The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-27

up, and making the best apology could for my intrusion, rctrcated, making an oath to myself, never to intrude again within the sacred precincts of Lddy's Chonsbcr.
 J. D.
 Woman--athome.--Itis said the chat. acter of q woman may be known by the
 internal appearance of her house, and the dressand manners ofherchildren. If the surniture of herapartments exhibits anair of extravagance and show rather than comfort, we may infer that she is . vain woman; and that her mind, and her dress, are equally fantastic. If the or aaments of her house, however spler~ did they may be, are badly arranged, orincongruously assorted with those that are mean or common, and more espe- cially if the drapely of Archivnc is suffered to hang from the walls es eornices, it is d proof strong as holy writ, that she is deficient both in taste and neatnesse-Sucha woman would as likelyas not wear black stockings with q white dress, roses in her beaver. and q cap to save ..h!.e tic troublc,ot combing her hair.
 If her children, notwithstanding the fashion or richness of their clothes, are dirty or carelessly dressed--if their minds are uncultivated and their man. ners rude, the mother will prove 10 be both ignorant and ndolent, or which is worse, wholly indifferent to the well be- ing of her children. The opposite of al! ;ii! these may be ascrihed so the whose house is neat in every part as far as shcis.able torender 1t so. Itmattcrs not whether she dwells in a palace or cottage, order and neatness aresconspic- uous in every thing around her. In thek dress of her children, she t1ilitcs siillpiii- city with taste, and attends at once to the improvement of their minds, and the cultivation of those graces which, in q greater orless degree, according to their respective stations il life, reconl- mend them to society. Such woman, although not learned or accomplished according to the modern acccptation of the term, will be found to possess | jud gmcnt, good sense and correct taste With respect to her dress, Sits unitness, will never be made an apology for Tot seeing her friends IIerdomestic, or O. ther engagements may with propriety prevent her receiving their visits, but if she chooses to see them, her dress,if proper for the business in which she may happen to be engaged, she will never be ashamed of. Both at home and a. broad it will always be dictated by q sense of propriety, preserving proper medium between the extravaganza of fashion, and that homely plainness that generally denotes all ordinary mind.
 Iakizg the BuHbythe horns.-A cor- respondent of the Concord N. Fl. States- man writes
 "As a young man was driving q four year old bull along the banks ot the Pe- migewassct, at New Hampton, last Alon- day, the animal turned and attacked him. The man snatched q stake from the fence and stood manfully on his dc fence. The bull pushed violently at him, now recedipg, then renewing the attack with redoubled fury, endeavor- ing to dash his adversary to the earth. In few minutes the battle became so warm ti.at the iisii beat beat q aid plunged into tiie river. tilelc tIi1ee or four feet deep. Ire ,niiii followed. ibnt the man reached the opposite shore be- fore him. He had no time to escape. however, before the bull was at his heels. lie ii agafI, retreated, plunging into tiic. fl stream; but by this time he had become so much exhausted that the animal oyer- took him in the middle of it. Still the young man, fertile n expedients, eluded the attack by constant turning in the water. As the bull could not turn so rapidly as the youth, the latter succeed ed in seizing upon his tail, thence he leaped upon his neck and grappIed him by the horns. By main strength iile forc- ed his head under water and drowned him!
 4 mother who was about to be burnt at the stake on charge of witchcraft. called ts her son for a drink of Mafer.