Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE MOTHER.

ers lace something which claims kin.
drrd with the skies. The WAKING.
watchiess eye. which keeps its ,,relcs,
Nigils over her slumberiny child-,hc
tender look and the ans, lie smile. are
objects which neither the peucil nor
the eh'se' can reach, and which poetry
fai'' ~ attempting TO portray upon
the euI"gies of the most eIoaucn,
tongue, we should find tekcl written.
IL II IN the sympath,es OF the heart
alone, where lies the lovely picture,
and the eye may look abroad in vain
Tor the counterpart Of the works of
art.
A mothers love! o what joy is in
the sound-entwined around our very
souls IN our earliest years-we cling
to " IN manhood, and almost Worship
mt ITS shrine in nld age. To use Oh.
language OF n celebrated writer, we
say, that he who can approach the era :.
die OF sleeping innocence, without
thinking OF such is the kingdom Of hea.
ven-or view the fond parent hang
over its beauties, and half retain her
breath lest she breaks its sIumbers-
without veneration beyond all com
mon feelings, IS to be avoided in every
intercourse 10 life, and is it only for
the shadow Of darkness and the soil
tade OF deserts. IN T. .4mule,.
ot all other views man in time
may grow tired but in the counte-
nance OF woman, there is a VARIETY
which sets WEAKNESS at defiance. The
divine right Of beauty (says Junius) is
the only divine right an Englishman
can acknowledge, and a pretty woman
the only tyrant he is not authorized TO
resist.
II UDe.-No sensible man ever
thought beautiful wife was worth as
much as one that could make a good
pudding. ! wish the girls all knew
th's. Tor feel q great interest in their
welfare.
n Neal Repiy.--A Young lady at
school, engaged in the study of gram.
mar, vas asked If kiss" was a com.
mon or proper nounS The girl blush.
ing deeply, with hesitancy replied, lit
IS both common and proper"
MARRIED. in New York. William
eaver. Esq. of Lynehburg, Va. To
Miss Eliza Weaver.
To Wood'nan's hut a Henpey s,r,,,J
Looking around for work 10 do;
She loved his face and liked his trade.
And soon became a Wedlsy too.
lie who ,couid hare s egcoy b,oI
must haze a clean stomach. j. Tie
quaint bot fnrcibIe remark ot Ilorto,
Cheyne. a determined advocate of tom.
Perance ia eating and drinking.
The New York Dandies wesr shir,
collars aud RULES made of paper. The
Rufties are plated with irons made r.,
the purpose and look as we'll a, cam.
eric ones. They are worn but one
DAY; and arc bought Tor half a cent a
piece.
love TO- see fifteen or twenty young
men parade M front of the mee,ins
mouse on the Sabbath. and stare the IA,
uies az they pass--it shows they baV.
read ChesterdeId's advice to his son.
1 love to sec ladies' place themselve.
at window or door, To make witty re.
marks on people IS they pass, il sho~s
they want to say something they can,
think Of.
by examining the tongue Of the pa
uen', physicians 6nd out the disease.
OF the BODY, and philosophers the di,
eases Of the mind.
'7needoie.-A butcher about 20 kin
= COW. employed an Irishman to hoIJ
hef. Tue butcher squinted, aud uhsn
looking AZ the COW appeared 10 Io.,L :,
the IrisbmAn. PAT fearing ;ss, no
shoaid get the knock down instead 81
the COW said N much Of a hurry. Ar.
Tsh, man, do you strike al~aVs wbe,.
van tOok - a'Ho o.. -.