The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-09-26
VARIETIES.

When words fail to express, try some re-
liable freight line.
We suppose that the language OF par
rot may be termed polyglot.
"A tennis suit is net very loud, but
racket nearly always goes with it.
1t is wrctched bad form to agree with
everybody. Lobster salad is to be compli-
mented on its form.
Music touches every key of memory
and stirs all the hidden springs of sorrow
and of ioy. We love it for what it makes
us forget, and for what it makes US remem
Der.
Success is rarely q matter of accident
always a matter Of character. The reason
why so many men fail is that so few men are
willing 10 pay the price of self denial and
hard work which success exacts.
The other morning at breakfast, our lit
tie one handed her plate for moiasses, when
papa helped her to gravy instead. ooh
sakes, man ?" she exclaimed Indignantly,
"people don't do that way when little girls
ask them for molasses."
However prominent the place We fill,
our death will not jar the world. One fall
ing leaf does not shake the Adirondacks.-
There will be other seamen on deck when
you and are down in the cabin asleep in the
hammocks.
-"Glad 10 make your acquaintance, MIR.
Valentine. l suppose-ha !-!-you were
born on ST. Valentines dsy?' "That doesn't
follow-any more than that you were born
on the 1st day of April, sir"
AT Marselles, in the railway station is
board where station-masters are requested to
write the cause of delayed trains. One day,
when the Paris train was an hour late, the
bulletin informed the public that it was lin
consequence of going slowly"
in one of Eugene Fields London Let
tiers he mentions an American girl who had
travelled extensively in Europe, but frankly
confessed thai she liked no language except
her own GAS for French, she declared, II
hate it, because | always have to think be-
fore speak"
-Clerk.-"Does it take you an hour to go
around the corner?" Boy.-"A man drop
ped quarter down hole in the sidewalk"
Clerk.-"And it took you all this time to get
it out?" Boy.-"Yes, sir. had to wait till
the man went away"
First Love.
One of the most terrible tragedies in mod.
ern life was that of an American poet, who,
when a foolish, sensitive young man, met
and married middle aged woman of great
beauty, but unsuited to be his wife. not only
by her age, but by the difference between her
tastes and her character and his.
The sequel was life for him of hopeless
misery, ending in wretched death.
1t is right that young men and women
should understand the full significance of
such a story. How many of them, when
scarcely past childhood, have formed foolish
attachments for unworthy or uncongenial
objects, and are now wretched because of
their fear that these attachments and their
own despair must last as long as lfe2
Some plants, on first emerging from the
ground, put forth two leaves. rank, coarse
and unshapely, wholly different from the del
icate and beautiful foliage which they de-
velop afterward.
A botanist, on being asked the meaning of
this phenomenon, replied, "It is merely an
outbreak of strength, as purposeless as the
plunge of colt or the shrill cries offs young
bird before it has learned to sing"
Whether this be true or not, it is certain
that the young human plant is apt to put
forth rank growths Of affection in the vigor
of its new and untried life which do not
belong to its real nature of after develop
ment. School girls fancy themselves ain
love" with vulgar men whom they scarcely
know; college boys think they have found
their mates for life in women far beyond
them in years and far behind them in educa-
ton. They believe this devotion on their
part will be eternal.
1t is but the unwholesome fog of the morn-
ing, that will vanish before the sunshine OF
the pure love which is Gods highest blessing
on earth to woman or man.