The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-18
Z. Bath.

While DER her bosom's natchess swell, in many
snowy fold, [go
Her raven hair luxurious fell from meath its band
Naomi heard, with aching heart, her sweet and bire
like song, along
As through the groves of waving palms she move
She watched her she stpoped to drink from out tn
laughing rills, [ple hill
She watched her till she disappeared among the pun
At last she reached the rsaper's field, and laid he
down to rest Tsnowy ves
While closer round her trembling form, she drew he
And plucking from its stein flower, she hid IN he
hair, Test maiden there
Then rose and plucked thu scattered grain, the fan
The reapers turned them fund to see, as if some
gel form mer morn
Had come among them THERE to CLEAN upon that sum
The reaper of the field dreF nigh, and gently klsse
her brow, art thou!
And said, "sweet CLEANER if the field oh tell me VIII
crimson blush but not Of shame suffused her love
ly face, e." Trace
AS with faltering voice she told the story Of he
He listened with an eager ear, he heard her praye
for aid, maid
And filed with golden earl of the bosom of thu
The year rolled on, and OR the hills the summe
again, golden plain
And she who once in harvest time had CLEANED the
Leant the bosom Of lo i, and blessed the happy
morn [yellow corn
When she went out, with nsrry heart, to CLEAN the
DR.. G. M. Fitch, speaking of the hereditary
causes of consumption, remarks: 81 believe
it to be utterly Impossible to find perfectly
healthy child born of d., licate sickly parents.
The unsound constitution pf the PARENTS usual
ly transmitted with Increased intensity to the
offspring and no characte{ of morbid predlspo-
sition to pulmonary consumption. When we
consider the influence thai the mothers health
must exert on the health of her children, it Is
strange that SO little attention should be paid to
the physical education OF girls. Why is she
to be cooped up within dopr, confined patch
work and nursing her doll; and taught to con-
siderit quite unladylike toimoye faster than the
dignifed gait of some animated dowager L
say, turn your girls out o.! doors, let them play
at ball, and tindle the hoop, and shout as much
as they please, they will pc finer ladies for it
at thirty, even if not q|lite so graceful at
fifteen. By the laws of L1eurgus, the wise and
immortal lawgiver of thu Spartan republic,
the most special attention t7as paid to the ply
steal education of women, and no delicate or
sick y women, on any account were allowed to
marry. Surprising provision like this would
be carried into effect here!} What an army OF
unmarried ladies we shoai i'd soon see! If a
young man wants to CHOOSE a wife, let him IN
vite the lady he has in vies, to take walk,
long one, and when he coraes back, if he finds
his companion obliged to 60 to bed with the
headache, let him look somewhere else for a
wife, unless he is fond Of pa wing doctors bills.
Speaking of earl y marriages, the doctor re-
marked:
this country very few, ladies are fit either
physically or mentally to become mothers be-
fore they reach the age of twenty one, twenty
two, or twenty three, but 81; precoclous are our
young ladies, that if they happen to pass TWEEN
ty without having made definite arrangements,
they begin to consider the |nselves old maids,
and before school girl is fairly out of her short
dresses and pantalcttes, she is beginning to look
up beau
"Among the ancient Ge#mans, than whom
finer race physically, perhaps never existed,
it was death for any woman to marry before
she was twenty, and were this law to be enact ;
ed and vigorously enforced among us, the
amount of suffering, the actual amount of hui
man life that would be save thereby, is past
all computation. = p
The Knickerbocker gives Il he following as an +
effecual method of siencing punsters and sto /,
ry-tellers when they become annoying:
A punster, during dinner, is most incon-
yenient animal He should| therefore be i'm
mediately discomftted Tho art of discomht-
ing a punster is this: Pretend to be deaf; and
after he has committed his PIN, and just be- {
fore he expects peopleto laugh at it. beg his $
pardon and request him to repeat it again. =
After you have made him do this three times, :
say: 'sOh! that is a pun b:lieve.' never +,
knew punster to venture a third exhibition b
under similar treatment. 1t requires little i
nicely, to make him repeat i in proper time. :,
If well done, the company laugh at the pun
ster and then he is ruined forever. !,
A storv-teller is so often almighty pleasant u
fellow that ii may be deemed i difficult matter ~
TO decide whether he ought to be stopped or .
not In case, however, that it be required, +
far the best way of doing it IL this: After he y
has discharged his first tale, say across, tosome
confederate, for this method requires confed- $
crates, like some jugglers' tricks, J "Number a
one" AS soon as he has told a second, in f
like manner say, Number two" Perhaps be
may perceive it, and if SO, he stops if not, the
very moment his third story is told, laugh out u
quite loud and cry to your friend, II trouble u
you for that sovereign. You see was right IL
when bet that lie would tell these three sto- u
ries exactly in that order, in the first twenty IL
minutes after his arrival in the room" De- " "
pend on it, be is mum after that u
Love is as necessary to a Vi oman's heart as -
a fashionable bonnet to her head Indeed, we O.
think rather more So for nothing less than a d
large measure of love can content her, whereas v:
the recent fashion has shown that she can be 81
satisfied with very little bonhe u u
Sam-Yo QUILL get it for hooking dat turkey II II
last night Massa knows it. Il
Pompey-I didn't hookit. Warn't the tur- -
key massa's? Well, amt [ Enassa's? Well, "
amt the turkey part of me? N assa amt got so
much turkey, but he got moro niger. tell P
you de turkey only change places. u
A learned Judge, after heal ing aorid dis ..
sourse from an ambitious Young lawyer, ad- d
sised him to pluck out some, of the feathers a
from the wings of his Imagination, and put 4 4
hem into the tail of his Judgment y y
Il thought you told me that Franks fever L.
had gone off, said person ole day to Pat IL
lander. Eyes, by jabers!" sa; Il Paddy, "and a
sure he's gone off with it, too. a
Here is an account Of a little census scene II
which came off in Even street, between the II
marshal and gentleman front Germany:
Who lives here?' o