Smyrna times., 1858-12-16
SELECT ARTICLES.
TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT.
Is Woman equal to Han.

This is a most fruitful topic of conversation,
and we find glance ct the subject in the fol-
lowing opening of an article in the Westmin-
ster ReUieW:
"Vo!umes have been written on the long,
disputed point, whether the mental powers Of
woman be equal TO those of man. Women,
say the defenders of the present system of
Things, have opened no new vstas in the realms
of thought; with a few brilliant exceptions,
they have produced nothing really great IN art,
science or llteraIure-and an exception does
not form the rule. What they have not
achieved during the course of eighteen centu-
ries, they are not likely to achieve III the nine
teenlh. II is all very well to talk Of difficult
ties, educational, etc but genius is rePrrs ed
BY none of these. II works out Its own way to
the light; it wants no artificial aid or stimulus
Women, reply their champions, have never yet
had fair play. Cramped in every direction
specifically and imperiectly trained-isolated
from that free and genial communion with the
minds of those who have already attained high
intellectual eminence, which is so essential to
the development of the faculties, and the for
nation of the taste-excldded from Ill share IN
lofty aud ennobling pursuits-cOnhned to the
narrow though sacred sphere of domestic du-
ties, or engaged in the folies and vanitIes OF
fashionable life, and alternating between the
cooking VI a dinner and the cut of a sleeve
her natural capabilities have been stifed and
frittered away without having enjoyed the pos.
sibility of attaining their full and Legitimate
growth. The social and political inferority in
which she hitherto been held, cannot fail, they
maintain, to have acted in depressing manner
on her intellectual nature, whatever its original
f,rce and yigor. In both these arguments there
ia certain degree of pIausibilIty. Perhaps
the truth lies between the twO."
Still Possible.
We had really thought that glove at frs
SIGHT" was an extinct volcano; but the follow
log looks eruption-y -" A case Of love at frs
SIGHT is recorded by II London Court CIrcula
in a story Of a man 'who is now in st. Luke
mad.house, and has been detained there eve
s;nce The occurrence took place which cOnsign
ed him to its walls. Lady -- was SO ex
ouisi,ely fair, SO singularly graceful that 1t wa
d;aicalt for the eye of man to behold her with
out preferring her TO any other OF her sex.
uorter was sent from a railway terminus to th
lady by her brother; this man, the present O'
cupant of st. Luke's, got 10 the door In PARK
lane just as the beauty alighted out OF her cal
riage from an airing in Hyde Park. The ma
who had never seen Lady -- as she wa
then, tripping up stairs, asked a servant for n
lady 10 whom the letter was directed. and wa
answered he might give the letter to him ft
hislady. On the poor fellows refusal, as
was ordered TO deliver it into her own hand
he was shown into her apartment. The ma
being with the lady alone whilst she was en-
ployed reading the letter. fixed his eyes on h'
in,enlly, as il lost in thought; but, before 81
had done reading it, he violently, and vii
transport, liew into her arms, and gave her nnn
berless deyouring kisses. Lady - was I
surprised ,ha, she LOST the power of crying OIL