Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-30
Who Makes the Best Wives 2


wife who has a little fortune" "Give M
beauty grace and accomplishment" is thu
mental answer of enthusiastic. "and leave
uercenary considerations to baser souls.D
The Philadelphia Ledger says, that nethe
is right. It is infinitely more importan
that young man should choose healthy
amiabie and intelligent partner, than tina
he should select either beauty or ar
heiress The latter has usually expensive
habits, and; by the time she has been mar
red twenty years, has cost her husband the
amount of her fortune in snperfuties. Be
sides, heiresses are generally brought up in
idleness, spending their time in reading
novels lounging about on the sofa, or ac'
curing taste for fashionable dissipation
so that they are either absurdly romantic, OF
on, of health from want of exercise or from
late hours, and therefore entirely unfit ia
make good wives. Beauties, on the other
hand, mostly are vain or giddy, if not both
If wives were designed for playthings, OF
had no purpose beyond being parlor orna.
menls, a beauty might be desirable, just as
pictures are, or fine furniture. The man
who marries an heiress sacrifices his indie.
pendence, and ends by finding he is out o.
pocket also. The lover who WEEDS merely
for beauty, ties himself TO doll, which has
not even the merit of being sure to keep its
painted cheeks.
Those women make the best wives who
combine sense with good temper, who have
been brought up to help themselves, and
who bring sound constitutions, equable
spirits. and sincere affection. as dowry to
their lovers. A wife should be her hus-
bands best frend-she should be competent
to counsel him in difficulties 10 cheer him
in sorrow, to render his every day hearth
the pIeasantest spot 10 him TO be found any
where. If she has confirmed i'll health, she
cannot be all this to him; neither can she if
she has crooked temper, or habits Of in
dolence, or is deficient in practical sense.
The woman whose whole heart is devoted
TO show, TO company, or to idle accomplish
ments, may possibly make an interesting
belle, but she is sure to prove very indlf-
ferent wife. We would not have young girls
neglect the beautiful entirely; but that
which adorns should be made subservient 10
some more solid superstruciure. 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 well
neglect 10 learn business, as woman
refuse 10 acquire knowledge of house.
keeping.
Ii is useless to diguise the fact that girls
are too often directed to attract lovers rather
than to retain the affection Of a husband.
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 b drought up" as she phrases it,
" like a lady" The young miss, according
ly. is crhmmed with music, dancing, French,
and other fddle-faddles, 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 a creature
make! If she marries anybody but rich
man, her idle and expensive habits keep
him always poor. II she catches prize,
which. perhaps, one in thousand may do,
ten to one she soon 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 weak
ness naturally on her progeny. Physicians
do not hesitate 10 say that large proportion
Of female invalids Of the present generation
and their number is known 10 be legion
owe theie complaints to the folly of parents
in neg'ecting to bring them up properly.
HOME! GA pleasant journey to you; re-
member me to those at homew
So spd Ike young man in our hearing to a
friend who was about to visit his native
town. AS he turned away, we could per-
ceive tn b workings ofthe remembrance Of
home, and the enjoyment of early life, rising
up in his memory, and in rapid and brilliant
panorama, passing before his recollection.
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whose images were entwined the earliest,
fondest memories Did they not rise before
him with their silver locks waving in the
wind as he saw them watching his last
departure? That sister-the earliest play
mate Of his childhood and the dearest and
nearest friend Of his boyhood-was mol her
bright bot fearful face before him like rose
washed in dew? Home IN
How swift the mind flew from the dusty,
noisy, busy streets, back to the shadowing |
brook bub billing through the green meadows /
to the lowing Of the distant cows in the
sunny morning as they moved lazily along |
lering Of the martins in the box which he |
had made himself for them BY his chamber
all those images Of country |
bOuIO WutCu A0 Adu III Oil iSS |
health and inauguration. for the contact of
he fevery city, the life struggle which can
only be terminated by the grave. Re-
member me to those at home ~ Did he think
hen ofthat blushing face, and that sweet
voice, pouring fourth that gush of rich m usic.
n the little gallery of the humble church,
y Of those moonlight walks by the silver
treamlet when young love first beat? was
The included in this memory of blessednesst
Young man! cherish these memories, if
,ou would escape the communications around
,ou. Let the feeling. remember me to
hose at home :" come into your heart, when
smpted to JOIN the drunken orgies Of the mid
ight reuel. Let your conduct be SO blame
ess and so useful that you can never feel
'our cheek Jingle with the shame that
would prevent you from saying, remember
ne to those al home!"-Hereford Cour.
TEEToTALIsM AND MusIc-Some chaps in
(says the Washington Sentine1
ast Saturday night, placed themselves I'M
er the window of a young lady for the pur-
ose Of serenade. After listening to their
xcruciating strains for while, the lady
brew up the sash, and, in a suppressed
'ne, informed the serenaaers that she could
Omit them through the front door, but invi-
Cd them TO present themselves at certain