Show J t IDLKNISS PLAYS MANY PARTS There are the conttltutlohally Indo lent thoie who like Dr Johnson are never phyilcally ready to get up In the morning but who like him are poi cued of a coniclence which compel them now and again to face the refle lion 01 what they have compared with what they might have done and to stand aghatt at the comparlion There are those whom clrcumttancei have made Idle rlchett absence of motive for exertion i III health real or fancied I Indulgent intends and much more often by Indulgence That Idleness hone h-one ol the seven deadly ilnt gives them no tortot concern I It U of theritence ot their complaint have no feeling of their own Infirmity They are asleep then rannot Ml their dreamt for < tIng h t I Ing liltlig up I nemlm relaxation hat become a habit and to thenas to the Immortal Mr Tool though from a IHercnl motive nothing liol any con cquence Hut whereat It was hh olIn convenience hi < own reeling hit own omfiiit that never were of consequence conse-quence to the umetflih roots It I li I pre UelyJ our convenience your feeling your comfort that aeIo the Idle man ol no consequence Floating Idly about on the great Pacific ocean ol Indolence he make first one compro mlie and then another with lelfret peel until he end by lacrlflclng the esteem of hit fellowmen on the private altar ol his own sloth Hit attain get first muddled then embarrassed then decaying hen deiperatei and he feebly flatters himself with an Idea ol pros eiliy now that alii li gone III It of no consequence lo him that he tat impoverished hli relation and brought hit wife who brought him money ai welt at good will who hat borne him children and borne with him Ir a quarter of a cenlry II It I ol no consequence to him that he hat brought her and them to poverty Hit und unalterably good huntored face stolidly physical bearing his placid quanlmlty proclaim him a true lobos eater To him It It always allernoon Why should he toll Let what It broken remain toilet him alone lie hone 01 he Illuicd race of men who ask only emlitlont from labor Unfoilunatcly for 11tis Iotuicatcr lobs ae not Indl emus In the llrlllth isle He cannot or will not dig to beg he It not aihamed onlyIt It 1 too much trouble lilt table Is I furnished he tcarccly know and not nt all caret how or by whom ion or laughter wife or brother friend or itranger It It I all one to him lilt friend have long given up all thought of hit working have given In to the power ol the Vlt 1 Inertia of which he It to prodlglout an example Itke Urn birds of the air though he neither sown nor rear far leu stores up for the fume fu-me yet he la I fed and clothed and h I teldom moreo without coin In lilt pocket Aa In the anlworld there Is I a race of idlers to Inveterately helpless list ihould heir voluntary nuric desert them Ihcywouttl die of their own Incapacity lo provide food for themselves 10 among other men there It I scarcely a community without III Idle mcnibcri to whom the Industrious mlnlitcr for whom they toll and deny themselves In order to prolong for their parasites their long day of rest and dreamful ease That Idlenei should hate been long considered the badge ol gentry vie all remember the servant who warranted her mistress quite a lady becauelhc never put her hand to nOlhlnand that Mils notion illll I survives uncon tcloutly In many mind la I perhaps one reason why the Idle are to long endured that they hate In all probability sunk In the social scale and ttlll preserve tome trace of the gentility to which they vicreborn U another They are living paradoxes They eat bread untwcetcn ed by toll and do not find It dltagrcci with them They deep the sleep of the juit and never dream unfilled dulls They somehow manage lo escape the unlvcrial doom while those about then earn their bread by the sweat of their brow thcie are concerned only In the contumptlon 011 It and never turn a hair In lit production Lean In mind plump of person Incorrigibly Idle and Imper turably good tei pered Ihey peaceful bring Ihelr preposterous career to a con elusion and the story 0111 reads likes tatlre upon careful Induilrj Chamber Journal |