New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-15
idea OF man Who would have thought, -
the way, that the sleepy old fellow was 80 full ef

sfesstuua ehl 8Ood t9ete isealIy, ne does not
seem TO have teeussch drowsy character after
all and now go where he IS, perhaps he win be
| iyIng down, aud perchance you viii think he is
again sleep; but let me tell you be knows very
we'll all that is going On in the great family
household, and how each child is getting on in
the families that are Of no kin to him and inst
whisper % him that you think there are thieves
and enemies proving around the old homestead,
and he win tell Won that he knows IL, and Won
will see him On his feet in an instant; and when
he Is wanted, there he win be, rifle in kand,
with mans heart and mans strength TO do
all mans duty; and when he has done il, he
will, perhaps, quietly Lie down again; and
whether he is too sleepy, OF whether he is too
modest | cannot say-but 90 it Is, that after be
has done all that a man shsull do, he win be
very sare, unless Obliged % speak, to say little
or nothing about it. This is Rip Van Winkle.
| ! hope you Ike him.
DER WIVES AEB Daughters I'm childhood
ana YOUTH q ris arg % healthy, hardy and o.
pable of enaaElns fatigue as boys, for the very
eooa reason thaeBatzzre, reEafding ID equally as
necessary 10 give them COED constitutions, has
hnaiy done 50 and bscsuse they run and romp
in the open air, and thus obey the psomptines
Of uusopisticated nature. Yet our ssen are
much more healthy than women, or even young
ladies Take the families Of merchants ss4
business Inen--not the purse proud nabob ON ths
one hand, nor the hardy deliver on the 0ther--
and Row stands the matter The men are
active IN fus fioas, accustomed to great degree
of bodily exertion; they are busy with bales
and boxes among draymen and perters; they
are driving about the Wharyes and streets
sll day, their minds and bodies fully efn-
ployed, and % home witt keen and well-e
appetite; while their wives and daughters,
standing, of couT SC, on the same platform of re-
spsetlh5iity az themselves, have DRAGGED
through the wSarisone hours Of the day in LIST
1less dieness 5rxsf fentary pursuits, and approach
the tao1e with IN appetite that almost spurns
the repast which other hands have prepared,
and fill their anxious husbands' or fathers ears
with complaints Of thousand ills, which, per-
haps, nothing but q summer at the springs or
, watering places can assuage. Poor creatures,
they have not been properly educated. Fashion
would pout its centemptu0us lips, and toss its
brainless head at the idea Of useful toll for the
: wife and daughters Of a wealthy merchant But
that same tickle goddess has no objection to the
father and son going into the store and laboring
all day, rolling barrels, packing and unpacking
goods, which, for them, is all very well; but she
denies to the daughter any part in household
/; affairs, because it IS vulgar and disreputable,
and consigns her to the practice Of music, draw
ing worsted and lace work What matters it
if the sop's hand be hard, his chest and muscles
e braw why, his face bronzed by the sun and wind,
!, anil with these, firm health; but the daughters
must be slim, fragile, pale and delicate, with
. soft, white hands, 10 be worthy to rank with the
sons Of merchants, who are every day employed
jlst like her brother, with like results. Par
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