Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
COMMUNICATED.
Deposit. June 1855.

Nelllng the private lie OF the lhhaoltailtS "a
this goodly town? If so, ] must comply
yet while a skillful hand might make the
picture beautiful and interesting one, I find
the task more difficult than imagined
! Not that there are no striking characteristics
observable to me- but that there is such a
labyrinth Of peculiarities, | ain puzzled to
find clue. 1 believe many Of the sterner
sex consider ladies all Ariadnes capable of
penetrating the winding ways of mans capa-
cious heart, and threading all its intracacies.
Yet skillful as we are considered, must ac-
knowledge that in all my experience in hearts
(and believe have had some) men are still
to me a mystery, and although | have discov-
cred many treasures, there are recesses l never
could penetrate. A heart was once placed
before me for study, but in my simplicity
could not unravel it, until was plainly in
formed that in its sanctum sanctorum, riRe
was the image enshrined. / was content to
enter the sanctuary, and be placed upon the
golden altar. That heart has since been my
| ", L
but my skill has never led me farther. Per-
haps tits best my woman's curiosity has never
been gratifed, for il might prove what the
fruit of the tree Of knowledge was to Mother
Eve, or, perhaps, Pandora's Box-followed
BY its train of evils. But laying aside gen.
tlemen's hearts we will return to our subject.
This has been Justly styled "the land of
steady habits" Time here seems but piece
of mechanism, which all know how to regu-
late and control, for everything moves on
with the regularity of clock-work. OF course
fashion has made some innovations, and in
tercourse with Others changed the original
customs of the people. In such | can detect
no peculiarities; yet many stand out as
prominent monuments of by-gOne days,
impenetrable fortresses, invulnerable to the
changes of time and progress. Allow me TO
introduce you to the reception room of such,
where social visitors are ushered. In several
corners you will perceive wooden rocking
chairs, nicely cushioned with chintz, and re-
minding one of the primative days of our
Grandmothers. Lounges of the same precise
covering, evidently intended for comfort, but
probably made before the days of spinal
disease, neuralges. etc. Mirrors with antique
, frames of mahogany and gliding, ornamented
with rude attempts at drawing, and sur
mounted with stiff-looking gilded boquet
and several tables complete the furniture o
the room. Drawing rooms serve the tripl.
purpose of parlor, cabinet and library.
The tall mantles are filed with specimens
of minerology, ornitholegy, and conchology
and numerous little stands are laden with al
kinds of curiosities, from bugs and spiders
to toys and china. Center-tables, with sweep
ing drapery, hold the old-fashioped bronzed
astral-lamp, and library consisting of HANNAH
Moores Repository Tracts, Pilgrims Progress
} Life of Faith, etc. High-backe sophas anC
straight chairs invite guests to erect sociao;l
, ity. and cadaverous looking family portraits
(always holding a book. and a few speci
mems of fruit and flower paintings form th'
; ornaments Chambers consist of a pyramiC
of feather beds in one corner, toilet-stands o
f snowy linen covering, stiff looking glasses
D and puritanical bureaus. Long roomy dinin:
halls and kitchens rivaling the drawing
q room in neatness, where stove and zinc ar
4 polished to the highest degree. and tins hav
ing the same dazzling lustre. Pots and ket
ties are required to be scrubbed until tho
will not soil cambria handkerchief, and Ia
= bles, benches, and floors as clean as tn
whitewashed walls. Indeed, were life-tim
spent here, fear we could not get our essen
tial peck of dirt. But above all, would yo
be delighted with an introduction to the Gel
q lar and pantry, where are pounds Of butte
"a whose solid golden appearance would max
:, our Hoosier product look shade Or tw
> pickles by the barrel, lies by the score, cak'
:, by the bushel, and all things else in propo
- ton. Beautiful moulds of samp, Ga mediul
: between our mush and hominy,) and with
:. sauce of good rich milk, form our Sabbat
"a day lunch. On this day they have thr'
"a services in immediate succession-two Sc
os mons and Sabbath school, and most consid
% it necessary to attend them all, and MAJ
>, old ladies seem to deem it quite as necessa
to devotion to doze and nod during both Sc
mons. Such ia their life. In the mornil
:; early, wives commence their household d
&c ties, and husbands go about their busine
a.. and, save time enough to take their mea
= drudge on until night, and at 8 O'Clock l
ho tire in order to be up at in the mornir
:. The great ambition of the ladies is to lecor
good house-keepers, and home and church 9
,.r the limits of their ideas temporal and spir
-, ual. I am happy to say that most of 4
o.. friends are numbered among the Innovato
,or and while we love home privileges a
church duties, we seek, both in doors a
out, amusements innocent and conducive
co. health and happiness. Trout fishing f
lly nishes the gentlemen a continual feast; a
ar when there are no pic-nics and other anu
he ments, we ride miles out of the village a
elf snuff the exhilerating breeze of the mot
rti tain, covered with verdure, laden with p
= fums, and redolent with music; or wan,
[iss along the river side and find instruction
ing the texture of leaf, the formation OF
ing flower, the meanderings of a stream,
of murmuring of waterfall, the shadow o
by cloud, or even in the sports of the fin
ms. tribes as they play in the beds of the CT
vas tai streams. Aye, who. that has read fir
the ever open book of nature, can thr
aside the volume and not say there are
ate mon. in .tona. boots in ,,nn;,, broo
,bo tongues in trees, and good in every thing.
ort- MARY
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