The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-02-20
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Daughter, sister, wife, and Mother

Woman, in the nobler acceptaton of the
word, is indeed bright and beautiful creation.
Whether as daughter, sister, wife, or mother
she invites admiration. As daughter, she re-
fines the atmosphere Of household, checking
invisible, but chasteuing link between husband
and wife. Look att home in which there are
no daughters! Where is the music, the ring
ing laughter, tine sweet confidence, and the
sottening influences of virgin toilette, neatly
arranged hair, and the modest seclision, which
even The toughest boys during hoida. time
rigidy respects Depend upon it, daughters
are powerful element in civilization. They
tame the rough asperities of fathers, impose
restraint on the volubility Of angry wives.
and in matter.of course, instnctively under
stood kind of way, enforce the maintenance of
pure discipline and regularity, and decorum
shining by the domestic fiTeside. As a sister,
how supreme is her ghtest word, how potent
her authority over the most unruly, unlocked
cub Of brother9 And then look ut brother
in after life. who has enjoyed the blessings of
having had sister! How polished his de-
meanor-how gentle his courteses to the op
pesite sex! Habitual respect for his sister h
drilled him into legitimate appreciation Of al!
women. He neither disparageS, nor does he
suffer disparagement of women in his presence.
As lover he is manly for, having had a sis
ter to guard and cherish, his courtship is tinged
with a chvarous respect for the honor of the
lady to whose hand he aspires: Indeed, we
might almost indefinitely multiply instances of
the power a sister exercises over the future life
of brother; but will content ourselves with
the observation, that we have always found
greater conteltment, more genial temper,
larger amount of urbanity, polish, and talent
in families graced by daughters than in those
which had none.
But the influence Of daughter and sister life
-teeming though they be with all swcotliess
and gemteness-must yield iu value to that OF
a wife. Man is wreck without wife-a
mere peripatetic, feeding on thistles, and tread
ing on thorns. His daily existence is a walk
ing shadow of humanity. He scarcely is con,
scinnS uf the dignity Of his nature-his soul
is faIow; and the few scattered daises on its
surface only make him the more conscious of
his Sclfdesolalion. When held down III the
polypus embrace of his many passions, his on.
y consolation is fierce self ;dolatry, which in
time consumes all that is good and noble in
his disposition. Man owes an infinite deal to
marriage, and language is too feeble for the
eul lunv of i ,rita- SlA-. - L.------.
Society, the guardian angel. of every earthly
bliss, every earthly virtue and happiness. She
it is who makes the strong man doce, the
savage one tame, and the great one human.-
Where she is. there is paradise; where she
is not, there is n bowling desert. Her smile,
like the glow of early summers morn, gllds
everything around her with radiance that
quickcus all the eanoLling impulses, and lifts
human nature nearer and nearer to the immor-
tai source of its being. Nothing beneath the
stars is more lovely than marriage; aud, as
the purity and dignity Of marriage rests chiefly
with the wife, 10 her be all the honor and tie
glory. As the oldest living English poet has
finely expressed it: 8 She is light shining
within, when all without is dark" Aud if we
travel from the wife to tile mother, how glo.
ri"us, yet how touching, is the transition from
the devotion of the one to the selfdcnying
worShipping fervour of the other. The moth.
er is the next step in the ladder by which VIC
climb from earth to heaven. Her unselfish-
ness, watchfulness. and hope in her offspring,
urn rs bpaufIul rs solemn