The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-04-14

in a drawing-room, and attract the admira-
ton of the company, but she is entirely un-
fit for help-mate to a man, and to tram
up child in the way it should co."
ExtraVagant Language.
There is au untasteful practice which is
crying sin among young ladies-I mean
the use of exaggerated, extravagant forms
of speech-saying splendid for pretty,
magnificent for handsome, horrid or horri-
bic for unpleasant, immense for large,
thousands, or myriads for any number more
than two. Were l to write down, for one
day, the conversation of some young ladies
of my acquaintance. and then to interpret
it literally, it would Imply that within the
compass of twelve or fourteen hours: they
had met with more marvellous adventures
and hair-breadth escapes, had passed through
more distressing experiences, had seen moro
imposing spectacles, had endured more
fright, and enjoyed more rapture, than
would suffice for half dozen common lives
This habit is attended with many inconve-
niences. 1t deprives you of the Ineligible
use of strong impressions, when you need
them. Jfyou use them all the time, nobody
understands or believes you when you use
tACt1A III utuCSt" Ou al = Ill tlAC SuuIC PlO-
dicament with the boy who cried "wolf"
SO often when there was no wolf, that no.
body would 60 to his relief when the wolf
came. This habit has also very bad mo-
raj bearing. Our words have a reflex
influence upon our characters Exaggera-
led speech makes one careless of the truth.
The habit of using words without regard to
their rightful meaning, often leads one to
distort facts, to mis-report conversations,
and to magnify statements, in matters in
which the literal truth is importantto be told.
You can never trust the testimony of one
who in common conversation isindiferent to
the import and regardless of the power of
words. l am acquainted with persons,
whose representations of fact always need
translation and correction, and who have
utterly lost their reputation for veracity,
solely through this habit of ovserstralned
and extravagant speech. They do not
mean to lie; but they have dialect of
their own, in which words bear an entirely
different sense from that given them in the
daily intercourse Of discreet and sober peo-
ple.--Address Of a. p. Pea6ody.
PRooF OF SINCERE AFFEcT1oN.-A F'le-
mish painter, having some doubts OF the
sincerity of his wife, and being anxious to
ascertain if she really loved him, one day
barred his breast, and painted the appear
ance of mortal wound on his skin. His
lips and cheeks he painted of a lived hue,
and on his pallet near him he placed his
knife, painted on the blade with a blood
like red he then shrieked out as ifhe had
been instantly killed and lay motionless.
His wife, hearing the noise, ran into his
study, and horror.struck at the appalling
spectacle, uttered an involuntary scream,
fell into swoon, and in a few minutes
became lifeless corpse.
CuRIoslr1Es OF HIsroRY.--Pulte tho
great leader of the opposition, afterwards
Earl of Bath, having, in one of his speech
es, made a Latin quotation, was corrected
by:SirR Robert Walpole, who offered to wa.
ger d guinea on the inaccuracy of the liness
I The betsWas accepted, the classic referred
tonnd Pulseney being found TO efright,
the Minisiaf threw the guinea across the
tabie; which Pulteny, as he took it up,
calleds the House to witness that j was
the sfrst guinea Of. the public r1,ony he had
seyef INTO his pocket rlhs very coin
3ttlas lpss won IS atiill prssatyad as the
q guinea In the British M1eeuIa4
The most solslasn ofs beases sn sl.s
,cisnt progesb9 81 san g eallsess
llsa llsfni 81 3 q! sl.ll |,:s. s!|
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