Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-01-20

vines, and by the beds Of rivers. The
vegetation in these valleys is much
more abundant than near the coast: il
fact, it is in these fertile intervals, lock
ed up between rocky sierras, or scoop
ed out from barren wastes, that popu
lation must extend itself, as it were, il
veins and ramifcations, if ever the re-
gions beyond the mountains should be.
come civilized Irving's Astoria.
DUTIES OF WOMAN IN THE MARRIAGE
RELATION.
FRIENDSHIP IN MARR1AcE.-The
wife who wishes ardently to have he1
husband act the part of true friend
must set the example. AS Glove, and
love only, is loan for love-" so friend
ship only is the loan for friendship
mean for friendship which is perma-
nent and worth possessing.
WoMAN's DUT1Es-There are no
duties on earth so nearly angelic as
those which devolve on woman.--Let
the young wife then grid herself to the
work which is appointed her. Let her
resolve to be what she is made to be
a messenger-an angel. Let her take
hold of the promises which belong to
the faithful wife. and resolve that what
she knows to be her duty shall be faith
fully pursued. Let her do this, and
what is right will soon become agreea-
BILE, on the known principles of human
nature.
Her Power OF Do1NG Coop
do not believe one woman in hum
dred has any conception Of the good
which divine Providence, by appoint
ing her to be help-mate of man, puts
ltin her power to do. 1t is not in hu-
inanity to resist, wholly, the silent in
fiuences of vice, tone, look, step, gait
thing, in one word, which
constitutes example-in those whom
we love. Happiness begets happiness;
and domestic happiness is peculiarly
prolific. He must be.a brute who does
not heed, feel, yield to the force Of its
heavenly influence, and become there
by modified. improved, adorned, exal-
ted.
SELF-REspEcT.-Evey young wife
should remember that the measure of
her husbands respect will be gradua-
ted by the respect she manifests for
herself. If she deem it important to
her happiness to appear, in his eyes,
respectable, let her in the first place
learn to set proper estimate on her.
self, and maintain, in all circumstances,
that dignity Of character and that self
confidence, without which her object
can never be secured.
LOVE OF CH1LDREN.-I regard the
love Of childhood simple, artless and
pure as childhood in itself ito be an
important element Of christian charac-
ter. have heard of-ay, l have
known-persons who dislike children,
some of whom were in other respects,
excellent men and women. But such
trait is certainly great drawbackup-
On human excellence. I will not say
that those who hate infancy and child
hood cannot be christians; but l may
say that they cannot be, in this state Of
feeling, the perfect men and women
hey desire to be, nor the perfect chill
dren of their Father in heaven which
they ought to be.
SIMPLICITY OF DREss.-I like, I
confess. to see young wife neatly
dressed. There is neatness which is
perfectly compatible with plainness;
and dress may be graceful, without
being ridiculous. =. like neat sim
plicity, because, somehow or other,
there appears to be frequent connec-
lion between the outside and the inside.
The exterior is, to some extent, kew
70 the interior. I'll see aperson dress
I'd like a thorough-going fop, l cannot,
# / would, respect the mind of the per-
son. Even where future close ac-
quaintancs discloses to me my error, it
is hard to overcome first Impressions.
MoDEsTY AND DEL1cAcY.-Eyery
young wife may have delicate and
modest husband. Bnt in order to this.
he must first have a wife Of true mo-
desty and delicacy. She may not in
deed transform him in day, or week:
but her ultimate success, il the perse-
we're, is certain. No husband who
has the last claim to the name, can al
ways withstand it, know there are
many husbands who are somewhat bru-
fish; but know, too, that there are
many wives who are wanting in true
delicacy Of thought and feeling, and
sometimes language. s
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