Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
FEMALE pEAurv AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS.


 If woman be as beautiful as ono of these celestial beings, with whom tho vivid dreams of imagination have peopled Ma. homet's paradise, as lovely and fresh as the fabled Aurora, and as light and as grace- fM as Hebe, yet if she docs not unite to the external charms of hcr person, the refined accomplishments and sublime sen- timent of an elegsnt mind, she can never enchain the heart of husband with those golden letters which only death can sever. Sweetness of disposition, and intellectual endowments, wreath those fcttcrs with the ever blooming roses ofenjoyment, and call which irradiate the sphere of connubial happiness. A woman may shine in me- chanical accomplishment, though a ray of mental light does not dawn upon her mind; she may paint, sing, ,,and play upon musical instruments, and by those manual vocal arts gain transient triumph over those who are contented with female cultivation hanging on wallS,o hearing 1t vibrate on strings. But the man of disccrnment feels that woman thus gifted, can only amuse for an hour, and attract by her adscititious donations, some frippery fops, ,wholike the stupid but teriiies, light on exotic flowers, without fragrance or perfume, rather than on the blossoms that yield delicious honey. The looks of stupid beauty, who ss has no soul within her eyes," are fixed in the dead cAlnl of insensibility !; they emit no electric spark to kindle tho affections 60 that they are examined with- out emotion, and as they do not express passion or intellect, they arc beheld with- out love. @s
 In the winter of life, when the gaudy flowers of personal beauty arc nipped by the 's rude breathing" of age-when the lnstre of the blue eye is dimmed, and the bloom of rosy cheeks fled, how fallen then will be the unmarried woman, who'has no resour- sces in tho treasury of the mind she will rcmain tyrant without power, a prey to envy and rcmorse. A woman of intellectu- al accomplishment, on the contrary in the evening of life, will draw at the fountain oi the graces, the limpid balsam of literary knowledge, dffuse the pleasure of instruc- tion to her children, and Illuminate by her cheerful conversation, all who are circled within the attractive sphere in which she moves. sNv
 "A Beauty is as Aeeting and as fragile as the bloom ofan exotic flower, blown under the chilling influence of the northern breeze ; education alone is the towering oak that defies the tempest of years.
 The most inestimable blessing which the benign bounty ofthe Creator has bestowed upon man, is the possession of a vir:uous, ,amiable and educated woman--her love the highest delight which gladdens him in the vale of suffering; it is a green basis that spreads for him its grassy verdure in the desert of despair. In the possession of alovely sympathetic woman, even in the solitHdes of life, only illuminated by her smiles, the soul is more gratified than upon the throne of Napoleon, when the world honored it with it's homage, and were daz- zled by the luster of its glory.
 Though Rousseau threw enchantment over the tender passions, though Byron and Ossian tEansfused the most sublime and profound sensibility into love, yet they never experienced those fine feelings of which the pure heart of woman is sus- ceptible. 1t is the fountain from which piety and ardent affections gush tn spon. taneous and sweet flowing union. 1t is in the midst of distress and anguish, that the A6nest qualities of the female, and the no. ahlest fraits of the female character. are