Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1849-05-04
From ihe KHickerbOc1er;
A CbaDteF on Women.

From The Knicksr5Ocier3
A Chapter on Women.
The family of 81 told.you.so" is an interest
ing one. They are the accessories after fact;
dealers in knowing smrks and smiles, "ahs!"
and "indeedsm If Victoriaand her babes should
come to spend the day with them tomorrow,
they would have been expecting her; and slee.
ping weasel or blazing river would gain from
these gentry but "Didn't-you-know-thaR" sort
of look. Such women are not dependent upon
otheis for appreciation. so we let them go.
We have known women that were possessed
with spirit Of neatness, or as Dean Swift hath
it, ga clean devil" Their usefulness is well
known, although they themselves are groaning
all their days, bowed down with "A sense OF the
responsibility that q world made Of dir imposes
upor them individually. and fired with the laud-
able ambition to escape the digeslng Of their
"aloued peck" Digging and delving. on they
90. all their lives. as if creation itself was on
the verge Of spelling To them washing.day
is delight, scrubbng is Their amusement and
house.ceaning, that semi.annual agony, SEMI
annual jubilee.
And we have seen economical women, who
appeared TO have had an inward "call" 10 make
up the poorest mate rials at he least possible ex-
pense. The "tase Of the ark" is perceptbe
at their hospitable boards. Their conversation
consists in interrogatories. as "Wil il WASN'T"
"Will il ,urnl" "WHl II dyel" The price Of
eggs, and the blessing Of soda, salara'us' etc.,
are matters Of daily remark. Al the most JOY.
Gus festival such lady is not unmindful of her
IA b,,eh shOulH ia
would her grief forbid her looking out some old
linen in which TO array him for the grave.
There is the Gei-along-easy Woman, whose
aim, she says, is comfort. For this she waits
and hopes, and in the meantime is at leisure;
reads all the new novels, finds time Tor embrol'
dery, dispenses visiting cards, and is as hosPi'a-
Bile as confectioners and pastry cooks can desire
She likes the good old tipsy times, because It is
so easy to turn a glass Of wine. But she has
her troubles, is rather apt 10 "ge' into heap"
and "things come 10 a crisis" occasionally; but
what cares shel In the possession OF the walt
Iing.maid Faith she quietly reposes. Everybody
uses her, and everybody abuses her, Is she OF
no account!
There are the Human Rectifers, who seem
TO consider their moral sense species of filter,
through which every body's words and actions
must pass. Pleased with an opinion on all sub
iects, secular and sacred, of course what they
know they know for cerlain.
There are your fine, Delicate Ladies, made
up Of exouisites; exquisite tastes, exquisite
nerves, exquisite sensibtes. Their keen SYM
pathies unfit them for action, and the thought Of
sorrow crushes their sensitive souls. In 9sihe-
tic Incidence they while away their days, and
hourly they pay worship TO the god oil Sell.
whose devolces they are. Two children stood
watching poor lltle kitten taking that peculiar
exercise consisting Of "rotary motion and SUBJ
seouent dealh," to which nervous dtsorganl-
zstion gives rise. "Oh, dearl" said Lucy.
"what are sick kittens made for!' "Why,"
answered Tom, ''don't you knowi--so we boys
can laugh at themP'
Some women are natural nurses. For every
ailment they have a specific, dealing generally
in simples. For every ache they prescribe a
4 plaster. Benevolent creatures are they! Ihey
walk into your internal arrangements with Their
eyes open and their tongues wagglng. Bless
me! how the doctors love them!
Mrs. Hnrry-em can never do any thing with
out a noise and hustle. Her movements are
successive rushes; little stirs and commouons
follow her footsteps. She is the gerer-up ol
grea, excitements on small capital, and will cre-
ate regular hey-day in any family on five min
utes' warning. She haslens 10 see her SICK
neighbor with great impetuosty, asks alter her
health with intense interest, and then runs nome
in terrible hurry, and Iorges all about II as last
as possible. Yet she is more popular woman
than one who always preserves The same slow
solemn course; who never departs from the
practices of propriety. But they average each
other, and thus is preserved the desired amoun
of enthusiasm and order in community.
There is the Energetic Woman, who makes
moIe-hiIls of mountains, and is great at "accom
plishng;" and there is the regularly Lazy anC
Feeble, who always need help. The former Il
indebted to the latter for her employment, he
happiness, and what is usually as dear 10 her
her reputation. Where would have been Caro-
line Fry's hgh-minded Christian benevolence
if these poor prisoners to-day had not been dnr
kened and made sad by their sinful yesterday
What becomes Of pity without miseryl Wha
of sympathy without sorrowl Every good nc
ZION is drawn out by corresponding evil; butwhe
,her The absence of the evil or the development
Eof the good would be the greatest blessings, We
leave Tor others TO say.
There are those OF no value in themselves
considered, but are used as tools by others
There are the lmPusiye, who do and say