Year: 1862

WE CONVERSE ON THE WAY SOME FOLKS TAKE


STYLE. 81


alter, my hoy, there two mean things in
this varegated flower garden on which We live
Ooe of these mean things is chestnut bnrs, the
other is the habit many people have of taking
style. Some folks, my boy, can't stand pros
perity. 1t hardenS them, as boiling water does
an egg. 1t spoiIs them. They succeed ever
so little, and at once take more style than
man could rise over with a balloon. Not one
in ten score, my boy, were ever intended to
prosper, and it looks bad to see success, even
by accident, GROWING their efforts. How it
looks, my boy, for a man who is poor to take
style, put on airs, saw his W0od down cellar
for fear people will see him laboring 90 with
out stockings for the sake of wearing gloves
just to make show OF gentlity, when there is
not pinch of salt or half a potatoe in his
whole cellar, kitchen aud pantry. Yes, my boy,
it shows a very thin stock of brains, when e
man is poor and ashamed of labor. When a
person is above bis business, he is useless, ex-
cept to try a new hearse with. Every dav
my boy, we see such men. They wear pinch
beck jewelry to make a show in the night
They use cotton handkerchefS because they
hold starch better They take style all sorts
Of ways, by putting on airs aud talking big
TO honest men.


And my boy, when you see O young man
from the country, who has learned the fast gait
of city, going back On his mother because
she wears colOred stockings and ties her shoes
with cali-skn strings, and is ashamed to visit
her, or have her visit him believe US, my boy,
he has taken style TOO deep Aud when he
becomes ashamed Of his father, who comes in
town beside an OK team, with cabbage, butter
wheat, wool or other produce to sell, believe
Us, my boy, that he has been taking style CT
the most contemplate kind And there are
lots of such boys


And there are girls who take style till they
had sooner take their chances with the itch,
saltrheum, canker, rash, measles, whoopng.
cough or lung fever than be seen in the kitch.
en- over a washtnb, or wearing a smile except
in the parlor, when the feller who does their
kissing comes around. Shun all such people
my boy, as You would hot horseshoe in a
blacksmith shop. And there are men, my boy,
who take style soon as elected to some petty
ofliee--ap ppoEted to some Insignificant clerk
ship-smed upon by some handsome woman
surprised by legacy, or who have swindIed
/ some tailor out Of suit of store clothes, till
you can't rest where they are


And there are meu who have worked their
way to riches, prominence and position, who
all of a sudden take style aud forget their
, early friends-forget who stood by them
through thick and thin-forget who made
them, and who will deign TO speak to nothing
in the shape of humanity unless done up in silk
or hroadcloth. Such folks, my boy, are hum
bugs. They take style too thick, and so far
as good opinion goes they play out. Twenty
pounds Of prosperity to the square foot will
squeeze the lacteal of kindness out of too many
men. Style and sense are different, my boy
Sense wears well, but too many people take
style in preference Let US not do it, my boy,
as style will change every time. Brief author
ity is hard testing machine, and the man who
can stand its pressure and not get stiff in the
back and forget to look low enough to see his
friends, is worth hitChiDg 10, We are made Of
flesh, bones and blood, my boy. We all must
die, aud then, unless We have minded our own
| business and stuck 10 our stand even if we did
not sell a cents worth, people will say we were
good fellow till style made levy.


If you are a man, be man If you are a
butcher, roll up your sleeves. my boy, and stick





ashamed Of it-even the Son Of God was bank.
rupt, but he never went back on his friends,
took style or spoke harsh word to the poor
If you have business, stick to it like man.
If you have no business, find one If you sue,
ceed in it, don't get proud aud go back on
early friends.


This is queer world my boy. People get
dieadfnlIy mixed up. People do not inherit
Office in this country. Election day comes quite
often, and rotation in Office is the word Be
just what you are. There are different kinds
of timber-a useful If poor, don't fake style
to deceive folks-if rich, don't take style to
disgust them.-If in authority, don't be a hog
because it is easier to grant than talk auu
never get above your business We are all OF
US, my boy, more alike than we are willing to
acknowledge. This habit of taking style and
putting on airs is like sticking pine limbs inthe
ground on gala days, to make country folks
think they are trees-wJhout the root, sum
mer sun soon diSpels the illusion


In this country, my boy, where one man is
just as good as another-where the priest and
murderer walk to the gallows side by side,
| taking style over summer clothes, small feet,
curly hair, rich relatives, petty Offices, or posi-