Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-25
THE SELEMADE MAN
An HmPresslOn.

Still makes me willing 70 climb
THE SELFLMADE NAN
An HmpressIOn.
One never knows which is the impression
that is going to stay, which of the charac
ters, events, circumstances, sayings, tab
leaux of the passing day is to be the unef
faceable one. We try to know, and even
make, with human pertness, selections.
''This is striking" this is important, and
important as it is, we fear TO forget it, and
write it down in the nowadays inevitable
note book-date, place and sensations quite
orderly and methodically we were
taught to do at school aud then, if we do
not forget the note book, or crowd it out
under the necessary accumulation Of them,
we are able at any time to resurrect any
recollection, and, if we have been prolix,
sensation and other ct cetera of data, at
best often the withered or witheIing speci
mems of herbarium. Thus life flows de
posting within us an ever increasing bad
ture, vague border land, our limbo of
things we are trying not to forget. Per
contra, an insignificant occurrence there is
no getting rid of it is veritable crooked
bone in the memory.
Madam" said the hotel-keeper to me,
the day after my arrival at the "Green-
wood Springs, you are going to have a
fellow -boarder-Professor Tubbs, President
of the Male and Female college at Olympus
| Professor Tubbs is what tce call a self made
man, and, considering the material, think
he has made pretty good job of it."
rs there nothing unique in this world 2
| Not even taste for out-of the season visits
to remote little watering places ~
He comes to drink the waters for his
health, continued the hotel keeper. HE
has chronic dyspepsia Here he is now,
ma am"
The material" was. concretely, at least,
six feet two in height, garmented in black
| broadcloth the ample frock coat of which
| swung open over very expansive shirt
front, which carried ON its uppermost bil
low patented satin cravat with patented
pin iu it. He had long thin face, with
something in the way of beard over it, and
his abundant hair shone with gloss which
was a credit to its author, whoever he was.
He bowed with an oratorical sweep Of the
right hand, aud said, 81 am very glad to
see you, ma'am," sat down in his place with
careful thought of his coat tails, surveyed
the squadron of little dishes, which contained
fractional portions of what was supposed in
these regions to make a whole meal and
proceeded incontinenty to take the Office
Of entertainer out of the hands of the wait
er in this wise
Fried mutton, ma'am l never eat
mutton. Some people can, but my taste is
delicate. My stomach is my weak point.
ma'am. As an organ. it gets out of order
very easily. My wife's stomach is much
stronger than mine, ma am look strong,
but am not, ma'am. l suffer from chronic
dyspepsia | may say"
Tea or coffee, sir -
Coffee | always drink coffee, ma am.
1t is my only stimulant Theoretically and
practically, ma am, l am a total abstainer,
but | sometimes need as many as four cups
of coffee at one meal. My wife makes ele
giant coffee, ma aam. | do not drink milk
generally; it is apt to produce bile in my
system, ma am"
YES, eggs Eggs suit my digestion very
well ma 'am eggs Oh, of course ma am,
you can go. Do not let me detain you.
eat slow, ma'am. Some people can eat fast,
but cannot, ma'am | take my time over
my meals NY stomach Certainly, ma am
certainly, | will excuse you," with the
same oratOrcal wave of the hand, which
now held his knife
Sitting in the quiet and darkness of this
out-of the way night and place, it was
pleasant to listlessy track the consultations
through the tree tops, while thoughts came
slowly drifting home, thoughts which had
been on furlough for ages, thoughts which
: "Ah, here you are waiting for me, ma am
Don't rise, ma am have a chair Look
ing at the stars, eh Are you anything OF
! an astronomer, ma'am Astronomy is a
very pretty science. l am very partial tC
astronomy ; in fact, | am considered right
: ] Il r. 20
she knows nothing about the stars As for
me, ma'am, have dipped into pretty much
! everything. l am self-taught entirely
maam. l am what is called in these parts
5 ma am, a self made man, and | am moi
i ashamed of it. What did you say, ma am
+ Oh, certainly Good night, ma'am-good
night 1t does not agree with me to retire
early, ma am. Brain workers, ma'am, arr
night workers. | am not an early risel
2 either, maam l have told the hotel pro
4 prietor so. My wife, now, is an early riser
My wife rises pretty generally about day
break but the morning nap seems to b.
A necessary for my constitution. My consti
f tuition, ma am"
r. Hurry up, ma'am p' he called to m
a from the breakfast table, as | entered tn
door the next morning. 1--WE did not wal
for you, ma'am. Waiting does not agre
r. with me, ma'am, as | told the proprietor o
y the hotel. rested only tolerably last night
o ma am suffered from an uneasiness at tn
10 stomach"
a Chicken, ham, eggs, buckwheat cakes
l the waiter recited his litany dropping
e the little dishes on the table like beads iron
his fingers.
5 81 do not care for chicken, ma am. Som
= people like chicken find it nourishing. NJ
5 labor seems to require stronger food M
wife likes chicken | generally make m
n breakfast, ma'am, of ham-smoke drie
4 ham-and eggs Ham seems to agree wit
n nv stomach better than most any kind o
food, and l always taper off ON cakes an
syrup. Ny wife makes elegant cakes, ma am
r. You seem to have a very strong stomach
h like my wife, ma'am My wife, she can ca
a almost anything
4 "Well, now that we have finished ou
q breakfast what shall we do with our morn
' ing, ma'am Going to the springs
shall Just come along with you, maam."
n II shall take the sulphur water, maam
+ to make beginning, and then | shall tax
= the iron water. The sulphur water, as
v calculate, washes the dyspepsia out of me
il and the iron builds me up. 1t just depend
n upon how | feel, the number of cups
l. drink during the day. | consult my stom
, ach entirely. You had better consult you
r stomach, ma'am. Going back to the hotel
>. Certainly, I'm agreeable. I'll just go wit
- you You are like my wife, ma'am-a
t ways on the go, do not mind telling you
IS ma am, that my wife is not quite up to me
l. in fact, am considered to have marie
It beneath myself,
a His knees had rounded sockets in h
q trousers, which stood out, as he wake
d along, in an ungainly fashion, but when
s sat down all fitted easily and smoothly, pa
q ticularly when he bent his shoulders litt
P. forward and clasped his hands over tf
If crossed leg that swung its foot like per
dulum to time his words.
"Some of my friends 20 as far as to sa
4, that it was a mistake, ! could do muc
II better now, ma'am that is the truth. BI
s. when | married her, ma 'am, considered
% a good thing for me. | don't mind tellin
+. you, ma am, but at that time she was yer
es poor. She taught in the public school unit
her ma took sick of galloping consumption
and when her ma died married her. The
If used to be quite considerable folks. ii,
II pa was Baptist minister. He was kille
81 in the war. Sister Annie, too, my wife
NJ sister, had situation in the public schoo
e, but when she heard her ma was dying, 81
a gave it up, and came home to help in d
N nursing. But have taken Sister Annie il
ii too. Sister Annie's health isn't very goo