New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-17
Some words About woman.

do not mean to tell you that there are NO
women in the world vulgar and ill-humored,
rancorous and narrow-minded, mean schemers,
son-in-law hunters, slaves Of fashion, hypo-
critics; but d. respect, admire, and almost
worship good women; and l think there 10
very fair number of such to be found in this
world, and have no doubt in every educated
Englishman's circle of society, whether he finds
that circle in palaces in Belgravia and May
Fair, in snug little suburban villas, in an
cient, comfortable old Bloomsbury, or in
back parlors behind the shop. 1t has been my
fortune to meet with excellent ladies in every
one Of these places-wives graceful and affec-
tionate, matrons tender and good, daughters
happy and pure-minded, and ! urge the society
of such to you, because DEFY you to think evil
in their company. Walk into the drawing
room of Lady T., that great lady; look at her
charming face and hear her voice. She is one
of those fortunate beings on whom it has pleased
heaven to bestow all sorts of its most precious
gifts and richest worldly favors. With what
grace she receives you; with what frank kind
ness and natural sweetness and dignity! Her
looks, her motions, her words, her thoughts, all
seem to be beautiful and harmonious quite. See
her with her children, what woman can be more
simple and loving'
After you have talked to her for while, you
very likely find that she is ten times as well
read as you are she has hundred accom-
plishments which she is not in the least anxious
to show off, and makes no more account of them
than of her diamonds, or of the splendor round
about her--to all of which she is born, and has
n happy, admirable claim of nature and possess
sion-admirable and happy for her and for us
| too; for is it not happiness for us to admire
her,
Now transport yourself in spirit, my good
Bob, into another drawing room. There sits an
old lady Of more than four-score years, serene
and kind, and as beautiful in her age now, a.
| in her youth, when history toasted her. What
| has she not seen and is she not ready to tell ].
All the fame and wit, all the rank and beauty
of more than half century have passed
through those rooms where you now have the
honor Of making your best bow. She Is as SIM
pie now as if she never had any flattery to daz-
zle her she is never tired of being pleased and
being kind. Can that have been anything but
| good life which. after eighty years Of it arc
| spent, is SO calm. Could she look to the end Of
it SO cheerfuly, if its long course had not been
sure! Respect her, l say, for being so happy,
now that she is 60 old. We do not know what
goodness and charity, what affections, what tri-
ais may have gone to make that charming
sweetness of temper and complete that perfect
manner But if we do not admire and rever-
ence such an old age as that, and get good from
contemplating it, what are We to respect and
admirei
Or shall we walk through the shop and see
Mrs. N playing with the child in the back par
lor until NJ shall come to tea They drink tea
at FIVE o'clock. and are actually as well bred as
those gentle-folks who dine three hours later.
Or will you please step into Mrs. $ lodgings.
who is waiting, and at work, until her husband
comes home from Chambers She bushes and
puts away the work on hearing the knock, but
when she sees who the visitor is, she takes il
with smile from behind the sofa cushion, and
behold it is one of Us waistcoats on which she
is sewing buttons.
She might have been a countess, blazing il
diamonds, had fate SO willed it, and the higher
her station, the more she would have adorned it
But she looks as charming while plying her nee
die, as the great lady in the palace, who's
equal she is-in beauty, in goodness, in high
bred grace and simplicity-at least can't fame,
, her better, or any Peeress being more than her
! peer.
1t is with these sort of people, my deal
Bob, that recommend you to consort, II yot
can be SO lucky as to meet with their society
[Thackeray.