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Married l.lfe.
In considering our public and social
duties, we must be aware that married
life has its full share. When men mar
ry and settle down in life, the world gen
erally looks on with approbation, and its
congratulations are warmly given. The
reason is obvious, “in marrying, a guar
antee is given society for our good beha
vior.”
But married life is not always as happy
aa it might be, and those who have at first
resolved to live for each other, sometimes
end their career in mutual dislike. But;
if it does not come to this, there are o|ten
little disagreements, misunderstandings
and troubles which destroy the peace of
m|rricd people, and in general the fault
is to be traced to a want of consideration,
a Jittle precipitancy of action on one
side or the other. Half the success of
married life depends upon the attention
paid to Irifiles. Uniform kindness of
manner is a sure method of preserving
domestic quiet. In a recent work on so
cial life, we have met with some remarks
oit the treatment which husbands should
gife their wives, and wives their bus
bands. The advice comes from a saga
cious observer of mankind, and we think
we cannot do our readers a more agreea
ble service than by transferring to our
columns some of the maxims which
come from this well-wisher of our race.
Husbands should always regard their
wives as equals, and treat them with
kindness, respect, and attentioh. They
should never address them with an air of
authority, or as a master, nor interfere
with their domestic concerns, the employ
ment or discharge of servants. The wife
should always be supplied with money in
proportion to her husband's means, that
she may procure those things indispensa
ble to the table and for her personal com
fort. Her reasonable wishes should be
cheerfully complied with. Tempershould
never be shown at those slight irreguiari
ties in the domestic arrangements which
I will occasionally occur in families, and
are often caused by servants. If the
wife be a strong-minded and prudent wo
man, she is her husband’s best counsellor,
and should be consulted in every difficul
ty. Many a man has been saved from
ruin by this course, and many a one ruin
ed by not adopting, it. If the husband’s
circumstances are embarrassed, she
should know it, as women who are kept
iff ignorance of them often expend mo
§ney which they would not do, if they
Icnew the truth.
1 The wife should never be rebuked or
chidden, in company, for any little mis
takes in conversation, or any other cause.
Sdme men do this constantly ; and they
strike a keener dart at the feelings of a
woman than they would by a
fbarp rebuke in private. Anything, like
an exposure of ignorance in company
iimpairs her respect for herself and the
4 good opinion entertained of her bv
Others.'
v ‘ Wives should always receive their hus
bands with smiles, make their homes as
agreeable to them as possible, and grate
fully reciprocate their attentions. They 1
A stud y t° gratify their wishes with
■6 ard to their food, its preparation, the
of the family, in dress, man
‘ flf 3 and de P ortment - A wife should
rer rule or seek to rule her husband,
fw such conduct degrades both in the es
timation of others. Cheerful compli
ance with his wishes—indeed the antici
pation of them should be constantly stu
died. All altercations and arguments
|»ding to ill humor must be avoided,
iMether before strangers or in private.
|iP rr * ed I'*® > s too often embittered by
jP G disputes, without any real cause for
Jpem. Wives should not interfere in
husbands’ business, unless their ad-
is particularly asked, 't'hejr should'
never speak of their differences'of opin
ion, nor of the failings and imperfections,
of thefr husbands, even to their most in-[
timate friends. For in spite of all the,
pledges given of secrecy, these thingsj
will soon become known to a numerous'
circle. This is a very common mistake.'
and many an unsuspecting husband is
the subject of very improper remarks.—
Wives should at every opportunity, culti
vate their own minds, that they may be
rational companions. In their expendi
tures they should remember the vicissi
tudes of life, and not incur expenses
which may prove inconvenient or injuri
ous. They should, in domestic life, think
nothing a trifle which may interrupt its
i harmony or give real uneasiness. If dis
■ posed to economize in their household af
fairs, they should never do it at the ex
; pense of the poor women who are in
I their employment, the seamstress or the
J laundress. Some women are parsimoni
ous to the extreme in the wages they al
’ low, only to be extravagant and wasteful
in their own personal expenditures. This
is an offence which will bring down upon
any family where it is permitted, sooner
or later, retributive justice.
Filthily, where there is any difference!
between man and wife, let the contest not
. be, who shall show the most spirit , but
‘ who shall make the first advances to re
t conciliation. Both should treat each
other with the respect which, if they
were strangers, would be a matter of
p course.
Some married ladies are extremely
fond of general admiration; they enjoy
’! the incense of flattery and the admira
tion of the world. But this gives rise to
( sinister and unfriendly remarks, to anxie
p ties on the part of husbands and friends,
p and rarely fails to produce serious difficult
’ ty, and perhaps lasting unhappiness.—
The very suspicion of misconduct often
I produces as much wretchedness as the
reality. There is something to be feared
even in the tendency to this desire of ad
miration. The moth rarely flutters
' around the lighted candie without being
’mutilated.
*
On the other hand, the husband, by
[too general or too particular attention
jto other women, than his wife, does not
j know how much pain he gives her. If
T a sensible person, she will not communi-
P cate her feelings to any one, but she may
; suffer, nevertheless, very deeply.— N. Y.
' Sun.
5 Newspapers,
i The importance of good newspapers
t cannot be over-rated. The following
• high testimony in their favor, in an cx
• tract ot a letter from the“ Father of his
• Country,” to the late Mathew Carey,
i Esq. was written June 25, 1788.
“ For myself I entertain a high opinion
i of the utility of periodical publications, j
111 consider such easy vehicles of know-
J ledge more happily calculated than any
- other, to preserve the LIBERTY, stimu
, late the industry, and meliorate the mor
als of an enlightened and free people.”
i [Signed,] Geo. Washington.
No Family should be without one or
5 more newspapers. It cultivates in chil
-5 dren a desire for reading, and a disposi
t tion to learn and improve, renders them
■ considerate, intelligent, and more easily
f governed.
The number of newspapers in England
is 230, and the anual average number of
■ convictions for murder is thirteen. The
. number of newspapers in Spain a few
years ago was one, and the annual num
i ber of convictions for murder was up
i wards of twelve hundred.
! How many thoughtless young men
have spent their evenings in a tavern or
; grog-shop, which ought to be devoted to
’ reading ! How many parents who never
spent twenty dollars for books or for pa
■ pers for their families, would gladly have
; given thousands to reclaim a son or a
■ daughter who had ignorantly and thought
lessly fallen into temptation!
i An Editors position is one of great
! responsibility, too often misunderstood, or
unappreciated, and too frequently assum
led by the vicious and incompetent. The!
, only correction is in the people’s with
holding patronage from such newspapers,
as indulge in personal abuse and immor
alities, which make some newspapers as
great a curse to the community as others
i are blessings.
The Encouragement bestowed on the
■ press should be prompt, liberal, and al
ways in advance. Advance payments
are rendered essential to the welfare, if
not existence of a newspaper, from the
.smallness of the sums, the distance to
: which they are scattered, and the difficul
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAyJ%IAY 11, 1844.
Jty of collecting, arising from the absence!
of subscribers when called upon, the wanit
of preparation w'hen found, and the vari
ous delays, vexations, and expenses, a!-
jways attending the collection of many
'small sums. Besides the impositions to
| which publishers are exposed, should
make their real friends willing to concur
in the only rule which can afford protec
tion against dishonest delinquents.
A person receiving a newspaper is
bound by law as well as custom and jus
tice, to pay for it so long as be may con
tinue to receive it, notwithstanding any
agreement or direction that may have
been made for its discontinuance.
“A newspaper can drop the same
thought into a thousand minds at the same
moment. A newspaper is an adviser who
does not require to be sought, but comes j
to you of its own accord, and talks to you:
briefly every day of the common weal,
without distracting your private affairs.
Newspapers, therefore, become more ne-,
ccssary in proportion as men become:
; more equal, and individuals more to be!
feared. To suppose that they only serve ;
to protect freedom, would be to diminish
their importance; they maintain civili
> zation.”
Dietetic Maxims.
1. A healthy appetite is to be acquired
! by early rising, regular exercise in the
open air, and abstinence from intoxica
r ting liquors.
2. The food should be eaten slowly,
, and well masticated.
3. Animal food is sooner digested in
the stomach than vegetable; hut it is
) more stimulating or heating to the sys
tem. Flesh long salted, dried hams, beef
&c., are less easily digested and less nu
' tritivc than fresh meat.
4. Farinaceous and vegetable food,
! generally, is slower of digestion than ani
, mal, but is less heating.
I 5. Solid food, or food of a certain fi
brous or pulpy consistence, is more fitted
j for digestion in the stomach than rich
r soups, jellies, and all highly concentrated
’ sauces. The latter are rendered more
, digestible by the addition of bread.
, 6. Fish arc not so nourishing as the
j flesh of land animals. The while fish
j- are less apt to disagree with the stomach
than the red.
7. Roasted meat is more nourishing
than boiled, but much more stimulating.
8. Bread should bo perfectly raised,
fully baked, and one day old.
9. Salt, and a moderate quantity of
j pepper, are safe : beyond this, all scason
t ing becomes injurious.
10. Different dishes at one meal, in
; terfere with digestion.
, 11. All excess in eating should be
avoided. The best guide is to be found
i in the calls of a healthy appetite.
! 12. Health, and strength of body, de
■ pend upon the health of the stomach and
r consequent perfection of the digestive
■ powers.
13. Water is the most wholesome
’ drink. Toast and water, sweetened wa
ter, or water with a slight addition of a
vegetable acid, are useful diluents during
■ the summer.
14. Distilled and fermented liquors
i impede digestion ; and, when drunk to
any extent, invariably destroy the tone of
the stomach, and of the system generally.
I 15. When the stomach is weak, but
little fluid should be taken during or after
: eating.
10. Excercise should be used in the
intervals between meals, but not immedi
ately before or after them.
Extract from the Message of the Gover
nor oj Kentucky, December 1843.
i “Our public debt, then, as you will
• perceive by the annexed tables, carefully
made up and easily comprehended, is,
■ comparatively speaking, quite small. It
can be discharged with the most perfect
ease, with ordinary prudence in its man
agement, by the time it falls due, without
: creating the slightest pressure upon the
people. This opinion has been given to
you heretofore, and it is certainly correct.
! The increase of the debt, however, should
i>e guarded against by the utmost vigi
lance. Our policy in reference to this
subject seems to be well understood both
at home and abroad, as is, also, our well
established character for stability and
firmness of purpose in legislation even
under circumstances of extreme pres
sure. I need only to refer to the oc
currences of your last session in proof of
this assertion. Last year you convened,
it will be remembered, at a moment when
the country was suffering under the hea
vier. calamities. There never was a
[more critical or more trying period in
our affairs. Unappalled by the danger
and alarm growing out of this condition
of things, the Legislature, influenced by
the prudent counsels of the people, most
wisely, as I think, and as time has proved,
forbore to resort to any hazardous, and!
[iierhaps ruinous, experiments to ward off
the blow. They stood resolutely by the
constitution, refusing to impair the obli
gation of contracts, or in any mahner to
interfere in the delicate relations exist
ing between debtor and creditor ; and
n>w the State stands erc.it and triumph
ant, and her march is onward. II
credit standsdeservedly high every where
—her bonds command a price considera
b y above par, and are sought for with
great avidity.
“ The doctrine of repudiation, I am
; proud to say, receives no encouragement,
jgets no indulgence, meets no toleration
tinm any quarter in all our borders. If
i ti ere be a single one amongst us, who is
in the least infected with that terrible
idisease, lam not aware of the fact. No
‘[such demoralizing doctrine can, or ever
"ill, find a resting place in Kentucky.—
• Our constituents have a character to
sustain, which they inherited at their
birth, and they moan, at any sacrifice, to
. transmit it to posterity as bright, as pure,
and as fresh as they received it from their
[renowned forefathers. In truth, they
look upon their State character as part
and parcel of their own personal reputa
-1 tii n, and will, forever, support the one
wih the same zeal and spirit that they
wi uld promptly defend the other. Eve
ry citizen, (political differences form no
, exception,) whether he lie humble or ex
’ alt >d, poor or rich, justly considers him
self an equal stockholder, to all intents
an I purposes, in the honor, credit, good
faith, and glory of our beloved Common
wealth. A failure, on her part, to fulfil
her engagements,or a refusal to acknowl-
I edge the obligation of contracts, would,
( therefore, inflict an incurable wound upon
| hi* personal honor.
‘■ In conclusion, allow me, in the most
earliest and affectionate manner, to ex
hort! you, by every consideration of pa
[ trictfisni, as the enlightened Reprcsenta
( tives of a free and confiding people, to
cowinuo to stand by the interest of our
noble Commonwealth under every emer
’ gcncy, to guard, seduousl v, her honor, to
preserve her faith inviolate, to maintain
’ her credit untarnished, as it now is, to
j. advance her welfare, and to promote the
happiness and prosperity of her people by
the aid of your best talents, to avoid an
inexpedient increase of the State debt,
to fx a steady and resolute eye upon
its payment, to make the burthen upon
I the people as light as possible, and to be
cautibus, just and economical in all your
legislative action.
Tiat you may perform the public busi
ness entrusted to your charge with unus
ual dispatch, that your session ipay be
profiiable and harmonious, that in all your
legislation you may be influenced by the
spiriii of true wisdom, that your labors
may meet the approbation of our consti
-1 tuemj, that you may always properly ap
preciate the countless blessings we enjoy,
| and feel, forcibly, the high obligations of
. gratitude we owe to the Great Author
from whom they emanate, that each of
you nay acquire great renown in the
councils of the State, and earn for your
selves after a long life of public service,
the name of the greatest benefactors of
the Commonwealth, is the sincere desire
of R. P. Letcher.
December 30, 1843.
Tight Dressing—Corsets.
The only rational form of dress is that
which protects the wearer from the vicis
situde* and inclemency of the weather,
and allows to the limbs their natural
; movements, and to all the parls and or
gans of the system the free performance
of their appropriate functions. Every
kind and article of dress which has a con
i trary effect, is absolutely injurious to
health, and ought at once to be aban-
I doned.
The motions of the body, as well as it.s
; erect position, depend upon the action of
i numerals masses of flesh, endowed with
I the property of active contraction, and
I denom nated muscles. The perfection
with which these perform their office in
either of the above respects, is always in
proportion to their strength or tone, and
their freedom from every artificial re
, straint. Now it is an invariable rule
that if <x>nstant pressure be made on any
set of muscles, by means of a tight dress
or a bandage, they will soon diminish in
[One Dollar a Year. \
i size, and consequently lose both their
• power of supporting the body in its natu
, ral position, and their ability to produce
the easy and natural, or in other words,
graceful movements of these parts to
which they belong. This is strongly ex
emplified by the state of a limb that has
• been confined by the necessary dressings
in consequence of a fracture, or by those
impostors who, in many of the European
t cities, bandage firmly their legs or arms
until they are diminished frequently to
one half their natural size, for the pur
pose of exciting commiseration and ex
torting alms, or of avoiding military duty.
An unequivocal condemnation should be
pronounced, therefore, on all those kinds
of dress which compress, in the least de
gree, any part of the trunk or limbs, and
which in that manner cramp the free
motion of the muscles, and reduce their
! size and plumpness. Tight lacing, by
' means of corsets or hands, and laces of
5 all descriptions, as well as tight sleeves
, and garters, invariably produce, more or
, less, these effects; and so long as their
. use is continued there is no means of ob
. viating the injury which results from
, them: and let it bo recollected that this
. injury is always greater, the earlier in
j life they are adopted.
We have not yet enumerated all the
r evils produced by firmly compressing the
. chest. Independently of the uneasiness
i which this compression inflicts upon the
female, from the constrained position she
, is forced by it constantly to assume, in
. dicated by the frequent shrugging and
vvrithing of her shoulders, and constant
, restlessness when in full dress, and which,
of itself, often gives the back an ungrace
ful twist, and throws the shoulders out of
. their natural position, other serious and
I permanent inroads upon health and beau
ty are effected. The pressure of the
I corset depriving, in a great measure, the
muscles of the back, by which the up
right position of the body is maintained,
j of their natural action, and the blood be
ing prevented from circulating freely
, through their vessels, they become relax,
ed, and allow the body to bend ungrace
fully either to one side or forwards: in
time, the curvature of the spine which
} results, becomes permanent, and the indi
r vidual is often in this manner deformed
for life. But this is not all: the health
j and vigor of the system, the freshness
! and brilliancy of the complexion, theve
t ry activity and cheerfulness of the mind,
, depend in a very great degree upon the
’ blood undergoing a perfect purification
( in the lungs. This is effected by its be
ing brought in contact, in these organs,
! with a sufficient amount of pure atmof.
| pheric air: whatever impedes the free
, expansion of the chest in breathing, and
. diminishes the amount of air inhaled into
the lungs, prevents this purification of
the blood from taking place. Now, the
corset, by firmly cornpressing the chest
, and loins, does this to a very great extent;
so much so, that in all females who have
been in the habit of wearing it from their
, youth, the chest has absolutely a dimin
" ished capacity, and loses that fine arched
form which constitutes the beauty of the
female bust. By numerous experiments
| if has been found that females thus cir
. cumstanced take into the lungs a much
- less amount of air than those who have
never worn a corset. The rigor of the
whole system becomes in consequence
prostrated; the skin assumes a sallow
p hue, and all the functions of life are per
formed imperfectly. 'The lungsand heart
especially suffer, and in many cases be
come sooner or later the seat of incurable
disease. The pressure by the corset upon
the stomach and liver, is also highly pre
judicial to health, by impeding digestion
: and the free secretion of bile; in this
• manner, independent of the injury in
, flicted upon the lungs, it causes discoior-
I ation of the skin, and a haggard wrinkled
appearance of the countenance. We
i urge, therefore, upon all, the disuse of
this ridiculous and pernicious portion of
female dress, which, so far from adding
i any real grace or beauty to the form, is
the cause of disease, suffering and de
formity. We laugh at the folly of the
Chinese belles, who compress their feet
’ until they are no longer fitted for walk
tng; and at the African, who flatten their
noses as an indispensable requisite of
beauty ; and yet our own females are
equally ridiculous, and even more crimi
nal, when they imagine that they improve
the beauty of their chests and waists by
distorting them from that form which
nature has wisely imparted to them ; and
thus, by a perverted taste, entail disehse
and pain upon their daughters, or hurry
i them into an early grave.