Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-22
THE HOME JOURNAL.

The first number of the Home Journals new year,
is jewel of paper. Morris & Willis and Aid
rich are its editors now, and, with long list Of
the ablest co-adjutors, cannot but make charm
ing weekly Of it. Mr.. Aldrich commences prose-
pocm-"Madge, or the Roscof Glen Lodge" VIII
lis resumes his strawberry-favored Letters for
Invalids;" the General has sweet poem to "My
Absent Daughters" and there are, besides, real
budget of attractions all good enough to be men
toned. We shall take one or two
In paper written by Horace Binney Wallace,
in his early days, sketching the career of Miss
Bedford, of Philadelphia woman so peerless
that she could not and did not find mate in life
occurs the following passage replete with q
truth - .-. ~
s"One evening at ball at Mrs. B.s-one of the
most magnificent of the season-fatigued with the
crowd and hustle Of the dancing-rooms, strolled
into an adjoining apartment, where found Miss
Bedford sitting quite alone, gazing on the quad.
rifles with something of that gentle melancholy
which so naturally rises in the breast of one who
pauses in scene of gayety, to become specta-
tor. drew chair, and seated myself beside her.
'"My cousin" said for such was the language
in which she permitted me usually to address her
IL have admired finer women upon that floor
than any whom see there now."' ~
"''My cousin, you are good, was her reply, ap-
proprating the compliment, of course, as had in
tended she should do; "but there is not one Of
those young ladies whom l am not now looking mp
on with an envy deeper and more real than
would confess: not because they are receiving,
what, for me, has passed away forever, in the
heartfelt homage of admirers-.for l have had
moro of that than could ever enjoy, and know it
to be, Of oil our vanities the rainest; not, say
because they are fitted to receive so much admi-
ration, but because their nature and capacities Of
soul and mind 10 not fit them to receive or aspire
to more. / envy them their want of that fatal su-
periority and pre-eminencc which is mingled with
an inseparable curse, upon those individuals who
too lofty for the destiny of their sex or race
| My kind, devoted aunt had she been wise in her
goodness, would have known that the lofty pin
nacle of pride to which her care so fondly raised
me, was no platform on which womans happi-
ness could be made to rest-that to be high is to
be unhappy, and that splendor of gifts make
tended the accomplishment she lavshed on me,
was Vanity-which punished all the rest, and
made moment work out of the remorse of years.
re is not good for man to live too proudly, much
less for woman. But mans nature is different:
he can sustain himself on pride-on hate-on mis-
cry; but woman's joys lie only in the affections,
aud the sanctuary of her peace is reached only
through an humble portal"
Then, here's paragraph from another article
not bad conceit about 'icebergs and wdows:"-
"Therc was widow at our watering place.
widow Of two summers and one winter-who was
just beginning to thaw out There is no Arctic
Sea in the bosom of n widow of twenty-five to keep
the iceberg of grief floating there for very long
time. 1t may crush. and ruin, and wreck, per-
haps: but it won't keep. To be sure, to carry out
the image, there is below than above the sur
fnce-morc that is hidden than what meets the
eye; but when the upper ice mclts, it is very diff
cult to tell what becomes of the ice below. This
is one of the curious phenomena peculiar to ice
bergs and widows"