Litchfield enquirer., 1833-12-19
FEMALE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

gFEMALE
If a woman be as beautiful as one d
those celestial beings with whom the vivid
dreams of Imagination have peopled Ma
homet's paradise, as lovely and fresh as tile
tabled Aurora, and graceful as Hebe, yet il
she does not unite to: the external charms
of her person, the refined accomplishments
and sublime sentiments of an elegant mind
she can never enchain the heart Of her hus-
band will, those gottien letters which only
death can sever. Sweetness ofdisposition
and intellectual endowments, wreathe those
letters with the cver-blooming roses Of en-.
joyment, and cali forth into action all the
tender charities which irradiate the sphere
Of connubial happiness. A woman may
shine in mechanical accomplishments. tho
a ray oflight does not dawn upon her mind
she may paint, sing, and play upon musical
instruments, and by those manual-vocal
arts, gain a transient triumph over those
who are contented with female cultivation
hung on walls, or hearing it vibrate on
strings.
But the man of discernment feels wo-
man. thus gifted, can only amuse for an
hopr, and attract by her adscititious dona-
lions, some frippery tops. who, like the stu
pid butterflies, light on exotic flowers with
out fragrance or perfume, rather than on the
edoriferous blossoms that yield delicious
honey. The looks of stupid beauty,
who has not soul within her eyes, are fix
ed in the dead calm Of insensibility /; they
emit no electric spark to kindle the affec-
tions-so that they are examined without
emotion, and beheld without love.
In the winter of life, when the gaudy
flowers Of personal beauty are nipped by
the crude breathing of age; when the lus-
ire of the blue eye is damned, and the
bloom Of rosy cheeks fed, how fallen then
will be the unmarried who has not resour-
ces in the treasury of knowledge; she will
remain tyrant without power, prey 10
envy and remorse. A woman of intellect
ual accomplishment, on the contrary, in
the evening Of life, will draw at the foun-
tain Of the graces, the limpid baisam Of lit
erary neutrality-suspicious. the pleasure OF
instruction to her children, and illuminate,
by her cheerful conversation, all who are
circled within the attractive sphere of the
society in which she moves. Beauty is as
hceting and as fragile as the bloom of an
exotic flower, blown under the chilling in
fnence of northern breeze. Education
alone is the towering oak that defes the
tempest ofyears.
The most ines.imable blessing which the
benign bounty Of the Creator has bestowed
upon man, is the possession of virtuous,
amiable and educated woman--her love is
the highest delight which gladdens him 10
the vale Of suffering !; it is green oasis
that spreads f.: him its grassy verdure on
the desert of despair. In the possession Of
"a lovely sympathetic woman, even in the
solitudes of life. only illuminated by hel
smiles, the soul is more gratified than upon
the throne of Napoleon, when the world
honored him with its homage, and was daz-
zled by the lnstre Of his g!ory.
Though Rousseau threw enchantments
over the tender passions though Byron
and Ossian transfused the most sublime and
profound sensibility into love, yet they new
er experienced those fine feelings Of which
the pure heart of woman is susceptible. II
is The fountain from which pieiy and ar
dent affections gush spontaneous and flow
in union. 1t is in the mids. Of distress and
anguish that the finest qualities of the fe-
male, and the noblest traits of the female
character are displayed in all their charac-
teristic grandeur.
When the husband is suffering under the
pressure Of nEalterable wo; when his pros
poets are withered by the dissolved illusions
Of hope, and the cruel desertion Of friends,
it is then the consultations Of wife pour
the balm of sympathy into the corroded bo-
som Of grief Adversely only gives an adj
ditiopal impulse Of ardor &c her attachment
lit seems to inspire her with spirit oil
dovotedness to the object of her love which
rises superior to the Affections of misfor-
tune. No changes or chances can estrange
the constancy. or subdue the intensity Of
her devosion.--Ne0- York paper.
Delightful letter of the late DR.. adam
Clarke to his Grandsoa.-My dear little
Grandson, Your father and mother tell me
that you are fond of birds, especially pretty
little birds that have pretty fea,hers-blue,
green, yellow, red, fiDe glossy black, and
fair lily white, with nice bills and beautiful
legs; but your mamma tells me that yen
have but one such bird !; what pity, when
you love il so well, and would take great
care OF others also, fyou had them. Well,
my dear Adam, have many beautiful
birds, which have been sent mo by very
GOOD .~.,,,,to xvl,o 1oyo ma and I Mill oiva