Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

Taoer believe me if / toll her that this
Blue Paper young fellow had that within
him that would make peace and happiness
impossible after marriage? Would not
my opinion be received with a stare of in
credulity as to its truth, and would not
I myself receive slight upward curl of the
lip in contempt for my "baseness"
World she not afterwards speak Of me as
hateiul, and y. 'lneddler,' and as that
'horrid old Boyzy, and when young Blue
Paper came the next night, would she not
lay her pretty head on his shoulder and tell
him all? And would he not thereafter re-
gard me with honest hatred in his honest
young heart and speak of me as a slanderer
and mischief maker, prefixing large d
to his opinion of my general unworthiness?
And should / blame him? The honest
young fellow knows that he is with
out reproach, that he is upright and
sincere, and that his life will bear in
spection-in short he knows everything
about himself save, alas, that he is a Blue
Paper. And so, | say, / can do nothing
save to watch their progress to the church.
There the minister brings forth the glass
Of Matrimony and, unknoWing what he
does, takes the White Paper and the Blue
Paper and drops them in it. Ard then =
Do you think you understand this les
son? If you do, it will save you a great
deal of trouble as you gothrough the world.
The minds Of people are not cast in the
same mould and We all can't have the same
likes and dislikes. Do not be concerned
because Jones does not like you, or look.
upon him as a loser by it; he may like some
one else equally as estimable. And don't
be concerned because you do not like Jones:
OIL set him down as Enthusiastically. Oh
treacherOus, OF unprincipled simply be-
cause you don t like him. And whenever
any object lesson comes up in this school of
likes and dislikes, try and remember this
parable of the White Paper and the Blue
Paper.
The class is dismissed.
[ am very much afraid that Man is losing
ground in the world. He is not coming
out equal to my expectations of him, the
expectations l was educated to in youth.
III nothing has his decadence been more
apparent to my mind than in this matter
of bacilli, and bacteria, and microbes aud
other-worms. l was taught in youth to
be very proud Of Man. / can see now the
little Sunday School books in Which his
! Importance was emphasized. In one there
was picture of HIM in summer costume
sitting on arosk, and in front of him were
gathered In humble array Lions, Tigers and
the like. and underneath ran a legend stat
ing that Man had been placed at the head
of the entire show. Another was equally
us impressive; it portrayed Man, still in
summer costume, standing erect. Under his
heel was q writhing snake evidently anxi-
Gus to get away, and with a countenance
expressive of having suffered a sudden at
tack of cholera morbus. So common to
this Man was this method of doing for
snakes, that he was not even looking that
way, but was calmly gazing at an ark rest
ing on the top CT neghboring mountain.
Under this picture ran the legend, 1.-The
seed OF the woman shall bruise the serpent s
head" These pictures naturally gave me
great confidence in Man, and 1 little thought
that the time should come when, instead OF
seeing him crushing out q boa constructor,
I should behold him fleeing through the
world pursued by snake not thousandth
part of an inch long. Even though the
snake had assumed the new name of bacl-
lum. And so I say am disappointed in
him. For it is impossible longer to con-
ceaI the fact that between the bacilli Snakes
only thousandth part Of an inch long,, the
bacteria Snakes the same length with side
whiskers) and the microbes, the snakes
have got Man on the run, and that this
once proud Lord of Creation has taken to
the woods. The Doctors, who since the
days Of Esculapius have been doing picket
duty as well as camp guard for Man, have
been surrounded and thanked by the new
enemy until they are demoralized. Having
seen column of bacilli marching down the
road they rush back to the camp with the
news only to find that division of bacte-
ria have surprised it and are chewing up the
patients. They see microbe in every
measles bush, and bacillum behind every
whooping cough tree, while the batallions
of cholera spirillum, pneumonia diplococ-
Gus, and pus staphy lococci, reinforced by
other cock-eYe troops, are pouring over the
breastworks. They discover the enemy
everywhere and have at last put their veto
Oh any more kissing, on the ground that
twenty-five different kinds of bacteria find
their home in the human mouth. At this
point [ think it is time for fleeing Man to
call halt. Kissing may not be important,
but if that is AL that can be saved of the
camp equipage, let S save that.
| am not all advocate of kissing. Indeed
believe the whole system with it's regula-
items are gross injustice to Man. You
will note this, by running over it in chro-
biological order. At six months, girl babies
are he'd out to him to kiss and he dare not
refuse for fear of offending their mothers
At six years, these larger girl babies will
kiss hlm whether OF no, At sixteen, when
he is willing to GO on, purely as a matter of
duty, he finds that the schedule has been
changed and a prohibitory rule introduced.
And SO it appears to me a very one sided
arrangement. But Independent Of this.
don't believe Man is naturally a kissing
animal. Nor do I believe that if he wasn't
taught the art by Womankind when baby
that he would ever learn it of his own ac-
cord. If there is any one agony greater
than another, it is that experienced by a.
ten-year-old boy when he is kissed by any
Of womankind save his mother. If such a