The Trinity journal., 1856-11-29

YOU see the child drink in all that llattery
through eyes and ears ? 1t may be years
diStling, but it will come out at last, una
dulterated vanity. A child is not marble,
or wood it is not like The ScnSelcsS stone,
brt the ductile wax. Warm it 10y the
breath of undue praise, and YOU mag impress
it indclibly with your thoughtlc>S adulatiou.
But an it remains not wax, but with grow
ing years hardeuS and too often turns to adj
amant. Then the caution is vain your
lightest rcbukeS are sermons thcn-your
kind admonitionS listened to with angry eve
and flushing cheek Your beauty is too
vain to spoil her pretty fingers ana you
may drudge at your daily toll without pity
and without help We would not teach
child to undervalue beauty-we would say
friends to do the same. The example Of
that mother who cut off the rich curlS of
her darling because everybody said how
graceful and glossy they were, while the
little girl whose straight hair veXcd her, and
whose little eyes filled with tears at her sis
ter's tauuts that she hadn't got any pretty
curS, is to be warmly commended. She
was looking to the future Of that child, that
even the mere possession of curlS might
render miserable, because they subjected her
to the fascinating SeductOuS of ilattery
Few women, fond as the mother-loyc
makes the mother-hcart would deliberately
put Il veto on her chd's good looks for
that reason but rather foster and stimulate
the one redeeming beauty, that visitors might
find food for admiration, SO pleasing to the
maternal pride
And there are some weak mothers, We
fear weak in no other Spots, but blind to all
the failings Of the handsome pet Uucou-
sciouSly influenced 10y the bright, soft eyes,
and the bcwitchments of artcSs beauty, they
show more favor to her than to the less en-
dowcd with charms An affecting little
anccdote of homly but (Shc must have
been) sweet and loving child, went the
rounds Of the papers some time ago The
pretter child was called 'pet'-thc other,
the neglected. One day in the dimness Of
evening" 4 little hand and Il childish figure
came in contact with the mother.
is that YOU pet ? asked the yoice-low
and soft as music.
Sadly and slowly, with strange dcspoud-
oncy for chld's sweet voice came back the
answer No. ma, it isn't pet--it's oAiV t.
Only y We have wondered often if
that mother, with a sob OF anguish, did not
catch the poor plaintiyc little darling to her
heart, and never, never again let it lose IFS
wcl-carncd place there That answer would
have haunted us Ike the ghost Of some neg
lcctcd duty
Only ~ What depth Of humiliation
that little creature must have fathomcd, that
she had learned to least to estimate herself
as oHIV / ,
We once heard something of this fayort-
ISM II was very sad The speaker was a
swcct-faccd, intellectual girl, with settled
look of sorrow, making her face perhaps
even more interesting.
To this day she said, Il have never
been rid Of the impression that am too ugly
to be loved | used to hide when visitors
came, they tcascd me that was not as
beautiful as my sisters. My punishment
among my brothers was oh, You homcly
thing ! They made rhymes on my coarse
hair my large mouth, and, God forgive
them, my parents laughed at what they
called childish wit. Whether all these inn
prcs~onS made me really diSagrecable, or
their love was only 'Skln-deep,' as the say
ing is, do not know, but they almost ruined
me. Even now, when religion conyiuceS me
how foolish these brooding regrets always
are, and always will be, | cannot 90 with
ease in any company nor fancy | am toIcr-
ated, except out Of pity. | know am not
absolutely homely ly-indecd, my sisters fine
teeth are broken, and her bloom all gone ;
perhaps she does not look now even as well
as | DO But this harsh treatment has fixed
upon me a senstiyeneSS Of which am often
ashamed, but which cannot shake off 1t
makes my eyes like magniiyng glasses, and
diatorts my Imagination
BE careful, mothers, that We lay not those
things IN after years to your own conscieuces.
1t is IA dreadful mistake, which the wisdom
born of regret cannot rectfy. Praise not
the beautiful, nor neglect the plain but,
above all, iattcr not your children lest they
sting the hand that adorns their beauty.
SERVED HER RIGHr-A ady-or rather a
feminine in the garb Of a lady undertook
yesterday morning, for some wrong, real OF
imaginary, to amuse herself and the bystan
dcrs by applying IA cowhidc to the back o.
gentleman on Carondoet street The gcnt
took the matter rather quietly for some
time, to the astonishment Of the bystandcrs
After the feminine had exhausted her ir,
. and fully satisfied her belligerent propcnsi
ties, the victim Of the cowhde cooly tool
it from the hands Of his aSsaant, and by
deXterous trip turned her over his knee an,
gave her such castiga.ion with her owl
! weapon, that some time must clopse bclor
SHE can feel comfortable in .ockmg chair
Served her right, say We When a lady 81
, far unseXes herself as to play the bully oI
the street, she ought to be spanked, even
the operation has to be performed with sucl
plebean weapon as a cowhde--N D. Del
FASHIONABLE EXrREMEs.- During the frs
French Empire, the dresses Of the ladies wer
t remarkable for the lberality with which the
e admitted Of the display of natural adyanty