The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-25

and in your deep sofroSs, she DESERT has i no, ap-
peared to you refuge whsre hziE-cloth, maesra-
tons and Penitence would restore, perhaps, toyour
wandeGng heast, the oppressive repose and sorrow
fui peace Of sepentanee2 Great thoughts come
from the heart, some one has said. That IS true,
above-all, ofswenen. lis from passion that they
attain to the understanding Of ideas, ani often 10
express them with superior eloqsence. Bat as
passion is hasty. changsabe, full Of oies and sn-
Premely illogical ideas also, with many women
are blunt, striking, violent = they cannot express
themselves calmly nor develop .themselses By de-
grees In. these boistesops natures ideas are, in
some Sort lghtangs Of the soul. To thiak, lis. 10
great number .: women. a happy accident, rather.
than permanent state. They make, irlthe domain
Of thought rather brilliant invasions than regular
enterprises permanent establishments. Their
own hearts, that perfdious Capua which seduees
them, and often keeps them but two steps from
Rome. "A celebrated artist has said Of a womaa,
whom you may know, hers is a mind the lest en-,
numbered with useless baggage--an Invaluable
euogyin these times where orr old society, drags
after 1t the Pfeiadices. The common places, all the
imPediments Of complicated civilization. II one
considers, in comparing, three celebrated women
who have 6xed'th attention Of modern france, 4ve
posite, which must be attributable, think, to the
very different medium in which they have lived an
identical defect inherent perhaps to genuine nature
Norrished from antiquity in an austere retreat,
Madame Roland has shown herself. strong and
grave. Excited by the impulse of society. Madame
DeSlasi was, above all, animated and udicious
lasPired by nature, Madame Sand has appeared
truly eloquent But all three have exceeded pro-
I'll 4 -
ton. In the chase alter ipeas, the minds Of -the
greater part Of women resemble those young gddy
or ill-uained dogs, which start ihe,game but aeyer
stop.
Fhe exterior aspect Of houses in the East pre-
sents, ordinarily, but barevalls But in the inte-
rior the eye is dazzled by pillars without number,
precious marbles glister7ng fountains, by all the
riehnesses and fantasies Of Arabian art Unfortu-
nately the doors Of these exquisite dwellings, are
almost always closed. They never open but 90
love and friendship. 1t is thesane with certain
rainds--cold and barren in appearance. To dis
cover their concealed spsudofs il is equally impor.
ant to force the threshold -+whai is necessary for
that? Almost nothing--if az women resemble
each other. the smile of one.
:, Women think but little. They e6aseat them
selves With having glimpse Of ideas in their nbst
floating and undecided form. Nothing isarranged,
nothing is fixed in the gilded fog Of thee fancies.
which but rapid apperitions, vague igeres, out
lines immediately effaced- One wouId-say thai
they have not one anxiety for the truth Of things
and that their minds had no iRiercourse>but with
those eDigmatical personages og.ihs Greek stage
that Atistophanes, the celestial scrsrsds the idle
| diyJnities. ~
| Superiority OF mind in woman isa f5henon2snon
too rare net to excite the disrusg a lhe vulgar Il
| follows that an uneasy superiority, armed, and
that consunes,in defending itself fhe force which
should be deyoied'to the good OF the family and D
society. If you have entered one Of those tenpie
where straight and curved line unite in an ez
quisite harmony, reetirude with grace, you wi
have perfect image ofmanly thonghtand feulinin
intelligence, reconced, combined entwined in tn
same life by that di0ine.ar'st which iseaiiei low
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