The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-11
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stances well examine d, there can be no
doubt Provide has willed that man man
should be the head Of the human race,
even as women is its heart; that he
should belts strength, asshe LISTS solace;
that he should be its wisdom as She is
its grace; sthat he should be 4 its mind,
II its impetus, its courage, as she is its
sentiment, its charm \. and its con- tl-
ISOLATION. Too great Ian ameliora-
ton, could not be effected, in our
opinion, in the system generally
adopted, which, for from correcting or
even compensating the presumed intel
lectual inequality Of the two sexes, gen
erally serves only to increase it. Il BY
placing. for example; dancing and
needle-work OF the extreme poles Of
fomale study, the one for its attraction
and the other for its utility, and by not
filling the immense interval with any
thing more valuable than nero monoto.
nous, imperfect, superficial, and totally
unphilosophical notions, this system has
made of the greater inumbersof female
seminaries, ablishments which may
be compared nike to nursery.grounds
for coquatttes and seamsrcsses. It is
never remembered that in domestic life
conversation is Of more Importance than
the needle of fchirography;sthat o hus-
band is neither q Pasha nor q lazzaronc,
who must be perpetually intoxicated or
increasingly patched; that there are up
on the conjugal dial many long hours Of
calm intimacy, of cool contemplation, of
cold tenderness; and that the husband
makes another home elsewhere if his
own hearth offers him only silence; or,
what is q hundred times worse, merely
frivolous and monotonous discourse.
Let the woman play tho bauarde at a
given moment, that Is all very we'll; let
her superintend the laundry or the
kitchen at another, that is also very
we'll; but these duties only comprise
two. thirds of her mission here. Ought
care not to be taken that during the
rest Of her time she could also be capa-
bic of becoming to her husband ration
al friend, cheerful partner, an inter-
esting companion, or, at least, an eff
cient listener, whose natural intelli-
gence, even if originally inferior to his
own, shall, by the help of education,
have been raised to the same level?
DOMESTIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS. The
larger part of our daily life is a pro LSi
longed attemptto obtain those substan-
tial benefits which begin and end with
ourselves; and the inevitable tendency
Of this is to make US selfish and hard-na-
tured, unless somo counteracting inf1u-
ence be set to work. Having divided
men by the necessities of daily labor,
wo must endeavor to re-unite them by
innocent relaxations; and on this account
amusements require the deepest consid.
Grafton, for they are connected with our
social well-being in variety Of ways.
Business and enjoyment should act and
react on one another, as the centripetal
forces do in nature; we want the one to
give steadiness and stability to the life,
the other to provide expansion for the
feelings and ventilation for the mind.
But for this latter purpose tits impossi-
bic to work much on large scale; we
must content ourselves, for the most
part, with the resources the family af.
fords. In the domestic relationship
there ought to be no sclGshncss. The
pleasures of one should be the happi-
ness of all. Whatever elegant acquire
ments we may chance to have made,
instead of being reserved for rare oc-
casions, should be suffered to shed their
softening influence on our everyday cx-
istence. The prints should not be care.
fully kept out of sight of the children Of
the family, and turned over only for
the benefit of the stranger; the pictures
should not be curtained except when
there is company; or the piano be dumb
because there Is "no ono but ourselves"
to listen. There may bc less triumph,
but there is surely equal if not greater
happiness in singing by the fircsidc than
in warbling in the saloon; and though
the thanks of father or of brother be
honely in expression, there is more
sweetness in them than in all the studi.
ed common places of society. A sad.