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5
"NOTHING TO DO."
AN ACCOMPANIMENT TO " NOTHING TO WEAR."
MOST compassionate public, whose pitying ear,
Ever ready the tale of the wretched to
hear,
Has lately been touched by those destitute fair,
Who  so ably have shown that they'd
"Nothing to Wear,"




6        Nothing  to  Do.
Be not deaf to a case, much more
wretched, I ween,
More hopeless, more sad, than you ever
hlave seen.
A tale I'll unfold, which shall cast in
the shade
All the sorrows of woman, wife, widow,
or maid;'Tis a tale of strong men, not more
startling than true,
Of strong vigorous men, who have nothing to do.
For if ladies of fashion have nothing to
wear,




Nothing  to  Do.           7'Tis a comfort that fashion herself is
quite bare.
If disconsolate widows mourn over their
dead,
There is peace in the grave, for the
low-coffined head.
And if destitute orphans have very slim
fare,
Like cameleons they seem to grow fat
upon air.
But these men, whose sad fate I'm deploring to you,
Are just dying by inches, of nothing to
do;




8        Nothing  to  Do.
And while full of all vigor, which manhood can give,
Just for want of employment, are dead
while they live,
And as naked of energy, shall I confess,
As any fair belle in her evei_'s  -dress;
Just as starving in soul, and as empty
in mind,
As any young babe, whom your pity
might find.
As a type take Fitz Frivol, whose case,
it appears,
Might move e'en a Cayman to pity
and tears:




Nothing  to  Do.          9
Fitz Frivol, the pride and the pet of
the town;
Who quite charmed with his smile, and
quite killed with his frown;
Whose cravats were such loves, and
whose waistcoats so sweet,
And whose beavers so glossy, whose
chaussure so neat;
Who  shook  back  his locks, when he
lifted his head,
With an air like Hyperion, yet better
bred;
Whose moustache would have made him
quite worshipped in China,




Io       Nothing  to  Do.
No  celestial on  earth  ever sported  a
finer;
Who muttered so sweetly, and whispered
so fine,
One scarce heard what he said, but supposed it divine;
Who danced just like an angel (I borrow the phrase
From  those better versed in angelic displays).
Yet that gforious creature, that model of
man,
Is now fallen as low as humanity
can,




Nothing  to  Do.          11 
Is ragged and haggard, and loathsome
and pale.
Despised and forgotten, ah! what shall
avail
It to him that he once led the German at all
The most elegant fetes, or at concert or
ball,
Of all eyes was the cynosure, star and
delight,
Since his star is now set in a fathomless night?
And it happened in this, as in thousands
of cases,




I2       Nothing  to Do.
With those who depend on their waistcoats and graces:
The most peerless moustache, which e'er
exquisite grew,
Cannot keep up a man who has nothing
to do;
E'en immaculate shirt-fronts, with diamond
pins,
Cannot cover for ever' a mountain of
sins;
And so fell poor Fitz Frivol, so slowly,
so sure,
He who once was a love, is now voted
a bore.




Nothing to Do.          I13
His father, good man, had worked early
and late,
And worn off all the hair from his poor
shining pate
With thinking and planning, and selling
and buying,
With raking and scraping, inventing and
trying,
And stock-jobbing and patents, and real
estate,
Trying every scheme, which but offered
a bait,
Till his cheeks had grown hollow, his
nose had grown blue,




14      Nothing to Do.
And all this that young Fitz might
have nothing to do;
Nor once thought of the proverb, that
points out the evil,
And calls it so aptly inviting the Devil.
Nor once doubted the mother, while
cobbling and mending,
In darning and stitching  her eye-sight
expending,
Of the glorious end which it all had in
view,




Nothing  to  Do.            5
That her darling and heir might have
nothing to do.'So she lived without jewels and camelhair shawls,
Denied herself operas, concerts, and balls,
N6r went shopping at Arnold's for ribbon or lace
Which might cost half as much in some
shadier place,
Nor paraded the streets as if drest for
a ball,
Through the dust and the dirt, just for
nothing at all,
Eschewing the fashion insane and unclean,




I 6      Nothing  to Do.
Which would use rich brocade for a
sweeping machine;
Though she lived in Fifth avenue, supped in the basement,
Which need not, however, cause too much
amazement,
For the meal was quite suitable, simple,
and light,
A hybrid'twixt dinner and supper at
night,
When  the  "paterfamilias"  found  his
way up,
Having dined down in Wall street on
cold mutton chop,




Nothing  to  Do.          17
From a day of hard labor, his home to
enjoy,
And dream dreams of hope for his
promising boy.
Neither parent regretted the pinching,
the care,
Poor, simple, deluded, but much loving
pair,
For the hope of the future was better
to him
Than champagne and fast horses, and
every whim




18       Nothing  to  Do.
Which the gay and the selfish consider
should go
To make up the idea of Elysium below:
That hope of the future-more potent
the charm
Than a camel-hair shawl, for it kept her
heart warm,
A heart which for diamonds had never
a care
For it owned but one jewel, and treasured it-there;
To the eyes which grew heavy with
labor or pain,




Nothing  to  Do.          19
That hope of the future gave brightness again,
And so on through long years, till the
child grew a man,
Till the seed-time was over, and harvest
began.
And here I might aptly break off for
a while,
And say something of farming, in episode
style,
Talk of breaking up rocks, and of tearing out weeds,




20       Nothing  to  Do.
Of enriching the soil, and of planting
the seeds;
And by means of this simile, striking
and new,
Bring my subject in stronger relief to
the -view;
I might preach a long sermon, with this
for my text,
And from fifthly and sixthly, go on to
my next,
Just to show in a simple and practical
way,
How to fill up a page, with but little
to say.




Nothing  to  Do.         2 1
But such figures of rhetoric suit not my
taste;
To acknowledge the truth, I am somewhat in haste
To bring my Fitz Frivol more plainly
to view,
As grown up and gone out, and much
sought after too.
He goes forth'mid the glow-worms of
fashion to shine,
Amid hundreds and thousands, such
Frivols as mine;
Nor thoughtlessly do I to glow-worms
compare




22       Nothing  to Do.
The gay creatures that shine for a little
so fair,
But when shortly the brightness has
faded away,
But a very dull grub is exposed to the
day;
And but very dull grubs are the species
I mean
Who so shining and glorious nightly are
seen.
Let us follow young Fitz as he strolls
up the street:








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Nothing  to  Do.        23
See how, gracefully bowing, the ladies
to greet,
He takes off his beaver, then with a
slight shake
Most adroitly inclines it the angle to
take
Which shall best suit his style, and then
tenderly smooths
That moustache which so great wonders
for Phalon proves,
Draws his handkerchief forth with a
graceful display,
Rubs the end of his nose, and goes
smiling away;




24       Nothing to Do.
Quite at home in his part, and quite
satisfied too,
For it suits him exactly, this nothing
to do.
Meantime, while the son goes on, smiling and nodding,
The honest papa in his wareroom is
plodding,
For the life of hard labor which made
him succeed
Is TOO hard for his delicate offspring to
lead.








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Nothing  to  Do.          25
You may follow him still in his dashing career,
For his stylish turn-out is just coming
on here;
You shall see him perform his most
daring and best
Olympian act, I mean riding abreast
With an omnibus stage and an Adams
express,
Which he gallantly beats by a length,
more or less;
And the most crowded streets, I have
noticed, always
Seem approved of the most for these
chariot (lisplays.




26       Nothing  to  Do.
To the billiard saloon you shall follow
him too,
Where he shows no small aptness in
minding his cue;
He will even give fifty, and yet win
his match,
Unless you should gain by some fortunate scratch.
With honor and ease, to the bar he's
admitted,
And doubtless with glory himself has
acquitted




Nothing  to  Do.          27
In cases of cobblers, and juleps, and
smashes,
And  even  at "stone  fences"  gallantly
dashes.
He can show country cousins to dozens
of places,
Where the men spend as much as the
women for laces.
You shall see him while smoking, while
betting, while playing
At all sorts of games; for indeed there's
no saying
What numbers of elegant ways he has
learned




28       Nothing  to  Do.
To make way with the money his poor
father earned.
He may even have learned those accomplishments fitting
The elegant man, id est, chewing and
spitting.
All this and much more you shall see
if you go
Where they congregate most, who theii
glories would show.
Thus the morning review is successfully
made;




Nothing  to  Do.          29
You shall see him again at the evening
parade,
Still more brilliant than ever, with jewel
and chain
Fully armed for the conquest, nor striving in vain.
Like a planet whose satellites follow him
round,
Lo! wherever he turns, a fair audience
is found,




30       Nothing  to  Do.
To admire his sallies and laugh at his
jest,
Though I own it is seldom correctly
expressed;
But all styles have admirers, so I've
heard say,
And those whom Fitz Frivol admires
are they
Who spend all their lives dressing, yet
ever declare,
As we lately have heard, that they've
nothing to wear!
And the cause of this dressing I'll
whisper to you



Nothing to Do.           3''Tis to suit the young men who have
nothing to do.'Tis a fact undisputed, from Pekin to
Cadiz,
That the taste of the men is the guide
for the ladies;
The Flora M'Flimseys, beflounced and
belaced,
Are just suited to many a masculine
tasteA taste on philosophy founded, no
doubtWhat is wanting within, should be made
up without;




32       Nothing  to  Do.
And the idols of fashion would shortly
expire,
If the male devotees would but cease
to admire;
And I ask those who reason from natural laws,
Which  should  first be  removed, the
effect or the cause'
But I said that the ladies admired my
hero,




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Nothing  to  Do.           33
(There are ladies who'd even admire a
Nero,)
For they chattered to him, without danger or fear
Of the pointed rebuke or the cynical
sneer.'Tis a saving of trouble, and thinking,
and bother,
When  people's capacities just suit each
other;
No fear of one's sallies passed by or
rejected,
Or the  other's  grammatical errors detected.




34       Nothing  to  Do.
So Fitz Frivol is honored, and feted, and
courted,
As becomes a young man who's a
Croesus reported;
Is invited by all the great Newcomes
up town,
Is pronounced most genteel, and endorsed too by BrownThe  same  who  transformed  the Fifth
Avenue dwelling
From its quiet routine (spite the elders
rebelling)
To a palace of splendor, and straightway gave out




Nothing  to Do.          35
Full five hundred invites to an elegant
rout;
Where played the champagne e'en a little
too free,
And some very nice men played the
fiddle de-dee.
After supper (the ladies had quitted the
throng),
Young Fitz, glass in hand, gave the following song:
Quaff from the cup of pleasure,
Ask not who distils it;




36       Nothing -to Do.
Drink from the sparkling measure,
And never ask who fills it.
The honey bee asks not,
While o'er the flower enchanted
He revels in his happy lot,
By whom the flower was planted.
Then fill a bumper quick,
Drink to the careful father
Who plants the nut for us to crack.
The plum for us to gather.




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Nothing to Do.           37
But when the poor mother of Fitz Frivol beheld
All the morrow's confusion, her spirit was
quelled;
She began to perceive that the son of
her love
Now belonged to a sphere where she
never could move,
And would soon be entirely lost to her
view'Mid the crowd of gay folks who have
nothing to do.
So'tis said that she folded her work up
and sighed;




38       Nothing  to  Do.
And, her life's labor ended, she lay down
and died.
So it has been and will be with many
anotherAll her life for a dream and a shadow
-poor mother!
But the father!  and did he not glory
and joy
In the fashion and fame of his dearlyloved boy




Nothing to Do.           39
Yes, of course; but he saw him so seldom of late,'Twas so tedious at night for his coming
to wait:
And'twas ever a problem he could not
resolve,
Which again and again through his mind
would revolve,
That the son for whom leisure and pleasure to gain
He had given a lifetime of labor and
pain;
Who had time to attend to each fashionri::
and whim,




40o      Nothing  to  Do.
Had not even an hour, a moment for
him.
WVhen they met in the street, he was
smiling and gay,
But engagements led each quite a different way:
The elder continued his journey down
town,
While the younger went up to take
counsel of Brown.
So the father just did as the wise insects
do,




Nothing to Do.         41
Who provide for their offspring with
instinct so true;
And having attained the main object of
life,
Said good night to the world, and lay
down with his wife.
Fitz Frivol was now at the zenith of
glory;
O who has not heard of the fame of
his story!




42       Nothing to  Do.
The knight still most favored he carried
the day,
For his fortune had not yet quite
melted away.
And he sported with hearts in a manner
most cruel,
For many a mother's particular jewel
Had  been  his for  the  asking;  but
rather chose he
To disport in his sunshine, the gay fickle
bee;
To enjoy the sensation his coming produced,
And the flutter of joy which his presence
infused.




Nothing to Do.           43
When he went to a concert, no Thalberg was heard
By the ladies who greatly to Thalberg
preferred
A flirtation with him, and kept up such
a noise,
Less suited to ladies than to rowdy schoolboys.
At the opera, too, they kept up such
a chatter,
Such laughing, and whispering, and vexatious clatter,Not even in church could these damsels
be still,




44       Nothing  to  Do.
For at fashion's own fane they conducted
so ill
As to gain for themselves the distinguished renown
Of a little bit faster than any in town.
Though he had not the comfort of
feminine cousins,
He had fair correspondents and letters
by dozens;
And he showed them of course, for
what pleasure or credit
In a lady's love-letter if nobody read it!
And he met these fair friends just by
chance it would seem,








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When he dropped in at Taylor's to take
an ice-cream.
And they laughed all the time at the
present, the past:'Twas an excellent joke from the first to
the last.
The wit was obscure, I acknowledge'tis true,
People laugh at small jokes who have
nothing to do.
But I haste by the end of my story to
prove
The case which I hoped your compassion should move.




46       Nothing to Do.
The picture reversed, in the space of
six years
His large fortune is spent, and Fitz
Frivol appears
Like the elegant purse when deprived of
its filling,
In fact, like the gingerbread minus the
gilding;
And now'tis in vain that to Newport
he goes,
And frequents all the regular markets
and shows,
Where people exhibit the animal human,








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Nothing  to  Do.         4-7
The patent-leather man, and the crinoline
woman.
More gaily than ever the pave he walks,
More softly than ever his nothings he
talks:
But in vain-for the fact of it is, there
are few
Who admire poor men who have nothing
to do.
Thus his chances are small, since he's not
a French count,
Or a baron from Germany, where the
amount
Of distinction and title would set at defiance




48       Nothing  to  Do.
All objection to such an unsuited alliance
Not even a foreign musician is he,
Whose bad English would seem an
attraction to be.
Yet, if that be the charm, there is no
need to roam,
One may hear very singular English at
home.
He is none of these charmers-his passport is gone;
He falls back on his merits, and, lo,
they are flown!
So he straightway goes down to the
depths of despair,




Nothing  to  Do.           -9
Neglects his moustache, and turns false
to his hair;
And descends by degrees, as I told you
before,
From the leader of ton to the veriest
bore
Who ever held up an example to view
Of the fate of a trifler with nothing to
do.
You will think that, perhaps, as a national
failing,




50       Nothing  to Do.
This case is uncommon, and say I am
railing
On very small grounds; but the evil is
growing,
Out of luxury, pride, and frivolity flowing;
And this generation despises the pains
By which the preceding its affluence
gains.
Many fathers are laboring,'twould seem,
with the view
That their sons may live easy, with
nothing to do.
And many there are, having spent all
their store,




Nothing  to  Do.            51
And no sort of resource to supply them
with more;
Inefficient and indolent, having no taste
For  aught  but  extravagance,  luxury,
waste;
Are fit subjects for charity's self to bewail,
A sad moral to point or illustrate a tale.
Of such can society point out a host,
And'tis these, I declare, you should pity
the most.
Does so little work offer, 0, can it be
true!
That  these  destitute  men  can  find
nothing to do!




52       Nothing to Do.
In the vineyard stand idle, encumber the
ground,
Or  like  poisonous  parasites  clinging
around
The firm stem that supports them, but
having no strength
To continue when that is exhausted at
length.
Is there nothing to study and nothing
to learn,
No object to care for, no credit to earn;




Nothing to Do.           53
No wisdom  worth seeking, no aim  to
fulfil,
No hope to encourage, no motive for
will;
No  field  unexplored, no  pathway  to
aught
That is worthy a being of reason and
thought?
Can it be there is nothing an int'rest
possessing
More worth than society, dashing, and
dressing!!




54-      Nothing  to  Do.
0, you charity folks! who give balls for
the poor,
And sing songs for the wretched, O
have you no more
Pleasant ways of exciting benevolent
feeling,
To the hearts or the heels of the fashion
appealing?
You industrial people, who get up the
places
Where labor brings joy to so many small
faces,
0 have you no sympathy, have you
no plan,








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Nothing  to  Do.        55
To provide for the helpless, the indolent
man'
Ah, could but the Genii with magical
wand
Transform as of old, and by mighty
command
Make the soft sons of luxury take up
the hoe,
rhe shovel, the pick-axe, and change with
the low,
Over-tasked sons of labor, who struggle
and toil




56       Nothing  to  Do.
Where the winter winds freeze and the
summer suns broil!
(There many true spirits misplaced you
will find,
Where penury's fetters keep slavish the
mind;
Opportunity lacking to burst from the
chain
Which binds them to ignorance, longing
in vain
For the fountains of knowledge which
others refuse;
For the least of the chances which others
abuse.) —




Nothing to Do.           57
Then the dull and the slothful and
grovelling alone
Would be drawers of water and hewers
of stone;
Then a cure would be found for this
fast spreading evil,
And the test of the mind would bring
all to their level;
Then would men be adjudged by an
estimate true,
And the triflers of fashion-find something
to do.








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Perspective of Form, Shade and Shadow, and Reflection.
BY R. S. SMITIt,
Professor of MAathematics and Civil Engineering in the IBrookl-n
Collegiate and Polytechnic Institu e.
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THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON IN
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WITH REMARKS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF CAPITAL IN IRON
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BY GEORGE WILKIE, Civil Engineer.
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MANUFACTURE OF IRON IN THE UNITED STATES,
Capital employed, and cost of production of Charcoal, Coke,
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and Rolling Mills, Importation and Prices of Railroad, Bar and
Pig Iron for a period of thirty years; Capital employed in Iron
Castings in the United States, &c., &c.
By B. F. FRENCH,
Member of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science; of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New
York; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
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