Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-05

they are the pests of society, high and
low-its rOues, gamblers, profligates,
and debauchers; the disciples and
apostles Of sensuality. Those mar
vellOus insects, the hOney-bees, give
perpetual series of object-lessons In
the proper treatment of drones. Their
remedy may be sharp, but it is very
effectual.
Idleness Is the mother Of mischief,
and man or woman without an Oc-
cupatiOn of some sort Is on the high
road to moral ruin, IL not to financial.
Idleness has been the bane of women
OF the wealthy classes i'm the past,
and has seriously retarded female
progress. But new era has dawned
for the sex, and it will devolve upon
the enlightened members of all
classes to lead the way for a thorough
and permanent reform. 1t is gratify-
ing to know that the idlers are i'm a
comparatively small minority. Many
of our hardest workers are men of
rank and wealth. Our national sports
are robust, and indicate a manly,
hardy race, and English gentlemen
are not afraid to soil their hands
either at play or work. The star of
effeminate dandyism is no longer in
the ascendant, and the tribe of Pope's
"SpOrus" becomes annually smaller.
How savagely the poet lashed this
dainty Lord Fanny''-"Sporus, that
mere white curd of ass's milk"
"Amphibious thing! that acting
either part,
The trifling head, or the corrupted
heart,
Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the
board,
Now trips Lady, and now struts a
Lord.
Ewes tempter thus the Rabbins have
exprest,
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
Beauty that shocks you, parts that
none will trust,
Wits that can creep, and pride that
licks the dust"
The moral and material blessings
arising from work are not the only
advantages 1t offers. We are too apt
to think of these alone, to contrast
our Ocean-liners with the frail cor
acles not yet extinct. and our compli-
Gated net work of roads and canals
and magnificent bridges with the
once trackless forests and impossible
rivers, now traversed in every direc-
tiOn. Health is not the least of our
benefits, and nothing contributes
more to this than a regular occupa-
tion. Not the work that Over-strains,
nor the slavery of the sweater" nor
the feverish haste that fiurries; but
calm, solid, steady, well-digested Ia
bour, fairly remunerated and wisely
relieved by rational diversion. This
is the golden recipe for the MEMS
sANA IN CORPORE sANO. The poet
Cotton said of such:-
"Why is our food SO very sweet?
Because we earn before we eat.
Why are our wants so very few?
Because we Natures calls pursue.
Whence our complacency of mind?
Because We act our parts assigned"
Work whets the appetite for
pleasure as well as for food. Work |
bestowed, invests every possession
with increased interest. We value |
the more that which We produce with |
our own hands. The fairest flowers |
are fairer for having been grown by |
our own skill. Thus in a thousand |
ways, work i'm its turn becomes a |
pleasure, and the Industrious expert |
ence joys that the idle can never |
know. Happiness then, as well as
duty, urges us to work. Necessity |
and self-love may stimulate us to 1t,
but God in Nature sets US a never
failing example of disinterested and
unfiagging industry. None should be
without his share In the great BROTH
erhoOd of labour, and women should
be permitted to participate as fully
and freely as men. The do-nOthings
of either sex, however, may serve,
like the drunken Helots for the Spar
tan youth, Ito point a moral, and
adorn a tale" But to treat them as
superior citizens and to dub them
''ladies" and gentlemen" on account
of their uselessness, is an outrage to
the industrious and a disparagement
of mans highest function-Work.