Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-09-08


Sand you charming young ladies who phi.
losophise in kid slippers and French dresses,
are the tulips and the roses-very charming.
and delightful, and sweet, but fit for nothing
on earth but parlor ornaments
.'Well, parlor ornaments are good in their
way" said the young lady coloring, and look
ing little vexed.
$50 you give up the point them said the
gentleman, g that is all you girls are good
for, just to amuse yourselves, amuse others,
look pretty, and be agreeable
Swell, if we behave well to our parents
and are amiable in the family don't know.
and yet said Florence, signing, 81 have
often had vague, idea of something higher
that we might become-yet really what more
can be expected of us, what more can we
do %
81 used to read in old-fashioned novels
about ladies visiting the sick and the poor"
said Edward. 90 y Gu remember .Celebs in
search of wife -
$ es truly that is to say that | remem-
Der the story part of it, and the love scenes
but as for all these everlasting conversations
ct DIR. Barlow and Mr.. Stanley, of course |
skipped them. But really this visiting and
tending the poor, and all that, seems very
well in story, where the lady goes into a
picturesque cottage half overgrown with hon
eysuckles and finds an emaciated, but still
beautiful woman, propped up with pillows
But come to the downright matter of fact po-
king about in all these vile dirty alleys, and
entering the little dark rooms amid troops of
grinning children, and smelling onions and
Goldfish, and nobody knows what-dear me
my beneyolence always evaporates before |
get through. | had rather pay anybody five
dollars day to do it for me than do it N.Y.
self. The fact is that | have neither fancy
nor nerves for this kind of thing
Swell, granting then, that you are to do
nothing for your fellow creatures unless you
are to do it in the most genteel, comfortable,
and picturesque manner possible, is there not
a great field for woman like you, Florence.
IN your influence over your associates With
your talents for conversation, your TACT self
possession, and lady-like gift of saying any
thing you please, are you not responsible, in
some wise, for the influence you exert over
those by whom you are surrounded 90
q never thought of it,
snow you remember the remarks Mr.. For
tesque made the other evening, ON the reli-
gious services at church %
"Yes, | do-and | thought then he was
little too BAD
do NOT Al -
you ladies in the room that did not think so
tc9fs but yet the matter was all passed over
80 ~ smiles, and without single insinuation
that he had said anything unpleasing or disa-
greeable.''
''Well, what could we do2 One does not
want to be rude you know
DO! could you not, Florence, you who
have always taken the lead in society, and
who have been noted for always being able to
say and do what you please-could you not
have shown him that those remarks were un-
pleasing to you, as decidedly as you would
have done if they had related to the character
of your father or brother! To my mind "a
woman of true moral feeling should feel her
selfas much insulted when her religion is
treated with contempt, as she should if the
contempt were shown to herself Do you not
know the power which is given to you wo-
men to awe and restrain us in your presence,
and to guard the sacredness of things which
you treat as holy Believe me, Florence, that
Fortesque, infdel as he is, would reverence
woman with whom he dared not trife on sa-
cred Subjects
Florence rose from her seat with height
ened color, and her dark eyes frightened thro'
her tears.
lam sure what you say is just, cousin,
though never thought of it before. | will,
am determined after this to begin to live with
some better purpose than | have DONE"
Sand let me tell you, Florance, in starting
a new course, as in learning to walk, taking
the first step in everything. Now l have
first step to propose to you.'
''Well, cousin
"Well, you know, [ suppose, that among
your train of adorers you number certain
Colonel Elliot?''
Florence smiled.
''And perhaps you do not know what is
certainly true, that among the most discerning
and cool part of his friends, Elliotis considered
to be lost man ~
81 Good Heavens! Edward, what do you
mean Z"
.'Simply this. That with all his brilliant
talents, his amiable and generous feelings,
and his success in society, Elliot has not self
control enough to prevent his becoming con-
frmed in incorporate habits"
q never dreamed of this replied Flo
renee. 4 knew that he was spirited and
/ free, fond ofsociety, and excitable, but never
suspected anything beyond