Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-01

Free as air her every act shall be-,
Long as her lovely charms shall live.
But winters dreary winds will come, l': as
Its winding sheet must cover earth; g is
Then, lovely maid, your race is run,
Like flowers. die your youthful mirth.
The middle age rolls on apace,
Old maids begin to play their pranks,
A score of wrinkles ON the face,
To mention which you get no thanks.
Dressed up like saints they NOPE about &
TO hate the devil and mankind, 7@at.
Each day they show face devote, 81
To every youthful folly blind.
Old age at last creeps slowly on,
Her blood dries up in her veins;
She pines away and-dies alone
With none TO bless hefe nsne she claims
We solicit the attention Of the youth and
beauty of the city of Muscatine, in the, per-
sons Of all the girls thereof indiscriminately,
while we make few brief remarks upon
the following text, found in the 14th chap
ter and 18th verse of the Proverbs of Solo
mon :
seven in laughter the heart is sorrowful;
and the end If that mirth is heaviness."
This text more particularly applies to the
female than the male sex, from the fact that
from the time when girls first begin to lisp
the simple words OF childhood, their hearts
are taught to cosceal their thoughts, affsc.
tions, desires. and all the emotions OF the
soul. In tbs teaching, the mother follows
natural impulse which God has made a
mart of Ter nature, for wise and good pur-
nose She well knows that il this power to
copceal Cher strongest weapon Of defence)
vas taken from her that she would be in
suited and attacked by many "woman's
rights man, whom she now can easily keep
at bgy. Well she understands the necessitv
of leeping the sterner sex in blssful ignor-
aucs of her real character, always presenting
forman's inspection, like FURNISHED gold,
he richest and ch,iests qualities. Well she
Biows that man may carefully study her
g he would book, but never read her
neart. Pope, in his Moral ESSAY, better ex-
presses what wish to say: Page ILL.,
And yet believe me, good as well as i'll.
Wolnans at best contradiction STILL
Heaven, when it strives 10 polish all il can,
Its last best work, but FORMS q softer man
Picks from each sex to make the fayorite blessed,
Your love OF pleasure, our desire Of resti
blends III exceptions 70 all general rules, ~
Your taste of tolles, with our scorn of fools.
Reserve with irankness; art with truth allied
courage with softness. modesty with pride,
Fixed principles, with fancy ever new,
shake all together aad produce--yon.' 4
Strange combination, this! such an one as
man never has or ever will analyze SO as to de-
termine all the component parts and subtle
elements which enter into the character of it's
ever varying compo sitlon. There are unfor-
tunately some things, sometimes improperly
called men, (more properly Hi6rides,) who,
failing to distinguish themselves among men,
ana Tor lack of ability to rise in the es-
aoused and unfortunate women, assert tna'
the softer sex only requires to eiothe then-
srlvas in mems anparel, take bold stand IN
defence of their imaginary rights, oe men
in action, men in character, men If .eeiihs,
men out-and- out, to convince s"orio they
are not women.
Such simple and foolist men as these,
+ TX much about s.wop,ns rights" ana
even 90 so far with tbsir folly as 10 write
s;cLiv AMI nuerile p,oductions for public
journals and sign me name OF some giri 10
Sn.b man. all women show their good
sense i. secrfely dispising, and in the Ian
cuape of ae poet, think as follows OF them:
.no -, ch of wit these loose their common sense,
,nsEen turn critics in their own defence;
,ia0ols have still an itching to deride,
nd fain would be upon the laughing side"
You will pardon me for wandering so far
from the text in my exordium, but it is only
following the example of modern preachers,
which, must confess, do not approve.
In the division Of the subject before US,
will proceed to consider, in the first place,
what is understood by the word heart In the
text. And FIRST, we do not mean, in using this
term in a moral sense, to be understood as
referring to that hollow muscle, composed
of masses of strong longitudinal fbres for
ming an irregular cone, which is situated
in the left side of the fore part Of the thorax,
resting upon the diaphragm. This is a
heart of desh, which beats and palpitates
violently when it is moved upon through the
medium of the nerves, by strong emotions
of the mind.
When you look out of the window and
are surprised by the sudden and unexpected
approach of some fine young man upon
whom center your fondest hopes and bright
est expectations OF a felicitous existence in
the future, how suddenly does your heart
leap within you, and, as you often say,
sstries to jump out of your mouth!'' After
this excitement subsidies q little, should he
inform you that changes have taken place
in his business affairs which render it ne
cessary that he should try his fortune some-
where else, and he has determined to visit
some foreign country, perhaps never to re-
turn, and he, therefore, has come to bid
you long, long farewell, how suddenly
does you heart sink and seemingly die with
in you, for it apparently has ceased to beat!
Such is the difference in the effect of hope
ouu otSappoihtnChe "a pou VIC huhAou AosAs
of flesh. There are intermediate degrees
between these two extremes, with which
you are familiar; and, therefore, need not
take up time in explaining or illustrating
them. To such an extent, through the me-
dium of the sympathetic nerves, 10 the heart
effected by the varied emotions of the mind,
that some unfortunate women, who gener-
ally are tortured by thousand imaginary
evils, actually bring upon themselves organ
ic diseases of this organ. Well would it be
for woman if these evils stopped here. But
the heart, the great repository of blood, is
connected with other oil gans of the body, q
healthy condition of whose seeretions is es-
sential to the health and happiness of her.
This connection is like that between the
brain and heart-symrathetic-b kept
up by the telegraphic wires of the body or
nerves. The brain, the heart, the stomach,
the hepatic and uterine organs sympathise
with each other more than any other organs
in the human system-so much 80 that there
cannot be an abrasion of the natural con-
dirion of any one of these organs without
some one or more of the others suffering
also. Let the brain be oyer-taxed by pow
erful emotions of the mind, to which girls