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THE SHEATH OF CUSTOM,
have we reached the very best
METHODS OF LVING?
Our ProneneM to Honor Customs and
j*rotlc'H Simply Because Everybody lUso
Doth —How Much Is Roosonable and
How Mncli Is Merely Arbitrary?
Every human being: prows up inside a
theath of custom, which enfolds it as the
swathing clothes enfold the Infant. The
sacred customs of one’s own early homo,
how fixed and immutable they appear to
the child! It surely thinks that all tho
world in all times has proceeded on tho
falD e lines which bound its tiny life. It
regards a breach of these rules (some of
them, at least) as a wild step in the dark,
leading to unknown dangers The elders
have always said (and, indeed, it seems
onlv reasonable) that by this time of day
everything has been so thoroughly worked
o ver that the best methods of ordering
our life —food, dress, domestic practices,
social habits —have long ago been deter
mined. If so, why these divergences in
the simplest and most obvious matters?
And then one thing after another gives
way. The sacred, world wide customs in
which we are bred turn out to bo only
the practices of a small or narrow caste or
class; or they prove to be confined to a
very limited locality, and must bo left be
hind when we set out on our travels; or
they belong to the tenets of a feeble sect;
or they are just the products of one age
in history and no other.
Are there really no natural boundaries?
Has not our life anywhere been founded
on reason and necessity, but only on arbi
trary customs? What is more important
than food, yet in vvliat human matter are
there more arbitrary divergences of prac
tice? The Scotch Highlander flourishes
on oatmeal, which the English Sheffield
iron worker would rather starve than eat;
tho fat snail which tho Roman country
gentleman once so prized now crawls un
molested in English or American gardens;
rabbits are tabooed in Germany; frogs aro
unspeakable in England; sauerkraut is
detested in France; many races and
gangs of people aro quite certain they
would die if deprived of meat; others
think spirits of some kind a necessity,
while to others again both these things
aro an abomination.
AND YET, WHY NOT?
Every district has its local practices in
food, and tho peasants look with tho
greatest suspicion on any new dish, and
can rarely be induced to adopt it. Though
it has been abundantly proved that many
of the fungi are excellent eating, such is
the force of custom that the mushroom
alone is ever publicly recognized, while
curiously enough it is said that in some
other countries where the claims of other
Agarics aro allowed tho mushroom itself
is not used. Finally. I fec-1 myself (and
the gentle reader probably feels the same)
that I would rather die than subsist on
insects, such is tho deep seated disgust
we experience toward this class of food.
Yet it is notorious that many races of
respectable people adopt a diet of this
sort, and only lately a book has been pub
lished giving a detail of excellent proven
der of the kind we habitually overlook—
nasty morsels of caterpillars and beetles,
and so forth*
And, indeed, when one comes to think
of it, what can it bo but prejudice which
causes one to eat the periwinkle and re
ject tho land snail, or to prize the lively
prawn and proscribe the cheerful grass
hopper? Why do wo sit on chairs instead
of on the floor, as the Japanese do. or on
cushions like tho Turks? It is custom,
and perhaps it suits with our other cus
toms. Tho more we look into oar life and
consider the immense variety of habit in
every department of it —even under con
ditions to all appearances exactly similar
—the more aro wo impressed by the ab
sence of any serious necessity in the
forms we ourselves are accustomed to.
Each race, each class, each section of the
population, each unit even, vaunts its
own habits of life as superior to tho rest,
as the only true and legitimate forms;
and peoples and classes will go to war
with each other in their assertion of their
own special belief and practices, but tho
question that rather presses upon the in
genuous and inquiring mind is whether
auy of us have got hold of much true life
at all. —Home Journal.
Italians Not Good Soldiers.
Italians, the veteran diplomatist goes
on to say, may become good diplomatists,
sound jurists and successful merchants,
but they will never be soldiers in the true
sense of that word. Take their splendid
fleet of ironclads, for example, and mar
shal it in battle array against a French,
English, Russian or German squadron,
commanded by a French, an English, a
Russian or a German admiral, and the dis
aster of Lissa will be rehearsed over again.
Much of this incapacity for successful
military achievement is due to want of
training on the part of the officers. In
Italy there are many military schools that
are well attended; but in them, as in the
universities, three is a fatal lack of sever
ity in the examinations, and once the
student has left school ho is never after
ward seen with a book in bis hand.
It is for this reason that wo hud the
officers in command of the Red Sea expe
dition committing precisely the same er
rors that their predecessors fell into in
lb4t) and ISbb. The Italian officer seems
to be concerned about only one thing—the
effect that he is producing on the women
and on the bystanders in general, and 1
have seen veterans covered with decora
tions, who never forgot, before going into
the street, to ari*ange their hats and to
look into a glass.—Paris Cor. New York
Press.
Good Advice to Speculators.
Speculation is a business that must bo
studied as a specialty, and though it is
popularly believed that any man who has
mouey can speculate, yet the ordinary
man, without special training in the busi
ness, is liable to make as great a mistake
in this attempt as the man who thinks ho
can act as his own lawyer and who is said
“to have a fool for a client.” The com
mon delusion that expert knowledge is
not required in speculation has wrecked
many fortunes and reputations in YV all
strict, and is still very influential in its
pernicious and illusory achievements.
Professional advice in Wall street, as
in legal affairs, is worth paying for, and
costs far less in the end than the chief
“points” that are distributed profusely
nround the street, thick as autumn leaves
in Yaiiambrosa, and which only allure
the innocent speculator to put his money
where ho is almost certain to lose it. My
advice to speculate.rs who wish to make
money in Wall street, therefore, is to ig
nore tho counsel of the barroom “tippers”
and “tipplers,” turn their backs on
“bucket shops,” and when they want
“points” to purchase let them go to those
who know.—Henry Clews in the Cosmo
politan. ' •
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