GROWLERS.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 435, 2 March 1875, Page 2

GROWLERS.

(Liberal Review.)

gl OST people natter themselv.B .hat their judgment to, in many-matter?, t-o exceedinely g^od- that they me bound lo be continunlly settm*. their neighhouts ri__hi \i\jou pome point or other.- Let a man-purs c what rom Be he will in politics, in reb'gim. or in tin- naia-..ir.nt ol of his- purely personal affairs and there are h.B»s ol individual.* who broadly frtate, in a public and ( n «mi-piivati-.rnani er, that- if he is not a simplelnn he is hom»t!iin.- worf-e. H is political principals, it i»»said, lead to run either in the shape of anarcby-or tyranny ; hisrriipion, il in hinted, » ill iirobubly land him f-coner or. later in a jlace horn which fie would escape, if he could ; and the lire of action wlv'cb 1 c adopts in reference to hie own persoi al tffaiie, it is moretht-n insinuated, ia caVulaterl to put him into a quagmiie of wretchedness. Yoi n_> Sn i h .minnt take.uito Itin t-e'.f a wife withont itc Kit.g i«nu.ikid iysctne of his enemies, part of whom dod:hpu;Fp|-fs tlie credit- of endeavouring to thinly and to per Made ml-eist-nat they are his friends, that he has ninde a tabe move, iiaVmueh as he has' eit her married above him or »i.»'Blh bin-, or chosen a won an who isa great dral too clever or a gnat deal too stu. i'l, much too extra vagrant, or n.turh too ' neiir,' the i-uirrniilif* up being that either he or --he it* t-i>i»t*|y to be pitied. If there, it) as much ciiiijii: al irr-*-, n »s naping critics would have us be--I,'evi', yuu; g j eople — and old people, too — will do well to BVOM*T>._iialrim<i_i.\ as iley would the sit pc which leads to /-.vermis. But tiere it* .reason to believe that not withstand ng thr n my 1 i/'| luci s to the effect lhat, Smith and i his wile and tet- 'el.*wß will lead a life in which the dis•.grreahl*-- la-geh prcd-.nunH<es over the agreeable, they n a* at*e tt> get on ».*- «•*-!'• as might be rxpette I, human n-*.---tu>e briny what i« s. Ol" .*< urs-e, now an-l then conies an expose of it . I atacr* r tabulated to make the heart of a croak r r*-j**ir.*, but Michre_»*fi_wie is* in.' ol those exceptions w-'.ioh (.mv. * lie >u'e. et gi tin. bled at for doing let-8 imp "«ft v L thuns than marking. Dress as they wilk they cannoi p* a**e eveiylo-'y lnl the event of their being negligent ahi ut t lj. ii- ittt ti e tluy are dubbed idovene, whose' gr .ss uiit t.jyi «--s- *.** iiool of their low origin and oircum-.Mai-t-es ; let ti •■• in mn v* t! c ix'ren-e in fhe other direction and t*'«-y ar? -ti nmt ze 1 as snobs who adorn their persons while riegce'in:.' i'iip itiindp. The man who is free and open, in lis ri.-n ea> 01 r rune a **cry good chance rf being Cuiirir-mn* d as- a 1 uu>bu>>. while tl e being who ie the reverse must rot be **uj*|'»-i*-*-d il he learns that he is '01 tick up,' and that all the miik of him au kindness hag departed frjm him. The individual who is prudent in the management of bis ejchiquer j|"j>rocl»iimcd a money -grab, who cares not who ful If so long as ie rise--, while t' c man who is disposed to neglect h's bu**ino-*s and be five with hia tnoney i-* set down nr n noodle, whose foll\ is- aUo criminal, and for whom no ore can po.-sibly fed snm in t,he event of hi» ruin. So many '• ore f-imilar « sample* migl-t be cited One result of tie hostile critici m which is gmeially indulged in is that-peopl-become so impervious to censure that they can bear a ft eat d mI of ill being paid about t La. m with con. pn rut ire equanimity. Another result is that hi ne&t and called for rthn.ke h:-s not the effect which it- • light, to have.

The grumhlers are divide 1 ! into clas.-e*. Th: rp are those whr. are so' uuriouslv constituted that they cannot fee others pri'spe'*oi.i-» and happy without becoming envious. These, act tinted by that, instinct which shapes things into the fo*_i, pp<».,h- 'viiiilf! )ike them to be, iry to per.-unde themselyes ann others that t!.e v ) pr> > *Bperit > v >r\d happiness are notfo great ac they appear, and in doing so apply a certain amount of b:ihn lo their wxjunde'd feeling**.. The pity is that individuals of this stamp form* a very iirge proportion of the community. Anojther cWss ol gruinb'ers is constituted by those vain' people who aimerer anxious to draw attention fo themselves, a* d make iff appear that they are cleverer than an} one pipe Such people, perhaps, occasionally pursue their c urse with profit — to themselves, the next best thing to doin ■ good work one-elf being to find fault with that done by other people. Inde*d. it seems probable that the latter course is often 1 the most profitable, the ignorant being frtqtif-ntly led to think that he must be a remarkable sharp man who can always find something in the way of censure t - say on everything that is brought under his notice. A third class of grumblers is made up of man and women 'whose disfositii n& are naturally twisted or have become soured by reason of their having suffered from misfirfune or illness. Such unhappy wretches go about with tbeir faces expressive of -gloom and di*-cont.nt. At. home they are feand by those who are nearest them ; abroad they are disliked, despised, and laughed at on account of the many infirmities of temper which they display. It is simply impossible to please Diem. The most accomplished Parisian chef tlit-i lives would fail to satisfy their changeable and particular j slates; t he keenest student soft h»ir character and those most {Jt'hir'ous of retaining their favor find it quite oiat. of tbe question to bope that, by anything tbey can «_oj"j t hey escape being snarled at and In ing, by insiuuation, called everything that is sttuid, unfeeling, and bad A man of the giumblmg fiat emit y under notice will make himmisprfrea- d those by whom he is surrounded ifadoori* left open, a chair is put -nits wrong place, or if his opinion is disputed ; while a woman of tbe same genus will work -herself almrst into histeies at ihe most trivial faults of her

servants, ber husband, or her ebildrt-n. Tbis third class is the class which gets nothing but misery from the course its members adopt. Their grumUing allays no wounded feelings, but ex| oses them to the stii g of a reproving, conscience. No wse men or women will bitterly complain simply because they are irritated, for while they are in such a frame of mind they cannot do justice . ither to themselves or to those upon whom ttey are desirous of venting their wrath. In this respect the envious and spiteful grumbler has a great advantage over the purely splenetic t*rumb'er,for, as a rule, the splenetic grumbler is a person who possesses a keen sense of right and wrong, while the spiteful grumbler is a being who does nothing of the kind It, would be well if those well-meaning souls, who are, cursed with an infirmity of tamper, could be persuaded s tbat th-;y make a profound mistake in being swayed by gusts of passion. It t-hould not be difficult to induce them to take this view, for it is a fact that there are more lives wricked, more loves turned to hate, and more general un-happiiiei-8 caused by the folly of ill temper than, perhaps by any other of t he minor sins.