Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-02-11

bear very tolcrablo part IN the pollte NoTld.
Sydaria had beauty enough 20 have eNcus-
ed. while Young, her want OF common sense.
But she scorned the fortuitous and prccarious
luiumphs of beauty. She would conquer only
by the charms of her mind A union ofhcarts,
a dehcacy OF sentiment, a mental alteration, a
sort Of tender quietsm, were what she lon &
sought for and never found Thus nature
struggled with sentiment till she was hyc-and-
forty, but then she got the better Of it in such
degree. that she made very advantageous
proposals 10 an Irish ensign of one-and-twen-
ty equally ridiculous in her age and in her
youth.
Camilla, withered 10y age, and shattered by
iufimiiies tottcrs under the load of her mis-
placed ornaments, and her dress varies accor-
ding to the freshest advices from Paris instead
OF comforting itself, as it ought, 10 the direc-
tons of her undertaken. Her mind, as weak
rs her body, is absurdly adorned she talks
politics and metaphysics, manges the terms
of each, and, if there be sense in either, most
infallibly puzzles ii adding in,ricacy TO poll
tics, and darkness to mysteries equally ridic-
ulous in this world and the next
! shall not enter into an examination of
tho lesser Alterations (most of them are par
d0nable, and many Of them are pretty if their
owners are so } but confine my present an
imadyersions to the alterations of ill-suited
characters, for | would by no means deprive
my fair countrywomen of their genteel little
tcrrors, antpathies, and affections. The alter
nate panlcs OF Thieves spiders, ghosts and thun-
der, are allowable to youth and beauty, pro-
vded they do not survive them. But what |
mean is, to prevail with them TO act their own
natural parts, and not other peoples and to
convince them, that even their own imperfec-
tons will become them better than the borrow
ed PROJECTIONS of others.
Should some lady ofspirt, unjusflv offended
at these restrictions, ask what province leave
to their sex, answer, that leave them what
ever has not been peculiarly assigned by nature
to ours. | leave them mighty empire-I.ove.
There they reign absolute, ard by unquestion-
ed right, while beauty supports the throne. e.
They have all the talents requisite for that
soft empire, and the ablest of our sex cannot
contend with them in the profound knowledge
and conduct of those drcana. But then. those
who are deposed by years or accidents, or
those who by nature were never qualified 20
reign, should content themselves with the pri-
vate care and economy Of their families, and
the dIlIgent discharge of domestic duties.
take the fabulous birth of Minerva, the
goddess OF arms, wisdom, arts, and sciences,
to have been an alegory of the ancents, cal
culated to show, that women of natural and u
sual births must not aim at those accomplish
ments. She sprang armed out of Jupiter's
head without the cooperation of his consort,
Juno and, as such only had those great prov
noes assigned her.
confess one has read of ladies', such as
Semlramls, lhalestris, and others, who have
made very considerable figures in the most he
folc and manly parts of life but, considering
he great antiquity of those histories, and how
hnN ,.a,1. a. RI
liberty TO question either the facts or the sex.
l3esidcS that. tho ruos, ingenious and erudiie
,oIfau Noiigang Laboriosus NugatoriOus, or
'iaiI IN SaXony, has proved TO a demonstration
II the fourteenth volume, page 29SI, of his
earned treatise De Hermaphroditis, that all the
'eputed female heroines of antiquity were of
ms Eplcene species, though, out of regard TO
he lar and modest part of nv readers, | dare
lot quote the several facts and reasonings with
vhlch he supports this assertion and as for
ne herolneS OF modern date, we have more
nan suspicious of their being at least of the |
HplceLe gender. The greatest monarch that
yer hlled the British throne, till lately, was
ueen Elizabeth, of whose sex we have ohun- !
ant reason to doubt, history furnishing US with
many 'ces OF the manhood of that prime /
IS, W i leaving us one single symptom or
Indication OF the woman and thus much is
eitaln, that she thought il improper for her To
larry man. Ahe great Christiana, queen
Sweeden, was allowed by every BODY TO be
ooVe her sex, and the masculine was so nre
ollinaht IN her composition, that she even
INFORMED, al last, to It's dress, and ended her
avs IN ltaiy' | therefore require that those
'omen, who insist upon going beyond the
ouhus ailoued to their sex, should previously
eclare themselves in form hermaphrodites
nd be registered as such in their several par
mes I'll when shall not suffer them to con
'uhd polltlcs, perplex metaphysics, and dark
\ mysteries.
now amlable may woman be, what a COM
rt ana delight TO her friends, acquaintances
nj relations, her lover or her husband in
eeplng strictly within her character! She
lorns al! female virtues with native female
FITNESS. Women. while untainted win az
ctatlon, have natural cheerfulness of mind /
hderness and benignity Of heart, which Justly
idear mem to us, either TO animate our lows
sootle our sorrows; but how are thew
iahged' ana how shocking do they become q
men ille rage OF ambition or the pride Of learn {
= agl'ales and swells those breasts. where ,
ny ioNe, friendship, and tender care dwell
- i''d De their model, who thouoh she l
uih support any character, assumes none c
FGr misled 10y fancy or vanity. but puided L
.Flt ny reason whatever she says or does. J.
tlie manifest result Of a happy nature. and
good understanding; though she knows c
la' ever women ought, and il may be. more y
an they are required to know, she conceals
superiority she has, with as much care rs T.
!ers take to display the superiority they have :,
- she conforms herself TO the turn of the II
inPany She Is in, but in the way of rather y
oiding TO be distanced, than desiring 10 take C.
lead. Are they merryt she is cheerful .,
. ,hey grave : She is serious. Are they alb y.
10 she Is silent. Though she thinks and