The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-03-18
EsrrslArr OF FAsg,oxAsLE Harnesses.


ESTIMATE OF FAsBioNABLE HAPPIsEss.
I The Duchess of 81 Adams was fas-
cinating actress, Of good common sense,
who married, first banker and then Il
Duke. She hal seen poverty IN the mos,
trying ~ well as the more toIerable of It's
shapes, and was well prepared to Judge Of
high life by comparison. She thus speaks
OF IL IN her meinoirs:-l
''few persons have seen so much OF the
various aspects mly say extrenes--of
life as myself; and few, therefore, can be
better judges Of the difference between
great poverty and great wealth; but, after
all. this does not by any means constitute
the chief and most important distinction be-
tween the high and low states. No: the
signal, the striking contrast, is not the eX
fernal circumstances, but IN the totally
opposite minds of The TWO classes as TO
their respective enjoyment Of exisetnce
The society in which formally moved
was all cheertulness-al high spirits--all
fun, frolic and vivacity. They cared for
nothing, thought OF nothing, beyond the
pleasures Of the present hour; and tc these
they gave themselves up with the keenest
relish. Look nj The circles in which now
move. Can anything he more weary, stale,
ho tau' ttidl tict WuoiG
course Of life! Why, one might as well be
in the tread-mili as toli0g in the stupid,
monotonous round Of what they call pleas
ure, bur which is, in fact, very cherries
and heavy work. Pleasure, indeed when
all merrInent, aud hilarity. all indulgence
Of Our natural emotions, If they be of q Joy
Gus nature, are declared to be vulgar.
There can be no cordially where there is
much exc!usiveness and prinIeSs. No; all
~ GOODNESS, reserve and universal cnnui,
even where this starchness Of manner is IN
accompanied by any very stric! rigour in
matters OF conduct. Look, now, ut those
quadrille dancers in the other room: they
have been supping; they have been drinking
as much champagne as they liked: the band
fs capital; the men are young, and the girls
are pretty; aud Yer. did you eyer see such
crawling movements such soleum looks
as it they were all dragging themselves
through the most irksOme task IN the
world? Oh! what a difl-reat thing was
county -dance IN my younger days"
Our-oF-Doog Exercise FOR WOMEN
Our eyes have just now fallen upon pas
sage iu Mr.. Greeley's last letter from Flu
rope, IN which he speaks of the appear
ance OF the English women and commands,
with a little more than his usual ardor Of
expression, their perfection Of figure. He
attributes this, and very justly, to the Eng
lish lady's habit of out-of-doOr EXERCISE
We had thought that this fact was known
that IT was known year, ago, and that our
countrywolnen would catch a hint from it,
that would throw color in their cheeks and
fuliness into their forms. And vet, sadly
enough, our ladies still coop themselves in
their heated rooms, until their faces are like
lilies. and their figures like Iily-stems. We
have alluded to the matter now, not for
the sake of pointing 4 satire surely, bot for
the sake of asking those one or two hundred
thousand ladies', who every month light our
pages with their looks, il they do indeed
prize little unnatural pearliness of hue
and delicacy of compexion, beyond tha,
ruddy flush OF health (the very tempter Ola
kissD and that full development OF figure,
which all the poets, from Homer, down,
have male one of the chietrst beauties of a
woman! Ii not, let them make Of them
selves horsewomen; or batting that, let them
make acquaintance with the sunrise; let
them pick flowers with the dew upon them;
let them study music of Natures own or
chestra. Vulgarity is not essential to health;
and a 1.-the, elastic figure does not go in hot
houses. For ourselves, we incline hearth
Iy to the belief, that if American women
have a wish TO add TO the respect, the adj
miration, the love, an (if neeI be) the
fear of the inen, they will find an easier
road toward that gain,ih little rigorous
ouf-Of-dOor exercise aud uniform attention
TO the great essentials of health, than in any
new-fangled ccstomes, or loudly appIauded
"righls"-( Harper's Magazine.
NEW THEORY IN RELATION TO TIE DEL
uGE.-A clergyman Of Cincinnati, the Rev Mr.
START, has broached 4 somewhat novel hvpoihe-
sis respecting the scrptural account Of The deluge.
lie insists that it is an aliegory, and assumes that
the ark IS intended to represent the church estab-
lished by Noah and his posteriiy, into which was
incorporated every principle Of doctrine and duty
necessary for the salvation Of man at that day.
To enter the ark was to be confirmed in the life
Of religion which it represented. The hoed Of
waters he considers the embenl Of an inundation
Of evil and mpe.y and refers to various pa ssages
in Daniel, Isaiah. jeremiah, and the New Tesla
ment, for the purpose Of showing that the en-
croachments Of fallacious reasoning and false
principles are not only compared in the scriptures
10 floods Of waters, but arc actually caiiei floods
and the Overlooking Of rivers. This, he argues
is the real import OF the flood in the time of
Noah. The perishng Of the millions by the deluge
is to be understood, he says. in 4 spiritual sense
rs the persh,ng of souls by the overwhelming in
fnence Of sin. In lecture upon The subject de-
lisered by Mr.. Stuart, he advances many nluusi-
BILE arguments to support his theory. A literal
food, like that described by Moses, the reyerned
gentleman says could not have taken place. Men
Of science reject as absurdity the idea of uni
versal deuge having occurred since the creation
of man. Geology utterly confates this SUPPOSE
ton The learned DR. auckland. the orthodox
Ds.iiitcheock, aud many others equally worthy,
have abandoned 1t, and none stand out for the lit
'ersl food except a stubborn few who MAKE the
olnnpotence of God the scape-goat of physical
impossbities. These are Mr.. Stuart's view. a.
we hnd them recorded in Cncinnati paper. and