North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10

3 infancy: the bursting hover IS youth the How :
,r full blown is manhood and the withered and
alling leaf is the type of old age. Its uses are
various aud manifod-sometimes the promplings
Of affection lead US to place it, in its purity and
beauty over the tomb of some beloved FRIEND
where, shedding around its fragrance, it steals up
on our senses like the memory of the departed be-
ing beneath Sometimes the hand of pride will
pluck it from its stem, to deck the hair of the bloom
ing BRIDE or to add by its odor to the festive scene.
And not unfequently 1t is the bearer of some fond
tale of love to the ecstalc of her whose heart
and feelings are at length justified, by its sweet
language in the Thoughts they so long have har
bored. 1t soothes the cares Of the troubled soul,
and alleviates the pangs of sorrow. 1t wins upon
us by its modest though blooming appearance, and
its gentle influence steals into our bosoHls and sof-
tens nature.
Study the flowers, and behold the WISDOM the
goodnes, and mercy of the Almighty. Anatomize
them, and behold the innumerable parts which
form and make up The whole, and the system aud
order with which they are Joined together.
Refinement dwe!eth among the flowers. There
the affections OF our hearts are given license to
rove, and there the enthusiasm of our nature over
comes the dffidence of our feelings Voluntary
homage arises to the Maker Of objrc,s so Fair and
beautiful and the soul in the contemplation sighs
itself away in delicious revrre. Not less beau
tful than truly has it been snid-
''There is religion in a flower;
voice conscience.
Mountains and oceans, planets, suns, and systems,
Bear not the impress of Almighty power
In characters more legible than those
Which he has traced upon the tiniest flower
Whose light bell bends beneath the dew drops
weight" G. H. Cranmer.
YOUNG LADIES AND MArR1MoNY. Florence
Hay, who sal for her portrait To Mr. Willis of the
| Home Journal has caused luuerng among the
hearts OF the unmarried lady readers of that paper
| has Z ~,
| speaks, us follows:
| "Minne Muulson says we have no, suffi-
cient moral courage to remain single" agree
with her TO the absence of anything attractive
in the large portion OF men we meet; but think
we wish 10 marry, IN tie abstract, even if we do
not 6nd men worthy of us; that it is part of ma
ture that women, with warm, rich hearts, and cul-
tivated minds. should look for the comforts aud
charms of married life. [ mean not those who
are ambitious, and seek 10 be The head of an es-
rablishment but these who desire 10 be loved and
known at homeland such arc the large majority
of US. But l would say that the grand office and
destiny OF our sex is nlGtermlty-lhat every wo-
man, not spuiled by some silly vanity, which be-
comes stronger than her nature feels this and
! feels that, while she remains single, she is doing
violence to nature, and is deprived of the dearest
charms of life
We feel that it was intended by an all wise
Providence that every woman should be a moth
er. This is not merely physical, but il is part
of our heart. True we long to be pressed TO the
| breast of man in whom we see so much purity
nobleness and grnerosny-the man we so much
| love-we dream that his cheek rests against ours
feel The soft pressure of his h1nds-we have
sweet dreams of love; but, by far the dearest pleas
ure that ever real woman felt, when the
child of the man she loves lay upon her breast
In this world of brainless men, but few of US can
find men to love, least at all like our ideal aud
that is shown by the fact that SO many do not mar
~ the first man who offers.
| Most women-even girls yet in their teens
wish for their own chidlo love. Affecta,ion may
say it is immodest, but il sp. ngs from higher
law " than of Socieiy-it is the law of God.
| Seeing that nature intended US for particular
purposes, | CAN See in "Forence Hay" the
true women, when she feels that "single years are
wasted"
think Minnie Moulson" part right when
she says " Nine-lenlhs OF the women of The pres
ent day marry with no other feeling towards their
husbands than sheer Indifference" But many
women are not capable of high and holy love,
and much of that which they can feel is the re-
suit of association But no woman can look
with " sheer indifference" upon the father of her
child.
have written so much that shall scarce have
room for what took up the pen to say.
| am much inclined to think that the fear su-
! perior women have, of seeming immodest in show
ing preference for such they really do
admire, has tendency 10 drive many men from
them to the lighter sort of women. l do not mean
she should offer herself; but when she sees one
whom she admires. she should evnce plainly she
is pleased with bis company and conversation,
and not think of anything immodrst, there is
| really rot.
| But if she treats him as Indifferent women treat
him, very likely there will be mistake. Many
men proud, and will not sue forever woman
they love.
BOYS. The Olive Branch gives the following