Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-05-31
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A HINT ESQ LIFE.-Your father would
not have punished you, my child, if Won
had not used profane language and swore.
We'll, father swears.'
Il know he has been in the habit of il.
but he leaves off now
lisa pity he hadn't done it before he
taught Bill and me to swear, and then we
should have been saved many darn'd lick
ms
PUNoENT REroRr.-Said once a purse
proud rich man, just getting into his c%arriaro,
with hts wife and daughters Haunting in vel
vet and turs, to a poor laborer, who was
shoyeIing Goa. into his vault: Joe. if Won
had not dIiuked rum, YOU might now have
oeen riding in INV carriage, for nothing else
could have prevented man with your tai
ent' and education, and opportunities, from
making money True enough ? was the
indignant reply ofthe poor man, 'and if Won
had not sold rum and tempted me and ot1.
ers to drink and become drunkards. Won
might now have been my driver, for rum
selling was the only business by which YOU
ever made a dollar in your life
HAzEL-EYED GIRLs.-Maior Noah saws
that a hazel eye inspires at first a )platonic
sentiment, which gradually, but surely. RI
pens into love as securely founded as the
rock OF Gibraltar. A woman with a hazel
eye never slopes from her husband, never
chats scandal, never sacrifices her husbands
comfort to herown, never finds fault, never
talks too much or too little, always is an
entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and
lovely creature. We never knew but one
undressing and unamiable woman with
a hazel eye, aud she had a nose which look
ed, as the Yankee says, like the little end
OF nothing whitfield down to a point.
ADvERsITY.-Man is like n snow. hall
Leave him lying in idleness against the
sunny fence Of prosperity, and all the good
that Is in him melts like fresh butter in
warm days; but kick him round. and he
gathers strength with every revolution, un-
til he grows into an avalanche. To make
a hgnre IN the world, you must keeping
moving.
FEMALE HEART.-lho female heart is a
singular organ. AT a lecture a short time
since, DR.. Holmes said he was not one Of
those who believe in the equality oftbe sexes.
he thought there are many things a woman
can do a thousand fold better than n man
She understands her own sex as a man can
never do. Il doubt, said he, whether. in
the most perfect union that ever existed be-
tween man and woman, there was not y
spare chamber in the female heart to take in
another female ledger. Thus constituted.
woman wOs higher, according to the heraIdry
OF nature-a most wonderfIl and complex
creature.
ASKING AN IMPossIBuITY.-Tt 10 said
that a a subject Of the King of Prussia. .
talented mechanic, being about to eni.
CRATE was arrested and brought before his
majesty. Well my good friend saidthe
hlng, how can | persuade you'tc remain in
fr9ssia Most gracious sire, only bv
making Prussia what America is He was
allowed to emigrate.
When you see a young lady so very deli
cate that she can't make her bed, or put a
couple OF plates on the table, and vet she
trots all over town daily with the speed Of a
raee'horse, to tumble nonsense with the
oottpates, and Shippers, and Duzenberries,
just chalk 1t down that she's a piece of cal.
ico you cant invest a single penny or pulso-
ton in. A girl who hasn't the muscle to
l!t three feathers and q pillowcase, but can
ure a locomotive and a whole omnibus line
out OF breath, is an institution that. like
prrusIe acid and old maids, is to be kept clear
OF Young men will please button up the
fact in their memory.
a TRUE REMARK.-A witness in a re.
cent gambling case said, in reply to a ques-
lion by the court, Il do not consider liauor
as an article Of value There was a laugh.
upon which he added and for this Tea.
son, l never knew any person become rich
ny consuming it, There was much for r.
lection in the words.
Somebody advertises for agents to sell =
work entitled 'Hymeneal Instructor,
contemporary adds, the best hymeneal in
structor We know is a young widow
What she don't know there is no use learn.
ing
Snooks declares that the best SEWING.
machine in the world IS one about seven
teen years old, hat wears CATER boots and