CHOW BAD YOU LOOK"
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There are some people in our world, Messrs'
Printers, WHO, under the cloak OF KIND ana sym,
pathetic friendship, most dearly love 10 wound
the feelings of a fellow creature. lfyou are i'll
misfortune, they sooth you with ''poor teo,c ho,c
/ pity you-kosc hard your case is!''-or detail
to YOU a score Of unpleasant things which arc
whispered about You, entertaining you ny the
hour, as an Indian entertains his prisoner AT the
stake, with torture after torture, that he may enjoy
the satisfaction Of seeing how you bear IL II
YOU appear resigned to your fortune they tell
Won your case is too gricvous to be borne--that
YOU ought not to be insensible to it-that to be
50 seems like stupidity, or something worse--and
if not resigned, they tell you, poor 'cedG crea-
ture, non ought to bear IL ,Uih topfifHde.


You will meet these kind ofpcople IN the street
at almost all hours. If you bave been SICK, tne
first fling YOU see is the mouth screwed up, the
ewes full of the most admirably affected astonis',-
ment-and "Good hearens, ho,o bad you ioos,' on
their tongue-and then you must hear cata.
logue Of every symptom OF disease that they VIII
tell Won is visible on your CONFERENCE.-The De-
fore YOU leave them believe that you are very
fair candidate for the grave, or that your Kind
friends arc very notable story tcllers. :,


An old lady the other evening who was walk
inr in the street for exercise, was accoscd IN my
hearing with "poor dear creature! ho,, atgfui you
hok-ahi you hare that cpngh yej-nof long Jo'
this ,corM, se,i-hope yo~ are prepared tor
BETTER" The woman might or might not have
been prcparcd--but confound your pity, said ia
myself if that's the way you manifest 1t, ana al
the same time turned to look at the "awful' OBJ
iect which had caused the soliloquy-l nag
known her for ten years-she was pale and TIM
Just as she was the first day saw her.
! Sometime ago went with one OF these gooe
folks to see person who was laborlng under one
ofthose diseases which most require flow otsp'r
its to enable one to recover from. The first sal
utation the sick man received was" Bless M
ho,o 5ad you iook,-you are ten times 'rorse thni
Ihnd anil idea Of | turned on my heel anS
left my companion to manage the conversation h'
had thus introduced himself


Isuppose there will not be one of all who rcat
this that could not add an instance or two to th'
above The subject is one so dsagrceablc to m'
that cannot dwell upon it. 1t is the crosses


cruelty thus to sport with the feelings OF the in
Fortunate. And if, reader, one OF Your neigh
bors is in the habit fdoing sol beg OF you t
!, send him this paper-mark the piece, and per


haps they will consider how improper their con


duct is, and be induced to amend it.


Gsorrcto,cn Metropolitan.