New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-31
LETTER FROM CLAlgE.


vi. LETTER FROM CLAIRE. . .t
@ ''rord, lord bqw this world given " lying " &F
Are the words merrie W III Shakespeare hath put into
the mouth of fat John Falstat Shakespeare was well
acqnaint with human nature and its manifold foibles
and, did he live in the present age, would most GER
tainly find ample employment for his wit and pen.
That present manner Of lifes but living lie, is
easily 1t needs but casting our eyes
Yer the varied scenes daily tlansaeting round US to
convince one. En- H. y III Ili8,sr$ 8
W. Human mature las been. more or less matter Of
study and amusement to me since can recoect. 4
sWhefi DUE young, travelling TWould draw apart from
my companions 70 read life as passed before me,
aud, as my eyes scanned the various pages Of that
mighty book what have they shown ne All fair
and pure or AL false glitteriag Neither the one
nor yet the other; We found no cloud With
out its fringe Of gold character SO debased but
what, upon search, we mi ght find some redeelning
point. Yet, still we find that the false, though fair
predominates In friendship, in love, in business, in
religion, there is much that like our made-1p bali
room bellies, will not bear close inspection
How often lin friendship, do We find the
real tie that binds it is tile base chain washed DER
with gold whose truth will be tested when the aqua
fortis adversely applied. Then beaming faces lose
their smiles; warm words, grow colo, gand we can.
plainly see that It's fortune not ourself that has
drawn the shallow crowd around us. How our self
esteem is pruned down by the test. Vanity, well
trimmed, not to grow again. We ss5i s
In love-. how often we have heard VOWS and pro
testations of pure and undying affection; That our
eyes brighter, our smile cheering and our-
self more pleasing and beautiful than anght else on
earth but let small pox pit us with It's loathsome
traces or accident defor graceful forn and how
soon, our wo1shippers fly from US to a newer and
brighter idol, and weare left alone to mourn our des
olation and sprinkle ashes head while despair
trains her funeral vines in our hearts, and which we
water with our tears. <& &55is @ .&.
| We daily renounce the yantes Of life and promise
reverence and submission to Divine Providence, and
yet eagerly seek after the worlds goods as though
life was promised for centuries and had not to
die shortly and leave all behind us, to be spent by q
hand as squandering as ours was grasping. Who will
drive so hard bargain as he who processes to follow
the footsteps Of the owy Saviour Of man? and whose
! express command to his followers is to g take no
| thought of tomorrow, for tomorrow ye may die II
who says keep neither house and silver nor gold.
! Yet methinks we will find money changers eyenin
4 the temple
In our social relations we will bow and smile, and
offer the hand of friendship, when it is to interest
to smother truefeeling, while we are chershng i'll
our heart hatred to the death. We marry old age and
decrepitude to youth and beauty, simply because ii is
backed by money bags, These little peceadillos are
but trHes, mayhap; butthink you God looks on them
as such? When we live with one we loatla and de-
test, are we not guilty of deep crime before Him
WIN pJarn a1c 01r
nothing perhaps for gossipng woman to enter your
house and spy out its nakedness and desolaton and
then out into tile world to whisper and slrng ho1
shoulder, and, by her betrayal of your confidence
make known your sorrow; it is nothing to,be q wo.
mans bosom friend and yet traduce her character
and It's nothing to tell your friends faults to Others
/ fear we are great hypocrtes in one thing and
that is, in our strong democracy, while we rear oul
children to look down upon mechanic as something
low, while being educated for professional char
acters themselves. We teach them too often tc
think it condescension to. take the laborcr or me
cfanic by the hand and treat an equal They are
not men of education they are not men of refine
ment, sensitive in their feelings and heightened in
their principles! 0hno. They arc simply those Wlc
their bread by the sweat of their brow as then
Maker commanded them, and why should gentlemen
notice them save as interiors?
And is it nothing to act harshly and unkndly al
home making it place Of torment instead Of place
of peace and rest2 While before our acquaintance
none would think butter would melt in our mouths
as the old saying goes-we are so pliable and mild
Is it nothing to forget old friends who have hefriend
ed us time and again, for new acquaintance who ar
= perhaps grand? Is it nothing to grind the fac
! of the poor, defrauding the poor man woman VIII
lahors for our comfort, of their hard earned none
and of their time for how many of us can lay gu
hands upon our hearts and say we are not guilty Q
making the char woman, the mechanic and til
seamstress to call again and aganfor the money du
them for work? We rob them of their time by doin
So and time with them is valuable.
Is it nothing to teach our children, as have know
j, it done, to take what is best among a quantity {
things, when perhaps we have some faded thing
little value which we leave for the owner of the art
Gle we appropriate to take? It's nothing perhaps
say to our Children now if you are good, you sha
have everything you want, and if you are naught,
l. Grim Bloody Bones will carry you off-a sure wa.
perhaps to inculcatc truth in your chldrens mind
:, for they likely to find either both promises tr
# Now don't pretend to say these things are at a
i common in life; lin fact feel assured we will fin
a many families where truth and love are constal
Il house gods) Yet must say, we will find them if "
n search.
I infct you this week with this long letter, Gre
h cent, because seemed last week to find fav
e in your sight, though you did not herald my adve
1. with many compliments. However, as l am pla
J. woman did not take offence but write you hopiI
n have not bored You by my dulness, and now clos
IL wishing you
= Well an a good day, CLAIRE
e aETTER FROM GRESCEMEA.
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