The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-06-15
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From the Pittsburg Saturday Evening yisiter.
LOVES GUERDSNo
A TALE FOR THE LADIES.
BY A BACHELOR.
Chapter FirSt.-The Wager.
BY A BACHELOR.

was man. and closing her music book
she leaned the lovlest face in Cincinnati
npon hand so petite, yet graceful, that Prax-
tiles would have forgotten the painter in the
man, and instead of transferring its coun-
terGeit to the dull canvass, have penciled it
upon the living heart.
Her cousin Harry heard the queruous
exclamation, but his attention was absorbed
in tracing certain mystical combinations,
as the blaze of the coal occasionally gave
them to his view; SO he said nothing, al
though the speaker seemed to expect an
answer.
"Cou8in, cousin Harry, say!'' exclaim-
ed the spoiled beauty, stamping foot Of
Chinese proportions upon the rich Brussels,
"you are positively stupid 10 night! Here
have been talking to you, yet you pay no
attention /; thinking of the lost Pleiad or
the sophistries of Thales, for aught know"
My dear Agnes" replied the gentle
man, what do you wish %
81 wish was man ~
Do you? :" quietly responded her cous-
in, at the same time stirring the fire in the
CRATE, it was the last night of dying year,
and the keen blast howled fercely the re-
quiem of the passing fragment of century.
81 do indeed, was the reply Ur agnes,
''for feel that woman is deprived of AL
those opportunities of becoming great, of
doing good and bencfting mankind, which
are so lavishly strewn in the paths of favor
ed manhood. We are shut out from all a.
gency in the government of men; we may
be fired with ambition, but despotic custom
has deprived us of the right to assert our
claims with the slightest chance of a hear.
ing Pray, what chance have our sex o.
piling a fabric of honor or fame, of accele
rating the march of knowledge, or curbinG
the progress of vice."
This speech came from the cherry lip!
of sweet seventeen, yet my readers mus
not condemn her: ambition is godike attri
butte, and burns as brightly upon the altar o
woman as it does upon the shrine of man
hood. Woman can exercise her power
in the tented field, the cabinet, and the hal
of debate as well as in the social circle
witness Joan of Are, Elizabeth Of Englan
and Fanny Darusmont. Woman has
right to be ambitious, especially OF the am
bition of doing good.
"You can do much, my sweet Cousin,
answered her hearer-" to your sex is civ
en- power to mould the plastic mind that
may acknowledge the truths of virtu
and receive those sound inculcations whicl
implanted early, become the guiding prime
pies of the man Strengthening with ii
advance of years"
A cloud of vexation crossed the brow
the listening maiden and with the rash conf
;. dence of youth, she denied the premis,
, laid down by the speaker.
A smile, rarely seen upon the face
, Harry Harrington, illuminated his count
, nance, as drawing his chair to the side
the pouting Agnes, he thus continued h
exordium, or, rather, altered its direction.
- "You well know, dear Agnes, of Il
strong desire entertained by your father f
our immediate union. Nay, now, do n
'r get angry, but listen You have bid n
ie wait until another year shall have passed
y to this arrangement seriously object, b
at am willing to rest the question upon the
;e sue of an adventure. which will at the san
le time prove to you, that in deeds of virIu
philanthropy and kindly influence to 4
human race, your sex have decided supel
a ority over ours"
Mt Agnes looked seriously into the face
her companion to see whether he was ,