Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-05
The Four Ages Of Maids.


A German writer, NJ. G. Saphir, says, maids
have four ages, viz: the golden from 10 to 81,
the silver age from 81 TO %, the plated from
% to 35, and the iron age from 35 to the END,
In the golden age everything is golden-gold-
en- locks, golden dreams, golden hopes golden
thoughts, &C. The voice sounds like virgin
gold, the heart is pure gold. The fact is they
have five bars Of splendid gold, No. l6, II, lS,
10, and 20 but alas but few of them carry
them to the mint of reason to have them col.
ned.
When girl is once three times seven years,
the glttering gold is gone. Her early youth,
the dfjeuncr la fourchette Of nature, is past
girls of that age are no more kept like gold me-
dals in morocco boxes, but commence like sill.
yer, TO circulate among the people. The Sc
ven years from 81 to %, are employed in an in
cessant war upon the brutes, who but too fire.
quently initiate the example of Frederick the
Great and await the assault behind entrench-
ments,-Girls are most Interesting at that age.
Instead Of initiating the larks, in soaring so
high that but few may hear them, they take
their flight nearer the earth, like swallows in
rainy weather. In that age they are the most
amiable, and have the best opinions OF men OF
course they are on that account most easily ca.
ged.
The plated age is from % to 35. Gold and
silver are gone, and they resort to the various
processes Of gliding, svering and plating.
They are less piqnant and more piqued. They
look upon men with considerable mixture Of
contempt and hatred. They become again re.
served and prude. If they have affections, they
are at best plated; they may endure, if of good
workmanship; but they have not the value Of
either gold or silver.
The iron age is the universal death of sen.
timent.-The thirty-fith year is the equator of
human life, which divides it into the Southern
and Northern hemisphere. On the Northern
there is no Paradise for girls. They now write
their farewell letters to all hopes and wishes
They conform to iron necessity, and resign
themselves to the iron tooth of time, awaiting
the day when gold silver and iron, will have
no sound, and nought but the soul-eVer young
and fresh-shall rise from its iron easement
HIsroRY OF THE INFLUENzA.-ln 1850 it pre-
vailed in Europe, and is spoken of as Pestilen
tal and epidemic cough. In l743 Gust cen
tury since) it prevailed the world over, and re
ceived its present cognomen. In many dis
tricts in Europe scarcely family escaped.
appeared in April and went off in June.
was never fatal, except to aged persons, o
those affected with pulmonary disease. Th
French called it La Grippe-hoarseness.
appeared again in Europe and America, as W
learn from a writer in the Troy Wing, l76.
Also l772, when dogs and horses were also a
1icted. In 1852 it was equally universal, an
followed severe atmospheric changes II mi
IT'S victims on land and sea. In ST. Petersbur
10000 were affected by it in one day. In lss
il hsppesred again, and was followed by the cl.i
Iera, In 1888 it succeeded that .earfhl di
ease. Its progress is like the progress of mo
,pidemics, from east TO west, and 10 preced
oy great atmospheric changes.