News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-29
Chronic GrumblerS.

In every community there is one,
in some communities there are sever
al, and in many communities are all
the way from q dozen to three score
or more of men whose lives are one
perpetual grumble. They grumble
themselves out of bed in the morning,
e,rumble all the livelOng day, and
erumble themselves to sleep again at
night. Nothing that is done by in
dividuals or the community suits
them unless they suggested it them
selves, and even then the chances are
ten to one they will find fault with
some detail of it. Always eager to
lend ready ear to any suggestion
of frailty or wrong doing on the part
of their friends or neighbors-or of
anybody else for that matter-noth-
inc can exceed the Indignation with
which any intimation of weakness on
their part is received.
In politics no nominations can pos
sibly be made to the entire satisfac-
ton of the grumbler, no policies car
ried out that could not, in his judg-
ment, have been bettered. If, as
sometimes happens, heis on the nom
mating committee himself, he will
protest against any other names
than of those whom nobody ELSE
wants, and can always see some Ill
terror motive in the suggestions OF
his colleagues. Everybody has an
axe to grind but himself, and if he
were permitted to name the entire
ticket himself, he would be all out OF
sorts with it the next day and proba-
| bly, labor in quiet way to compass
the destruction of his own handi-
work.
If he has no occupation, save that
of minding the business of others, he
occupies the street corners in the day
time, SEXES the coat lapels of any
unfortunate passer-by, and with sug-
gestions, hints, innuendOes, and in
terrogation points, endeavOrs to
poison the mind of his hearer against
some one or another of his acquaint-
ances. 1t is in the evening, however,
that the grumbler reaches the sum
nit of his happiness or sinks to the
level of his own depravity. At the
shop or store of a fellow grumbler, he
is always a welcome visitor. Here he
will sit for hours, perfectly content
and happy in his favorite atmosphere
of self Righteousness, and grumblf
and growl and growl and grumble
and go home to the bosom of his
family he has one conscious
that, whatever happens, he has done
his duty, his whole duty and nothing
but his duty.
If there is a newspaper in the place
it is never quite right on any subject
if it mentions the grumbler's name
at all, it is invading the sanctity o
private life; if it refrains from men
ton of any event with which he is
connected, it is partial and is always
catering to some other element in the
community; nothing it does or evel
can do fills up the measure of his de
sires.
Anywhere and everywhere, at al
seasons and in all places, the chronic
grumbler is a public nuisance anC
does more harm, works more mis-
chief, causes more unnecessary hear
burniDgs, and embitters more lives
than nearly all the grosser evils thai
affiict society.
If the grumblers and GROWERS il
any community could only be quar-
tered somewhere all by themselves
isolated from all other society, anC
compelled to live together in unrest
what a precious comfort it would be
How much brighter would be the
sunshine, how much fairer the skies
how much purer the air in any vii
lage, town or city in all the land, il
only the mental and moral sickness
Of 5ENs-aSAiasS5 SSs.llszal Iez-LEesLte0-zi is--
the small pox, and It's patients quar-,
antined for the common health and
well-being of society.-St. Adams
Messenger.