The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-02-18

ures. and conveniences. All this has
b, Ell tie result of work Brains and
hands have united for its production.
| The quickest brains, the deftest hands.
have led the way, and the others have
! followed in their rear. What we are
and have to-day form the resultant of
the combined forces of mind and muscle
during all the past existence of hu-
manity.
All honour, then. to work and to the
workers. whether their part be high or
low; whether theirs are the master
minds that plans, or the patient hands
that execute. Whatever their degree,
each is essential to the others, and they
to each, as Menenius Agrippa showed
the discontented Romans long ago in
his fable of the Belly and the Members.
No properly informed person could
ever suppose it more desirable to idle
than to work, or that any man of worth
could ever be L do-nothing. The
drones of our commonwealth may be
anything from tramps to Piccadilly
loungers, may be beggars or peers, but
they have no moral right to dwell
amongst an industrial community. AS
a rule, they are the pests of society,
high and low.-its roues, gamblers,
profigates, and debauchers; the dis
ciples and apostles of sensuality.
Those marvellous 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 etfectual
Idleness is the mother of mischief.
and a man or woman without an occu-
patton of some sort Is on the high road
to moral ruin, if not to financial Idle
ness has been the hane of women ofthe
wealthy classes in the past, and has
seriously retarded female progress.
But a new era has dawned for the sex.
and it will d,volve upon the enlightened
members of all classes to lead the way
for thorough and permanent reform.
1t is gratifying to know that the idlers
are in 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 ascend
ant, and the tribe of Pope's "Sporns"
becomes annually smaller. How say
agely the poet lashed this dainty
Lord Fanny"-"Sporus, that mere
white curd of ASS milk"
"Amphibous thing. that acting either part
| The trinng head or the corrupted heart,
| Fop at the toilet, hatterer at the board,
| Now trips Lady, and now struts Lord
Ewes tempter thus the Rabbns have exprest
| A cherub's face, reptile all the rest.
Beauty that shocks you parts that he will trust,
Wits that creep aud pride that licks the dust.
The moral and material blessings
arising from work are not the only adj
vantages it offers. We ere too apt to
think of these alone, to contrast our
ocean-liners with the frail coracles not
yet extinct. and our complicated net
work of roads and canals and magnifi-
cent bridges with the once .trackless
forests and impossible rivers, now
travcrsed in every direction. Health
is not the least of our benefits. and
nothing contributes more to this than
regular occupation. Not the work
that overstrains, nor the slavery of the
sweater nor the feversh haste that
flurries; but calm, solid, stealy, we'll
digested labour. fairly renumerated
and wisely relieved by rational diver
sion. This is the golden recipe for the
Hens suna IN corpore sono. The poet
Cotton said Of such:-
| why is our food very sweet:
Because we earn befJre eat.
Why wants SO very few?
Because We Natures calls pursue.
Whence our coDplacency Of mind?
Because we act our parts assigned"
WORK whets the appetite for pleas
ure rs well as for food. Work gives 4
zcst to employment. 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 in its turn
! becomes pleasure, and the industrious
experience joys that the idle can never
know. Happiness then, as well as
duty, urges us to work. Necessity
and sclt-lovc may stimulate us to it.,
p'it Ni't liz A\atilIt StlS us IL utNtI-lall-
inr example of disinterested and un-
/ tagging industry. None should be
without his share in the great brother
! hood o. iabour, and women should be
+ permitted to participate as full V and
/ freely as men. The do-nothings of
either SEX, however, may serve, like the
drunken ll"lots for the Spartan youth,
''to point a moral, and adorn tale. :"
But to treat them as superior citizens
and to dub them ladies" and "gentie-
men on account of their uselessnesS,
is an outrage to the industrious and a
disparagement OF mans highest func-
! tion-Wor
SIN London, said the returned tour
ist hoasttully, Il appeared at court
"How much was the fine qucried
! the cynical friend