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VOLUME IX.
ortirat.
ADVICE TO YOUNG. LADIES.
Dear girls, T like to hear you talk
About your pleasures, wants and woes ;
But wish, when ot t with me you walk,
You made less noise about your beaux.
In weaving knots, man-traps, and chains,
For husband•hunting all excel' :
Such open wars and desperate pains
Must frighten more than I can tell.
You all admire my fiance.
And marvel how I cluirmA the man
Whom all in vain had sought to slay—
I von him, girls, without a plan.
I dwell within a secret bower,
'Where fops of fashion seldom come
It blooms with many a lovely flower,
By honest people called " Sweet Home."
kept a little page, mini Pride,
A clever lad. who could discover
A vain pretender at my side,
Or at a glance a genuine lover.
My lady's maid was Modesty—
I had her from a country place
She had been taught In make, you see,
A bonnet that would shade my face.
Miss A-la-mode engaged her once—
A fickle barefaced belle of fashion,
Who, after having eall'd her dunce,
Discharged her in a fit of paSsion.
She really wns an honeSt girl.
And seorti'd with paint to feign a beauty ;
To smear my face with powder pearl
She deetn'il no portion of her
gy coachman was bintriiarry Health ;
Ile drove me early round the park,
But grumbled if with folks of wealth
I wish'd to ramble after dark.
To midnight rants. to plays and balls,
Ile hail a terrible oljection :
Ile said they hinder'd morning calls.
And dimin'd my line and clear complexion
My dear companion, neat and good,
Beloved by all,..was industry
Though poor, she came of 'wide blood,
And claim'd descent from Piety.
With'dosting-brush about the house—
In this room. that room. in and out,
She frighten'd every fly and mouse,
Who wonder'd what site was about.
IT she glanced inn mirror, straight
Its polisli'd stirfliee heatn'a with light :
rWHAillgi. the same with pictures. plate. [bright.
Like Spring, whate'er she touch'il
Those were the only arts T used :
So, ladies, if you like the plan.
Just do the same—you look amused !
Yet each might win a nice young man
(From Graham's 31agazinc.)
TIIE QUADROON GIRL.
CHAPTER
heat of noontide was over, but
the air was still sultry and oppressive. A
slight breeze had indeed.sprung up, but too
languid to raise the heads of the drooping
flowers, it only whispered to them, perchance
in praise of their luxurious grace, find then
died again into stillness.
There was but one moving figure to be seen
and it ill accorded with the desolate character
of the landscape, for Lucille, the Quadrocn
girl, was very beautiful and clad in the : brilliant
hues which 'so well became her ; seemed to
tread the lonely path by the light of her own
loveliness.
It was indeed a dreary scene, for she was
approaching one of those extinct volcanoes
with which the island of Martinque abounds
and the rugged ground was seated and dark
ened by the hot breath which had passed ovdr
it. Ikre and there the masses of gray stone
were covered with the exuberant vegetation of
that glowing climate, but for the most part all
was bare and black, as though some ancient
curse rested upon the spot, and chilled the gen
erous hand of nature. •
Lucille seemed little to heed the scene ; her
largo eyes, dark as night, and. swimming in
liquid lustre, were sadly gazing earthward, and
her small head set so proudly on the column
like throat, was bent dejectedly. Occasionally
she raised it to reconnoitre, and at•last a gleam
of pleasure and recognition shot across her
face. A stranger would never have dreamed
of human habitation in that wild spot, but
Lucille's eyes sought out a dark hollow in the
rock, and already distinguished within it the
stooping form of an aged woman. As she ap
proached, her steps quickened, and at kit,
seemingly in unconquerable impatience, she
darted forward into the cavern.
" What, Lucille ! and hest thou come at
last " said the old woman, " and will naught
but sorrow ever bring thee to my side ?
Nay, deny it not, there are tears in thy heart,
hanging like thunder•rain in the heavens ; and
see, the first touch of my hand has brought the
torrent down !"
IT-tf
It was true, Lucille had flung herself to the
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ALLENTOWN, PA. ; AUGUST 15, 1855.
ground in an agony of tears, the violence of
her sobs shaking down her hair into a wilder
ness of darkness round her polished shoulders.
Very soon, however, 'like the storm drops to
which the old crone had compared them, the
large tears ceased to flow, and she looked up.
Mother, you are right," she said ; " wheth
er by the love you bear me, I know not ; but,
you read - Clearly ns ever the secret of my heart.
and I dare not, if I would, deny it."•
Gabriel hits deserted thee."
" It is so, mother : but oh ! tell me at Icast
that his heart is still my own—that he has
striven to free it, but cannot."
• " Lucille, enlist thou bear it ? I can tel
thce Somewhat."
" Oh! mother, there is nothing I could not
bear if only he loves me still—did I not tell
you long shim when first I bent over him in
that wild fever, that I could die content, nay
that I could live and see his face no more, if
but once I heard him say that he loved me?" •
" And thou had'st that wish ?"
" Ycs ! dear mother, you foretold that I
should live to hear those precious words, and
I did."
" No great wisdom was needed for that
prophecy, child," rejoined the other with a
fondness of tone that came strangely from her
thin, withered lips. " Even now, I marvel as
I see. that he could ever gaze enough on those
eyes of thine."
" Hush ! mothei, hash !" said Lucille, im
patiently snatching away a silken lock which
the old woman was smoothing over her fingers :
yon said you had somewhat to tell me con
ceal it not; if it concern him or his."
Thine own fears have sufficiently fore
warned thee, my child." The girl hid her face
in her loosened hair.
" He will marry !" she whispered at last
as if afaid to give voice to the words. " But
mother may he not love me still? Oh! the
white woman's eyes may be blue as our sum
mer heavens, but will she love him as I have
done ? will her pale cheek burn as mine at the
sound of his footsteps ? will she toil for him
through the heat of noon, and watch through
the silence of night?" Lucille raised not her
head, and her companion, in compassion as it
seemed, broke the pause.
" My child, he may love thee yet."
"" Oh ! thanks, mother, thanks, your words
are ever true—now will I cast oft the selfish.
ness of this sorrow, and, if only he will some
times say that he loves Inc still, be happy as of
0111."
Whe sprang lightly to lice feet and began
In wind lier scattered hair around her beautiful
head.
Lucille, what of thy child ? he is won't so
to fill thy talk, and to-day thou last told me
nothing of him'
There was alas ! no shadow of shame on the
young On; 'cheek, as she answered " •.
well mother, and fairer than ever you so at
my skin bears scarcely a trace of the swarthy
hue of our people, but his—oh ! it is purer
than moonlight, our darkness has all fled to his
eyes. I would that. they had been blue, but
he has at least his father's rosy mouth and
clustering golden hair. Did I tell you motli
cr, 'that when last Gabriel saw him, he wept ?"
" Thou didst not, child. lam glad for thy
sake that the babe is so fair, perchance yet he
may save thee, or even if Gabriel marry this
Madelaine de Bcaucour, who is . doome'd by sonic
fate or other to cross thy path in life, even ht:r
heart maybe touched by the beauty of this
child, and knowing the Wrongs of our race she
may stoop to save him from poverty and labor
and set him amongst his father's people. Thou
Wouldst be a happy mother, then Lucille !"
" I know not that I could take aught from
her hand,'! answered the girl proudly, looking
unconsciously so, majestic in her queenlike
beauty, that her companion wondered. for the
hundredth time how Gabriel 'Delacroii, even
with his pride of descent and worldly ambition,
could resist its influence.
A moment's thought, however, and she sigh
ed deeply. What availed the charm of that
mien, or the warmth of that heart ? flit a
European ever wed with one of her despised
race ? and was not Madeleine de Beaucour,
whose name rumor had united with that cf
Gabriel a daughter of the wealthiest family of
all their wealthy oppressors • ,
Lucille at that moment, was saddened by
no such sorrowful reflections, her elastic nature
had already thrown off for the time the burden
of her. grief. Of her proverty she thought
little ; a• flower-maker by trade, she could
always earn a sufficiency by the exercise of her
graceful art, either amongst the luxurious ladies
of the island, or by exporting•her handiwork
to Paris, To ber position, sanctioned, alas !
by custom amongst our race, there attached
little idea of disgrace, and could she have hoped
to retain something of her lover's affection, and
to bring uP her child in greater ease and refine
ment than she' had known herself, she might
yet have been happy. •
" Mother," she said, after a pause, " it would
relieve my heart to look upon the beauty of
this white woman, Madeleine. I knew her
father's chateau well, I will take the boy in my
arms, and if she is alone, I will even speak to
her, and hear the voice that has charmed my
Gabriel. She cannot see the child unmoved.
for he is fairer than the fairest babe ever cradled
beneath their rich roots."
" Do as thou wilt, my Lucille," replied the
old crone, fondly, " and," she added with a
bitterness that seemed far better to accord with
her harsh features, "e unto her and hers, if
she show thee aught of the over Weening pride
of her people."
CIIArTIFAI II
Tt was a bright, burning day, with scarcely
a breath of air stirring, even through the cool
jealousies of the Chateau de Beancour.
The fair Madelaine lay languidly on the soft,
the delicacy of her transparent skin enhances]
by the soft white drapery and rich lace in which
she was robed. The room was partially dark
ened, and on one side knelt a servant, who gent
ly agitated a large fan of eastern workmanship.
while, on the other, a young girl, who served as
companion to the heiress was reading to her
the last French novel.
Within the shrubbery, and riot many paces
from the house, poor Lucille had lain, crouch
ing in the stifling heat, for many hours ; anx
iety to accomplish her object, and the fear of de
tection, having induced her to take up her sta
tion much earlier than was necessary.
The excessive heat, and want of nourish
ment, had made her very faint, though the
child, whom she had fed and rockeeto sleep in
her arms, lay still and peaceful as a waxen hp . -
age of infancy.
She had dressed herself with unusual care,
and bore in a light basket on her arm, some of
the choicest specimens of her skill— delicate,
night-blossoming buds, and gorgeous tropical
buds, imitated with wonderful accuracy and
grace.
At length her child awoke and she began to
fear from his restlessness that she should be ob
liged, for that day at least, to give up her plan.
when from the lofty door of chateau, Madelaine
de Beaucour, attended by a lady and gentleman
entered the grounds. Lucille's eye's dilated,
and Ler bosom heaved : but no ! it was he, she
saw at a glance, and her gaze was again rivi
ted on the lady. Something like disdain flash
ed across her beautiful face as she looked, and
then nolo . ' into an expression of relief and con
gratulation truth to tell : the lady with all the
adjuncts of wealth and luxury around her, could
not bear a 1110111011 CA comparison with the dark
eyed Quadroon, and Lucille felt this instinc
tively.
Awhile she paused irresolute, then caressing
her child, slowly advanced, with her stalely
tread, to where Madelaine had sealed herself,
but her tongue failed 'her, and, she could
only silently display her gracefully fashioned
flowers.
The lady looked on coldly, and made no an
swer to her companion's warm comments on
the rare beauty of the mother and child.—
Her gaze was directed to the proffered flower
basket, and after turning over its contents with
a careless hand glanced at the Quadroon.
" Your own work I suppose ? silt ! I would
have purchased some, for they are really well
done, but you have nothing all white, I see,
and these gaudy colors hardly suit my com
plexion."
" Strange, is it not ?" she continued, turn-.
ing languidly to her companion," that the ab
sence of refinement in these people,, should be
so perceptible even in their dress—they all pre
fer those glaring colors."
" Nay," he answered quieltly 4 but with as
little care to subdue his tone as she had dis
played, " if they have all the gorgeous beauty
of this splendid creature, they should wear no
other hues."
Lucille stood motionless. only her curling lip
betraying that she was conscious of their words
—" Would the white magnolia or the silver
lotus, please the lady Madelaine ?" she asked
in her soft, rilh voice ?
" Yes ; either si do," replied the lady.
"You may make me a wreath of the white
magnolia, I think, and bring it here by next
week—not later," she added, with half a smile,
and waiving her hand in token of dismissal.
But the young girl by her side had started
up= "Oh ! Madelaine,—the child, have you
noticed it ? I never saw anything half so
lovely ! What magnificent eyes ! May I not
hold him a moment ?" she continued, with a
pretty beseeching look at Lucille, and already
taking one tiny hand in hers.
The mother's face softened, though she held
the boy yet closer to her bosom.
" Therese, Therese, of what arc you dream
ing ?" exclaimed Madelaine angrily, rising from
her seat. " I forbid you to' touch the child ;
every other girl, of common modesty, shrinks
from these low-born creatures, and the off
spring of their depravity ;" and she swept
haughtily' into the chateau with her compan
ions, the abashed girl giving depreciating
glances at Lucille.
NUMBER 45
'The Quadroon followed Madelaine's retreat
ing steps with a look of fiery disdain, and long
after the party had disappeared, still she stood,
transfixed to the spot, every muscle quivering
with suppressed anger. Her boy's soft, fingers,
wandering in wonder over her averted face, re
called her thoughts, and she turned away with
a step of yet statelier pride than the lady.
Through the night, and the next, and again
the next, two women sat together in the cav •
ern of the gray rock. Of naught pure and
holy was their talk, for as the hours sped by, the
beautiful face of the younger woman was leans
formed to something like the bitterness and
cruel rage of the elder. Iler occupation accord
ed little with the expression of her features,
for she was skilfully fashioning into all but
living beauty. the snowy flowers and swelling
buds of the white magnolia.
" Are you sure that it cannot fail, mother ?"
shB whispered, after a long pause.
"As sure as that sun will rise to-mor
row !"
" But you have not tried it," she added hur
riedly with a creeping shudder.
For all answer the old crone tottered across
the room, and uplifting the folds of a bright
hued shawl, which lay upon the floor, displayed
the motionless form of a small mountain goat. It
seemed to have laid down and died there with
out a struggle—so peaceful was its attitude.—
The gill shuddered violently as her companion
dragged the body across the cave, and precipi
tated it over the hill side.
" No son shall she live to bear him," mut
tered the old woman fiercely, as she took the
wreath from the girl's hand ; then drawing a
vial from her bosom, she poured into each
open cup and half-closed bud, a few drops of
clear white liquid.
The following day was one of rare festivity
at the Chateau de Ileaucour. A grand fete, at
which the heiress, in her bridal array, was to
appear for the last time as Madelaine de Beau
cour, had been planned ; for the next morning
was to see her the bride of Gabriel Delacroix.
As she sat in her chamber, robing for the ball,
she was told that a Quadroon girl waited with
out, asking to see her.
" Ah ! my white magmilia wreath," she said
gaily, "'twill be more becoming than this
tiara of pearls : bring the girl hero, Theresa,
quickly.
With her.own hands, Lucille placed the clus
tering, flowers amid the lady's hair, and then
retired. Through the open windows she watch
ed the bride elect, treading with him the
graceful mazes of the dance, her cheek flushed,
her blue eyes sparkling.
Still she watched on. and prayed with
clenched hands, until . she marked the lady's
cheek blanch, and her hand seek her brow with
a troubled gestu re. Then she laughed wildly,
and sped away from the perfumed air and the
brilliant light of that festive scene. Even as
she fled, the bride had fallen to the earth, and
was borne to her room, silent and motionless.
Only when they uncovered her pale bosom,
and unloosed her shining hair, her hand, in obe
dience to some strange spell, sought the flowers
on her brow, and none could remove them.
The sun 'rose upon her, a bride indeed : in
her bridal array, fair and flower crowned, but
cold, voiceless, and still forever.
[f:7lYhrit impudent questions are these ?
How should an editor know ?
When a lady gets stalled on a glitter, •
That runs in a populdus street.
(Like a fly' that is stranded in butter,)•
And has to uncover her feet ;
As gently the calico lifts her,
And gives it her graceful sweep,
Ts a feller to blame when he chances
To give at her ankles a peep ?
. Just to see if they're thick or they're thin :
- • Mr. Editor, is it a sin ?
Or when a plump bosom is covered
With a delicate lloniton.lace,
Whose whiteness, like full•blooming lillics,
Contrasts with the rouge on her face,
like artificial flowers in flour,
(If I may be allowed so to speak,)
Should a feller be checked if he's curious
. Within the. laid meshes to peep•? •
Just to judge of the contents within :
Mr. Editor, is it a sin?
The Taidler.
, There is no being on the habitable globe
more degraded and more Contemptible than a
tattler. Vicious principles, want of honesty,
servile meanness, despicable insidiousness, form
its character. Has he wit ? In attempting to
display it he makes himself a fool. Iles he
friends ? By unhesitatingly disclosing their se
crets ho• will make them his most bitter ene
mies. By telling all ho knows,. he will soon
discover to the world that he knows but little.
Does he envy. an individual ? His tongue fruit
ful with falsehood, defames his character.
Does he covet the 'favot: of any ono ? He at
tempts to gain it by slandering others. His
approach is feared,- his person hated, his compa
ny unsought, and his sentiments despised as
emanating from a heart fruitful with guile,
teeming with' iniquity, loaded with envy, ha
tred and revenge..
Influence of Marriage.
habit and long life together are more neces
sary to happiness, and even to love, than is
generally imagined. No one is happy vrith-tho
object of his attachment, until he has passed
many days, above all, many days of misfortune
with her. The married pair most know each
other to the centre of their souls—the mysteri
ous veil which covered the two spouses in the pri
mitive must be raised in its inmost folds,:
how closely soever it may be kept drawn to the
rest of the 'World. What ! on account of a tit of
caprice, or burst of passion, am I to be exposed
to the fear of toting my wife and my children,
and to renounce the hope of passing my declin
ing days with them ? Let no one imagine
flint fear will make me become a better
husband. No! we do not attach ourselves to
a possession which we are in danger of losing
the soul of a man, as well as his body, is in- .
complete without his wife ; he has strength, she
has beauty ; he combats the enemy and labors
in the field but lie understands nothing of do
mestic life ; his companion is waiting to pre
pare his repast amid sweeten his existence. Ho
has crosses; and the partner of his life is there
to soften them ; his days may be sad and trou
bled, but in the chaste arms of his wife he
finds comfort and repose. Without woman,
man would be rude, gross, solitary. Woman
spreitds around him the flowers of existence of
the creepers of the forests, that decorate the
trunks of sturdy oaks with their perfumed gar
lands. Finally, the Christian pair live and die
united ; together they reap the fruits of their
union : in the dust they lay side by side ; and
they are united beyond the tomb.
ffilGia FORFAIREASIS.
The notion that high foreheads, in women as
well as men, are indispensable to beauty, came
into vogue with phrenology and is going out
with the decline of that pretentious end plausi
ble " science." Not long ago more than " ono
lady" shaved her head to give it an intellectual
appearance, and the custom of combing the
forehead probably originated in the same mis
taken ambition. When it is considered that a
great expanse of forehead gives a bold, mascu
line look—that from irons (forehead) comes the
word " effrontery"— it will not be wondered at
the ancient painters, sculptors and poets con
sidered a low forehead " a charming thing in
woman," and indispensable to female beauty.
Horace praises Lycoris for her low forehead,
and Martial commends the same grace as deci
dedly as he praises the arched eyebrow. Pain
ters and sculptors know very well that modesty
and gentleness could not be made to consist
with tall heads or extremely broad ones; and,
accordingly, without a single notable exception,
their women r —unless made on purpose to repre
sent shrews •and the coarser class of Cyprians
have low foreheads. But nature, a higher au
thority, has distinguished the fairest of the sex
in the same way ; and foolishly perverse are
they who would make themselves anew in the
hope of improvement. Girls, don't shave tho
tops of your foreheads any more, or use " Pou
dre Subtle" to destroy the hair. All sharp
eyed young sparks can easily detect such " ar
tistic" operations of the toilet, and laugh in
their sleeve at the causes.
That Night and that Man.
''was night ! The stars were shrouded in a
veil of mist—the vivid lightnings flashed and
shook their fiery tresses in the face of heaven
the deep toned thunder rolled across the
vaulted sky—the elements were in commotion
—the storm spirit howled in the air—the winds
vhistled, the hail stones fell like a shower of
earls, the large undulations of the- ocean
t, she( t ton the rock-bound shores, and cur
rents leap d from the mountain tops—in short,
it was a night awful beyond imagination
Dutch Bill sprang from his couch witi"en
geance stamped open his stern brow, murder in
his heart, and the instrument of death in his
hands. The storm increased, the lightnings
flashed with brighter glow, the thunder growled
with a deeper energy, the winds whistled with
a fury, the confusion of the hour was congenial
to his soul and the surety passions that raged
in his bosom. He clenched his weapon with a
stronger grasp, a demoniac smile gathered on
his lips, his hair stood on end, he grated his
teeth, raised his arm, sprang with a fearful.
yell of triumph on his victim, and relentlessly
killed--A BED 111 c
Nenetit of Oiling the 'Body.
The practice of daily inunction is common ink
many warn\ countries, and serves to soften the
skin, and keep the body in health. In somo
regions vegetable oils are chiefly used ; cocoa
nut and castor oil by the negrocs in the West
Indies, by the Bast Indians, and the natives.of
the Pacific Islands ; palm oil, nut oil, and ghee,
or fluid butter, by, the African races: glivo oil
on the shores of the Mediterranean, &c. The-
New Zealanders and some others use shark oil ;
'the EstrebitftiMihnil fteenlanders imbibe largo
quantities of train, seal, and various fish oils,
while the natives about the large rivers and
coasts of Brazil use turtle oil, and Pit obtained
from the alligator and crocodile. Those who•
are employed in the woolen trade, soap and
candle and other factories, where oils and fats
arc largely used, enjoy a comparative immu
nity from scrofula and phthisis. Sailors believe•
a whaling voyage to be a cure for consumption,
and probably the quantity of oil which is drunk
and taken into the skin may have its beneficial
effect upon the system.
aIjSRNSIBLE TO ins LAST.HAIiss Smith says
she will never marry a widower with a family.
for this reason, t' she is down on secondhhand.
children."
ir j -To kill red ants, pinch theM on the back
of the neck until they open their mouths,
then give them a doso of Lyons' Jgagnotio•
Powder.
FX7Ovid says, " loro is a kind of:warfare."
Well it is ; it sorter " knocks" a feller..