Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-05-20

and dolls though they love to be in
stead ofAwoMEN, have got some wrong
ideasin their heads and unless we who
are beginning to be bachelors, can get
them out, the beginning isthe begun, and
bachelors, alas we shall be,--foating
houseless, homeless, heartles, and hapless,
down the sad tide of time for who,
nowadays, dare marry unless he has
a Tattersalls, "a millinary, a furniture
ware house, an upholstery shop,--a jew
elry manufactory.--one rail road at least,
two towns in lithograph, and two banks
in Wall street. Think of poor horh-
fed husband who has been sleeping to
the age of 25 in a boarding house, in
Broadway, in room Just big enough to
make respectably-sized man cotfin,- =
dining in cellar in Wall or Water st.
at two-and-six.pence per day,--5tnet by
his beloved Angelina three weeds after
marriage, with her arms aroundhis neck,
and her head on his shoulder, with a
My DEAR" or "dearest," "--zdearest is a
word that always finishes a poor man
quite up,--s" did you see Mrs. Bobadil
Belino's beautiful French handkerchief
last night ? Oh, how charming it was
-and can't you now, dearest, Just give
me the money to buy ope such ~ "But
my dear, it cost 500 francs in Paris z.
81 know it but then you know, if one
goes into company, one must appear as
others do" Think now Of the attitude,
and then of the request,--and who would
not buy for the wife he loved, the hand,
kerchief, cost what it may? -
Here is the error. The wife is in the
wrong, when she says she must appear
as others appear. Others appear Can
|old Mrs. Ugly appear like the Maid Of
the Mist whom the fog has blanched, and
nature has modelled in the choicest per-
fection Of beauty? People cannot APP
pear alike; and tits the pride Of man
of genius and Of a woman Of genius,
while they SEEM to appearlike others TO
DE as unlike them as possible. What
nonsense then is this attempt at appear
ancc; when if reputation, fashion, or ad-
miration be what one seeks, all can be
won not by imitation, but by creation.
For example, every body. decks and
adorns house with mahogany but Alb
botsford, the home Of Sir Walter Scott,
was made beautiful and glorious by his
old oak tables, and his old oak chairs
There is moi a Palace in that street ol
palaces in Genoa, not even the one which
robbed Venetian gold to adorn it, SO
beautiful as simple Abbotsford, with its
oak furniture, oak pannelings. oak every
thing. Simplicity and taste have their
triumphs as we'll as gold and gliding
One Of the most delightful little country
seats there is in the Lake country, in
England, is that of the traveller Hamil-
ton, who abused us, none to his credit, a
house it is on solid ledge of rock, with
walks cut around it,--his little garden
patches made Of earth brought there, yet
all arranged SO tastefully, that in its very
simplicity, it is more beautiful than the
frowning palace of the Duke Of Gordon
So in the interior of house, wife may
honor herself, and make her home charm,
ing by NOT appearing as others appear
Instead Of magnificent Ottomans, Persian
carpets, vases, and candelabras. &, flash
l ing mirrors, a cabinet of shells may
have place. A library Of well chosen
books is a prettier ornament than a Par
isian mirror. A painting or two. piece
of statuary even, if one has the means
shows that there is soul in such house
for the fine arts, that needs but develop
| ing,--but what Of beauty, what Of ser
vice to the mind, or to the budding intel
lect Of family of children is there, il
the twisted pieces and dove-tailed joint
of mere mahogany Home is woman'
empire, and taste and science may make
that home cheering, which wealth car
never do. A few flowers, few bird
cost less, and effect much more. Wha
one admiresinthe characterof the French
f women, and what gives them aninflu
ence over men which the women Of III
nation have, is their consummate tactsil
uniting the useful and the beautiful. Th'
classic arts Of Greece and Rome ar,
| studied by them even in so small thinl
as arranging the tapestry Of bed cham
ber,and yet the same woman who will d
allthis, and even direct the making of
chair after the mode of the Ponnpeii, bu
ried for hundreds Of years. will goi int
: a kitchen, and make upsa dinner Of littl
/, or nothing, in the way of a material. a
q it seems to an English or an America
: eye, which a prince might dine upor
n and be. proud Of too. Such women the
i can afford 10 seem extravagant; but al
i ter ali, now a days, there is little or n
n extravaganza. in France. though ther