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AUTUMN IN THE IIILLS.
Time is on the autumn yellow,
Short will be the golden days,
IHad and short the glory mellow
t* *■ Os the calm October hare.
Paint for me the glory dying,
Swift must ply the pencil bold
That would seize the splend rs flying
O’er the autumn’s cloth of gold.
Up the rugged edged horizon,
Catch the changes as they creep,
In chromatic ridges rising
From the valley-shadows deep.
Purple-mantled sits the mountain,
, Cushioned on the yellow vale;
Si! ver-stemmed beside the fountain
5 Gleams the lamp of the birch-tree pale.
Through the golden, hazy reaches
Radiant bars of suu-light come,
Slanting down among the beeches,
Where the wood-grouse rolls his drum.
Ia the trembling light the spruces
; * Waver on the hill-sides old,
Revellers in the velvet raiment,
Overlaid with larchcn gold.
Oh ! like dreaming is the gleaming
Os the autumn-tinted hills ;
Sketcher, darker grows their beaming,
While thy hand the picture fills.
Passing in the autumn yellow,
Short will be the golden days
Os the Indian Summer mellow,
And the bright October haze.
For the wild-fowl’s trumpet ringing,
Over-head the silence breaks,
See the phalanx southward winging
From the marshy northern lakes.
Clouds are curling, smoke is whirling,
Rain is in the driving nicks;
Comes a hand the dead leaves hurling,
Dreary days are on our tracks.
BY AND BY
BY DAVID BATKS.
There is an angel ever near,
When toil and trouble vex and try,
That bids our fainting hearts take cheer,
And whispers to us—“ By and by.”
We hear it at our mother’s knee,
With tender smile and lore-lit eye
She grants some boon on childish plea,
In these soft accents —“ By and by.”
VThat vision, crowd the youthful breast—
What holy aspirations high
Serve the young heart to do its best.
And wait the promise—“ By and by.”
The maiden sitting sad and lone,
Her thoughts half uttered with a sigh,
Xwses the grief she will not own,
‘And dreams bright dreams of—“ By and by.”
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The pale young wife dries up her tears,
JLnd stills her restless infant’s cry;
Td.eatch the coming step, but bears,
Bow sadly whispered—” By and by.”
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And manhood, with his strength and will,
*o breast life’s ills and fate defy,
Though feme and fortune be his, still
£bs plans that lie in—“ By and by.”
The destitute, whose scanty sere
The weary task can scarce supply,
Cheat the grim visage of despair
JFith Hope's fair promise—“ By and by.”
The millions whom oppressions wrongs
Send up to heaven their wailing cry,
And writhing in the tyrant’s throngs,
Still hope for freedom—-‘By and by.”
Thns ever o’er life’s rugged way,
This angel, bending from the sky.
Beguiles our sorrows’ day by day,
Ifith her sweet whispering—•• By and by.
Cl Scmtljmr iUcckhj Cifminj anti iVLisctllantoiiß Journal, for iljt ijornc Circle,
Aunt Patience’s Stage-Ride;
08, THE CHANGEABLE SATIN.
BY EMMA CARRA.
“0, for the halycon days of my girl
hood 1” exclaimed Aunt Patience, one
morning as she saw the train of cars
pulling and steaming past her door in
their onward flight, outstripping even
old Father time, with its lightning speed;
“0, fora return of those bright antici
pations and real hours of pleasure I have
enjoyed in a good old-fashioned stage
ride. Gome in, girls,” said she, “and I
will tell you a short story; it will have
one merit, if no more, that is, truth;
which you don’t hear every day.”
Aunt Patience was an odd-looking
being, and her words were as queer as
the fount from whence they sprung; and
nothing gave us more pleasure than an
announcement like the one she had just
spoken.
“I was ten or fifteen years over sweet
sixteen,” said she : “ it. is no use for me
to say that I was beautiful, for folks
would only say I meant my sister ; and
she was handsome as a picture—hut
don't you be frightened, girls, I ain’t
goin’ into the particulars,
“It was a few years after navarino
bonnets bad gone out of fashion. My
grandmother being a very prudent wo
man, bad kept hers for posterity, and at
the time 1 have spoken of she had made
me her heir. It had donned the Quaker
colored ribbon, and was now trimmed in
a most liberal manner with a variety of
hues, hut among the most conspicuous
was deep red. My shawl—how valuable
it would have been to an antiquary. In
short, there never was a more complete
correspondence of costume throughout
than mine.
“The journey I was to take was about
fifty miles; I was to pay my first visit
to Boston, and to cousin Nabby Arnold’s.
The sun had just risen, when Mr. Ver
non’s great green and yellow stage came
to a stand in front of our little wicket
gate.
“‘Are you ready ?’ said the driver, dis
mounting from his throne, with an air
that plainly said, 1 1 shan't wait for you,’
“‘Yes,’ I replied, very mildly, being
anxious to obtain his good graces, hoping
thereby to secure a better seat; but I
believe a voice of thunder would have
answered the purpose better, as he met
inv gracious smile with—to say the least
a very cold look—at the same time de
manding where my baggage was.—
‘There,’ I replied, pointing to a heap of
wooden trunks and bandboxes.
“ ‘ There !’said lie, with the greatest
contempt, pointing to that which com
bined all of this world’s treasure which
belonged to me. ‘lt needs but a blaze
in amongst it to be called Mouut Vesu
vius in minature ; if we have got all tliat
to carry we shall have to harness an
extra horse. You had better take a
final leave of your friends, for I presume
you never intend to come back again,’
“1 made him no answer, but placed
myself comfortably on the back seat, and
with the loud crack of his whip, away
sprang the beautiful span of greys. A
moment more and we stopped opposite
a large brick mansion. The driver again
dismounted, gave a much more gentle
rap than at the house from where he had
just taken me, probably because it was
much larger, and had a silver knob, and
the old gentleman who presented him
self as a tenant of the stage for the day,
pointed to but one trunk; this was of
the best of leather, well mounted, and
secured with brass nails and bands.
“‘Good morning, madam,’ said he, as
the door was thrown open for him to en
ter ; ‘ shall I discommode you if I take a
seat by the side of you, as it makes me
sick to ride backwards?’
“‘Not in the least,’ I exclaimed, feel
ing very grateful for the first kind word
I had heard since the sun rose.
“‘Good-bye, grandpa,’ said a little
pair of rosy lips, accompanied by a pair
of coal-black eyes, peeping from the lat
tice above; ‘ make us another visit soon,
and bring grandma.’
‘ Yes,’ replied a sweet voice by her,
MADISON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5,185 G.
side, ‘and stay longer the next time,dear
father.’
“The old man waved his hand to them
while a tear glistening in his eye, he
spoke a few words in a low tone, which
to me were lost in the harsh tones of the
driver, who was again urging the noble
animals forward to the hard task before
them.
“Again we stopped; and this time it
was in front of a mansion still more beau
tiful than the other. A younggiil came
tripping down the walk, who apparently
was yet in her teens, and would he, at.
least lor two years to come. In her
hand she carried a mammoth band-box,
a perfect terror to all public conveyors.
But Ben, who occupied the throne above
us, only smiled as he looked into her
pretty face, and then deposited it with
great care beneath bis high seat. She
looked around, seemingly with perfect
contempt on her companions that were
to be. It was with difficulty she kept
from breaking into a hearty laugh when
she looked at the material and gay trap
pings of my navarino. Again we started,
and I threw myself into an easy position
to take a view of all within my vision,
especially the costume of our last arrival.
“ Iler bonnet, a beautiful rose-colored
satin, profusely trimmed with French
(lowers, and silk blonde lace ; her dresst
a changeable satin of pink and lilac, rich
ly trimmed with rows of buttons of the
most costly materials; over her shoul
ders was thrown an elegantly embroider
ed silk shawl, fastened at the throat with
a huge breastpin; if it were not for the
richness of the other articles of her dress,
I should have judged the chief of its
composition brass. But the idea now
to me seemed almost sacrilegious ; for I
thought her coffers must have been filled
to the brim, or she could not afford to
travel in a stage over rough roads with
such a light and expensive traveling suit.
“The stage was wide: there were
three seats, each one intended to aceom
niodate three or four persons; and before
we left the village, ten were inside, and
several on the top. A tall, happy-faced
Yankee occupied the seat by the side of
the young girl, whom the driver called
Miss Pippin ; opposite, sat an old gen
tleman and la-ly, who seemed, from
the attention bestowed, to he his wife. —
They were dressed very plain, the old
gentleman in a suit of snuff color, and
the lady in a plain habit of dark merino.
“ Silence reigned during the first hour
of our ride, each seemed to be liberally
supplied with thought from their own
brain ; ever and anon I could see the
Yankee give a sly glance at the change
able satin at his side, and then his coun
tenance seemed to say—‘l reckon the
drawers are all empty at home.’
“At length we passed a neat little
cottage by the roadside, and in front of
the side door stood a young girl dressed
in a neat blue calico dress, and domestic
check-apron at the wash-tub.
“ ‘ Look a there,’ said the Yankee;
‘ there is a gal worth a dozen dressed out
in so many furbaloes; look at her rosy
cheeks, and hear that song; she is sing
ing as merry as a lark; there is a gal
that will make a rich man of someone.
Don’t you think so, Miss , what shall
I call your name?’ said he, addressing
the girl by his side.
“‘ My name is Miss Pippin,’ said she,
with a toss of her head, gathering the
folds of her dress still nearer to her, as if
fearing contamination, from his rough
Vomcspun. ‘How very vulgar you be,
to think any man of taste would marry
such a girl 1 0! how disgusting, to even
talk of such a thing before ladies,’ said
she; removing her white kid glove to
adjust the cord of her flesh-colored gait
ers; but seeming to recollect something
she had before forgotten, with electric
speed she drew it under her shawl and
raised her foot a little from the floor, and
exclaimed to the old gentleman opposite
“ There, mister, you tie up my shoe!” :
He looked very pleasantly at his wife,
and then leaned over and did as he was
desired.
“‘Why marm,” said the Yankee,
‘how your hands are stained.’
“‘ Yes,’said she, ‘so much for wear
ing dark kid gloves yesterday, when I
called on the Governor and his lady, who
have been in our village the last two
weeks, on a visit to his son’s family.’
“ * Bless me,’ exclaimed Jonathan,
‘then you seed the Gov’nor; how does
he look ? Did ho talk much ? Come,
come,’ said ho, don’t be upstropolous;
tell us all about him. I don’t know but
I shall vote for the old chap, if he aint tu
stuck up.’
1 wish,’said she, removing as far
from him as possible, ‘ you would talk to
your equals. I don’t want to be annoyed
with such low-bred people.’
“‘Squash and cabbages!’ exclaimed
the Yankee, his face as red as the coat
of an artilleryman ; ‘if I don’t find out
who your father and mother is, ’fore the
sun sets twice more, then I’ll be Gov'nor
myself some day.’
“ 1 Ben,’ said Miss Pippin, in an au.
thoritative tone, ‘how dare you call for
me to day, when you was to carry such
vulgar company ? I never before was
thrown into such a disagreeable place.”
“‘I shouldn’t come, only Mr. Wilson,
your—’
“A look from the girl silenced him.
“On we went, each becoming more
acquainted as the hours flew past, except
the girl in satin, and she seemed to set
herselt down as one of the exclusives.—
The dinner hour arrived, and we drew
up in front of the little tavern iu the
valley, hidden from the eyes of the cu
rious by the outstretched arms of gigantic
trees, reeling under the massive weight
of native fruit. Our repast of delicious
country fare being ended, and our noble
greys exchanged for a fresh team, we
again commenced our journey, with all
the freshness of the morning.
“As the day declined, dark clouds
came forth and threatened to deluge us
with torrents of rain, still we had ten
miles of our journey to accomplish.—
The wind breezed up cool, I might say
cold ; the gentlemen buttoned up their
coats more closely. The old lady in drab
added a shawl to her apparel, and even I
hugged the coarse threads of my grand
mother’s gift tighter.
“ Miss Pippin, there she sat, her lips
blue with cold, yet not a mariner es
caped her, for she sported the finest suit
in the stage.
“And now the rain commenced in good
earnest. The sides were made secure)
and we fancied we should experience no
inconvenience from the largo drops of
water which had exchanged heaven for
earth. But not for many minutes did
we enjoy this opinion, for it came in at
every seam about us.
“’Twas then that our heroine burst
forth, ‘O, dear, my dress, bonnet, shawl,
everything is ruined. Ben, you must
stop at the next .’
“‘Not till you get where I shan’t set
eyes on you ; if ever you ride in this stage
with me agin, you will have to pay tu
dollars extra, besides carrying your band
box in your lap, for it has been more
bother to me, than that load of goods,
I took for my first passenger this morn
ing.’
“ ‘ Sarved you right,’ said the Yankee;
‘ might have worn your old clothes, then
you wouldn’t been so skeered about it.”
“The dust had been dense all day.
which the dark hue of our faces indicated,
A thick sprinkling of dust covered our
garments; this, added to the rain, we
were a comic company. Pretty soon
my navarino was no protection. I felt
the cold drops fall gently on my head,
and putting up my hand I found my
bonnet minus a crown; like ancient
Pompeii, it was in ruins. The only ones
who seemed not :*n the least affected,
were the old gentleman and lady; she
raised her large parasol and sat as quiet
as if by her own fireside.
“Justas the sun broke forth into a
golden sunset, the tall spires of the city
of notions was approached by our inter
esting group, the usual inquiries made
where each would stop, and all gave defi
nite answer, but Miss Pippin.
“‘You may leave me at No. in
YVasbington street.
“ ‘ I’ll got rill of you fust,’ said Ben,
turning the heads of his noble animals in
that direction, and soon arrived in front
of a beautiful block.
“ ‘ Stop said the girl in damaged satin ;
1 you need not announce ine; just let me
get out and hand me iny band box.’
“But ho heeded her not, and gave
a gentle pull at the bell.
“‘Does a family by the name of Pip
pin live here ?’
“‘What! do you mean to insult us?
They live around back in the lane, and
take in washing.’ Miss Pippin made a
desperate effort to get on terra-firma.—
The Yankee burst into a most hearty
laugh.
“‘Didn't I tell you Pd find out who
your folks was, ha ?”
“‘The voice of the stranger brought
an old gentleman to the door.
“ ‘ Ah, my dear Governor, how do you
do, and your lady ? ” he exclaimed, hast
ening to the stage and addressing the
gentleman in the snuti'-colored suit; “we
should be happy to have you remain
with us, to-night.”
‘ ‘Thank you,” replied the man or
office, ‘ I will call some other time, but
to-night excuse me, I must be at home.’
“ ‘ Miss Pippin had now reached the
ground, and the Yankee followed her,
exclaiming as he did so :
“‘Rode all day with a live Governor,
and didn’t know it; vote for him next
election, if I walk ten miles to do it;
wait just a minute, Ben, while them
chaps are talking, goin’ tu find out who
that gal is, —give ye quarter when I
come back.’
“‘Wal,’ he exclaimed, ten minutes
after, ‘ found her all out.’
“‘Mr. Wilson used to be a merchant
here, his wife took" her when they mov
ed, to be chambermaid, she promised to
marry a nice sort of a fellow, he made
her present of a wedding-suit, then sho
wouldn’t have him, and run away home,
and them’s the clothes she's got on, for
the old woman made her tell the whole
story, and I stood outside and listened to
it.’
“Wo idl had a hearty laugh, but I
never bought another navarino. But I
always did like a good old-fashioned
stage-ride, girls, it is such a good place
to learn human nature.”
Caution.
The papers in various parts of the
country have recently contained in their
advertising columns, a notice to nervous
sufferers, who are informed that by send
ing a post-office stamp to a certain ad
dress, they will receive a positive and
safe cure for nervous diseases. We have
seen occasional warnings against too fre
quent use of this specific, as much inju
ry is said to have resulted therefrom.—
In the Columbia, S. C., Times, of Tues
day, we find the following communica
tion from a physician and druggist'well
known in our sister State :
Messrs. Editors : Os late, I have been
frequently called on to prepare a receipe,
purporting to emanate from a retired
clergyman of Brooklyn.
The formula for the prills is furnished
to any who will send a post office stamp;
at the same time you are informed that
but one druggist in the United States
keeps the article from which the prescrip
tion is prepared, and by sending on one
dollar you can obtain the medicine.—
The medicine is the bean St. Ignatius
( Ignatae Amdtae,) a potent proison, very
similar in its effects to strychnine.
That so protent a medicine should be
prescribed in this loose way, the patient
being in fact the prescriber, (inasmuch
as he decides that it is indicated in his
case,) is a little extraordinary and will
lead to mischief, and I would caution
my fellow-citizens against its indiscrimi
nate use.
The potent remedies should never be
resorted to unless prescribed by your
family physician and as a druggist and
pharmaceutist I deem it my duty to ex
pose this remedy, as I have been fre
quently called on to prepare it.
J. 11. Boatwright, M. D.
Behavior in Railway Cars.
Since Providence seems to have or
dained that Americans shall go by steam,
and on wheels, to an extent unknown
among any other people, it becomes us
all to learn the art of riding. When we
reflect how many miles every year an
active citizen in this Republic is liable
to be wheeled over the land, does not
the art of using this time for the best
purposes of enjoyment and improvement
become quite important ? Life is short
enough, at best—fearfully short in our
fast living day; and we grudge the
precious time spent in the half animal
existence that in the cars is to the mas
ses of travelling people. Since we must
be boxed up a fortnight ora month every
year in this way, for the love of human
ity let us learn to be rational creatures
in our peregrinations.
We wonder if railroad directors will
ever get rich enough to attend to a few
items in the comfort of the armies that
ride in their vehicles ? Such little facts,
for example, as whether a hundred peo
ple shall be shut up a day or night in
winter, in an oblong oven, reeking with
vilo inhaltations, alternately heated to
the pitch of frenzy and chilled to the
level of consumption ? or step from the
same box in the summer, encrusted in
every geological strata of a thousand
mile region—all for the want of a little
Yankee ingenuity in ventilation ? Wheth
er crowds of men, women and children
shall be crowded, squeezed, bent double,
mash ed and jounced in to jelly, as they
are over all our great routes, for want
of a little more sitting room? Whether
the American citizen is to be forced into
a slate of chronic indigestion by the
continuance of the infernal messes, sar
donically' called “ breakfast,” “dinner,”
“ supper,” and “ re-freshments,” at rail
road stations ?
But Americans have yet a great deal
to learn in the art of travelling. Per
haps we have no r ; ght to expect that
men, women and children, will be trans
formed in the cars to what they are
not at home in breeding and character,
but it sometimes appears to us that half
the world reserves its cast off habits of
manners and conduct, to wear in jour
neying. We wonder if it ever occurred
to that well-dressed man at our right,
that it is a greater insult to squirt tobac
co juice on the floor of a room where a
hundred people must sit, breathe and
smell a whole day', than on a drawing
room carpet, where two people are to
sit an hour ? That the genteel lady
behind us would not ask us to sit by an
open window in her own house on a
January morning, if we made her a fash
ionable call; yet sho opens a car win
dow, and gives us a draft across the back,
like a sharp sword, during a six hour’s
ride.—Should we make a wedding call
on that sentimental looking young cou
ple yonder, would they not be as polite
in giving us the best seat as they are
boorish now in driving up some good
natured farmer to roam in vain through
crowded aisles for a resting place, while
they smuggle in his nest snoring imbe
cility ? Would that dignified Pater and
Mater families entertain a party at their
country house bo gorging themselves
and their little ones in their presence,
hour by hour, w ith all things digestible
and indigestible ? Yet they are proba
bly now in the presence of better com
pany than they ever entertained. Who
would rush to a supper in his own house,
or into the drawing-room of a friend as
Americans on the cars storm a public
dinner-table, or jams the passages of an
express train ?—Alas ! our countrymen,
you have some things yet to learn ; for
a birth in this great democracy does not
necessarily make a man a gentleman,
or a woman a lady, unless culture at
home and “on the road,” steps in,and
helps out nature.
A little reflection on the ways and
means of making one’s self comfortable!
agreeable, and respectful, during a jour
ney, would save people from presenting
the uninspiring spectacle of yawning
listlessness or sleepy stupidity, varied by
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ravenous gluttony and barbarous eti
quette, which they now so often do.
Why cannot a man, about to travel a
thousand or a hundred miles in winter,
take aloug garments enough to ensure
his bodily comfort during the journey,
that he may not be frozen into a surly
bear every time the stove cools below
red heat, and can sleep an hour without
danger of waking as hoarse as a crow ?
Why can he not get to the cars in sea
son, instead of jumping on the train at
the nine and ninetieth hour, and prowl
ing through a crowded carriage, stirring
everybody into bad humor by his efforts
after a seat ? Can lie not restrain his
appetite till dinner time, and not pare
apples and munch parched corn, and
craunch lozenges in everybody’s face,
ad nauseam. ?
We are old fashioned enough to
think a great deal can be learned by
riding a day in a room filled with the
representatives of every state of society
and almost every nationality, though
the grand and beautiful scenery of our
chief railroad routes. It is not necessa
ry to ask every man his name and busi
ness, or stare in every woman's face, to
learn much by what you are compelled
to hear and see during this contact with
your travelling neighbors.
And a well-bred person will find so
many occasions for pleasant and instruc
tive converse, for the amenities of life,
for benevolence, that his day will be too.
short. We think the cars the best
American college for a month in the
year—for all America runs through that
narrow passage and lounges on those
seats; and whoever keeps his eyes,
brain, imagination, wide open, can ab
sorb enough of wisdom, beauty and love
to make a man of him during one sum
mer jaunt for pleasure, or one winter’s
journey of business
The Greatest of War Vessels.
The New York Mirror publishes an
article upon the six new steam-frigates
of our navy, from which wo extract the
following in regard to the Niagara :
Our opinion of her, in some respects,
suggests that she should have been
named “ Young America.” Her dimen
sions have frequently been described in
the newspapers. Her battery, entirely
original, consists of twelve 11-inch heavy
cannon, throwing each a solid shot
weighing one hundred and seventy
pounds, at a long range. Her guns are
also adapted for shell. They are said to.
be superior in the chamber to the famous.
Faixhan, offering a great diminution in
the recoil force when discharged, besides
having a greater strength in the breech.
Her battery is so planned that she can
bring seven of her guns to bear on a
broadside, having one gun fore and aft
pivoted, so as to fire on either side. The
weight of her broadside force is eleven
hundred and ninety pounds, which ex
ceeds that of any frigate in the service,
being more than equal to thirty three
32 pounder solid shot, and, we assume,
vastly superior in projectile force. The
weight of each of her guns is equal to.
about five medium 32-pounder cannon.
We think that in case of immediate
war with England, the Niagara would bo
known as the scourge of the ocean. If
she has the strength and speed claimed
by her constructor, she might rove old
ocean for one year at least, as its solo
monarch, or until her equal in all re
spects might dispute or decide her sov
ereignty over the deep.
Female loveliness never appears to so
great advantage as when set off with
simplicity of dress. No true artist ever
sets off his angels with towering feathers
and great jewelry, and our dear human
angels if they would make good their
title to that name, should carefully avoid
ornaments, which properly belong to
Indian squaws and African princesses.
These tinselries may serve to give effect
on the stage or upon a ball-room floor,
but in daily life there is no substitute
for simplicity. A vulgar taste is not to
be disguised by gold or diamonds.