VOLUME 2.
NERVOUSNESS.
The following article from '1 he bat ton
at Intelligencer is worthy of a p ace in
every newspaper magazine in the
country. Wc commend it especia illy
the notice of those papers whose columns
are filled with disgusting and frauduleu
advertisements and quack noitumis .
"KRASMirs-FKOM THE COUNTRY.
« <Nervousness' is getting to be fright
fully common in this country. In o
times' this affliction was confined chiefly
,xo old men and to paste, females; to con
stitutions of the poetic type, to impressi
ble and exalted natures, like fine writers,
musicians, orators, great actors and liter
ary people are commonly endowed with.
In 'old times' the old nervous people kept
the house, or rode out moderately and
quietly; they took nervines, they were
.waited on and soothed and treated as in
valids, and so they passed innocently and
harmlessly out of the world, without
murdering any body or even breaking
any body's head or limbs And the or-
artists, poets and writers of that
-lay found vent for this infirmity in the
rostrum, through their art. in their verses
and glowing pcricds. But nowadays
there is a flock of young people who 'are
HO very nervous J' The malo 'nervous
youth' (of course wo except^from what
we arc about to say crazy i/enirses, who
,nre always, at times, more or less mad) —
the male 'nervous youth' of this day, per
haps, has drank too much poisoned whis
ky, aud smoked too many cigars or pipes,
"i he bus kept late hours in forbidden
places, or the fountain ot his life is dry
ing up from disease; perhaps lie is an idle
fellow, blase, empty headed, 'gone to seed,
a half-gamester and profligate who verges
near dcierixin tremens, or an over-indulg-
ad, imperious pet, pamperod by his ser
vants, dreaded by his dependents, fawned
on by parasitical expectants, mortally fear
ed by his mother, sister or wife; in fine,
•lord of himself—that heritage of woo'—
afino gentleman, in a small way, who
never has thought about Divine grace,
and who is only approachc 1 with impuni
ty by the very Devil himself. A charac
ter of this sort may be 'nervous' when lie
"is crossed even by an atom or*t hair.—
The 'nervous female' may possibly be
over excited upon the subject of her be
ing ti'lady,' as she stales it—that is, a
person who can do nothing to help her
self, and who glories in such helplessness:
•one who has a potty income, and yet who
would hue* servants, jewels, gorgeous
jipparel, one who would give rich and
frequent entertainments —if she only had
the money of somebody above hej; and
all this for the reason that she was put
to a l /a»h!oliable boarding-school,' when
ono in her circumstances ought to have
bceu trained for the practical duties nr.d
labors of life. • And so she becomes'ner
vous' often. While thousands of others
of her sex, too bashful or prudish to read
the pliysioiogieal truths that every woman
should know, fall into an abuse of their
nature, through ig..orancc and neglect—
and the number of these is legion nowa
days—and i n this way live diseased a4id
tormented lives, at a period of existence
every pulse should gild their fea
tures as sunlight glitters on the daticiug
wave. Now, this evil is a great moral,
social, physiological evil of the day, and
on this evil fatten swarms of quacks—
medical quacks—of patent medicine ma
kers, of sellers of ditguited rum in a
'medical' forms; hosts of 'speci
for what they call female diseases'
here are born (only a medical map
think, can tell how many) the sly
Wcmale devoted to stimulants 'to relieve
nervousness,'win eventually become, to
all intents aud purposes, opium eaters,
•passing from inordiuate ale drinkers,'
through other degrees of stimulants, fin
ally to opium. [Of course, good .nigral
and healthy society will understand that
of the morbid—o'.' the
weeds, the poisons, and not of the heal
thy—of the flowers, and of the true and
rightly-directed of his fellows.] And
here it is that 'moral insanity.'as the doc
tors call it, finds its origin, in nine cases
*"udl Tenwtr is confounded • with
'nervousness;' unl> rutted .passion and un
tamed impulse are mistaken for such
helpless cases as are driven into guilt and
excess, because the rudder, the will, the
. senses are destroyed and chaotic.
"Uow much of this evil, that does.«ot
strictly belong to physical causes, can be
traced to foolith education, and to
pointed affections or fancies, alike in the
single aud in the wedded ! In tho .first
place, the more worldly 'fashionable' no
tion of religion sesolvos the earuest and
thorny life, the daily life of
warfare aud self-sacritioe, iuto "a merely
pleasant thing of the tenses and tentwienls
Togo to chursh and sit \n a nioc piew,
well dressed, to hear 'handsome prayers'
and the Bible well and musically read: to
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it"--A. Lincom>.
teach a Sunday school class, to read the
'pretty parts' oT the Gospel at home, on
Sunday—this Is not all of religion !
Where are the characters whose exercise
is demanded and commanded, all around
us, and daily? What is the everyday
life? True, when within one'smeans,the
accomplishments and graces of life are
but so many duties; but these are subor
dinate to such practical thing", as beloeg
to the solidity and gravity of mortality,
which, after all, is but a breath, which is
only the threshold to a vast and awful
'altered btate of being,' but, during which,
i chut icc oxce to others requires that wo
shall be able to do something, women and
men, besides talk and amuse ourselves.—
Talk, music, wit, mirth, will not ov.rsee
a servant, nor cook a. dinner, nor nurs
an invalid, dor economize the household
expenses, nor will they darn a stocking.
The gaieties and pleasures; but alas, for
the poor selfish beings, the warp and woof
of wtiose exist,enec are made of such
syllabu! s—what wonder if (when dc
privod of such trifle.) these become 'ner
vous' and 'morally insane !' Then, what
they call the 'incompatibilities' of wed
ded life—what a fruitful source this is
of nervous derangement, perhaps only is
known to the gieat Father. The two
people may be well enough naturally; they
met ill a tit of romance, they played a
purt to deceive each other in eouruhip,
each rssuuiing a character which was
thought to be most in harmony with the
other's taste; and go they united for life,
wedding a positive lie, very often on both
sides. So they arc 'incompatible,' and
each blames theothcr while each is equal-.
ly culpable in the 'little cheat' of court
ship Oh, if uow only true religion were
at the bottom of these characters! Oh.
if healthful aud practical cducatiou had
been theki, J .iow soon these blessed agen
cies would tame the mere fire iu the blood,
and draw each to the other by the tender
cords of love, and the iron bonds of duty !
Regulated thus the natural and innocent
coquetries, by whic'i they deceived each
oilier, would fade into tho great duty of
sell' restraint, of forbearance, of model
ing each other's lives to please and lo
strengthen each other, aud their petty
! tuults would varuis'4 before '.ho dignity
| and sobriety <Lorn of the influence* of
' proper early education; (hoc® would thus
! fade and f:i<HWm into solid, loviug and
useful characters. lJut the poor pets and
popinjays, the summer birds and flowers
life, 11// music, all living on externals, all
sensual, with feeble runt* fkarce resting
on the earth, and with wings and songs
made for tho sunshine only, how shall
they bear poverty and disappointment?
Each 11ns lived for sell and each expected
to haveministered to in wedlock.—
Neither ever dreamed of self-sacrifice;
neither is anchored on tho strength of re
ligion, which gives dignity and strength
to the character. And so they become
'nervous,' 'guilt}*,' 'morally insane,' toss
ed about by the storms of passions and
impulses. If .they break by by divorce
the bands of the church, it is generally
to whirl about tho earth notorious aud
unrospoetcd 'fast,' Mud fallen or falling,
men and woven. The 'happiness' they 1
sigh for and dream of tbey .ftftver or rare
ly (such natures ) Cud, because hapjjincss.
is icithin ourselves, and can not be extrac
ted as the bee sucks honey, from tho va
riety of tempting aud sensual flowers that
excite and bewilder the giddy and silly.
Aud so 'society' gossips over and casts out
'such; and the lunatic asylums and the
barrooms have them; and the courts write
shameful records about them, and the j
Tempter of souls at last decoys tljem often I
with all their pretty gifts aud unregula
t(d fancies, into his net
" "KKASMI'S 1 •has'bccnled into tlria sub-'
ject by reading the shocking talcs of male
and female crime that now load the news
papers. Here a horrid case, then anoth
er nearly like it. then some dozen more
met our eye, all about pistols and 'love'
—and such has teen the record, at inter
vals, for many y<;ars past, of crime of this
kind in America. Par be it from us to
deny that these are real aud incurable
(not self-entailed) nervous diseases, even
among the young. These may be inher
ited ; these may prqoeed from organic
causes, and .their resblt may be, aud Of
ten is, 8 species of true insanity. .But
these are the few and the peculiar cases.
S-'be large classes that we have described
are the creatures ,of imperfect and per
verted educations, tho growth of petting
and of maternal ; nd paternal indulgence
.£jf .vanity and pride, of sensuality and
self indulgence, of idleness and dissipa
tion, of unregulated romance and passion
. heated fancies; whjlo not a fear of theso
peculiar crimes are stimulated and sug
gested by the lux and irrational adminis
tratis of the criuiinrl law, aided by
loose .medieal metaphysics; ar.d thoueends
of the goutler feraro so victimijed by
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BUTLER; BUTLER COUNTY, FA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1865.
the prudery which closes their eyes
against proper physiological studies which
full of warning and instruction, would
have led them to happiness by the laws
of health."—[From the Herald of
Health.
The Wonders of Ppru.
Hon. E. G. Squier, late minister to Ni
caragua and commissioner to Peru, deliv
ered a lecture in this city, not long since,
which was remarkable for its wonderful
statements regarding the latter countr..
A charming and deeply interesting nar
rative was given of the perilous travel on
niules over the Cordilleras, sometimes
through narrow and rugged passes, accom
modating ou'y beast and rider, and some
times through gorges and over the beds
of the peculiarly wild Peruvian moun
tain torrents. At the altitude of 11,000
lect the traveler found his hands and feet
frozen, and at 15.000 feet above the sea
riders sometimes fell iroiu their horses,
taken with the hemorrhage iuduced by
the ratification of the air at that great
height. <jh the arid aud bleak lands
near the mountains, great yellow win
rows, the ancient tuvfiyli or burying pla
ces met the gaze . A skeleton clothed
in a wrapper of beaten gold was lately
dug up from these sauds. Kven before
thv advcntuier rose the stupendous bar
riers of the.Cordilleras, severe with eter
nal winter, aud rigorous in their solitary
and barren sublimity. In these moun
tain ranges Mr. Squicr fo ind the weath
er a greater hardship than the coldest
seasons of the North. and had to trrvel
.pot unlike an Esquimaux.
Upon the basin lying between the Cor
dilleras and the Andes the lecturer devo
ted his fertile memory and fancy, descri
bing a region wonderful in picturesque
arts, .mineral resources, and climate, but
inhabited by a people of suiali wealth,
thrift or knowledge, and even uegligcut
of means to make their country product
ive. TJUa ihasin tin: lecturer calculated
to be over 1,000 mileslo^gand 280 broad..
Llamas becunas, here roamed the wilds,
and thcjso'etnn candor soared from his
mountain eyrie. Here was the second
fleetest fresh water lake in the world,
11.000 feet above thesea —hake Titicaea
—which contained the sacrc 1 island from
which the splcnded fncas deriveved their
origiu and ordination, in which was the
cave where Manco Capac took refuge,
and where were ruins of ancient U.nples,
some of the Lest preserved probably in
the world. It was in reference to the
source of these lakes, always supposed
to be without any outlet whenever to the
ocean, and seated 111 a country almost en
tirely enclosed, anil strangly differing
from the rest of tho world, that the geo
graphical problem ted, to which the
speaker drew • attention. To fiud the
source of these lakes, aud to open up Pe
ru to active civilization, was a conquest
worthy of American k'lveiitni;e. Tho
World has its White Nile aud Lake Nga
mi and the same inducements should be
hold out to.jlfsjW.ery as the Old World
gives its explorers. Mr. Squtcr condemn
ed the'absurd idea started by Mr. Maury
of making a way for Emigration through
the Amazon, showing that travel was im
possible by this route, and even it prac
ticable would land the new coiner in ut
inhabitablc wilds.
Xattoziitl Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Octobcr2S.— THE Pres
ident toJay issued the following procla
mation :
By the President of the United Stales
of America, a ]iroeiamatiou :
WHEREAS, It has pleased Alipighty God
during the year which is now coming to
an cud, to relievo our belovod country
from the scourge of civil war, and to per
mit us to 6ccure the blessings of peace,
uuify and harmony, with au enlargement
of civil liberty; and whereas, our Heav
enly Father has also, the year,
graciously preserved us from -the calami
ties of foreign war, pestilence and famine;
and whereas, righteousness cxilteth a
nation, while sin is a reproach to any peo
ple, now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson-
Piesident of the United States, do here,
by recommend to the people thereof that
tl.ey do set apart and observe the First
Thursday in December as a day of Na
tiontil Thanksgiving to the Creator of the
Universe for these deliverances and bles
sings ; and Ido further recoiumcud that
QU that day the whole people make a con
fession of sius agaicjt His infinite good
ness, and, wjtjj one heart and one uiiud,
implore divine guidance in the ways of
national virtue and holiness.
Iu testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the t»be
t»be Dope at the
City of Washington this 28th day of Oc
tober, in the year 1865, and of the inde
pendence of the United States the eight
ty-niuth.
ANDREW JOHNSON, Pres't
—The have secured a
mansion iu New-York in which
their Government is to be held.
THE BOHEMIAN.
BT " SSP," OF CALirOR^IA-
I wUh I was aii ediuir,
11 oally ilu intlccil:
It seem*to me that editor*
Get every tiling they need —
They get the hlggest and the best
Of everything that grows,
And get In free to elq»u4e*
And other kind of thows.
And \rheu a mammoth cheese it cut
They alwavft get a slice,
For aayiug Mr*. Smith knowi h«,w
To make it very nice;
Thoifrrgiut ioogeat beet,
And other garden's tuff,
Is btowd into the saoctwm by
An editorial puff.
The biggest hug will speak to them
No matter how they dreaa—
A shabby coat U nothing. If
You u\vn a printing prexe;
At ladle#' (airs they're alino»t bugged
By pretty glib you know.
That they may crack up every thing
The ladles have to ahow—
And thus they get allow-out free,
At eviry party fretf*,
The reason is, because the write
And other people read.
The Child's Pocket Etiquette.
IN lEN COMMANDNENTS.
Although not appertaining to trie Laws
of Health, tho following hints on Educa
tion, Ktiquette and Morals from the pen
of George Francis Train, aro worth pub
lishing.—Pi; lis.
[Obey these and you iliall have five dollars every
Fourth of July, which'you mny give to the pour,]
1. Always say Yes, sir. No, sir. Yes,
papa. No, papa. Thani. you. No, thank
you. Good night. Good morning. N,ever
say llow, or Which, for What. Use no
slang tonus. Remember that good spell
ing, reading, writing, atfi grammar are
the base of all true education.
11. Clean faces, clean clothes, clean
slioea and clean finger nails indicate good
breeding. Nevev leave your clothes
about the room. Have a place for every
thing, and every thing in its place.
111. Rap before entering a room, and
never leave it with your back to the com
pany. Never enter a private room or
public place with your cap on.
IV. Always offer your £eat ,iO a lady
or old gentleman. Let your companions
enter the carriage or room first.
V. At table cat with your fork ; sit up
straight; never use your toothpick
though Europeans do), and v.'hen leav
ing ask to be excused.
VI. Never put your foot on cushions,
chairs or table.
VII. Never overlook any one when
reading or writing, nor talk or read aloud
whijc others are reading. When con
versing listen attentively, and do not in
terrupt or reply till the other is finished.
VIII. Never talk or whisper aloud nt
the opera, theatre or pnjjlic places, and
especially in a private room vhn*c any
one is singing or playing the piano.
IX. Loud coughing, hawking, yawn
ing, sneezing and blowing are ill uianer
ed. In every case covcryour mouth with
your handkerchief (i rhich never examine
—nothing is moie ttdgar, exctpt fjn'ttwt/
on theji'xH.
X. Treat all with respect, especially
the poor, lie careful to injuie no one's
fee Hugs by unkind remarks. Never tell
tales, make faces, call names, ridicule the
lame, mimic the unfortunate, or be ciuel
to insects, birds or anin.alj.—[l'royi the
Herald of Health.
The Bridge Across the Ohio.
The Cincinnati Gazette, iu an article
on the Cincinnati and Coviugtou bridge,
states that a fuot bridgp for the workmen
only,will be thrown across the river,oii wire
ropes, aud the workmen will commence
stretching the wires for the main cable.
They are receiving wi:e o i lie later as fast
as possible. The main bridge will be
suspeuded on two wire cables, each of
which will be thirteen iuohesiu diameter
The cables will be made by stretching oue
n-irc across at a time, until the whole num
ber required are in prttper place, and then
machines will be brought iuto requisi
tion to! wiit them together. The r_>n saddle
plates, iu which the cables will rest on
top of the piers, are now ready and weigh
nine tons each. Hie span of the bridge
is one thousand and filty-seven feet, being,
about two hundieJfeetJotiger than the Ni
agira Suspension Bridge, and the long ■
suspension bridge in the world. About
five hundred tons of wire yill be used in
constructing it. The distance from the
foundation to the top of the piers, i* two
hundred feist, aad from the floor of the
bridge to the top of the piers one hund
red and ten feet. The floor of the bridge
when the river is at its present stage,
will be ninety feet from the water, and
will be ten feet higher in the centre than
at either pier. The latter arc built of
solid masonry, apd measure at the foun
dation one hundred and fifty feet, de
creasing until reaching the top, where
the measure is wcr-ty by thirty-six feet.
As uiany workmen as can be used are
employed, but notwithstanding all this
tlie bridge will not be ready fur public
transit short frf one year.
—■£. Satchel, containfWg S4O.CpO
was stolen from oi*e of th? express
wagons going its rounds in
on Thursday last. The rascal
soon caught and the money recovj^^H
Petroleum V. Nasby's last Letter-
He is Sick and Disgusted with
the Election Returns.
SAINTS' REST, (which is in the Stait 1
uv Noo Uersey, Oct. 11, 1865. |"
Ohio, Ablisliu !
Pennsylvania, Ablishn,
lowa, jifclishn and nigger suffrage too
boot!
Injiany, Ablishuer than ever!
Noo Gersey,not eggsaetly Ablishn, but
approachin thereunto
S.cli is the encouraging noos 1 red in
the noospapcrs this morning! Sich is
the result uv labcrs llercoolian, in the
above named Staits. What do tho people
moan ?
The pure Diuiokrasy probably will
carry Noo York; but of what consolation
is that tome? The t<vo parties, the old,
ancient Dimokrasy aud she Ablishu, run
a race into the rOalm uv Radikalism, and
tho Dimokrasy beat them over a length.
With a platform sfandin by Johnson,
endorsin bis ant! slavery noshin3, his
Southern oppression uoshens, his hangin
uv Mrs. Surratt, et settery , and on that
pi ltform a sojer who never voted a Dim—
ukratic ticket in his life, who went into
the war a Radikle Ablishuist, and who
kum out a Radikler Alishnist, I don't
tuow that I hcv much to choose atween
'eai. i
Last week I was iifvited into a country
in Noo York, to address a Dimokratio
meetin, I acccptid, (ez my expensis were
paid, wich is cheeper aud better boardin
than I can git at the groceries to hum,)
and akkordinly 1 went, I commei st de
liverin the speech I hed yoosed all over
Noo Gersey! I eonnucnst aboosin the
nigger, when the cheerman interrupted
me.
"Well," sez I, "watis it?" rather an
grily, for I git warmed up and a swetin,
and don't like to be interrupted.
"Why," sed lie, " our Constitoosliuu
allows a nigger who has (250 to vote, and
most uv em bev that sum, and wc make
it a point to sekoor em."
"They're a d—d site better off
most uv us white Dimokrats in Noo Hor
sey," retorted I, a droppin the nigger and
goin on agin President Johnson.
".Stop," whispered the Cheerman, "our
platform endor.-es President Johuson
•'Thunder/ 1 remarked J,dropj)iL Pres
ident Johnson and aliden easily into a
vlggerus denunciation uv the war.
"Good God sez the Chccrmao,"stop!
Our platform endorses the war."
I sed nuthin this time, but comineiist
donounsiti me del.
'•Hold," ucd tlie ('hecrmairp-ii-casy —
easy—our platform backs up the det."
"Well, then," sed I, in a rage, l; why
in blazis didn't yoo send me a copy uv
your platform when yoo wantid mo to
address yoo ? Goto thunder and make
yoor owu spcecliis ; v and I stawked ofl
the platform.
Time \vu* even ivun speech wood do a
man all ovo* the North, now you hcv to
h«v a different wun for evry Htait, wich
maiks it impossible fcr mo to travil, for
for one effort per season is cnuff for me.
Hut, ez I wuz a savin, we arc beat ajjin,
and beat badly—beat, ou issues uv our
own makin—beat with lead?, war
debt, and uiggcr equality, all iu our fa
vor. Dou't say to me that wc rcdoost
their majorities. What difference does
it make to a dcfcatid candidait, whether
the majority agin him is wun thousand
or wun hundred ? A needle will kill a
man cz eftectuaHy as a broad-sword, ef
it's stuck in the right place. So a major
ity of wun is euuff. I hcv known men
to hold orfises four years, and hcv good
appetites, on a majority of wun. Its the
orfises we wuz a goin fur —its them our
patriots wantid; and itc jcqofcotafiun to
them they mist by smill majority.
Its holler mockery— the same cztho you'd
show a starvin man a «ioaf uv bread jest
inside uv iron bars—his fingers are not
an inch from it, but so far ez his cravin
stomick isjconccrned, it mits cz well be
across boundles ocean.
Wc may recover from this back-set,
but I hev my feat*. Xhe people is cz
ever, and our leaders is ez akoot ez ever;
but, alas ! the fact that we hcv failed in
everything we hev undertook, for four
years, is gcttin throo the hair uv thous
ands, and they look skantat us.
13e it ez it may, it tnaites but little
difference to mo. A few years, at furthest
and I shel go lieutz. Ef the the Bible
is troo, I shel go wtere I will find a heavy
Dimokratik majority, shoor; ef it p not,
apd there is hereafter, why *uen, at last,
I shel be ou a level with the best.
M So tot the wtd« worH wag ez it will,"
I'll keep on even tencr uv my way,
taking mj nips ex oftjp ez I Jtin find a
oontidiySsole who hez more money than
disJUaobun.
MB PLTBOLKUM Y. NASIJV,
Paster ov the Church uv the Noo
Woman's Duties.
Whatever may be the proper "sphere
of woman," whether it is her destiny to
rncud stockiugs, or to make speeches,
whether sobly to wash dishes, or to vary
the exercise with a turn at the ballot-box,
one thing is becoming daily more and
more apparent, viz., that tho early train
ing and education of females as a class is
not what it should bo to make them com-''
petentn wives and mothers, and orna
ments to society.
Of tho vitiated atmosphere iu which
girls are reared Gail Hamilton in her
upright ,and downright way puta the
matter thjjs;—
"This tone of sentiment is such as to'
diminish girls, self-respect, mar their pu
rity, and dwarf their boiug. They in
hale, they imbibe, they are steeped in the
idea, that tho great business of their life
is marriage, and if they failto secure that
they will become utterly bankrupt and
pit'ablo. Naturally this idea becomes
their ruling motive; all their course is
bent to its guidence; and from this idea
and this courso ot action spring critus,
and disaster, 'in thick array of depth
; immeasurable.'
"1 have seen girls—respectable well
educated, daughters of Christian families,
of families who think they believe man's
chief cud is to glorify God and enjoy
him forever, who profess to ujake the Bi
ble th .ir ;„ilo of tu 1 til and practice, to
eseliew the pomps and vanities of this
world, and cousccrate themselves to the
Lord—who are yet trained to think and
talk of marriage in a manner utterly
c mmercial and frivolous. Ailusiiustoaud
couversatious on the subject aro of such
a uature they cannot remain unmarried
without shame. They are taught, not in
direct terms at so much a lesson, like
music or German, but indireutly, and
with a thoroughness which no music mas
ter can ecjual. that, if a woman is not marri
ed, it is because she is not attractive, that
to be unattractive to men is tho most
dismal and dreadful misfortune, aud that
for an unmarried woman earth has no
honor and mo ihappiness, but only tolera
tion and a mitigated or unmitigated con
tempt.
"What is the burden of (lie song tluit
jia sung to girls and women? Are they
I counselled to bo active, self helpful, self
i reliant, alert, ingenuous' energetic, ag
gressive-? /Sro they strengthened to
fiud out a path for themselves, and to
walk in it unashamed ? Are they bra
ced an toned up to solve for themselves
the problems of life, to bear its ills ur.,-
| daunted and meet its luppiues* unbe
i thing was
never LtiW uf. It is irininii' nHlffli
It is strong minded.! It is discontented
with your sphere! It is masculine!—
Milton and .StPaul to the rescue !
•For contemplation he, and VHI »r fi»rnje<l,
** l,r softucss^li'*.and sweet atfmctlrr grace.*
So 'she' !'s urged to eultivafo sweet at
tractive grace by acquainting herself
with housework, by learning to sew, and
starch, aud make bread, to Le economic
al and housewifely, and so a helpmate to
to the husbjud who is assumed fur her.
This is the true way to be attractive, she
is formed. 'Men admire you in the ball
room,'' say the mentors and mentoresses,
'but they choose a w : fe from the home-'
circle., Marriage is simply a reward of
merit. Do not be extravagant, or care-"
less, or bold, or rude, for so you will searo
away suitors. He prudent and tidy, and
simple, and gectle, and timid, aud you
. will be surrounded by them, and that is
heaven, and Eecure a husbaud, which is
the heaven of heavens. A flood of sto
ries and anecdotes deluges us wilh proof.
Arthur falls in love with beautiful, ro
mantic, poetic, accomplished Leonie, till
she faints one day, and he rushes into
her r. oui to get a smelling-bottle, and
finds no hartshorn, but much confusion
and dust, while plain Molly's room is
neat and tidy, and overflows with harts
horn ; whereupon ho falls out of love
with Leonie, in with Molly, and virtue
and vice have their reward. Or charles
pays a mornifig .visit, is entertaiuod
sumptuously in the parlor by Anabel,and
Arabel, and Claribel, and Isabel, while
Cinderella stays in the kitchen in calico
and linen collar. But Charles catches a
glimpse of Cinderella behind tho door,
and loves and marries the humble, grate
ful girl, to the disappointment and deep
disgust of her flounced aud jeweled sis
ters. Or Jane at the tea-table cuts the
checse-riud toothiek,,indhandaouieyounj
•Leonard infers Uu»t jtic will be extrava
gant; Harriet pares it too thin, and that
stands for uiggardiincss ; but Mury hits
the golden mean, and is rewarded with
and by handsome young Leonard. Or* a
broomstick lies in Co way, over which
Clara, Anna, Laura, and tho rest step un
heeding or indifferent, and only Lucy
p'eks it up and replaces it, which Harry
Lucy is
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paid with the honor of being Harry's ' ]
wife. Moral: Go you and do likewise, j
and verily you shall have your reward, or
at least you stand a much bettor chance yjj
of having it thau if'you do differently."
•Be good and you will bo married,' is the |
essence of tho lesson."
is a true one. We ij
the same thing'in eve»y day life, whefi j
Jane is cautioned to be modest, Elian
dy, and Martha industrious, merely
cause young gentlemen will admire
foi these virtuos. "Pou't talk about
lhackory, said a silly woman, who nev—lflj
er aught to have been a mother to hci
daughter of eighteen, "Frank can't en-'|
dure a Llue stocking," tbe said Prank be- I
ing a proposed husband of the young la- j
dy in question.
Girls are not taught to be good,
pure, and true, bocause those quaJitios j
are lovely in themselves. Tho virtues
are not implanted in their hearts to spring
spontaneously tberofrom, beautifying ,ths j|
outer and inner life, and contributing
the happiness of the world, but they are j|
to be put on for enterior adorument, J§
ribbons upon horns of cattle ut & mar- ''|jj
ket fair, to render them more attractive to H
purchasers.
Girls should be educated to be siinpl; ||
noble, highminded intelligent womeu.-'j |
Then if they marry, go much tho
for their husbands. If they do not, tho|H
aro tho better calculated to earo forthcm^B
There is another phase of femalo tra'.u
ing upop which it wero w«II
were said anew, although the subject
boon often dsscussed before. A
should be sufficiently well eduoated
a lit partner for her husband, to
stand his business, and to bo his
dant iu all the transactions of his
life. Ihe thought has often occurred to i
us iu reading of tho recent numerous do~ : i
frlcatious among men holding places ot' 4
trust iu business circles, how many of th® •
wives of those men knew auglit conce?l|lH
ing tho affairs of their husbands '
many knew whether their income wotjli *■
allow of tho extravagance they were „JkS
dulging '! Were they not twaro that jjß
paltry sal.iry could notsupplyull
| uries with which they wore surrounded ' jj
\\ ore they so ignorant as to suppose thut
an elegant est.il linhrcent could bo main
tained upon an income of a few hundreds 1
merely * —or, knowing, did they
ly shut their eyes to tho truth, for « |
sake offellish indulgence? Iflho fotJi
er, they aro deserving of our pity; if th<i
latter, no censure can bo to
Have then, not been criminal, <ts
well as their wore unfortunate partners P •
Have they not urged expenditure
J
not forgotten (lint (lie oifice of a "perfect
woman nobly planned," is to •«,camw
well as to "comfort and command 1" But,
nays some oue, with tho old-timo 1
sneer, "Woman cannot understand men'Jjy
a frail's; they have not sufficient intelii—
gence." The assertion is but too true, *<«
and it is just this ignorance of whic4i a
qymplain. A woman should have a eyfL *'•
tivated mind, as well as heart, thatin'aJJ
the walks of life she may stand au equal
by her husband, his honored connselifet* i
iu all things, what God intendjd
she should le, an help nets for him.—
Then 1/0 shall hear less of extravagant*)!
woman, who have lived far beyond their i
husband's means, and, perchance, lew
of dishonest men, for oftentimes a
moral nature might be kept in th ■ patU jjj
of reeititudo by a strong, loving lican s lßi
and judicious, intelligent wiiely counsob PI
—Some time ago Mrs. Grant
about SSOO from her packet, or'hs J
it picked of that amount- Within $f
few days she has received an anony* i
mous JeUer enclosing SIOO, which
the wmer sys he wrongfully obtftiii.~; 1
cd of her. His conscience \.U com. ,
promised on the retntion ot
seems.
—Gov Ilamjirba
call a Texas State Convention
January. The debt of tho State iafl
$9,000,000. TTie State is not likelipP
to bo represented in the approa 1
session of jCongress. 4 "
—General litis rentedTja '
house, occupied for some y«ara Wy
the arid now owned
by a coJored man nam#rf ;
Albert Lee, at Washington, and wtil
hereafter reside there. " ■ .■ »
—France, it is announced, wiU
shortly commence withdrawing her"
troops from Mexiec- On Ike Ist of
November to with- .
draViier Home, After '
sixteen ycai's of mi 1 itafj^occupation.
—-Wiliiam Johnson,
iji' the Proaidont,
States Collector of
lasuu, Texas died from
an accidental gun-shot
)ctober 14. -n