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Show A Solnuin Fraternity. The gentlemen who provido humanity with its last lodging require no cards to i designate their calling, or to indicate ' what they uro ready to undertake for I their defunct follow beings. It is writ-j writ-j ten on their faces, in their deportment, on their habiliments all over them. They are their own cards. If one were to meet an undertaker under the shadow of the pyramids or at Spitsbergen there could bo no difficulty in recognizing him as a member of the funereal profession. Undertakers as a rule are moral, estimable estima-ble men, but they certainly do differ in aspect and manners from tha mass of :.iaukind. Tsere w ;n indescribable air UDOiii them, which for lack of a better word we must cull posthumous. Constant intercourse with the bereaved makes their voices mournful; for your undertaker ever assimilates his tones to those of his afflicted customers, and ho thereby acquires a habit of talking a. if ho had lost all his friends. In like manner man-ner the '"havior of his visage" becomes woe begone past all remedy. His very smiles are only deadly-lively. Then . there is a severe plainness about the cut of his black suit which, to ay nothing of its melancholy hue, is a rebuke to worldly vanity and a solemn hint that fashion and frivolity aro of small account ac-count when his duties are to be performed. per-formed. Nevertheless, the craft is a highly respectable craft, and we have J not a word to say against it. Now York 1 Ledger. |