Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-27
Lcnying the Doors Open.

CThe Observations Of % Philosophical
Friend OF Ours)
4 friend o. ours, who estecms his wife
as made UP Of every creatures best. per-
feet and peerless. came to the I'M
happy conclusion that he had. at last.
found a fault in her. So. under a gentle
arrest, he brought her before court, the
court being the oldest daughter, almost
as lovely as the mother. And there he
presented his charges. Ny daughter.
emulate your mothers eraces and virtues.
but. 1 beseech you, avoid that unluclly
failing Of always leaving the doors open!
Indeedl was the musical reply. / always
DO it, and mean TO do itl These closed
doors viii be the death Of me, yet Twas
so; for she could be followed al about the
house by doors opened back 20 the
wall And that was not all. sho hated
keys little worse than she hated doors
AS for being surrounded by thieves 70 be
watched and guarded against, her beauti-
fui soul abhorrod the thought Who're
can you find doors and bolts and bars il
Nature? All that was q consequence -of
the fan; there is nothing OF that sort in
Heaven. She poured out Aer cl0quence.
not in her defence, but in pretty rcproof
of her assailaut. And the court agreed
WITH her; and the plaintiff was glad TO
escape without an inJSucti0u never 60
shut any more doors or lock any more
silehoards; De was left TO his reflections.
Close places and c0ndnements are not
pleasant certainly not always for ladies'
on the contrary they are quite the Ie-
verse. in our dear old state great big
rI rsf
Of our ancestral greatness. our Anglo
saxon fathers were Of the same sort, and
fought against any kind Of restraint or
'mDrisonmcnts. That would do for slaves
not for frccmon The lovely mother.
aforesaid. was brought up so the country,
where the doors were shut neither
day nor night. as IN the New Jerusalem,
and where there was plenty Of every
thing TO 20 around. The unlucky COM
rlaiIant returned 10 the study OK phiios3-
ply. and found that the only fault he
thought he had discovered was a beauti-
full natural grace; and DO fell deeper
in love than eyer-if that was possible.
Civilization IS q very good thing. But
men and women and society must develop
and Grow, and be established ln "a natural
way. Graccs and virtues, and delights
and defences. must find their life and
spirit and meaning and effect ana proe-
perlty as the Llls ana tno OAKS, ana
rocks and the streams and oceans Go;
in the ways and after the wisdom OF God.
Whole as the marble, founded as the
rock. broad and general as the casing
air IS tho estate and condition OF high
and large manhood ard beautiful life.
Art Convonuonality, Parslmony. Fash
ION. Pride, Sellshness, and commonplace
Ambition blunt the sensib.lil.es, vitiate
the taHcs; pervert the Judgment. vul-
CARRIE the manners; dry up all the springs
OF our being: harden an within;
petrify the feeling; dwarf the soul. and
besfow on their victims an Apologize
existence, q wretchel burlee1ue of man
hood and womanhood; criDbed, cabined.
and confined. bound I'm to a thousand
unmanly fears and trinng considerations.
And - our pretty defendant trIumphed,
and brought TO more familiar apprs-
citation "the glorious liberty Of the chill
dren Of light; altogether lovely.