The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-03


to him than the game Tor anything in life)
ga la rigeur." He considers il, he says, as
mere filling up the chasms in conversation,
and as sfording an opportunity to the six
teeners TO let of their steam, which they
usually do in a round game. or in uncurbed
hilarity Of explosions Of talk, by courtesy
called conversation.
These are the evenings after days of out
ofdoor enjoyment. The mellow days oil
autumn are the best Of all the year for this.
Natures oracle.poet must have had q fit OF
dyspepsy on him when he said OF them
The melancholy days are come, the sad
dest OF the year. Melancholy when
every breath Of the nectar air brings back
TO the old the feelings Of their youth, and
when to the young every hour is bright for
woodland ranging and field sports!
Melancholy when the leaves look as
il they were dyed in melted gems; and, as
they fade, fade into the tints and harnnonies
that old painters loved. Melancholy
when the sky is bright as a poets dream
from dawn to twilight when every sunny
hour may be spent in traversing old paths,
or finding new ones, treading the rrIstling
leafy carpet, brilliant as Florence mosaic.
Melancholy when we turn children again,
and live on that eilluence OF beauty that
first thrilled our senses. Oh. no. Call
spring with its lassitude, summer with its
whitening heat, archaeology and the
siinted freezing days Of winter the sad
dest of the year, but not the golden autumn
days.
A pleasant week passed, in October, in
this cheerful community, led me to consider
the wealth Of enjoyment We all might have
within our own modest homes. The gay
cites Of summer were over, and the placid
pleasures | have described had succeeded
to them. The vacations in city life, it
must be confessed, ere the great epochs in
this rural district, marked by the advent Of
brothers and cousins who have gone to the
city TO make their fortunes 0or this CON-
munity is not ali born Of the female kind.
When these not less than skin, and more
than "kind," come home, every day is a
festal day. Then for excursions to the
mountains, water-lalls.pic- mics, drives, rides,
serenades, torch-iigh: parties, and moon
light rambles. But this season of general
movement and vitality was passed. and all
had subsidized into the customary course
Ii was evident that mankind, as mere man.
kind, was not essential to the cheerfulness
of community of young women; that we
have fallen on better times than those were,
when clever woman said Of her sex, and
q satirist repeated it:
Most women have no character at all
for those must have character, of no mean
quality, who do lot require the occupation
of business, nor the excitement OF pleasure
(so.called), who need not the Indictment Of
nvalries and coquetries, the passions of love
and jealousy, and all the greater and minor
pursuits Herewith connected, that have been
supposed to make the history of young wo-
mems lives; nor the gossipping and ma
neuyering which has been the role of their
elders. The usual chances Of life happen
to our community, but they come unsought
There are Beatrices with Benedicts, as well
Beatrices without thtTn. One is taken and
another left; and the charm of it is, that
those left are quite as we'll satisfied as those
taken, seeming to consider the security and
exemptions of their haven as equivalents
for the possible gain Of the outward bound
voyageT.
Soon after my arrival at -, was in
troduced to a very striking and charming
young woman, who had been passing the
whole summer there, and who, being capti-
waited with their rural life, is prolonging
her visit far into the autumn. She is Just
eighteen, with exuberant spirits, and q self.
comPlacency, little exaggerated, perhaps,
but accompanied with such general kind
ness and good humor, that it offends no one.
E. NJ. is very handsome, frank, easy and
attractive.
have said that there is no gossipping in
-. In its bad sense there is none; but
in a circle Of close and lively sympathies,
there are certain vibrations, and what the
character OF those vibrations in a circle OF
females is likely to be, may be easily i'm
agined.
F. H. was with you this summer, | said
to one Of the elders, my contemporary F.
Ii. is young lawyer in town, an intimate
friend of the brothe,s and cousins OF our
vestals, and who, from his boyhood, has
been a party in all their summer pleasures
In the day dreams Of old and young, a
pretty web or romance had been spun
around F. H., and certain young favorite
and adopted child Of the community, who,
having neither father, mother, brother, nor
sister, has, by her sweet qualities and graces,
created and multiplied these relations, and
is child or sister 10 the whole community
In answer to my question, my friend replied,
yes; F. H. was with us MONTH
SIS there any progress in his and LIS
AFFAIR."
oh, no! 1t goes like crab, backward.
F. IL. did not seem like himself this sum-
mer. You know he is naturally shy and
reserved, and to tell you the truth. / think
we all think-F. II. prefers our hand.
some visiteT to l..
Impossible ] exclaimed; IL he ever
were interested in dear little l.. She is not
mot quite so handsome-not so striking,
as this town young lady, but her
ACE is more engaging. She is thousand
lines more captivating.
TO us-yes. But young men are al.
ways bewitched by beauty-and E. NJ. is
% frank and easy-jist the sort of girl to
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