The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-12
SO The Character of Mrs.

ne CHARACTER u BITS. -.
g mean TO give you my idea of a woman. If il
at all answers an original, shall be pleased for il
such person as would describe really exists she
must be far superior to my description, and such as
must love too well 10 be able to paint | ought.
':She is handsome; but it is beauty not arising
from features, from complexion or from shape; she
has all three in high degree, but ii is not from these
she touches the heart; it is all that sweetness OF
temper, benevoence, innocence and sensibility
which q face cannot express that form her beauty.
s. She has face that just raises your attention at
first sight, it grows on you every mOment, and you
wonder it did no more than raise your attention at
first. Her eyes have mild light, bnt they awe,
when she peases; they command, like good
man out of Office, not by authority, but by virtue.
Her features are not exactly regular; that sort Of
exactness is more 10 be praised than 10 be loved l.;
for it is never animated.
g Her stature is not tall she is not made TO be the
admiration of everybody, but the happiness Of one.
g She has all the firmness that does not exclude
deicacy she has all the s0ltness that does not I'M
ply weakness ..,
an affected plainness than in tawdry fnery. She
is always clean, without precseness aiiectaiIOn.
Her gravity is gentle thong htfuness that soiens
the features without discompOsing them. She Is
usually grave.
GO Her Smiles are nexpressbe.
Sc Her voice is low soft music, not formed 10
rule in public assemblies, but charm those who
can distinguish company IRON crowd; 1t has
this advantage-you must come close to hear 1t.
''To describe her body, describes her mind one
is the transcript of the other. Her understanding
is not shown i'll the variety of matters 1t eXerts itself
on, but in the goodness of the choice she makes.
She does not display it so much in saying or doing
striking things, as in avoiding such as she ought
not say or do.
g She discovers the right or wrong Of things not
by reasoning but sagaciiy most women, and many
good ones, have a cOseness and something selfish
in their dispositions; she has true generosity OF
temper; the most extravagant cannot be more un-
bounded in their liberaity, the most cautions in
the distribution. No person OF so few years can
know the world better; no person was ever less
corrupted by that knowledge. Her politeness
seems rather to flow from natural disposition to
oblige than from any rules on that subject, and
therefore never fails strike those who Understand
good breeding and those who do not. She does not
run with girlIsh eagerness into new friendships
which. as they have no foundation in reason, serve
only to multiply and emblter disputes ii is long
before she chooses but then is fixed forever, and
the hours of romantic friendship are not warmer
than hers after the lapse of years. As she never
disgraces her good nature by severe reflections on
any body, so she never degrades her judgment by
mmoderate or i'll praises, for everything violent is
contrary to her gentleness of disposition, and the
evenness of her VIRTUE
She has steady and firm mind, which takes
no more from the female character than the sodlty
of marble does from its polish and lustre. She has
such virtue as makes us value the truly great
of our own sex she has all the winning graces that
make us love even the faults we see In the weak
and beautiful of hers"