Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-01-28

eloquent-never so, except on great occa-
sions--and his utterance was so thick that
it was tauntingly declared, that if he re-
sembled Demosthenes, it was when that
great author of the philippines poken with
the pebbles in his mouth Peel, like Palm
erston, affected the conversational tone, and
rarely rose into anything worthy of being
called eloquence. His speeches have been
spoken essays. Two more among the bril-
liant orators Of England, aud perhaps
the greatest she can boast, remain
Brougham and Lyndhurst But the first
of these is Scotch by birth and education,
and the other is an American.
In the true "copia tecundi," the great
mass of Englishmen are wonderfully de-
fcient. Take public assembly in any
part of America, and the wonder will be
to find any one man it, who, at a moments
notice, cannot obey call to address the
public on the matter before the meeting.
Cor. indeed, upon any matter whatever
thanks to that newspaper instruction which
gives him so much general information,
and acquit himself clearly and understand
ingly. without the slightest hesitation. On
the other hand, let even an estated Eng
lishman, who has received the best class
zeal education that Oxford or Cambridge
can bestow, be called upon unexpectedly
to address popular assembiy--to speak
even half dozen consecutive sentences at
bridal dejeune, or dinner party, and his
condition will be pitiable. He will hum,
and haw, and sit down, all blush and con-
fusion, presently remembering what he
might have said with great credit to
himself and pleasure to his auditors, con-
scious hat he has cut miserable figure,
and internally registering a solemn VOW,
that no inducement shall ever again tempt
him to open his mouth in public.
WOMANLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS New
York Daily Times, of late date, contained
some sensible remarks on female accom-
plisbments. 1t mentions, among other i'm
portant facts, that in the country of Suffolk,
England, every woman can make bread,
and one town, having sixty thousand IN
habitants. has only two bakeries. The
Times adds;
at is certainly greatly to the credit OF
the women of England that there are so
many of them who could, if it were neces-
sary, make the family bread and prepare
the hot rolls for their breakfast. Bread
making is not one of the accomplishments
which the American women think it neces-
sary for them to be acquainted with, every
parlor has piano, but very few kitchens
have an oven; and i: would be as difficult
to find an American woman who did not
understand the use of one, as to find one
who knew the use of the other. But it is
not altogether the fault of our ladies that
they cannot, and do not, understand the
art of making bread In the country every
family must make its own bread, but it is
questionable economy to keep a private
bakery in the city. 1t is not the economy oil
bread making which makes it so desirable
that every woman should understand the
art, but because it shows a familiarity with
domestic affairs which is necessary to the
economy and comfort of every household.
! The daughter of a merchant residing in a
city, the name Of which it is not at all nee
essary we should mention, lately remarked
n confidence to her next friend, that she
did not see any advantages in having mil
lioanire for father, since she had to work
four hours every day at her piano.
The hard case of this unhappy young la
| dy is by no means solitary one; and there
are 10 doubt a great many daught of
millionaries who would be very glad to
change the slavery of the piano for an hour
or two of recreation in the kitchen, and to
whom bread-making would be delight,
compared with the labor oflearning music.
We would not be understood as objecling
to the piano, bu. a change from that instrl-
ment to the kneading trough would not be
at all injurious to the characters of our
young ladies'"
IDLERs.--Thomas Carlyle has said, in
his voluminous works, that the world has
zone monster-the idle man.
Young man, are you an idler? Are you
consenting under some pretext or other, to
live on the earnings of others? Do you
plead ''bad health" while they are feebler
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