Year: 1861

be carried on with fly upon the nose, and
any teasing of a single sense, whether Of
sight or sound or touch, is fatal to religious
devotion. l presume that if the pastor
wishes to find the most sterile portion Of his
field he needs only to ascertain the names
OF those who occupy pows 10 the vicinity of
this lively little lady. Her husband died two
years ago, of sleeplessness, and harasslng
system of nursing.


The Flutter Budgets arc numerous fanl'
ly in America. They are not all as rest
less as Madame, but the characteristics OF
the blood are manifest among them nll
They never know repose and, what is
worse than this, they dread, if ihey do not
despise it. They are immense workers
not that they do more work and harder
than their neighborS, but they make a
great fuss about it, and are always at it.
They rise carly in the morning, aud they
sit up late at night and they do this from
years end whether they really have anything
to do or not. They cannot sit still. They
have an unhealthy impression that it is
wrong for them not to be doing something
all the time Nothing in the world will
make them so uncomfortable aud SO restless
at leasure. Mrs Futter Budget could no
more sit down without knittngwork, or a
sock to darn, in her hands, than she could
fly. AS she has many times remarked, she
would die if she could not work To her,
and TO all Of her name and character, con.
slant action seems TO be necessity The
craving Of the smoker for his pipe or cigar,
the nceSsent hankerirg of the opium-cater
for his drug, or the terrible thirst Of the
drunkard for his cups-al these are legti.
mate illustrations OF the morbid desire Of
the Budgets for action or motion. The
man who has the habit of using narcotics
is not more restless and unhappy without
his accustomed stimulus than they are with
nothing to do. In truth, believe the de-
sire for action may become just as morbid
passion of the soul as that which most
degrades and demoralizes mankind.


If L were called upon to define happiness
l could possibly give no definition that
would shut out the word rcpose. L do
not mean by this that no person can be
happy except in state of repose, but
mean, rather, that no man can be happy to
whom repose is impossible. The highest
definition Of happiness would probably deS-
ignate the consciousness of healthy powers
harmoniously employed as among its prime
elements but there can he no happiness
that deserves its nNmo without the con-
SclouSnesS of powers that are able to sub
side from harmonious action into painless
repose. | know a little girl who plays
out of doors at night as long as she can see,
and who, when called into the house, takes
up book with restless greed for mental
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sleep after she has been commanded to put
down her book and go to bed. She would
be called happy child by those who see
her playing amoug her mates, yet it is easy
to perceive that her happiness is limited TO
"a single attitude and condition of body and
mind. a happier child than she is one
who can enjoy her open air-play, and then
quietly sit down at her mothers side
and enjoy rest. That is an inharmonious
and unhealthy state Of mind which chafes
with leisure ; and he is an unhappy man
who cannot SIT down for moment without
reaching for newspaper, or looking about
him for some quid for his morbid mind to
chew upon. So count not man truly happy
who caunOt contenteGly sit still when cir.
cumstanceS release his powers from labor,





wards of labor peaceful repose.


No, Mrs FIuttcr Budget is not happy
woman and, as | have ntimated before
she seriously interferes with the happiness
and the spiritual prosperity of those about
her. When she can find nothing to do, then
she worries. Those children of hers are
worried nearly to death. IT. in their play
they get any dirt upon their faces, they are
sent Immediately to make themselves clean
If they soil their clothes, they are shut mp
until reduced to proper state ofpenitance.
They are kept out of all draughts Of air for
fear of cold ; and if they should take cold,
why, they must take medicine OF the most
repulsire character as a penalty. If they
cough out of the wrong corner of their
mouths, she suspects them of croupy inten
tions and if they venture at some
ungarded moment on a cutaneous eruption,
they are Immediately charged with the |
measles or accused of smallpox. If they
quietly sit down for moment of repose.
she apprehends sickness, and stirs them
about to shake it off. Even sleep is not
sacred to her, for il she finds flushed face
among the harrassed little slumberers, she
dWhhCS llb OWHeT W nuke dHeCJlOuatG lnQul-
ries. Her husband, as | have already stat.
ed, died two years ago. She worked upon
his nervous system TO such a0 extent that
be was glad to be rid of the world, and
her. think that a man would die, after
awhile, with constantly looking at the mo.
ton of saw mill, The jar of locomotive
makes the toughest iron brittle at last
and the wear and tear of restless wife
is beyound the strongest mans endur.
auce.


have noticed that persons who have in.
fuence upon the minds of others maintain
constantly a degree of repOse. do not
mean that those have most influence who
use their powers sparingly, but that GER
tain degree of mental repoSe--or what may
possibly be called imperturbableness--
necessary to influence. Mrs Futter Budget
always talks in hurry, and talks of a
thousand things, and is easily excited. Her
neighbors, carefully avoiding the causes
which ruffle her, aud preserving the pose
of her faculties. insists on her point quietly,
aud carries it. The repoSe Of equanimity
is charm which disSoves all opposition.
The mind which shows itself open to inAu.