The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-14
short Pnfent sermons.
NEW sEuEs-Ko 32i.

How tender is woman!
 How loving is woman!
 How chiidiike Is woman.
 My hearers-sars enough, how solveiess is woman. She is an unguessable Iiddle--a most in- trieate enigma: flower which, by analysing, no oas can tell to certainty whether tbe poisonous of innoxious--not always. She has been with man from the beginning. and he hasn't found her out yet She is comparatively an unexpIored eoantry--an alphabet of hieIaglyphics--a magnetic mystery. Nobody knows what her heart contains. Sometimes t seems stuffed with love, tenderness, and sympahy and at others, filled with nothing but grit and gravel. It won't answer to shake her; if you do, you cause the acids and the aksIies in her nature to come in contact and then such an eHefvescsnce takes place as might lower the ambition of pearlash and cider. Like the month of April, she .is all sunshrne and showers. Many tear-drop hers dries aud evapo- rates in the warm light of smile, ere ii has chance ts ia; and many abrightsnile is suddenly quenched by | sprinkle from some passing cloud of sorrow, about the size of bed-bIanket. GFiefs bubble up from her bosom, to burst in an atmosphere of joy; and joys, like autumnai flowers, spring from the warm beds of her heart. to be cut down by the
 
 She is made up of mcdss.y. hcldness. beauty silks satins jealousy love, hatred. horse hsiT whale piey, paint, gaity. gum-essc. bear's-grease, sym pathytears, smiles, affection, and Kindness. She talks with her tongue. speaks with her eyes, is eo- quent in her actions, aud yet can't understand her
 My friends-how tender h woman! She Is as tender as chicken, and as tough as an old gobber Az ka fec. ( k.t sheltered from storms, and protected from blasts oi winter and yet, if she makes up her mind to it, she can out-sweat the sun, face northeaster, and be match ior the devil. But inwardy she is ss tender the mereies of heaven her heart s ssmuch soite, than be-humans as beeswax Is softer than brick. bat. Her sympathies ss delicate as the down under angels wing. and her love appears as fresh and aniaeing amid the sorrows of diversity, as the evergreen wreath that eneireled the bald brow ol winter. Her tenderness too tough to be destroyed by whatever chance, fortune or time may bTing:- tough as tripe, and twice as common.
 My dear ifends--how lofty is woman No matter whether born in cellar, she can sometimes be as lofty as garrett When she once gets her back ap. 0 ea's and broomsticks .--iook out fo. yourselves! She is as high as Olympus and as sayagess sausage machine. In her wroth, she is ss crazy as bed-bug, as strong as tiger. and as terrible as tornado. She can blaze away as though hen. heaven. and earth were coming 10 close qual. teIs; but. in few moments ii is all oveU--and nobody killed. When she comes down from the mountains, whence she has been rolling big stone. upon people beIow-soitens dowp io jelly. ans becomes as quiescent goose poad siaer tempest The brooches won't dt-she mus. resume the petit coat, and be a woman, after all.
 My hearers-how loving Is woman. Aye, sh. Is amazinsly sticky in her attachments. She vii cling to the chosen object of her heart like possun toa gum tree; and you cant seperais her withou Snspping strings that no srt can mend, and Ieavin. apoftion of her soal upon the upperIeather of be- affections. She will sometimes see something is love where others can discover nothing even {. admire; snd, whea her fondness is once fastened upon fellow. it stays there like glue and moassei in bushy head of hair.
 My heaIeis-how childiike, withal, is woman A pisyshing hsFsei, she is fond of every paythins tn the worlds great toy.shcp. Her home is in tn. realm If fsney--her existence is a kind oG ids. Teaitiy--hss very mssefies are mingled with pleas. ing nssnanee-beI present is always bright. and he fafsn stiil hfighieg. Would that I were woman to bs pienssd Hiih every Posy that pops its heas above the weeds of \ wicked world. and have ns thpsns to modest ne while gathering the wild flow. sfsofisagiastioa CbiidIike. woman is ever happy Tieksed with the straw of aattesy. delighted with every rsinbow-tinisd bubble that floats upon ,hs wave oftime-as sntic as a young econ in inc moonlight. and as merry as aeficket. she dances r the sunlight of joy and seems to use every endeAso. to coax us. male. moody moftais. into brighter and hsppisr paths. So mote it bel fDow Jr.
 eu A yeang dandy. who spsssed sn saermoas meustsche, asked lady what she thought of his loekA sWhy." said shs syoa look as H yea he'd swallowed squirrel. and left the tail sticking out sfysar mossh. .. IT Msa are itsaaenty like tea the zeal strength