Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-08-08
SMALL SWEET COURTESIES
OF LIFE.

liam Writ TO his daughter:
81 want to tell you a secret. The
way to make yourself pleasant to 9th.
ers, is TO show tha, you care for them.
The whole world is like the Mansfield,
who cared for nobody-no not he, be-
cause nobody cared for him. And the
whole world will serve you so, if you
give them the same cause. Let every
one, therefore, see that you do care for
them, by showing them, what Sterne so
happily calls "lhe small sweet courte-
sizes oflife,' those courtesies in which
there is no parade; whose voice is still
10 please, and which manifest them
selves by tender and affectonate looks
and the little kind acts of attention..
giving others preference in every en-
joyment at the, table, in the field, walking
sitting or standing. This is the spirit
that gives TO your time of life, snd to
your sex, its sweetest charms. Consti.
tutes the sum total of the wtchcraft of
woman. Let the world see that your
first care is for YOURSELF and you will
spread the Solitude of the Upas tree
around you, in the same way, by the
emanalion of poison which kills
all the juices of affection in its neigh.
borhood. Such girl may be admired
but for her understanding and accom-
plishments, but she will never be be.
loved.
The seeds of love can never grow
but under the warm and genial inAuen.
ces Of kind feelings and afec,ionate
manners. Vivacity goes great way
in young persons. 1t calls attention
to her who displays it; and, if i, then
be found associated with a generous
sensbiity, its execution is irresistible.
On the contrary, if it be found in al
lance with cold, naughty, selfish
heart, it produces no further effect, and
an adverse one. Attend TO this, my
daughter. l, flows from heart that
feels for you all the anxiety that a par.
ent can feel, and not without the hope
which constitutes the parents highest
happiness. God protect and bless you
VICE IN HIGH PLACES.
Major Noah, in the N. Y. Time, says:
II is melancholy fact, that too many
men who attain the highest rounds Of
the ladder of ambition, are addicted to
vices the most loalhsome and debased.
We have seen a Governor of this State
so drunk before breakfast that he could
not walk; we have seen Cabinet Min.
lister so given TO intemperance that he
kept barrel of whiskey--and very
poor whiskey il was, too--on the tap
in his office; we have seen vice Presi.
dent, pro tempore, of the United States,
rolling in the cutters in the city of
Washington; we have seen the whole
American Congress SO blue that not
ten Of its members could "see a hole
through a ladders" and we have seen a
temporary speaker Of the United States
House of Representatives so far gone
that he would have tumbled out of the
chair, if he had not been held into it by
the hand of member, who happened
to be not quite as drunk as his neigh.
| Dor.
Romance AND REALIrY.-Peter Funk
sat beside his blue. eyed love, one OF
his arms around her slender waist, the
other playing with the glossy curls Of
dark brown hair which hung in rich
masses over her neck and shoulders.
Peter looked al her cherry-red, lus-
cious lips, gazed wistfulIy upon the vel
vet demask of her cheeks, and pressing
her almost too ardently 10 his bosom,
tried to steal a kiss. -.
The indignant fair one cast his awk-
ward form from her and rising to her
utmost height, while her eyes flashed
fire, cried in alto. ....... .....
"Git out you nasty skunk, amt you
ashamed of yourself?" ...
LITTLE CAUsEs.-The river rolling
onward its accumulated waters TO the
ocean, was in its small beginning but
an oozing rill, tricking down some moss.
covered rock, and winding like silver
thread between the green banks 10
which it impaired verdue. The tree
that swept the air with its hundred
branches, and mocks at the howlings OF