The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
REVERIES OF A BACHELOR.
DIR. Padgett Sends Christmas Greet
ingS to All His Friends.
He is Still IN New York, but VIII Visit
Europe Soon, Then Return to
Columbia.

MY DEAR M IL, El'lIDh''- ~ Slltub-
ly have the months passed that
can scarcely realize that another
Christmas is upon u. But when
hear the boys speak OF going home,
and one fellow asks another, "hOw
are you going to spend vacation;'
and when | see 50 many beautiful
Xmas exhibits-things that Old
Santa Claus used 70 bring us chill
dren -sOmehOw,these thoughts throw
into vibration memOry's jtngling
bells of by-gone days; somehow, [
long to be at home by the fireside on
the old farm. And tonight [ am
going to impose upon your good ma
ture by writing-well, | scarcely
know what to CAL it--a letter or not,
but for safety's sake just say in the
language of the old darkey "a mix
try"
At last, after many months. am
now in New York finishing up my
work here in the East. NJ. Editor,
you know tits most difficult to make
cold words and crooked letters tell
your feelings and qualifications in
the success of your work; and when
things jingle sweetly and nothing is
out Of tune, it certainly makes fell
low feel good. 1t is very difficult for
me to show you on paper the glitter
ing nuggets that I've gathered; but
if He who holds the affairs of men
in His HAND, permits me 70 live
long, in the twilight Of life's even
ing, when shadows gather, like II
summer displaced by the ever
changing scenery of autumn, whose
grave will soon be covered by the
barren visage OF a winter, | shall sit
before memOry's glowing CRATE aud
see r. flrcted there the bright images
Of many golden nuggets. If you
gather apples, hoe corn or make hay
in sunshine, at eventide when you
close your hands in rest you will
press the ga hered fruits in your
palms and fill the very air with
their fragrance; or in your dreams
you will see golden tassels moved by
gentle breezes, Nr you will see inn
ages of brown and cured shocks of
hay made by honest work.
am not Jonah, fleeing from my
duties, but am going to celebrate.
[ am going to take two months
vacation. A complete relaxation
from all professional work, and go
on cruise through the Mediterran-
can, visiting Funchel, Gibraltar,
Algiers, Genoa, Nice, Syracuse,
Malta, Alexander, Cairo, The Pyra
mids, Jatfa, Jerusalem, Dead Sea,
Jordan, Jericho, smyrna Ephesus,
Athens, COnstantinople. Naples
Vesuvius and POmpeii. Ga my way
back, / shall get off at Naples and
go either to Paris or Vienna, where
Ishall again take up the temporarily
Interrupted thread, start again the
old loom and try to fiuish that pro.
fessioual garment began some time
ago. | will be able to do better work
after the rest. [ once heard a great
teacher say, "all work and no play
makes Jack dull boy"
The other day when went down
to obtain passage for January 26,
noticed very sweet looking couple
in the office, and by and by very
pathetically he, looking at his wife
laid, Darling, the minister said
that we were one, but / have to buy
two tickets" If | only had either
one or all of my good bachelor
friends-Bob Irvine, Joe Hutton or
Sam Ashton to go along with me in
my wanderings, L would promise to
be IA most Obedient Telamaque, and
| certainly feel that they would
make a good Mentor. You know
full well, Mr.. Editor, that the guild
ance and good counsel of bachelors
are things not to be laughed at!
Don't you know that they have
often in their loneliness and despair
for something better to soOthe their
troubles, said with an apology to
Shakespeare "TO marry or not to
marry, that is the question; whether
tits nObler in our hearts to battle
with the results of outrageous for
tune, or fly to other troubles we
know not or"
Outside of hospitals it would be
difficult for me to find or tell you
anything new, for you know as
much of New York as myself. Yes.
terday afternoon being Sunday,
visited the American Art Galleries
where now are being exhibited Mr.
James GissOt's wonderful pictures
illustrating the life of Christ and also
views from Palestine. lis indeed
a treat to see, and YOU come away
with a good feeling in your soul
These paintings have attracted the
attention of thousands, and | only
wish that YOU could see them.
am quite glad to see that a few
of the meetings of the Maury County
Medical Society are open to the pub
lie, and | do sincerely hope that the
people will derive much good
There are several diseases that the
people ought to know more about
and two OF these, typhoid and diph
iberia. have been discussed. Wher
| studied the germs of these two
diseases, raising them by the mil
lions, do believe that l enjoyed i
more than when used to raise Irish
potatoes on the farm. 1t used to fal
to my lot to kill the Bugs" on tn,
potatoes, and then some of then
, would get away; but the bugs" o
) another variety of my own raising,
had complete control over, in that
had the power to say, 80 far ant
no farther canst thou come" Thel
are very innocent looking citizens
= but once turned loose tbs lamentabl
to think of the havoc they do, kill
ing wherever they go, king AM
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