The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-05-10


duplication which, aside from the peculiar sys.
TEN Of curing diseases it advocates, contains so
much valuable matter as to deserve place in
every family,
LrSNEr's EEsr, Dec, 1850
70 JApEs C. JACKSON NJ u.
Dear Sir BY the bonds Of an old friendship
demand pardon for writing to you. Years have
passed since we met--yoU have grown to mature
manhood have been BY TIVE, the old gray
beard, forced TO cross the rubcun which separates
child from womanhood, aud SO no longer can be
counted as Of the tribe who are pantaetted, and
wear their hair like the Misses RcnwigS in Mich.
uhs Nlckleby
am a woman grown, without womanly disci.
plne ! lack thorough manlneSs; in woman,
It's her richest Jewel. | have it yet TO win.
must win it or die The swellings Of true wo.
manhood rise up in me at times, like the swell
iugs Of Jordan under the gaze Of the Israelnes
As you know, am not an only daughter. Our
family numbers enough to make the circle com
plcte. Our household gods-Peuaes-as they
seat themselves on cur hearthstone, smile at the
unbrokenness Of our circle
] am the eldest child Of my parents. And the
,rorid calls me a beauty. Perhaps | am in the
eyes of others Certainly am not in my oten
eyes. Beauty with me can never be disassociaed
from the spiIit-character ha, to do with t--and
as yet have no character Ny condition is ab
normal It is, so far as it has shape, H-shapen;
| am desirous to give it proportion. To do 1t
need help And come to yon.
Ny father is dear man. He has phoprogcn-
itNeness large, and 50 loves his children, though
he never was the man to praise one OF us for II
deed DONE n temptation overcome, virtue clung
to- a noble aspiration cherished aud gratifed-
Strange Philosophy the remnant Of Purltanlsm,
which teaches that having done the best one can
one no less deserves -----; and that 10 cherish
with lively attention a child who may, IN given
instance, have triumphanty conquered an i'll hab
1t, seductive influence is to wakcn up in his lit
lie heart the Old Adam, and 30 endanger his
chances of the Kingdom Of Heaven.
My father has always peter Wc. !tOw dis
like l. II is the meanes. kind Of slavery lie
has done il from two causes. lst TO CRAFTY Ai,
longng-2d, to make me happy. lie has failed,
as all do who have human pets. For pets al.
ways wear collars, ard humans were not made
for collars. Pet lap dogs alsays are jadgsd pet
lambs have cropped ears, pet bird, have cages,
pet horees now and then get the lash, and petted
children are yoi!ed They grow up AIRY, Ill sha
pen they have too much muscle in one place
too little in another they become eccentric and
so are sometimes called geni,.SeS.
My .aiher has money, and
Money, you know,
and so have never known what 1t is to rant-
What money can procure lies Dbout me in alum
dance
Joe and Bill, Dnah and Peggy, come at my
bidding and go at my beck. | am waited uu til
nothing is left me to do. hare never known
what freedom Is, When child, could never g.
out atone, lest should fall into wel!-Dnah
must 6" with me. The COW and calf yard--lf
started after It, father would cry "deary you
must not 60 to the barn yard aioHe--you may get
kicked" or "lhe sheep will hunt you over" or the
old gardcr viii bite you :; and SO onward and up
ward till am woman grown.
Ny mother hrs all along made slight resist
ance to this partial course, but in the general has
swum with tie current, 50 that the result of this
maI'admInlstration Of parental authority and
watch care is two-iold.
lst. My parents evidently think me incapable
ufgreat etiott-in which Know them to be mis-
taken.
I'd Such h'e has made me hollow false and
m:an'hroplc
Let ne siveyou the History oi Giy n nay ..fe
--wl'h small abatement II shaiI STAND Tor all
| rise m a. a. NJ at eat et help mother
clean oil tho table Tor pa'''!ne' ~ go 10 The
sitting ROOM draw upa r'eS'ng eha'r' take the
last new novel, and placing my ieet ON the hre
ehuer. l proceed !, ave mo 'he u'pths OF nv
man .tehon--i applaud the nero curse MS plot
tiers pour out all my ympa'hies on those who
sntI'r' ana grow excited W''h me writer VI does
no, make the ae"on''"'m brilliant one
h,ow 20" may oia'ne me LOT not feau'hS ON
er ana pc''er DOCKS bu' do you not recoilect
What sidney Sh''h IN MS poslhnmous lectures
says OF the 'orec and power OF haSHI Rch as Is
my ia'ner' ana many as mere are OF us ne has
ho,; ASIDE from our smool ooohs, hofary that
VIII amount TO my collars; 80 'hat now at iull
gown womanhood nave a!l my substantial reud-
ing TO DO and my HE haoi's 10 break fardon
'hs d'Sressloh' Twelve O'CLOCK and dinner Is
ready. eat again.
glory, look over nv card rack and end whether /
am 10 give or receive calls Whichever wav il
49, am thrown into company with which | am
not IN atInlty' ana wh'ch auus 10 The general ny.
pocrlsy that marks my social intercourse Az D
o'clock, eat dgdn-like the majority OF people, l
I'VE to eat instead OF eating TO 1--we, and eat like
all young LADIES', without chewing Az o'clock,
Nr' b, whom do not IKE, calls to take mo
to Judge B---s for an evening party, So
meet the ToS' put myself to me TOP OF my bent.
l. N.ll BALI