The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-01-23

Of '.h9 grouse in the gun room. The
honest Diggories are, We believe, q
large majority in English society
WoMAN.--Woman is like the rose
which buds and blooms on the parterre
oflife. 4. ...,...
In the cradle, when asweet bud, the
fragrance Of affection fills the atlnos-
phere around and about her.
When the prattlc of infancy is heard
from her lips, and her smiles irradiate
theseyes Of pater1lal affection the fra
GRANGE increases. As the bud devel.
opes its beauties to the eye, and the
knit limbs allow her to fly about the do
mestic circle, the joy of her parents is
ecstatic. There follows the develop.
ment Of heart linking the bud to the
bosom whence dwell maternal affection.
Mind quickly developes its native
energies and the heavenly spark which
animates the mortal frame now adds
new charms to the cherished object of
affection.
The tide of life flows on, and in its
spring, new beauties cluster around the
loved one, and in few summers moro
she is seen at the altar, pledging her
affection to one whose manly worth has
won her pure and guileless heart.
The early hearth is left, but not for.
saken, for maternal love has matured
her affection, not simply for the poor re.
turns which an earthly bower yield for
anxious care. Ysi
Her heart is imbued with nature,
which refuses to live without that pure
atmosphere which go far has warmed
her being, and caused her latent beau
ties to expand and attract the admira-
ton of the manly youth, who claims her
for his bride.
Her wealth is q guileless and conf
ding heart, and the gentle current,
along whose unruEed banks she has
hitherto culled the sweetest flowers,
glidcs still by her feet without mur.
mur. t.t.E
Her happinessis is complete, for relig.
ious faith illumes the present and gilds
the future, while memory reviews the
past without pang from duties neglec.
ted or affections not acknowledged,
Youth and beauty attend her steps
all her days are pleasant, while peace.
ful contentment makes her heart exnlt
as Hope in the vista beckons her on to
joys in scenes yet to be realized.
But such happiness, like all things
which partake Of death, is subject to
the stroke Of death.
The destroyer Of mans happiness re.
spects not the young, the beautiful, or
the gifted.
Too often in this world they seem,
like the flowers Of Nature, which de-
lights the eye, to be more subject to
the scythe of the Destroyer.
If the admiring eyes of Natures
sweetest flower could shield from harm
the full-blown rose, its leaves would new
CT wither, its fragrance never die.
II friends could detain the blooming
matron in sphere where her virtues
bloom but toperish, many would live to
have their old age irradiated by the lus-
tre Of wcll-spcnt years.
But death must come.
Beauty, it is true, belongs to youth,
but not to youth alone. The matron
who is the cynosure Of the happy circle,
the charm which lures to domestic
happiness the husband and the father.
has beauty too. S
Her heart is the centre of human
affection-her smile the reward Of hu.
man hopes.
THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATtoN.-It
is to education we must turn our atten.
ton, as the great corrective of our pre-.
sent evils. By education is meant the
training Of the physical, moral, and In
tellectual powers. This alone can
make people Industrious, prosperous,
and intelligent II has been said, with
much Of force and truth, that man is
the creature of circumstances. It then
the circumstances in which we are
placed form character, and determine
our lot in life, how responsible is the
situation Of parents, and with what af;
fection and care should they regard their
childrcn-fcr the child grows into the
youth, the youth into the man, and on
the discipline of one stage depends the
character of the next: circumstances
make particular vices and virtues char,
acteristic of different classes. five take
an example from the middle class, thrift
and prudence may be instanced. a
Young man feels he would lose his self
respect not to occupy the station in
which he has boon brought up; and this