The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-03-20


q sketch Of nay house to particular friend
at distance, and you shall come up to-mor-
row aud make one ! reWcmher that heauti-
lul cottage among your sketches and should
prize q sketch Of my own, even half as well
done very highly The poor girl was blush
Ing ngain, and rom the troubled oounlananees
Of her paTenls, / saw that they had begun in
, f1HttpGYf 10 comprehend the skoilawness--
! the absolute worthlessness-of the accom-
plisbments that had cost them 20 much
GcorRilUa acknowledged that she had never
skelched from nature that her teacher had
never required il Of her, and that she had no
confidence that she could sketch NO simple
an object as my house, The Greens took
an carly leave. and | regret 10 say cool one
They were moriided;and there was not good
sense enough in the gir to make nn impro, O.
mcnt Of tho hints had given her
The Green family 'csded upon a street
that always took on my way TO the post.,f.
fee, and there Wis rarely pleasant evening
that did not show their parlor alight, und with
company within, heard the same old yari.
ations Of u Dolce CoHccafo evening after
evening. The Battle Of Prague was fought
over and over again. The portfolio Of draw.
iugs, (such of them as had not been cxpcn-
siycly framcdJ was exhibited, doubt not, To
admiring friends, until they we're suilcd with
thumbing. Al last Gcorgiana was engaged,
and then she was marricd-mprricd to avery
good fellow, too, lie loved music, lo,cd paint.
ing, and loved his wife. Two years passed
away and determined to ascertain how the
pair got along. She was the mother Of fine
boy, whom knew she would be glad TO have
me see. called, was treated cordially, and
saw the identical Old portfolio, on the identi
cal old piano. ! asked the favor of tune
The husband, with sigh, informed mo that
Gcorgiana had dropped her music. looked
about the walls, and saw the eruyon samuel
and the awful shipwrcck in India ink, Alas
the echoes Of the Battle of Prague that came
back over the field Of memory, aud these fad
ing mementoes around me were all that rc.
NAMED OF the accomplishments Of the late
Miss Gcorgjana Aurelia Atkins Green!
Now, young women, | think sou will not
need any assurance from me that / have drawn
a genuine portrait, FOR which any number of
your acquaintance may have played the orig
iual. What do YOU think of accomplishments
like thcsc' How much do they amount 10
My opinion of them il that they are the
shabbicst Of all things that can be associated
with aw0mIU'S iifo and history. ihavo told ?
YOU this story ia order to show YOU the inn
portancc Of Incorporating your accomplish.
mcnts with your very life II is comparative
N an easy task TO learn a few tunes hy rotc
to get up with the assistance Of a teacher a
few drawings,to go through with few French
exercises, but It is not so easy to learn the
F'TJf=ft fftiJi ~ fT7JiJfi ti7T Ti77fiJfTi
proc,icc necessary TO make the science avail
able under all circumstances. 1t is not easy
10 sketch with facility from nature 1t isnot
Easy to comprehend III" genius Of the French
language, and so TO fnmihnrizc yourself with
1 that it shall ever remain an open language
% YOU, and give YOU a key to new litcra.
ure' true accomplishment is won only by
lord work; hut when it b won. it is part
u yea, which r1uthIug- but your own neglect
on you a secret Multitudes of married men
re led TO seek the society of other women,
n go out among their own fellows, and often
nto bad habits because they have drank ey-
'ry sweet of life which their wives can give
hem. They have heard all their tunes, seen
IL their efforts at art, sounded their minds,
nd measured every charm, and they see ,
hat hepeeforth there is nothing in the So
iety of their wives but insipidity. They mar 4,
led women Of accomplishments, but they see !
ever new development, no Improvement. =,
'hciF wives can do absolutely nothing. The :
hell is brokers' the egg is eaten.
The first accomplishment that would urge q,
pom You is that of using the English Ian :
uage with correctness, elegance and fncility. -
here are comparatively few young women =
ho can write a gou&mote. know of hard .
one who can punotuatc NJ sentences prop p
rE. beg of you,ncve to write affection :,
ith single I, or friendship without an in .
le first syllable. Such slips destroy the %
ords, and the sentiments they represent. -
you accomplish yourselves in nothing else, -
'nrn thoroughly how to use your mother ~
'ngue. remember one young woman with n
hom when in youth had the misfortune to h.
,respond. IN. the barrenness of subjects
pom which to engage her pen, she once in II
lired by note whether l over saw such "a "a
'ell of wether,' rs we. had been having ~
frankly informed her that l never did. and h,
at' hoped she would never indulge in an u,
her, for it made me feel cool She took the =.
mt, and broke off the correspondence There h,
e many who can write tolerably well, but so
ho cannot talk. Conversation am inclin- u,
to rank among the greatest accomplish Ar
ents and the greatest arts. Natural apt NJ,
'ss has much to do with this, but no woman