New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-22
DAILY CRESCENT.

VINO MAKE THE BEST WIVES ?-The follow
ing, from the Philadelphia Ledger, must COM
mend itself to general appreciation from the
tone of practical wisdom which pervadesit it:
BY all means marry q woman with money iSl |,
say careful fathers to their SONS; 4 you'll find
it dis easy as not to get suitable wife, who has
a little fortune g Give me beauty, grace and
accomplishments, is the mental answer OF en-
thusiastic youth, 9 and leave mercnery consi-
derations TO baser souls.
We submit that neither is right. It is in
fnitely more important that o young man
should choose healthy, amiahle aud intelli-
gent partner, than that he should select either
4 a beauty or an heiress. The latter has usually
expensive habits, and. by the time she has been
married twenty years, has cost her husband the
amount Of her fortune in superfuities. Besides,
heiresses are generally brought up in idleness,
spending their time in reading novels, louDging
\ about on the sofa, or acquiring taste for
fashionable dissipation 50 that they are either
absurdly romantic or out of health from want
Of exercise or from late hours, and, therefore,
entirely unfit 60 make good wives. Beauties,
on the other hand, mostly are vain or giddy, if
mot both. Hwises were designed for play things,
Of had no purpose beyond being parlor orna-
ments, q beauty might be desirable, just as
pictures are on fine furniture The man who
marries an heiress sacrifices his independence,
and ends by finding he is out of pocket also.
4 The lover who weds merely for beauty ties him
self to a doll, which has not even the merit Of
being sure to keep its painted cheeks.
Those women make the best wives who COM
bine common sense with good temper, who have
been brought up to help themselves, and who
bring sound constitutions, equahle spirits and
sincere affection, as o dowry to their lovers. A
wife should be her husbands best FRIENDSHIP
should be competent to counsel him in difficulties,
to cheer him in sorrow, to render his everyday
hearth the pleasantest spot to him to be found
every where If she has confirmed ill., health
she cannot be all this to him neither can she
If she has d crooked temper, or habits of indo-
lenee, or is deficient in practical sense. The
woman whose whole heart is devoted to show, to
company or to idle accomplishments, may pos
sibly make an interesting belle, but she is sure
to prove very Indifferent wife. We would not
have young girls neglect the beautiful entirely !;
but that which adorns should be made subser-
Went to some more solid superstructure. To
know how to play the last new air, yet be
ignorant how to compound the last new pudding,
is surely objectionable. A man might as we'll
neglect to learn business as woman refuse to
acquire knowledge of housekeeping.
1t is useless to disguise the fact that girls are
too often directed to attract lovers rather than
to retain the affection of husbands. This is
especially true of the daughters of families
above the necessity Of daily labor. Mrs F.,
the successful mechanics wife, makes virtual
slave Of herself, by drudging late and early, in
order that Anna Maria may be g brought up,
us she phrases it, .slike d lazy, The young
miss accordingly is crammed with music,
dancing, French and other fiddle Paddles, is
told always to carry her shoulders back, and
never to romp, and is taught to consider work
as degrading. What sort of wife can such
creature make If she marries any body but
q rich man her idle and expensive habits keep
him always poor. If she catches prize, which,
perhaps, one in a thousand may do, ten to one
she disgusts her husband. In another case she
is always out of health, the consequence of want
of exercise in girlhood, and, if she has offspring,
entails her weakness naturally on her progeny.
Physicians do not hesitate to say that large
proportion of female invalids of the present gem
eration-and their number is known to be
1egion-owe their complaints to the folly of
parents in neglecting to bring them up pro-
perry.
PISTOLS AND BOWIE KNIVES. During the re-
cent disturbances in this city. an immense nuns
Der Of these deadly weapons was sold Persons
who had never snapped pistol OF drawn a
bowie knife, armed themselves for protection,
for it was not known who would be attacked,
and men disposed to peace, and who had on all
occasions deprecated the carrying of concealed
weapons, found it necessary to procure s'six
shooter" The stock of pistols was very soon
entirely exhausted, particularly those carrying
more than one ball, and the sale of cutting in
struments was immense A dealer estimates
that two Thousand pistols and at least five hun
dred s Arkansas tooth picks p and bowie knives
were sold in forty eight hours time. Colts re-
yolvers were in great demand, and the price,
second handed, advanced fully fifty per cent.
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