IT IS A MISTAKE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1882, 5 March 1880, Page 3

IT IS A MISTAKE.

Ifc is a mistake to suppose that a man is never employed as conductor of a horse oar ■unless he can bring the certificate of a respectable physician testifying to his total deafness. It only seems so to you because you happen not to attract his attention when particular’y desirous to take his car. It is a mistake to think that your actions or desires have any influence on the dispenser of weather. You should be thankful they •do not. If they did, Old Prob would go mad and your fellow-countrymen go madder. It is a mistake to think your interlocutor is listening to what you say. He is thinking either of what he has said or is going to say, just as you were and will be. It is a mistake, young man, when you think the girls are just dying after you. It is only you who are thoroughly in lovo with yourself. It is a mistake for a preacher to say, “Just one word more, and lam done.” He but lengthens his discourse by so much, without deceiving any one of his hearers for an nstant. It is a mistake to suppose that everybody is thinking about you. You do so much of that kind of work yourself that you exhaust the subject. It is a mistake to expect a direct answer from a politician. His life is given to dodging questions before election and giving evasive answers after election. It is a mistake to suppose that your children will be satiefied with your experiences. You didn’t accept your father’s, but preferred taking a term in the same dear school. It is a mistake to suppose that men do not mean what they say. There is but one man of whom you cun positively make that affirmation. It is a mistake to suppose that the dismally pious man has had a change of heart. The change is in his liver, if anywhere. It is a mistake to suppose that peoplo go to a concert to hear the music. They go simply to exchange receipts for doughnuts and dropcakes. It is a mistake to suppose that your friend is consumcdly interested in your eloquent description of your liver troubles. On the contrary, he is excessively anxious to toll you of his catarrh.