THE "PAIL" OF CIVILISATION, AND HOW IT IS FILLED DIFFERENTLY BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. [From Punch.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 12 June 1852, Page 4

THE "PAIL" OF CIVILISATION, AND HOW IT IS FILLED DIFFERENTLY BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. [From Punch.]

The Rich Man fills it with champagne, and the best spirits, and the warmest cordials ; and the Poor Man with gruel, or beer, or vegetables, or whatever scraps he can throw into it. "With the Benevolent, it is a large" Milk-pail, overflowing with human kindness ; with the Selfish, it is nothing better than a monster Icepail to freeze everything that is-put into it. v The Teetotaller deluges it with Tea — and so does the Washerwoman — and also a large number of ladies ; but the Hospitable Man, who js neither in his tastes a Teetotaller nor a Washerwoman, fills it to overflowing with generous wine which he invites his friends to come 'and enjoy with him. The melancholy Drunkard replenishes it, time after time, with Gin, or Brandy, or Whiskey-and-water, or spirits of some sort ; but the Sober Man is perfectly content if it contains nothing stronger for his palate than Toast-and-Water. . -Those-, who are charitable .fill it with Soup, which they give away to the Poor ; and those who combine Unanty wun I" unties, fijj it with stones, which, they tell the Poor, as soon as they are broken, shall be exchanged for so many loaves of -bread. With the Good, the Pail of Civilisation is one large, loving cup, which they pass round and round, inviting every one to diink, and pledge bis neighbour,™ fellowship ; with the Bad, it is an impure vessel of strong and maddening drinks that debase all those who-put their lips to it. To some it is a fountain of Purity, filled with the sweetest waters drawn from the Well of Truth; to Others it is a deadly poison cup, which, offered treacherously in the holy name of Civilisation, is moral death to all who taste~it. But the day will surely come when the "PaU" of Civilisation will be a source of goodness and health to all who partake of it ; and, though it may be a long time hefore Civilisation wrll be able to get al^Mankind to drink out of the -same " Pail," yet that day will assuredly come, and we ouly hope that we may be there in order to have, what is vulgarly called, a "good W pull" out of it ! - 6