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Feb 18, 1838
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‘Georgia Educational Journal,’ Forsyth, Ga.
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Feb 13, 19,58 ly
hmm fitmii
*T\RS. COE & LATIMER would inform their friends
JL/ and patients that one of the firm will constantly
remain in Greenesboro’, and that the other will be found
in the following places at the times specified below:
White Plains, from March Ist to March 14th.
Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “ 28th.
Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th.
Penfield, “ “ 26th to May 9th.
As this time table will be strictly adhered to, those
who call earlv will be mo3t likely to receive attention.
Feb 25th, 1858
THE subscriber, having no engagements, is
ready to receive any oilers to sell goods or keep
books for any mercantile house or houses in Georgia, or
to receive any offers from capitalists in the line, who
may (visit an energetic man to buy and sell and attend
to the details. Anv letters worthy of attention will be
replied to. Address W. S. BAGBY.
March 4-4 t
The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. B. Seals
retiring. The business will be continued by J. M.
Bowles at the same stand, where be will keep, at all
rimes, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be
ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Pro- 1
Hti for tie CASH. J. M. BOWLES, j
Feb go WM. B. SEALS. j
Greene Sheriffs Sale,
WILL bo sold before the Court-house door in
the city of Greenesboro, on the Ist Tuesday, in
April next, between the legal hours ofenle, the following
property, to-wit t
The store-house and lot near Union Point: Levied
rtn by virtue of a Justice’s Court f. fa. issued from the
14fcSth District. G. M. in favor of John F. Zimmerman
t.o. Robert Newsome. Levied on and returned to me
by Hiram Rouzec, Constable.
Also, a negro girl about five years old, of black com
plexion, bv name of Julia : Levied on by virtue ot two ‘
Justice’s Court fi. fat. issued from the 140tii District, i
(. M. in favor of William A. Colclough &. Cos. t. P.
J. Tuggle. Levied on l>y C-. B. Mitchell, Constable.
|Onc house and lot in the village of White Plains,con- ‘
mining one acre, more or less, adjoining lands otR. H. j
Jacks and others: levied on as the property of John K. j
Floyd, a free man of color, to satisfy a 11 fa from the In
ferior Court of Greene county, in favor of Thos. High- j
tower, survivor, tt>, Elisha P. Jarrell, guardian for John
K. Floyd. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. !
Also, at the same timeand place, one negro girl named ;
Missouri, about sixteen years old, of dark complexion : i
Levied on as the property of Ulysses B. King, to satisfy
sundry Jj.fas. One in tnvor of John Rhodes tar. Ulys
ses B. King and Alexander King, security, and other
fi.fag. in my hands v*. U. B. King. Property pointed
out by defendant. I. MORRISON, Sh’ff.
March 2,1858.
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the following notes : A note on Wm F Luekie for
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Alay last, and due the twentv'fifth December thereat- ‘
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ty *five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the I
twenty-fifth December thereafter; one on David Phelps i
oT Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March !
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December thereafter. j
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THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ALE THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 185 8.
JUST RECEIVED 1 -
A Large Stock of Family Groceries!
CONSISTING OF
All Grades Sugar and Coffee ;
j Fine Syrups and Molasses ;
Good Apple Vinegar; Rice ;
! Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel;
A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can be
I bought exceedingly low ;
A variety of Pickles ; Marcaroni; Sago;
Currants ; Raisins and Candies ;
i Table Salt; ‘ Soda; Pepper and Spicee ;
j Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ;
Pipes; Any quality oFar Cigar ;
Large lot of .Tar Snuff;
All qualities of Soap;
Drugs and Patent Medicines;
Periumery—a choice lot.
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i einity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un
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; PENSK of going farther.
Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES.
| riVWO MONTHS after date, application will be
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! the land belonging to the estate of McKinney Howell,
j deceased. ~ SAMUEL JOHNSON, Sr. Ex’r.
j March 18,1858
REFLECTIONS IN AN EVENING WALK.
“An undevout astronomer is mad.”
j . , , . i •**•**’
! “Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God
Almighty ; just and true are all thy ways, Thou
King of Saints.” Such is the warm and elevated
language of inspiration—such are the sentiments
of piety and love.
The existence of a being infinitely good, wise
and powerful, is strikingly displayed on all the
works of creation. “ Every thing that proveth it,
j giveth cause of adoration.” Let the bold infidel
I attentively examine the beauty and grandeur of
* the universe; and consider the constitution of
his own nature, “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
| —let him reflect on the revolutions of the sea
sons, and the charming diversity they afford —let
| him eontemplate the lively bloom of spring, the
| rich splendor of summer, the ripe luxuriance of
■ autumn, and the hoary face of winter,
“Or look abroad through nature to the range
Os planets, suns, and adamantine spheres,
Wheeling unshaken through the void immense” — •
And will not the survey of scenes, so beautiful —
so wonderful—so magnificent—so sublime, teach
. him to confess the existence—admire the wisdom
, —adore the greatness, and revere the majesty of
[ the Most High ? Will it not dissipate the dread
t ful gloom of his thoughts, and diffuse the glpri
; ou.s light of religion over his mind ? He who will
! not bo convinced by truths so manifest and im
i pressive,
“Is lost to virtue-lost to manly thought;
Lost to the noble sallies of the soul.”
j He has perverted the gifts of nature, and degra
ded the dignity of humanity—-he is unworthy to
participate the blessing of social intercourse, or to
I ei\joy the esteem of his fellow creatures. He
• should be considered as an alien to society—an
! enemy to man—and an object of contempt.
Although a perfectly convincing proof of the
! existence of a Supreme Being may be deduced
j from an examination of the wonderful structure
i of the body and the noble faculties of the mind
; —from a contemplation of the inferior orders of
creation, and from beholding the delightful va
: rieties of the earth—yet when we elevate our-view
I and survey
“The spacious firmament on high,”
| Where
“Orbs wheel in orbs—round centres, centres roll
I Our beliof is still move great, and our amazement
I and admiration are still more increased. We
j cannot but exclaim with the Psalmist;
“The Heavens declare the glory of God,
And the firmament showetn his handy work,”
I That being who can look upon these bright and
i glorious objects of Almighty Power with indiffer
! ence, must either possess the coldness of infidel
ity, or, in the forcible language of the motto,
; “ must be mad.”
j In the contemplation of the Heavens, there is
i a pleasure derived, which to a reflecting mind, is
| far more pure and sublime, than any other employ
i meat can afford. It is a pleasure, derived from
J the sweetest and most holy affections of love*
• gratitude and devotion.
At the still and solemn hourof night, when ev
er)’ breath is peace, and not a cloud obscures the
serenity and beauty of the heavens, who can be
hold the
“ Blue ethereal sky,”
: spangled with innumerable stars,
j “Forever si.iging as they shine,
The hand that made us is Divine,”
j without glowing with admiration for wonders so
I magnificent—without feeling adoration for their
great Creator ?
j “There is a noble pathos in the skies,
Which warms our passions, proselytes our hearts.”
The mind is exalted by their majesty, and en
lightened by tlioir splendor. Imagination is
i awakened —and while our eyes are elevated above
j the earth, we seem to approach nearer to the
! presence of that-Almighty Being “who hath meas
; ured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
meted out heaven with a spftn, and comprehended
| the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed
1 the mountains in scales, and the hills in a bal
| ance.” -
THH HOME MOTHER.
Some one writing for the Masonic Mirror, has
drawn a picture of a home-loving, child-loving
mother:
Wo must draw a broad lino between her and
the frivolous butterfly of fashion, who flirts from
ball to opera and party, decked in rich robes, and
followed by a train as heartless as herself-she,
! who forgetful of the holy task assigned her, neg
s lects those who have been given to her charge,
! and leaves them to the care of hirelings, while
’ she pursues her giddy round of amusement. Not
j so with our homo mother, blessing bo upon her
I head. The heart warms to see her in her daily
j routine of pleasant duties.
i How pleasantly she sits day after day, shaping
and sewing some little article for use and adorn
! ment for her little flock! And how proud and
E leased is each little recipient of her kindness.—
[ow the little faces dimple with pleasure, and
the bright eye grows still brighter, as mamma
decks them with her own hands, in the new
dress she, has made! *How much warmer and
more comfortable they feel ifmamma wraps them
up before they go to school! No one but ahe can
* warm the mitts and overshoes, or tie the com
*> sorters around their necks.
There is a peculiar charm about all sho does,
. the precious mother. They could not sleop—nay,
for that matter, she cfmld not—if she failed to
visit their chamber, and with her own’ soft hands
arrange them comfortably before they slept. Her
heart thrills with gratitude to her Creator as she
looks on those sweet blooming faces, and when
their prayers are done, imprints a good night.
| kiss on each rosy mouth. It may bo too, a tear
i will start for the little nestling bird in its chill,
| narrow oed, for whom her maternal care is no
j longer needed. It sleeps though the sleet and
j snow descend and the wild Winter howls around
its head. It needs no longer her tender care ! A
; mightier arm enfolds it! It is at rest. She feels
ana knows that it is right, and bends meekly to
the hand that sped the shaft, and turns with a
warmer love, if it be possible, t<> those little ones
1 who jftfe left to love. How tenderly sho guards
them from danger, and with what a strong, un
| tiring love she watches their bedside when they
arc ill.
Blessings on the gentle, home-loving mother.
Angels will Took with love upon her-acts. Her
children will rise up and call her blessed, and
the memory of kindly deeds will enfold her as a
garment.
EDITRESS’
f v 3 J
By Mrs. M. £. Bryan.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS.
IT has been laid upon our table by some friendly
hand—this graceful spray of orange buds and
flowers, delicate as frost work, pure as pearls, fra
grant as the breath of the tropic summer, with
the chilly dew-drops trembling on the fairy pe
tals, and a freshness in the half unfolded buds
that Übtokens how recently they have been se
vered from the parent stem. How vividly these
“ fragrant heralds of the juicy orange” suggest
visions of the glorious, fruit-abounding summer,
and yet lovelier, tenderer images of fair young
brides, with their white robes floating like an Al
pine mist around them, anti their brows bound
with this emblematic wreath placed there by the
loving hand of a mother, whose tears perchance
dropped unseen, unheeded upon the pure blos
soms. Unheeded, for the cheek of tb# bride is
flushed with hope and love, and joyful anticipa
tion ; and in her selfish happiness she has scarce
a thought for the aching heart that has pillowed
her head for years; for the strong, changeless,
deathless love of a mother, is high above the fit
ful blaze of passion, as the holy stars of yonder
Heaven, are above the transient gleam of the
nisfatuux.
But lam digressing; and while I have been
writing, my sister (the only one who has the
right of enfree into my sanctum, where she flits
about with a privileged air, suiting herself to my
moods,) has taken my orange blossoms and
twined'them in her hair, and now calls upon me
to admire her bride-like aspect. They contrast
so beautifully in their pearly whiteness with her j
jet black hair, that lam fain to 1 let her have j
them ; but lam selfish enough to wish that it ;
may be long before my pet lamb shall be decked ‘
for the sacrifice with these bridal flowers, or lake :
it into her pretty head
” To lay aside her maiden gladness.
For a name and fora ring.’’
CONCERT AT FLETCHER INSTITUTE.
VITk had the pleasure, a few daj*s ago, of altend
ii ing a ooncert given by Miss Hansel! at her
I academy in Thomasville, and assert that we en
joyed to the utmost both the music and the
beauty of the fair performers. It was indeed a
- contrast—the cold, frosty night without, I
and within warmth, light and fragrance, vino- 1
wreathed rooms, garlanded chandeliers and that I
group of sweet young girls, llower-crowned and ;
white-robed, their fair faces all aglow with health j
and pleasure.
It has been said that youth and health are
always beautiful, and we are sure that there was
not one really plain face in that band of young
singer's.
The conceit opened with the majestic “Gloria”
of Mozart by Professor Steinert, and after it came
a thanksgiving anthem, sung by half the school.
It was a scene worthy an artist’s pencil,
“Childhood’s cheek and brow
Mantling beneath the earnest veil of thought,”
and in the back-ground, the tall, queenly form
of the Preceptress, looking as though “ Nature
had made her in some dream of old-world wo
men,” and by her side, in direct contrast with
her majestic beauty, the sweet, spiritual face of
her young assistant.
Miss Hansell is no ordinary teacher. She pur
sues the profession she has chosen, because it is
to her a labor of love, because her strong, active
mind finds a vent for its abundant energies in the
delicate and difficult task of instructing and dis
ciplining the minds of her young charges. How
admirably she lias succeeded, and how fully she
has won the love and respect of her pupils, is
well known to all her numerous patrons.
MARRIAGE.
An unknown correspondent, who affixes to her
dainty note the pseudonym of “Lilly Bell,”
wishes us to tell her what we think of marriage,
as she is “young and inexperienced.” •
Dear Lilly Bell, wliat would be th'e use of tell
ing you? Doubtless you are like the rest of the
“young and inexperienced” girls who, though
affecting great deference to the opinions of others,
are apt, in the end, to follow’ their own sweet
wills.
I once heard my father relate a rather pertinent
anecdote of an eccentric friend of his—the well
known Gov. Duval, of Florida. I shall give it as
my father did, in the Governor’s own language,
leaving Lilly Bell to make the application:
“ One morning,” said the Governor, “as I was
sitting in the piazza with my paper, deep in poli
tics, my wife swept by in full sail for a shopping
expedition.” “My dear,” 6aid she, as she passed
me, “T wish you would keep an eye upon Tommy,
(our youngest hope,) and see/that he does not fall
out of the piazza—l have set his nurse to work in
the dining-room.”
I nodded carelessly, and went on reading. Af
ter avrhile, patter, patter, I heard Tommy coming
on all-fours. I looked up; he was making for the
head of the steps, where he was in the habit of
going, frightening his mother, and occasioning
many shrieks and incipient hysterics. I let him
alone, knowing that experience is the best tea
cher in the world. He peered furtively over the
top step, contemplated its height and drew back
undecided; looked again, and again instinct got
the better of curiosity; but finally, he leaned too
far, lost his balance, and over he went with a
scream. 1 ran out, picked him up, gave him a j
lump of sugar and went on reading, sure that
Tommy would never attempt the descent of the
steps again.
Just so, my dear Lilly Bell, will it be with you,
and your fair sisterhood, who are yet
“ Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet.
Womanhood and childhood fleet.”
You will not he deterredfrom “trying the steps,”
by any advice or remonstrance. You toss your
pretty curls now, and declare saucily that you
“had rather not barter your freedom away;”
but you will be very sure to marry the first fine
opportunity, if for no other reason than because
it is the fashion; and even if you fail to find the
“ spirit-mate,” the “dear ideal” about whom you
talked *o prettily.
Dr. Johnson, speaking of the two states of mar
riage and single bless odness, affirmed that they
were equally happy, and that man, discontented
mortal that he was, would be equally dissatisfied
in either—or something of the kind; I never can
quote the exact words of anybody. •
Now, I dare say Dr. Johnson was right. Bach
state has its peculiar pleasures and trials. Young
Harry Brown, who- accepts the invitation of his’
j old college chum, Charley—now two years a Ben
edict—to take tea with him, is tilled with envy
at seeing the rapturous kiss which pretty Mrs.
Charley bestows upon her husband at meeting,
(blushing naively at being caught in the act by a
stranger); by the charming manner in which she
presides at table, and the pride and pleasure that
the young couple take in Master Charley, junior,
who is brought out for exhibition in his best hu
mor, and embroidered slip. He mentally con
trasts this pleasant fireside with hia own cheer
less bachelor-den, buttonless shirts and cross
landlady. But would he envy the “happy Char
ley,” when, three hours later, that unfortunate
Benedict waked from Ills comfortable snooze by a
vocal serenade, promenades the room in a very
airy costume, considering the state of the thermom
eter, with baby in a high degree of excitement, and
baby’s mother in spasms of nervousness and tooth
ache ? Or at the close of the year, when bills
pour in like magic, would he envy him, think
you, as he sits marvjWing how wonderfully robes
ala Imperatrice, loves of bonnets, ribbons and
whalebone add to the sum total of family ex
penses ?
And you, my dear Lilly Bell, who now envy
your friend Carrie her matrimonial happiness, and
the proud yet tender air with which she says “ my
husband,” leans upon his strong arm and looks
up lovingly into his face, could you take a peep
behind the curtains and see the clouds that fre
quently diversify the connubial sky, the wonder
ful quantity of shirts required by “my husband,”
and the thousand and one petty trials, vexations
and cares, all unknown to your girlhood, that at
tend the wife and mother, to say nothing of
house-keeping troubles, with their frequent de
mands upon temper and patience—did you, I
say, see all this in a peep behind the scenes, you i
would not be so apt to think the marriage state the i
Utopia you now imagine it.
Yet, nevertheless, Lilly Bell, you would marry,
and it is right and true to nature that you should.
I I'or this end has God endowed you with mater
t nal instincts, with such wealth of tenderness,
1 such forbearing love, such gentleness and such
; holy faith.
Then marry when you please, but enter upon \
i the new duties trustfully, seriously; lay rever
| ently aside the roses that have decked your girl
| ish brow for the crown of matronhood, and dear
. Lilly Bell, never marry without love. You will
. need it in the life-long companionship that must
| ensue ; and after all, love is the great refiner and
beaptifier of life, gilding like sunshine its every
| day actualities, brightening the tears of sorrow’, i
| and bidding even the thorns of poverty blossom ‘■
i into roses.
! pale you are, my dear Mrs. l>!” said I
XI to a young wife, whom I found (on calling
one evening) sitting by the window, stiching away
for dear life with the hair pushed back from her
temples—a sure indication of lassitude or fatigue.
“1 shall take you away from that stupid sewing;
it is such a delightful evening to walk, and I am
sure you need exercise.”
“ Hardly, I should think,” was the reply, with
a faint smile. “If you knew how busy I have
been all day, * cleaning up/ making soap, doing
over mattresses and nursing baby, you would not
think I needed exercise.”
“ Yes,” said her husband, looking up from his
paper, while lolled back in his easy chair, with
his feet on the fender—he was comfortably read
ing—■“ that’s the right kind of exorcise for you:
a hundred per cent, better than your dancing,
riding and such fol-de-rol.”
I looked at the pale, care-worn woman, whom
two years before I had seen a blooming bride*
and thought silently that his theory of exercise
needed no other comment on its fallacy. Silently,
I said; for I ventured no remonstrance; it would
have availed nothing. A politely incredulous
smile would have been my only answer. You
might as well have attempted to convince a board
ing-school Miss of fifteen that a pink-silk bonnet
was not becoming in a school-girl, as to make that
smiling, self-satisfied man believe he was ever in
the wrong.
Yet, readers mine—dear male readers who
have wives or expect to have—will you be
lieve me when I assure you that, if you want a
cheerful, healthy, happy wife, instead of a poor,
lifeless creature who, as she is in duty bound,
calls up a ghost cf a smile at your approach, you
must not imagine that household drudgery (or
“domestic avocations,” as you are pleased to term
it) is all the recreation they need ?
Many men are habitual tyrants without being
aware of it —nay, even while flattering themselves
that tlxey are the kindest and most indulgent of
husbands. A dignified frown from the Jove of
the household (throned in state in his arm-chair,
in slippers and dressing gown) effectually checks
all attempt at playfulness or gayety on the part
of the young wife, who, ambitious of matronly
dignity, represses her natural buoyancy of dispo
sition and becomes at length the spiritless shadow
of her former self—a pray to dyspepsia and ner
vousness. It is these poor, pale scare-crows on
the field of matrimony that deter bo many from
entering the ranks.
“Oh l she’s in dreadful health and never goes
out at all,” is frequently the careless or half-cem.
plaining reply of the husband, when, at the close
of a pleasant chat, the gay girl with whom he has
been conversing thinks to iuquire after his wife,
Certainly she’s “in dreadful health.” Who could
help having headache and heartache and va
pors, when it Is one monotonous,
“ Work, work, work! ->
Always doing —never done —
From the yellow rising -
To the set of sun,’ ’
with scarcely ever a word of praise or encourage
ment, and but few loving smiles or endearing
epithets from him who won her young heart, and
who is now all the world to her? Consequently,
she grows prematurely old in mind and body, her
face acquires a pinched, care-worn look, more be.
coming to her grand-mother; she becomes dis
heartened, neglects her person, loses her elasti
city of spirits and that sympathy with youth
which serves to keep the heart ever fresh and
dewy; and all this while her recreant lord loun
ges in his luxurious office cliair, smokes fine
llavannas, drinks wine, gossijfc down town, takes
after-dinner-naps and grows portly and hand
some.
It has been frequently remarked how very rap
idly American ladies lose their youth and beauty
after marriage, while in France and England they
are in their prime at thirty, and fresh and fair
even when the mothers of young debutantes in so
ciety. ■
“ I freely award the palm of beauty to your
American girts,” said an English gentleman to
his New York friend, whop at one of our fash
ionable watering-places, Wwky of pretty maidens
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came down like nn “ avalanche of roses,” fresh
from their surf-bathing and morning toilette.
“ Aye!” rejoined the candid American,” but to
your English women I award the palm with a date”
thus paying a delicate compliment to their
power of retaining, as well as possessing beauty.
It is true, that we have among nation of
old young women—married ladies between twenty
and thirty-five, who resemble matrons of fifty,
who have acquired a habit of constantly talking
and thinking about tliefr “ wretched health,” and
who, in losing the wish to please, have as a matter
of course lost the power. I cannot help believ
ing that much <?f the blame of this rests upon
those husbands who think it the duty of their
young brides to ascend without any gradual steps,
at onpe from the girl to the sedate matron, and
imagine that so soon as the honey moon is over,
the wife must settle down into a mere arugde,
who has no business allowing even her thoughts
to dwell upon any pleasures outside the sphere of
domestic duties.
Dear, pompous, self-conceited Benediot, who
insists on believing that of course your wife is
blessed and happy because forsooth she has the
honor of being your wife, pray do not fancy that the
stereotyped smile with which that poor, patient
creature meets you, is an indication of a satisfied
spirit. Would you like to see a real, genuine
heart-smile break like sunshine over those care
worn featiA’es? The receipt is very simple. It
will not oost you half the amount yearly expan
ded in blue pills, cod-livor oil and patent sarsa
parillas for that same sick wife. When you re
turn home some pleasant evening, leave your
surliness and dignity behind, bend down and kirn
tenderly the pale forehead she raises at your ap
proach, gently draw that everlasting sewing from
her hands, assure her that you are in no very
proving need of such a quantity of shirt bosoms
and tell her to throw a veil over her head and
take a pleasant walk with you this charming
evening. If she insists on taking baby, cany him
youself, or if the evening dbes not chance to be
■ a pleasant one, ask hoi* to play and sing some of
S the sweet old songs that recall the happy hours
! of love and courtship.
\ Insist on her accompanying you to an occa
sional concert, party or lecture, and appropriate
a half holiday to taking her a long drive or horse
back ride into the beautiful country where she
may see violets and daises, green plains and blue
skies, and hear singing birds and brooks, and
sweet forest sounds, that bring back one’s youth
again. Twine a wild rose or jasmine in her hair
j with a delicately expressed compliment about
| her being as sweet and fair as ever to you, and
my word for it, her smile and blush, and -the
bright, glad look in her grateful eyes will amply
repay you for the trouble. In a little while, yon
may fill the sarsaparilla bottles with blackberry
wine and give tho pill boxes to Johnny to play
with; for walks and rides, especially on horse
back, are the best panacea, besides being the
most delightful exorcise in the world. Don’t
you think so, Helen ? I beg your pardon, read
ers mine; I was not talking to you; I was speak
ing to my sister, who has just looked over my
shoulder, my double, as I call her, and a glorious
creature she is, too, whom I mean to “ storify
aid glorify,” one of these days. She is fully com
petent to give her opinion on the subject of out
door exercise ; for oh ! the long, rambling walks
and horse-back rides we have had together, over
breezy hills and shadow-flecked meadows, breast
ing the strong winds with a joyful sense of free
dom, and singing snatches of wild ballads as we
swept along, with the strings of our hats unloosed
to the breeze, far out into the open country,
away from the town with its Paul Frys and Ma
dame Grundys, and its vinegar-faced spinsters,
who wßuld lift up their hands in righteous indig
nation at our rudeness, or affirm tartly that w
“only rode to show ourselves.”
What of that? We never came back from
such excursions without renewed energy of mind
and body, sunnier, pleasanter views of life, and
an increased appetite for hot rolls and raspberry *
jam. ,
YOUNG WOMEN’S PART IN LIFE.
TiifißE is something in a pleasant-faced damsel
which takes a young man’s eye —whether he
will or no. It may bo magnetism. It may bo
the sympathy of that which is beautiful in men’s
natures for that which is lovely in women’s. The
women have great power over tho sex called
sterner. Particularly so, if they be young, pretty
and marriageable. Young woman 1 do you know
that it is you who are to mould someman’B life ?
Have you ever thought of the responsibility that
attaches to you long before you are married? A
word you may say to a young man whom you may
never marry nor even see a second time, will pos
sibly exert an influence over his life that you
don’t dream of! A smile does wonders in lighting
up the dark corners of a man’s soui—a word in
the right place may electrify his whole being. ▲
wrong influence will do more damago in a single
instant than a lifetime may correct. I know of a
case in point. A young gentleman making new
year’s complimentary calls found himself unable
to resist the pleading of a young lady to toko a
glass of mild wine with her. lie had abjured li
quors, and their taste had not been on his lips for
months—but that glass eho gave him raised the
appetite, and it was too much for bis powers of
resistance. He became a drunkard, and died
wretchedly not long ago. That is one instance.
But it is not the only one that could be adduoed.
It is not ohly the offering of liquors to young men
at the hands of young women that produces fre
quent evils, but it is the fashionable extravagance of •>
large majority of the young women, in town and
country, that frightens young men away from all
intention of matrimony, leads tbem to look upon
the whole sex with distrust, and drives them ‘to
scenes where they are not bound hand and foot
by the unreasonable demands of feminines who
would spend faster than they could make. And
the fact that this tendency shows signs of increase
makes the case worse. The fever of fashionable
dress, the ignorance of housewifely accomplish
ments, the lack of the peculiar home-virtues that
are calculated to make a home lovely—infect the
villages now-a-days as they do the city. It is not
necessary, young woman, thatyou should flaunt
in gorgeous apparel, oven if your father can af
ford to foot the dry-goods bill. Nor is it neces
sary that you should permit your mother to drub
all day in tho kitchen while you fold your hand*
and keep them prettily whito in the parlor. Whou
an earnest, energetic, hard-working, sensible
young fellow, who is in search of a wife, sees such
performances, he fears and hesifhtes, refuses to
marry at all perhaps, and so does only half the
good he could in the world—simply because he
as no notion of fulfilling the homely but very
truthful adage which tells of placing a man’s noeo
continually upon the grindstone. We commend
the subject to the regards of our young women
readers. Let them cultivate the domestic virtuea
—make themselves true women—know a wo
man’s duties—cherish their hands less and their
intellect more—and their lot will be happier a.id
better. More than this, they will find that there
are mate* in the world for them, and those worth
having. Will not mothers bring the true mode
of life b< afore their daughters in the light in which
of common senate. That is the* rarest
of virtues; more valuable because therfc is tom*
j paratively little of it to be found.