they don't
understand her figure and always
make her look larger than she is.
/ have known a man who fancies
that his early teachers spoiled first
class artist by not encouraging his
school day caricatures. He never
speaks of art and artists without bring
ing up the thought that many an en-
byro Raphael has been killed by the
frosts Of disapproval. As he always
supplements this assertion with his
own personal experience, it is quite pa
tent to his friends that when he says
''many one," he means particularly
the one who wears his shoes.
know another man so grotesque in
feature that his face would make
good illustration for a comic almanac
or copy of Dickens, whose favorite
whim is that he bears great resem-
blance to the illustrious Benjamin
Franklin. Never having crossed the
path of any of the old statesman's
heirs and acquainted them with his
belief, he has lived to good old age.
He derives great comfort from the
statement of the mental scientist who
affirms that if two people look alike it
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ference in surroundings and circum-
stances only has prevented his attain
ing the learning and eminence OF
Franklin.
In the suburbs of a distant city lives
a childless old couple who, when past
middle life, suddenly became very
rich through the legacy of relative.
Their previous life had been very sim
pie and narrow, as far as any knowl-
edge of the world outside the sim
pie 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 diction-
airy to improve her conversational
powers. The old gentleman went to
Europe, to Rome, and proved a good
angel to the struggling students, many
of whom found an unquestioning pur-
chaser Of their productions He came
home with the most wonderful collec-
tipns OF >statuary and pictures, the
most incOngruOus mass one could inn
agine. He made his house one vast
picture gallery from basement to at
tic. The large grounds about the
house he dotted with statuary till a
stranger would imagine he was COM
ing to cemetery when he first caught
sight of the cleaning marble through
the foliage Some of the results of
the old lady's dictionary stud. have
become old landmarks in the stock of
local funnyisms of the community.
For instance, neighbor calls: Good
Mrs. B, is Mr.. B at
homes" Eyes, he is out On the me-
pursuing Shakespeare" An
other time, in answer to the same query:
eyes, he went out on the lawn--to-
TO oleander among the scrubbery."-
Chicago journal.