The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-06-19
MISCELLANY.
From the Newburyport Herald. |

BRACEBRIDGE-HALL.

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observation.
" There is no great need of enforcing on an
unmarried lady the necessity Of being agreea-
BILE; nor IS there any great art requisite in a
youthful beauty to enable her TO please. Ma
ture has multiplied attractions round her
, youth is in itself attractive. Phe freshness of
budding beauty needs no foreign aid to set it
off; it pleases, merely because it is fresh, and
budding, and beautiful. But it is for the marri-
ed state that woman needs the most instruc-
ton, and in which she should be most on her
guard to maintain her powers of pleasing. No
woman can expect 10 be to her husband all that
he fancied her when he was lorer.-Men
are always doomed to be duped. not 50 much
blythe arts at the sex, as by their own inagi-
nations. They are always weoing goddesses,
and marrying mere mortals. woman should
therefore ascertain what was the charm that
rendered her so fascinating when girl, and
endeavour to keep it up when she has become
wife. One great thing undoubtedly was the
chariness of herself aud her conduct, which an
unmarried female always observes. She should
maintain the same niceness and reserve in her
person and habits, and endeavour still TO pre-
serve a freshness and virgin deicacy in the
eyes of her husband. She should remember
that the province of woman is to he wooed,
not to woo,--to be caressed, not to caress
Man is an ungratefui being in love bounty
loses inst, nd of winning him. The secret OF
a woinan's power does not consist so much in
CRYING as in Withholding. woman may give
up too much even to her husband. 1t is to a
thousand little delicacies of conduct that she
must trust to keep alive passion, and to protect
herself from that dangerous familiarity, that
thorough acquaintance with every weakness
and imperfection incident to matrilnony. By
these means she may still maintain her power,
though she has surrendered her person, and
may continue the romance of love, even be-
yond the honeymoon. /, p. 1909
These extracts are in the authors
best manner, and, if not recommended by
any thing extraordinary in the thoughts,
are certainly attractive from the ele-
giant style in which they are couched;
their sound sense, and the strain of ex-
cellent feeling by which they are per-
vaded and animated
Bracehridge-Hall contains several ex-
ceedIngly interesting stories, one of
which we will extract; not that it is the
best, but because, being the shortest, It
is best adapted to our limits.
THE SToRJT SHIP.
In Che golden age Of the province Of the
Observation-Disclosures, when it was under the SWAY
of Wouter Van Fwiier, otherwise called Wal
ter the Doubter, the people of the Manhat-
toes Were alarmed, one sultry afternoon, Just
about the time of the summer solstice, by
tremendous storm of thunder and LIGHTNING
The rain descended in such torrents as absolute
lyto spatter mp and smoke along the ground. Ii
seemed as if the thunder ratified and roared
over the very roofs Of the houses. The light
ming was seen to play about the church Of St.
| Nicholas, and to strive three times in vain, to
| strike its weather-cock. Garret Van Horne's
new chimney was split almost from top to bot
tom, and Doffue Mlieberger was struck
| speechless from his bald-faced mare. Just as he
was riding into town. In word, II was one
OF those unparalleled storms that only happen
once within the memory of that venerable
parsonage, known in all towns by the appella-
| tioa OF !" the oldest nhabitantn
Great was the terrour Of the good old won1-
en- OF Manhattoes; they gathered their chill
| dren together, and took refuge in the cellars.
after having hung a shoe on the iron point of
every bed-post, lest they should attract the
lightning. At length the storm abatcd the.
| thunder sunk into growl, and the setting sun.
] AiOhi ubOSi llt III DOTQcTS OF the
clouds, made the broad bosom # the bay to
| CLEAN like sea of molten gold.
| The word was given from the fort that
ship was standing up the bay. Ii passed from
| mouth to mouth, and street to street, and
/ soon put the little capital in a hustle. The
! arrival Of ship, in those early times of the
| settlement. was an event OF vast importance
to the inhabitants. It brought them news
from the old world, from the land of their
birth, from which they were so completely
severed. To the yearly ship, too, they looked
Tor their supply of luxnrses, Of Gnery, of COM
| forts, and almost of necessaries. The GOOD
Vrouw could not have her new cap, nor new
| gown, until the arrival of the ship; the artist
waited for 1T for his tools; TAI burgomaster for
ms pipe and his suppyof hollands the school
| boy for his top and marbles and the lordly
| landholder for the bricks with which he was
| to build his new MANSION. Thus every one.
rich and paor, great and small. looked out for
| the arrival of !" The Ship.n 1t was the great
! yearly event of the town of New. Amsterdam
and, from one end Of the year to the other, the
ship--the ship--the ship--was the contin-
ual topick Of conversation.
The news from the fort, therefore. brought
| all the populace down to the battery. 10 he
hold the wished-for sight. II was not exactly
the time when she had been expected to ar
rive, and this Circumstance was a matter Of
some speculation. Many were the groups COL
lectcd about the battery. Here ana there
might be seen burgomaster of slow and pom
pous gravity, giving his opinion, with great
confidence, to a crowd Of oil women and
idle boys At another place was fnot of old
weaiher-beaten fellows, who had been sea-
men or fishermen in their times, and were