Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-13
A Leaf -from our Scrap Book.

will make beauty attractive, knowledge de-
/ lightful, and wit good-natured. 1t will Iigh-
ten sickness, poverty, and affiction convert
ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and rem
der deformity itself agreeable. g91
Snowy ACCOMPLISHMENTS are
! few greater mistakes than the prevailing dis
position among people in middling life to bring
up their daughters as fine ladies, ,neglecting
useful knowledge for snowy accomplishments
"The notions,' it has been justly observed,
| "which girls thus educated acquire of their
own Importance, is in aninverse ratio to their
+, true value. With just enough of fashionable
refinement to disqualify them for the duties
of their proper station, and render them ri
diculous in a higher sphere, what are such
fine ladies fit for! Nothing, that know, but
/ to be kept like wax figures in glass case.
/ Woe to the man that is linked to one of them!
If half the time and money wasted on the
music, the dancing, and embroidery, were
employed in teaching them the useful arts of
making shirts and mending stockings, and
managing household affairs, their present
qualifications as wives and mothers would be
increased fourfold." 5r
THE MATRIMONIAL WELL.-In a small pa
rsh OF ST. Keyne, Cornwall, Wales, there is
famous well, the virtues of which are such
that it gives mastery to husband or wife, just
as the one or the other may have first tasted
its waters. Southey made this superstition
the groundwork of an amusing tale, in verse,
commencing
"a we'll there is in the west countrie,
And a clearer one never was seen, 81
There is not wife in the west countrie
But has heard of the well of St. Keyne
A traveller sitting by the side of this WE'LL
the story goes onto say, met a countryman,
with whom he had long chat about its ira
dition. y 'e I'd 1a a
".You drank Of the water, warrant, betimes,
He to the countryman said,
But the countryman smiled as the stranger
I, spoke,
SIOOh HIS uedu
al hastened as soon as the wedding was DER,
And left my good wife in the porch;
But, faith she had been wiser than I,
For she took a bottle to church,"
LITTLE VExATIoNs.-To great evils we
submit; we resent little provocations. | have
before now been, disappointed of hundred
pound job and lost half a crown at rackcts on
the same day, and been more mortified at the
latter than the former. That which is last
ing we share with the future, we defer the
consideration of till tomorrow that which
belongs to the moment we drink up in all its
bitterness before the spirit evaporates We
cerate, tear, and mangle our bosoms with mis-
| fortunes finest, brittlest point, and wreak
our vegeance on ourselves and it for good and
all. Small pains are more manageable, more
within our reach; we can fret and worry our
selves about them, can turn them into any
shape, can twist and torture them how we
please; grain of sand in the eye, thorn in
the flesh, only irritates the part, and leaves US
stregth enough to quarrel and get out of all
patience with it; heavy blow stuns and
takes away power of sense, as well as of re-
sistance. Phe great and mighty reverses OF
fortune, like the revolutions of nature, may
be said to carry their own weight and reason
along with them; they seem unavoidable and
remediess, and we submit to them without
murmurng as to fatal necessity.-Hazlitt.
In addressing multitude, just remember
that rant passes for eloquence. As Monsieur
Jarvis observes, "the people like very much
large noise," and will any time leave flute TO
gather around bass drum" 7H9
CHEERFULNEss ss-Persons who are always
cheerful and good -humored are very useful in
the world; they maintain peace and happiness,
and spread thankful temper amongst all
who live around them. r.
Men are often treated like barrels-the
empty ones stood up and the full ones laid
When the man of Israel bowed in helpless
ness before Pharaoh, two women spurned his
eiicts and refused his behests, A father made
no effort to save the infant Moses, but mo-
ther's care hid him while concealment was
possible; and sister watched over his pres
ervation when exposed on the rivers brink
TO women was intrusted the charge of pro-
viding for the perils and the wants of the viii
derness; and in the hour of triumph, weman's
voice was loudest in the acclaim Of Joy thai
ascended to heaven from an emancipatfd ma
ton. t.,ssxe
L. Never despair in adversely. Work and
persevere--W When wheel is running rount
the bottom must turn upward--some time.f