The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-31

There are, we will say, 60, 900, 900 people
in the United States. There are probably
more, but we will call II $1,000, 900.
Now, there are certainly not more than
1000, 900 extraordinary people Well, we
VIII let the extraordinary people take care
OF themselves. What we wish 10 discuss
this evening at the "tea table, is what to
do TO make the 64, 900, 600 ordinary people
happy. The great majority of those who
VIII read this will never lead an army,
electrify Senate, write State constitu-
tion, or make an important invention.
As truthfully remarked by the Rev.
Dewitt Talmage, II does not help you to
be told that Elizabeth Fry did won
derful things with the criminals of New
gate, or that Mrs. Judson was very brave
among the Borneian cannibals, or that
Florence Nightingale was good 20 the
soldiers who were wounded In the
Crimea.
What should be impressed upon the
minds of the people is that while 1t Is
the laudable ambition TO excel, there are
only few leaders, and that Others must
follow. When you sift things down to
logical facts, health, the prime thing OF
life Is decided by the food we eat, and the
way 1t is'cooked. One of the greatest
battles OF this country was lost because
the commander that morning he'd mt OF
indigestion. You have only to visit
number of hotels and boarding houses
TO be convinced Of the fact that vast
majority of the human race are slaugh-
tered by bad cookery. Fact.
The young women. the future wives
aud mothers, who are now taking lessons
in music, in painting, in astronomy, Will
not be thoroughly educated until they
take few lessons in dough.
And speaking of ordinary things, what
an Improvement has been made in what
used TO be considered pretty good, IL not
better than something else. Shore din
ners, we will say, from the time Smith
Shaw catered to the people at Bullock's
Point to the present time, when George
Boyden astonishes those who gather at
Crescent Park. Without a doubt, the
o'clock dinner prepared by the latter
gentleman is the best served, and Se~good
as it Is possible to prepare for the money.
No wonder the crowds gather when
weather permits on these festive oc-
casions.
There IL the ordinary business man
who does not sell million dollars worth
a year, nor half million, nor a quarter
of a million, nor the eighth part Of a
million. Many, very many OF them, sell
less tuan vOUUUU WOTtu Ol ROOuS. Dub ne
worries just the same, does this ordinary
business man. He is gray at 30 No
time to attend to anything you know but
business. He even goes about looking
shabby when a call at the Misfit Parlors,
100 Westminster street, and the expendi-
ture of q small amount of money lnsures
q good quality of raiment for every day
or any day wear. He is like clock that
Is wound up, and strikes 10 when II
should but strike six. The cemeteries
have thousands of business men who died
of old age at 30, 35, 40, As.
Then there are the ordinary farmers.
What Is il to them that Cincinnatus be-
came patrician and went from the plow
to a high position, and then went back
to the plow again? The great majority
OF farmers will never be patricians.
Perhaps none Of them will ever be sena-
tors. There are thousands OF farmers
Just as noble as Cincinnatus.
The Nixon telephone system is the idea
of looping wires, decreasing induction
and saving expense. That's all. BY such
a system of wiring, big dividends could
be paid by renting telephones at s25 per
year. The police and fire departments of
the several cities will be materially per-
fectei by adopting the Nixon detached
transmitter, which keeps the several men,
bers of the department in touch with
headquarters. Interested parties Will
find the system i'm full working order, at
500 Industrial building.
Then remember.
II you have only what is called an
ordinary home, that the great deliverers
of the world have all come from such
home. Genius almost always runs out in
the third or fourth generation. You
cannot find in all history where the
fourth generation OF extraordinary people
amounted to anything. Columbus, from
a weaver's hut, Demosthenes, from
cutters cellar, Arkwright, from a barber's
shop Let us all be content with such
things as we have. The spider draws
poison out OF flower, the bee gets honey
out OF thistle, but happiness is
heavenly elixir, and the contented spirit
extracts IL not from the rhododendron OF
the hills, but from the lily of the valley.
OLD VET.