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and it has resulted in my firm conviction that
the profits will be enormous and certain.”
“Oh ! 1 shall never dare!”
‘ Emilio, you do not love me.”
“Oh, Julian ! can you say that I 1 ’ replied
she. taking his head between her little hands,
and imprinting upon his lips a thousand kiss
es. “ I would give my life for you.”
“.Ah, well! overcome this childish fear;
Jet the only cloud which obscures my happi
ness he dissipated by your hand ; then, when
I shall have repaired my losges, it will be
perfect, and nothing will be able to disturb
it again.”
“ Ah, well! I will go, Julian.”
“Oh ! divine woman ! what do I not owe
to you ? You are an angel.”
“My sfriend, give me always your love,
and I will be amply repaid.”
(To he continued.)
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For the Southern Literary Gazette.
THE LISTENER,--NO. 8,
NOT BY CAROLINE FRY.
Have patience with me again, for f have a
little more to say about “ Woman's Rights.”
I spoke, last week, of rights she might
claim if she pleased. I think if fine intellec
tual faculties are bestowed upon man or wo
man, it would he sinful to neglect their exer
cise ; and it is surely the weakest sort of fol
ly. to he deterred from intellectual pursuits
by a dread of the unpleasant name of “ Blue
Stocking.”
If a woman obtrusively thrusts before the
public, literary pretensions which she cannot
sustain, and which are unaccompanied by the
evidences of a feminine spirit with which
every effort should be stamped, she presents
herself as a fair mark for shafts of ridicule or
contempt. If her genius be indeed irrepres
sible, let its tones be heard, not clamorous, or
arrogant, or daring, but subdued by all wo
manly attributes, and it will command respect
even from the scorner. If she aims to do
good, and her pen can assist her. let her write,
and the world will read, not to criticise, but
to be made better. Let no one write or scrib
ble, because the simple cacoethes scribendi is
irresistible. If she is not impelled by a fem
inine, yet high aim. she deserves the sneer
with which she will he received.
As to engaging in public benefactions, it is
well enough to do so, if custom sanctions it.
I would onlv question the expediency, not
the right, of such publicity; and I would
suggest that even this be avoided, whenever
she could make a friend her almoner. De
prived of the eclat which attends a known
benefaction, true benevolence will be tested,
and separated from the other motives which
might induce such acts.
There is a class of females often brought
into notice, whom I must exempt from my
censure, I refer to those whom a necessity
for exertion has placed in conspicuous posi
tions, and who are striving fora maintenance
for themselves, or dear ones dependent on
them. I respect, from my innermost heart,
the writer, the teacher, or the female employ
ed in any other capacity whatever, which is
consistent with true womanliness, while she
maintains her peculiar dignity as a woman.
How much more credit are such to their sex,
than those who, from indolence, or selfish
ness, or even timidity, shrink from such po
sitions. A woman who is cowardly when
her affections demand courage, is contempt
ible.
I know well young girls,.who are fitted by
nature, and might readily be so by educa
tion, to maintain themselves, or assist in the
maintenance of a family, who are willing to
remain idly at home, while a father, burden
ed with a large family, or embarrassed by
debt, struggles with every power to preserve
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bis honor and do justice to all around him. —
They are drones in life, burdens to their
friends, and to themselves also, unless their
small souls are satisfied with a daily routine
from which a sensible and feeling woman
would shrink in disgust. The mother, in
spired by a desire for respectability, and also
for the comfort of these graceless girls, toils
unceasingly in her domestic menage. The
white hands and carefully preserved com
plexions of these daughters, are much less
attractive to him who looks rightly on life,
than the toil-embrowned hand, or less deli
cately fair face, which speaks a good, sensi
ble heart.
Would not these girls be infinitely more re
spectable, if they relinquished their own com
fort and ease, and as assistants in the family,
or away from home, as teachers, asserted
their right to remove the burden from the
shoulders and heart of their father, or to se
cure their mother against the necessity of
such arduous toil. The prejudice which pre
vails against females exerting themselves in
these capacities, I contend to be a wrong to
the sex, as it would deprive them of a high
privilege. The celebrated Madame de Gen
lis congratulated herself that there were thirty
ways in which she could support herself.—
llovv many of th young ladies of our day,
if called upon to render such an account,
could boast of more than one, if that and They
would be ashamed of their domestic accom
plishments, if they possessed any —anil in
what else are they competent to give assist
ance or instruction and
Oh! I wish I could put into my words half
the earnestness that fills my heart, when 1
think of the young girls springing up around
us into beautiful womanhood —fair to look
upon, and of gentle and pure hearts —whom
unwise training, or the shackles of foolish
custom, are depriving of their lights. Young
sister, your soul has a right to knowledge :
why will you submit to have it withheld
from you and Why will you neglect your op
portunities for acquiring it and Your hearts
were formed to be filled with intense, and ho
ly, and self-sacrificing affections. Will you
wrong yourself by wasting such capacities in
vain triflings, or by weakening them with
your selfish indulgence ? Do propose to
yourself a worthy aim, without which, your
existence will be almost vain. Exert your
self to-day, and every day, to do good to
others, and to make them happy.
Thank God for your intellectual powers,
and improve them to the utmost as He gives
you opportunity:
“ for the depth
Os glory in the attribute of GoJ,
Will measure the capacities of mind;
And as the angels differ, will the ken
Os gifted spiiits glorify him more.”
If you have not the creative faculty of ge
nius, you may at least cultivate a power of
appreciating genius in others, which is, in it
self, a source of great enjoyment. Your
mind requires to be strengthened by diligent
and judicious study and training; otherwise,
however desirous you may be ol doing well,
you will be found characterless and insuffi
cient, when called upon to act.
If fortune favors you, and no necessity for
active exertion arises, this study and training
will still be required ; for what is the young
girl's obvious destiny 1 When she leaves
the home of her childhood, where it was her
right to be cherished with sheltering love —
where she has stood as a guardian angel in
the path of a brother tempted to sin, or cheer
ed and soothed and blessed the hearts of be
loved parents, she goes to a home of her own,
where her very presence is to create happi
ness. Her husband looks to her for the
charm which is to brighten his path of life.
When the world frowns on him, and disap
pointment presses like an incubus on the ac
tive mind, is not the wife's privilege to sym
pathize with or cheer her husband, a most
precious right.
Would anv true-minded woman intermed-
dle with public affairs, or voluntarily devote
herself to pursuits in which she can only ac
quire excellence by relinquishing her domes
tic avocations and privileges 1 Who is wil
ling to forego even her enjoyment of the ;
graceful refinements of life, in a quiet and
intelligent home circle —refinements which
are perfectly consistent with my theory of 1
usefulness—for the eclat attending a life of
publicity 1 If a woman pursue only the more 1
accessible paths of literature, she need not
forfeit the advantages of a home sheltered ,
from the public eye; but a desire for fame is ;
often aroused, which deafens the ear to the !
music of love, and hardens the heart to its
influence, which renders her unable to dis
cern distinctly her allotted task and its re
wards, while it presents to her a vision of
deceitful beauty in the crown to be won by
intellectual achievements. I would beg of
any woman, however well qualified she may
be fora public sphere, to consider if she is
willing to resign her peculiar charms and her
usefulness as a woman.
I pity the delusion of those who see no
beauty in domestic life —who regard with
contempt those whose time is frequently oc
cupied in attending to their households
They forget that contributing to the happi
ness and well-being of those they love, en
nobles the most menial services, and that un
selfish devotion to such a purpose, when it is
required, elevates, rather than degrades. It
is true, much more time is oftentimes devoted
to such employments than is necessary; with
some house-keepers, excessive neatness ceases
to be a virtue, when the time devoted to its
attainment is taken from more important pur
suits. ,
Others, again, do a great wrong to their
families, as well as themselves, by spending
their time in preparations that pamper the
appetite—degrading them to a level with the
brute creation, by making such sensuality
their highest pleasure—enfeebling their minds
and ruining their health. Those who thus
waste their precious hours of life, are truly
deserving of censure ; but not “the woman
who attendeth diligently to the ways of her
household.”
The noblest right of woman claims our at
tention last. To the mother is committed a
trust for immortality. Look at the young
child : lovely it may be in person, in devel
opments of heart, in the gloamings of a bril
liant intellect. What higher trust can there
be, than to watch over that beautiful being,
and to shield her from the evil with which
the wide world abounds, that her spirit may
be returned to its Maker, ennobled and made
more glorious by the mother’s judicious care
—by her earnest anil well-directed love. Is
it not a holy right to guard that little heart
till it becomes a well-spring of all pure anil
faithful affections and It is your right to teach
your child to know and recognize the hand
of God in every event of his Providence -to
show her, in the exquisite delicacy of the
smallest flower, the handiwork of the same
Being who hurls the thunder, anil directs the
lightning’s flash —to explain to her the won
derful mechani. m of her own little frame—to
make familiar to her delighted gaze the stars
of heaven in their nightly course—to point
out before her the glorious path her spirit
may pursue.
The proudest rights of our sex are vested
in the wife and mother. She who is a help
mate in all good deeds to her husband, be
comes his “crown*’ of happiness and glory.
She who “teaches her sontole good’’ —who
trains up high-minded daughters to exert
their vivifying influence over the world, ful
fils her mission as a woman, exercises her
highest right, and “her children shall rise up
and call herblessed
fS££p- Mrs. Fartington,. in allusion to ihe
many advertisements headed, “Ho! for Cali
fornia,” thinks a spade would be more useful
than a hoe to the diggers.
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For Ihe Southern Literary Gazette.
NEW-lORK LETTERS.—NO. 41.
Nkw York. Feb. 15, 1849.
My Dear Sir —We have had here, a varie
ty of matters for chit-chat during the past
■week. Everybody has touched, more or
less, upon the subject of the great prize fight
between two noted pugilists and loafers, nam
ed Sullivan and Hyer—the former a keeper
of a grog-shop in this city, and a pardoned
convict; the other a smoker of “nasty ci
gars,” and a bully in general. This fight
involved a stake of ten thousand dollars, be
sides bets to the amount of about one hun
dred thousand. Strange to say, this disgust
ing affair has been a theme of converse, not
only among the friends and kindred spirits of
the pugilists, but with all sorts of people.—
As the combat came off without the limits of
the State, the telegraph was pressed into ser
vice to report its progress, and one or more
of the city journals issued Extras, with the
all-absorbing intelligence—thus beautifwlly
illustrating the precepts of their indignant
reprehension of the spectacle. Unhappily,
both the fellows have survived the battle.
The approach and celebration of the merry
festival of St. Valentine, has been another
theme of interest and gossip. The letter
carriers were never more burthened with mis
sives than yesterday. Thousands of billet
doux, pathetic and bathetic, grave and gay,
merry and lachrymose, were scattered through
the town, and the day passed over right joy
ously. All the newspapers, as usual, hail
something to say on the occasion, it being
one of those slanding subjects foi paragraphs,
which editors and correspondents never fail
to use. Among my own gifts, I received a
mysterious envelope, which, on being open
ed, revealed the little sole of a lady’s slipper,
which a friend at my elbow oracularly pro
nounced to be “very cuir /” —(queer —the
French word for leather.) I give you the
explanation of the joke, without intending
any reflection upon the scholarship of your
self or readers: not having forgotten the lady
who pronounced her invalid friend to be
“ convalescent —better;” or the gentleman
who thought himself reduced to his u dernier ,
last” resort.
The “Californy” epidemic rages as vio
lently as ever, and the late intelligence by no
means tends to improve the public pulse.
The Steamer news of the other day, ap
pears to confirm the general fear in regard to
the permanency of the French Government.
Louis Napoleon begins to be looked upon, on
the other side of the water, as rather petites
pommes de terre; or, in the vulgate, “not
what he is cracked up to be.” Reaction is
anticipated on both sides —from the Ultraists
or Red Republicans, whose cry is Communism,
Fourierism, and so on; and from the Conserv
atives and Legitimists, who see stability and
prosperity only in the shadow of a throne.
It is said, that measures are on the tapis for
the restoration of the elder branch of the
Bourbons, in the person of Henry V.
But to come back to Gotham. Do you
not sigh for the wings of Mercury. or the
seven-league boots, to convey you to a com
fortable seat in the University Chapel, from
whence you might hear the discourses with
which the poet Dana is now delighting us,
upon the genius and works of Shakspeared
The introductory lecture of this series was
delivered last night,.to a very large and very
elite audience. Then, too, the Rev. Mr.
Giles is preaching to us, most earnestly and
eloquently,.night after night, upon the inter
esting theme of Spanish Literature. Last
evening, also, Mr. Brownsou held forth in
the Tabernacle, upon “Religious Liberty.”
No man ought to be better fitted to talk on
this subject, for the Professor has had a large
experience: has bent to every breeze of doc
trine ; and has indulged in the largesi possi
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