The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-04-10 00:00:00, page 4

THE IRtbulet
From a Newark Paper.
Os Thom AS Swavgu M, an Oneida In
dia%and a Missionary Parson.
AN Indian that liv'd in Oneida remote,
Was plagu'd b, a parjon to join h:s
dear jiwk,
To throw off bis blanket and put on a coat,
Ik no longer at churches or parjons to mock.
A long time the Indian reftfed, ^f,.
He prefer, dto their preaching bis ffoing
and fowling:„
He could not the fight <f a meeting endure,
And their fingitg, to him, was no better
than bowling.
However, by feezing and corfant berraffg,
Poor Swaugum %ua; brought to attend in
the church,
Where knowledge by preaching was ever a
muffing, ,
And the D—lasufual was left in the lurch.
On, da, as the Parjon was (peaking ofb&n,
And dfoiling the beautiful things °ftbs
The Indian, in part of the talk to be even.
Stopp'd the Minifler short in the of bis
race.
Said be, Mr. Parjon, this place that ,ou
Pravrobaris it like,or what have the, got?
hZ% venijon^ rum, if)' %, ^
Andfix m„lf dovln in jome plentif^fpt.
Peb ! ,oufool,jaid the Parson, nejueb things
are tbere;
Why heaven, poor creature, is just like our
meeting;
There's nothing but singing, and preaching,
and prayer ;
The,'we nothing to do with drinking or cat-
But.fa doors are look'd up again, folks that
are wicked ;,
Few Indians, dear Thomas, do ever get
A life of contrition mu, purchase the ticket,
And few of you Indians can buy it, Ipear.
Well then, said the Indian, good-b, Mr. Doc
In juch of living no pleasure Iffeel,
What nonfenjeit is to be keeping a lock'd ft
Where there's nothing to eat, and there s
nothing to ,eal-
CTT^^3^™^s^^^ -——
fflftellanp.
to THE LADIES.
TRAVELLERS hav;observ
ed that Women are created
with more attention and refpea,
among civilized nations, than in
barbarous countries. This remark
has been to often repeated, that
modern writers on life and man
ner!, have adopted the observation
as a principle ; and from this, have
established a standard, by which
to determine the relative ptogrffs
which one state or nation has made
above another, in politenef, and
refinement of mansera : And this
remark extends to the (mailer cir
dei of society, even down to do
mestic ard family connexions.—
The original foorce of this differ
ence of behavior in the citizen and
lavage, to the o^er (ex, may be
e,fily explained from their differ
ent charadera. The flriff h *s
few wants except these of nature :
By natural inftiaft be is impelled
to citify them. That way in
which ti;can do it with least labor
and toil, is to him the most eligi
•'THE
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
''to RAISE THE GENIUS, /AND TOMEND THE HEART.”
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ble. He has no conception of the
powerful influence of refined sen
sibility, which excites thegereoei
passions, and fuppreffei the fetfiib.
which leads man to re(ped those
rights io others which he values
in himfelf, and regu ate 9, in a con
(idetable degree, the habits and
manners of civilized lire. The
savage employs the fuperiour
strength which nature b^s given
him above the female, to e^fr
himfelf of the heaviot burden, arc
lay it upon her : It it a sud realiz
ed among savages, that the hardett
(ervice falls to the lot of rhe fe
males.
Our own country will afford ex
amples fufficient to authenticate
this propofirion.
When the Europeans firfl crime
to America, they found that tilling
(he ground, and carrying burden,
were labors affigoed to the females.
The Indians could not avoid
observing that the Europeans treat
ed their women with more refpe&,
and paid greater attention tothe
ftx, than what was prattled in
their nation: They imputed this
conduct in the men, to a deficien
cy of skill, aod presumed that they
did not improve tne advantages
which nature had given them over
the females, to (he best purposes ;
and according to their ideas of
malculine superiority, rem&k?d.
that white men spoiled good work
ing creatures. Solomon felt the
impression of a very different fen.
timeot, when he bid to iht J with
ladies : " I charge you, O ye
daughters cf JeruUrm, by the
roes and by the hiring & "
Ao addreh to the fix, of equal
fepfibihty, fendersth and delicacy,
perhaps cannot be fpm d on record.
The hind and the roe were ^n?
b>ms of female ibnoceucy, cndti
ty, fcofibility, and dehc&cfr grac
es which adorn the lair, and jewels
whiter fhioe with faperior luttre.
Solomon felt their influence and
knew their power : He wa, the
pupil of the fair—had long im
proved under the patronage of the
'lex. , ~
If we form an estimate of Jew
ish civility (io^his Prince's reign)
by the preceding flandard, we
most acknowledge their manners
to be highly refined, and their na
tional charader not inferior to the
most renowned for civilization :—
The graces were patronized with
royal attention, and courted with
riffiduous care, particularly in Solo
mon's court.
Undesirable as may be the lot
of females among favaget, their
condition in civilized lite is not a
degraded flation : Providence has
made ample amentis to the sex,
for their deficiency of msfculine
feogth ti@ power, by a more
liberal d'lftribution of sensibility,
tendernefr and. delicacy, which,
like the heavenly influence that
regulates the material system, ofr,
rate uhfceo, but with undeviatiog
certainty.
Let not jour hearts be troubled,
that your lex is deluded from the
feoate, the &>inet, and the field.
Cultivate ,11b care and attention,
those meatalhnd perfooal orr&
meats, by which nature has in a
peculiar manner diflitguifyd the
sex. , Reverence your own charao
ters, harmonize your paffiooi, pat-
Tcn'ze the female virtues, sod fac
rifice to the graces : Be assured,
that your empire over the hearts
of men will be 31 sure as the re
turning feafont are certain from
the laws of attrition : Neither the
pbilofophy of the Sage, or the wif
com otyhe Politician, or the pow
er of the Hero, can resist the influ
ence which the charms of female
innpcency, fcnfibiiitv and delicacy,
extrcife over the iffeaionn of civ
ilized man. Solomon is your wit
neti. This wife Prince was the
friend of the sex ; he has made
many just remarks on female lite
and manners ; he has laid many
pretty things in honor of the fair,
but none truer than this :— 'A
virtuous woman is a crown to her
husband." Paris.
^ on Snuff Taking.
EVERY profeffed, inveterate,
and incurable buff-taker, at
a moderate computation, takes
one pinch in ten minutes.
Every pinch, with the agreea
ble ceremony of blowing and wip
ing the nose, aod other iceidenta!
citcumftances, confumet a minute
and a half.
One minute and a half cut of
every ten, allowing 16 hours t& &
fnuff taking day, amounts to two
hours and 24 minutes out of every
natural day, or one day out of ev
ery ten.
Oeday out of every ten a.
mountito 36 days in a year.
Hence it we suppose the prac
tice to be per lifted, in 40 years,
two entire years of the fnuff taker's
life will be dedicated to tickling
his nose, and two more to blowing
The exptnfe of fnuff, fauff box
es, and handkerchiefs, will be the
fubjeft of a second essay, in which
it will appear, tie this luxury en
croaches as much on the income
of the fftuff-taker, as it does on his
time ; and that by a proper appti
cation of the time and money thus
loft to the public;, fund might be
constituted for the difeharge of the
national debt.
the fflataltft.
COMPASSION is an emotion
of which'we ought never to
be ashamed. Graceful, particu
larly in youth, is the tear of sym
pathy, and the heart that melts at
the tale of woe. We Ihouid,noc
permit case and indulgence to con
trad our. affections ^and wrap us
up in feififn enjoyment. But we
(hould accustom ourselves to think
of the diftteffeioF human life, of
the solitary cottage, the dying pa
rent, arid (he weeping orphan.
Nor ought we ever to sport with
pain and distress in any bf our
^muferoentn ; nor treat even the
meanest ioLft with wamon cuer
It has been objeaed, and it is
to be teaiec with tome reafoo, that
female converfatido is too frequent
I, tir&uitd wi(h 3 cenlonouafor
it, end (hat Izriits &iefc/tom apt
to difeover much (endrins lor
the error, of & hi# fitter. No
%onieCT c^n juftify, no pk^ tx
tecoate it.
To iifolt ever the Fmfcilet of
an unhappy creature is iolwfmn,
not to ccmpaffion&te them ii u,\-
etrifiiao. The worthy pare of the
sex always txpreh thtmfel% hu
manely on the Lihogs of orfes,
in proportion to their own oboe
viating goudaefe, and b/ that gen
tle virtue are prompted to alleviate
the distresses of the unfortunate
and wretched ; it prevents us from
retaliating injuries ; and restrains
our severe judgment and angry
prions. l
uE^fomrerafl^xe^^
Banquet of Cornua.
OW^€liter -t
THE late Lord Cheflerfield.
was remarkable for a tem
perate mode of living. It is gen
erally known that he bad a natural
son (not he to whom his letters
are addressed) that had given in to
the habits of loose conduct in life.
Thu hd W 2! food of haunting
taverns, gambling, and firing up
all oighr.—Cbefterfield, being in
formed of the you g man'# habit,
took him to tafk~~" Tern (laid
he) I do not much like these mat
cell Sleeping in the day and
walking in the night, is no: ac
cording to the otdef of netare.
Aod yet ar ycu are a ycurg fel
low, that from your rack in the
world, muff fce life, arid knew
what men are, 1 do not forbid you
the tavern altogether.— You are
naturally of a heavy mould ; so,
if at any time I catch you taking
a lh?re of one bottle of wine, I
will not scold you—You may
even partake of a fecood—bur,
mind, Tom, breare of the third:
It is this that peoples the gallows
—brings on difeord, duels, aod
quarrels— beware of the third bot
tle Tom 1”
=m UllPWffl'^^ I WWM ■—low. —
The Sensible Fool.
ALPHONSUS, king of Na,
pies, has io his court a fool,
who uled to write down in a book
all the lollies of the great men in
bis time, that were at court. The
king having a Moor in hit house
hold, lent him to the Levant to
buy horfa, with ten thoufiod du
cuts : ibis the fool marked in hit
book, as a pure piece of folly.—'
Some time after, the king called
for the book, and found at Ml
his @wn name, with the (lory of
the iea thousand ducats. The
king-being fomewhst moved, ask
ed the reason why his name was
there ?' Because, fays the jester,
you hive committed a piece of
folly, to give your money to cue
you are nevet like to fee again.
But if he doe: come again, faysthe
king, and brings me the horfety;
what folly is that in me ? Why,
if ever he does come again, replies
the fool, I'M blot out your name,
snd.pu: in his.
AN bondt.Hibernian, member of the
Legiflituie of Newhamplhire, introduc- ,
ed his speech to the houfc thus, " Abnut
two tUopfind yeari ago, if my tfemery
saves me." [Pray, bow old, 6ir?j