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MORAL COSMETICS.
BY HORACE S M IT II .
Ye who would save your features florid,
Lithe limbs bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead,
From age’s devastation horrid,
Adopt this plan,—
Twill make, in climate cold or torrid.
A hale old man.
Avoid in youth luxurious diet.
Restrain the passion’s lawless riot,
Devoted to domestic quiet.
Be wisely gay;
So shall ye, spite of age’s fiat,
Resist decay.
Seek not in Mammon’s worship pleasure,
But find your richest, dearest treasure,
In books, friends, music, polish’d leisure ;
The mind, not sense,
Made the sole scales by which ye measure
Your opulence.
This is the solace, this the science,
Life’s purest, sweetest, best appliance,
That disappoints not man’s reliance,
Whare’er his state;
But challenges, with cahn defiance,
Time, fortune, fate. ‘
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TAPESTRIES.
BY MRS. E. A . COMSTOCK.
The Bayeaux Tapestry is the oldest speci
men that has been preservedof these interest
ing products of industry and skill. It is use
ful, as it fills several interregnums of ancient
English history, with facts that would have
else been unknown. It was wrought by Ma
tilda, Queen of William the conquerer, assis
tedby her handmaidens. She died in 1403, at
which early period the English ladies excell
ed in embroidery. This tapestry appears very
rude in our age. for the figures are ludicrous
ly grotesque, and their attitudes conceived
with a total disregard to grace or proportion.
Thay are worked with the needle upon a slip
of linen 2 1-2 feet inlength, and eleven inch
es in depth. This ancient monument is pre
erved in the Cathedral of Bayeaux, in Nor
mandy.
The Gobelin Tapestries, in Paris, are the !
most superb specimens of this workmanship
in the world. They were until lately the
property of Louis Phillipe, under whose pat-!
ronage they made rapid improvement. They :
are manufactured in one of his palaces, near
which flows the small stream whose waters j
have the power of rendering the colors forev- j
er vivid, and impart peculiar toughness or j
strength to the wools. Fioss silk and gold
thread are interwoven with the crewels. The ‘
revenue of this manufactory is immense, trebl
ing the enormous outlay. The products are
only sold to crowned heads. Queen Victoria
possesses one of the carpets. It is at Wind-1
sor Castle. The ground-work is of snowy .
wool, upon which large bouquets of exqui
site flowers seemed to have been carelessly !
thrown. ;
The Tapestries for the wall, exceed in ele
gance those for the floor. They are princi
pally copies from the oiler masters, executed ‘
with great skill and are more brilliant than
die pattern. One spacious apartment is de
voted to the exhibition of these.
All of these products are inwrought in an
upright loom, reaching from the floor to the
ceiling. The workmen, each armed with an |
ivory ferule, sit in front, and give every stitch
five or six taps to adjust it properly. The :
crewels are fastened to flat needles of bone,
resembling bobbins ; every color to a separate
needle. These are thrust back and forth as
in common worsted work. Both sides of the
carpets are alike in pattern, but of different 1
hues. Thus a rose of vivid red on the up
per, is of a delicate blush color on the under
part.
After working the distance of a foot on one
side, the artizan begins on the opposite, and
having finished the same depth on that, unites
both with a small shuttle of the usual kind;
then turns a crank and rolls up his work in
a piece of linen attached for that purpose.—
The rooms appropriated to dyeing and pre
paring the wool, are jealously guarded from
the public curiosity.
One of these carpets was nearly completed,
when we saw them, after one year’s labor.
It was designed for the Emperor of Russia,
and consisted of a border of flowers surround
ing afamily group in the centre —Louis Phil
lipe with his wife and children; the portraits
exact, the figures the size of life.
and he patterns are placed to the right of the
artizan, and the objects copied, whether hu-
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man or other forms, are in the same position j
as wrought in the loom. 1 bus in the family
group, the figures would he horizontal, the
paper placed perpendicularly with the loom.
This employment is very difficult, tedious,
and injurious’ to the eight. We were pain
ed at observing that all of the operatives had
inflamed eyes.
The floor Tapestries are, considered superi
or to the Turkish, which are generally very
small, adapted only to divans and the centre
of floors. These are in one breadth, and fit
ted to cover the largest halls or rooms. One
of the carpets was a copy from Raffaele’s
Miraculous Draught of Fishes.
The Tapestries for the wall, resemble a
collection of superb and brilliant paintings.
They are similar to our worsted work, but of
course surpassing it-in beauty.
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY.
A SCENE IN THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD.
Some time ago, Miss Hi 11 yard, the govern
ess in the royal family, seeing the Prince of
Wales inattentive to his studies, said —“Your
Royal Highness is not minding your business;
.will you be pleased to look at your book,
and learn your lesson ?” His Royal High
ness replied that he should not. “Then,”
said the governess, “ I shall put you in the
corner.” His Royal Highness again said
that he should not learn his lesson, neither
should he go into any corner, for he was
Prince of Wales; and. as if to show his au
thority, he kicked his little foot through a
pane of glass.
Surprised at this act of bold defiance, Miss
Hillyard, rising from her seat, said : “Sir,
you must learn your lesson—and if you are
the Prince of Wales, I shall put you in the
corner!” However, the threat was of no
avail; the defiance was repeated, and that
too in the same determined manner as before,
his Royal Highness breaking another pane
of glass. Miss Hillyard, seeing her authori
ty thus set at nought, rang the bell, and re
quested that his Royal Highness Prince Al
bert might be sent for, Shortly, the Prince |
arrived, and having learnt the reason why j
his presence was required, addressing the
Prince of Wales, and pointing to a foot-stool
or ottoman, said—“ You will sit there, sir!”
Ilis Royal Highness then went to his own
room, and returning with a Bible in his hand,
he said to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales —“Now, 1 want you to listen to what
St. Paul says about people who are under
tutors and governors;” and having read this
passage to him, he added —“It is undoubted
ly true that you are the Prince of Wales,
and, if you conduct yourself with propriety,
you may some day become a great man —you
may be a king, in the room of your mother;
but now you are only a little boy ; though
you are the Prince of Wales, you are only a
child, and must have governors placed over
you and do as you are bid by them. More
over,” said his Royal Highness, “ I must tell
| you what Solomon says;” and he read to
him the declaration, that he who loveth his
son chasteneth him betimes ; and then, in
j order to show his love for his child, chastised
; him, and put him in a corner, saying—“Now,
sir, you will stand there until you have learnt
your lesson, and until Miss Hillyard gives
1 you permission to come out; and remember
you are under tutors and governors, and that
| they must be obeyed.”
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TALENTED AND ORDINARY WOMEN.
Ordinary women seem, in general, to make
1 fewer signal misiakes in life than women of
higher capacity. This may arise from the
qualites of the latter being more positive than
negative; they are always prone to do some
thing or other, and there is generally more
j chance of a mistake in doing a thing than in
j letting it alone; they are generally more
anxious to do right than to avoid blame;
they are children trying to learn to walk
without a go-cart —they often get ugly falls,
but then they also learn to obtain better com
mand ever their limbs than others. What is
learned from the failures that cover the per-
I son with ridicule in the eyes of the world, is
of more value than the w isdom of ninety-and-
I nine persons who never made fools of them
j selves. Still, sad to say, experience is so
costly, that those who have gained it have
, often disfigured and injured their lives in the
| process that they have left themselves without
the means of using it to their own profit.—
They can warn and exhort others; but sec
ond-hand wisdom is very much like buying
a second-hand coat: it is generally a misfit.
We need another life, and anew world in
which to expend the dear experience we have
i bought in this.
jft-’-iW Obedience is a cardinal virtue.
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THE ONONDAGAS.
1 went to pay a visit to the Sachem of the
Onondagas; 1 reached his village about 10
o’clock. I was immediately surrounded by
groups of young savages, who spoke to me
in their pative tongue, mixed with English
phrases, and a few 7 French w T ords ; they made
a great noise, and exhibited the same joyful
appearance which the first Turks did whom
1 since saw at Coron, on my landing in
Greece. These Indian tribes, surrounded by
the clearings of the white men, possess horses,
flocks and herds, their huts are supplied with
domestic utensils, purchased on the one side
at Quebec, Montreal, and Detroit, and on the
other in the markets of the United States.—-
In passing through the interior of North
America, there are found among the different
savage tribes, the same forms of government
as are known amongst civilized nations;
The Iroquois belonged to a race which ap
peared destined to conquer the Indian tribes,
had not foreigners interfered to exhaust their
resources and to arrest their power. This
intrepid man showed no signs of astonish
ment or fear, when fire-arms were used
against him for the first time; he stood as
firm amidst the whistling of balls and the
roar of artillery, ass if the sounds had been
familiar to him all his life ; and he paid no
more attentfon to them than to the rolling of
a thunder storm. As soon as he procured a
musket, he learned to make better use of it
than a European ; he never abandoned his
club, his scalping-knife, and his bow and ar
rows, but to these he added the carbine, pis
tol, dagger, and axe; he appeared never to
have arms enough to content his valor. Thus
doubly armed with the murderous weapons
of Europe and America—his head adorned
with bunches of feathers, his ears cut, Id’s
arms tatooed and stained with blood, this
champion of the New World became as for
midable to look upon as to fight against, on
the shores which he defended foot to foot
against the attacks of the invaders.
The Sachem of the Onondagas was, in all
| strictness of language, an old Iroquois ; his
person was a record of the traditions of the
olden time of the desert. In all she English
accounts, the Indian Sachem is called the
“Old Gentleman.” This old gentleman,
however, was completely naked ; he had a
feather, or fish-bone passed through the car
tilage of the nose; and on his shaven head,
!as round as a cheese, he sometimes wore a
three-cornered hat iri honor of European civ
ilization.
Has not Veliev written history with the
same fidelity ? Chilperick, the leader of the
Franks, rubbed his hair with rancid butter,
daubed his cheeks with green paint, and
wore an extraordinary jacket or plaid, made
of the skins of wild beasts. He is, however,
represented by Velley as a Prince, magnifi
cent even to ostentation in his furniture and
equipage, voluptuous even to debauchery,
and entertaining scarcely any belief in God,
whose ministers were the objects of his ridi
cule. The Sachem of the Onondagas receiv
ed me well, and made me sit down on a mat.
He spoke English, and understood French,
whilst my guide was acquainted with Iro
quois. His conversation was easy. The
women served up a repast. Hospitality is
the last virtue left to the savages in the midst
of European civilization ; it is known how
! sacred it was in olden times, when the hearth
: had all the power of the altar. When a
i tribe was driven from its native woods, or a
man came to ask hospitality, the stranger
i began what was called the suppliant’s dance;
Ia child touched the threshold of the door and
said, “Behold! a stranger!” and the Chief
replied, “Child, bring the man into the hut.”
The stranger, entering under the protection
of the child, went and sat down by the ashes
on the hearth. Tne women then sung the
song of consolation: “The stranger has
found again a mother and a wife; the sun
shall rise and set for him as before.” These
customs appear to have been borrowed from
tin* Greeks.
I took my leave of the Sachem, who had
been present at the taking of Quebec. The
episode of the war in Canada afforded some
consolation in the shameful annals of the
reign of Louis XV.; it appeared like a page
of our ancient history discovered in the Tow
i er of London. ‘ Montcalm, without supplies,
charged with the duty of defending Canada
against forces frequently, reinforced, and four
times as numerous as Ids, struggled with
success for two years; he defeated Lord
Rowdon and General Abercromby. At length,
however, fortune forsook him; he fell wound
ed under the walls of Quebec, and two days
after, he breathed his last. His grenadiers
buried him in a trench scooped out by a
bomb—a grave worthy of the honor of our
arms . His noble enemy, Wolfe, fell at thf
same place, he paid for the fall of Montcalm
the penalty oi his own life, and had theglorv
Memoirs 0 ” * le " ch colorß — l Chateaubriand^
JUPITER AND THE SLATER,
A DIALOGUE FOR THE DISCONTENTED
It happened in a remote period, that a sla
ter slipped from the roof of a high building
in consequence of a stone of the ridge having
given away as he walked upright alone- it & -
he fell to the ground, had a leg"broken
was otherwise severely bruised. As hV w
m bed suffering severe pain from his misfor
tune, he - addressed Jupiter in these words :
“O Jupiter, thou art a cruel god ; for thou
hast made me so frail and imperfect a beim ‘
that I had not faculties to perceive my dan
! gcr, nor power to arrest my fall when ‘its oc _
i currence showed how horrible an evil avvait
ied me. It were better for me that I hid nev
er been.”
Jupiter, graciously bending his ear, heard
the address, and answered :
“ Os what law of mine dost thou com
plain ?”
“Os the law of gravitation,” replied the
slater; “by its operation the slip which my
foot made upon the stone, which, unknown
to me, was loose, precipitated me to the earth,
and crushed my body, never calculated to re
sist such violence.’ 7
“ J restore thee to thy station on the roof,”
| said Jupiter; “I heal all thy bruises; and to
convince thee pf my benevolence, I suspend
the law of gravitation as to thy body and all
that is related to it ; art thou now content V 1
The slater in deep emotion, offered upgrat
j itude and thanks, and expressed the profound
| est reverence for so just and so beneficent a
j deity. In the very act of doing so Ire found
himself in perfect health, erect upon the ridge
of the roof; and rejoicing, gazed around.—
His wonder at so strange an event having at
last abated, he endeavored to walk along the
ridge to arrive at the spot which he intended
to repair. But the law of gravitation was
suspended, and Iris body did not press upon
the roof. There being no pressure, there was
| no insistence, and his legs moved backwards
and forwards in the air without any progress
being made in his body. Alarmed atthisoc
currence, he stoped, seized his trowel, hung
in mid air—the law of gravitation was sus
pended 1o it also. Nearly frantic with terror
at such unexpected novelties, he endeavored
to descend in order to seek relief; but the law
of gravitation was suspended as to his body
and it hung poised at the level of the ridge
like a balloon in the air. He tried to fling
himself.down, to get rid of the uneasy sensa
tion, but his body floated erect, add would not
move downwards.
In an agony of consternation, he called
once more upon Jupiter. The god ever kind
and compassionate, heard his cry and pitied
his distress : and asked :
“ What evil hath befallen thee now, that
thou art not yet content ? have I not sus
pended at thy request, the law which made
thee fall ? Now thou art safe from bruises
and from broken limbs; why, then dost thou
still complain?”
The slater answered:
“ In deep humiliation, I acknowledge my
ignorance and presumption; restore me to
my couch of pain, but give me back the bene
fits of thy law of gravitation.”
“Thy wish is granted, 7 ‘ said Jupiter in re
ply.
The slater in a moment lay on his bed ol
sickness, endured the castigation of the or
ganic law, was restored to health, and again
mounted to the roof that caused his recent
pain. lie thanked Jupiter anew, from the
depths of his soul, for tHe law of gravitation
with its numberless benefits: and applied his
faculties to study and obey it during the re
mainder of his life. This study opened to
him new and delightful perceptions of the
Creator’s beneficence and wisdom, of which
he- had never dreamed before; and these
views so excited and gratified his moral and
intellectual powers, that he seemed to himself
to have entered on anew existence. Ever
afterwards lie observed the law of gravita
tion ; and, in a good old age, when his or
ganic frame was fairly worn out by natural
decay, he transmitted his trade, his house, and
much experience and wisdom, to his son, ant
died thanking and blessing Jupiter for hav
ing opened his eyes to the true theory of his
scheme of creation.
Cowles, in his excellent History of
Plants, notices the virtues of hemp thus la
conically: ~,
“By this cordage, ships are guided, ,el ■’
are rung, beds are corded, and rogues k e l u
in awe.”