Salad for the solitary and the social: . SPORTS AND PASTIMES. • Mirth is the medicine of life,—It cures its ills, it calms its strife;It softly smooths the brow of care,And writes a thousand graces there. It has been justly said tliat recreation, exactly considered, isan advantage which few, if any, are willing altogether to forego,and which the most severe philosophy does not deny. It is, in-deed, in one form or other, the object of universal pursuit—for without its participation to some extent, life would lose itsprincipal attraction, and mankind would degenerate into thesettled gloom of moo
Salad for the solitary and the social: . SPORTS AND PASTIMES. • Mirth is the medicine of life,—It cures its ills, it calms its strife;It softly smooths the brow of care,And writes a thousand graces there. It has been justly said tliat recreation, exactly considered, isan advantage which few, if any, are willing altogether to forego,and which the most severe philosophy does not deny. It is, in-deed, in one form or other, the object of universal pursuit—for without its participation to some extent, life would lose itsprincipal attraction, and mankind would degenerate into thesettled gloom of moody melancholy. Pelaxation from theseverer toils of life is as necessary to hnman existence, as lightis to the physical universe; without its appropriate indulgence, 136 SPORTS AND PASTIMES. all the pleasant things which impart their thousand charms toour social economy, would at once become eclipsed in the dark-ness of desolation and despair. If it be true that man is the onlyanimal that laughs, is it not fair to infer that, by an
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