I believe the phrase is to give, not to make, a rout or a ball. And though if a lady loses her thimble she sometimes makes a rout about it, yet that, I believe, is rather a vulgarism; like making a fuss or a bustle about trifles.
We say, such a thing makes me sick, or makes me laugh.
If a man has a good wife, he should make much of her; if a bad one, he should make the best of it; or at least make himself easy, but not make away with her.
To create, means to make something out of nothing. Hence we say, metaphorically, to create a dispute, that is, to dispute about nothing.
But it is time to make an end of this article.
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DETACHED THOUGHTS.
The Swiss, who shot himself because he was tired of dressing and undressing, would have done so long before, had he not had so much employment. Our Creator, knowing what sort of particles he composed us of, obliged us to labour, not only for the support of ‘life,’ but of existence itself. Were we cloathed by nature like the other animals, and subsisted on the spontaneous herbage of the field, we should lose our patience before fifty, and hang or drown ourselves in dread of three score.
Maids should be seen and not heard, they say. This is comparing them to peacocks.
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