Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS,

CFIs not every face beautiful in our
eyes, which habitually turns toward Us with
affectionate, guileless smiles!
ENothing is so dangerous as to pre-
tend to fall in love with a woman-the re-
atty is sure to follow.
JAdvice is like snow; the softer it
falls, and the longer it dwells upon, the
deeper it sinks into the mind.
BEAUrr's AILoY.-Every rose has its
thorn; you never find Woman without
pins and needles.
RICHES.
Riches Ike insects while concealed tIey le
Wait tnt for wings, and in their season fy;
To whom can riches give repute and trust,
Content or pleasure, but the good and jus,i
Judges and Senators have been bought for gold,
Esteem and love were never to be bo1ght-P0Pe
@Man's happiness is said to hang upon
thread. That must be the thread that is
ne yer at hand to sew on shirt button that
is always of.
LEAVING HoaE. -LongfeIlow's pen-p
ture of the ever prevslen: and natural incl
nation of the fair flower to leave father and
mother, and cleave unto husband, is beau
tiful and truthful:
Thus 1t is our daughters leave us,
Those We love and those who love US,
Just when they have learned to help US,
Comes youth with iisunting feathers,
With his flute OF reeds, a stranger
Wanders piping through the village;
BeckOns 20 the fairest maiden.
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger
CHEERFULsEss.-Try for a single day, I
beseech you, to preserve yourself in an
easy and cheerful frame of mind. Be but
for one day instead Of 6ie-worshipper of
passion, the sun worshipper of clear self
and compare the day in which
you have rooted out the weed of dissatissac-
tion with that on which you have allowed
it to grow up; and you will find your hear,
open to every good motive your life strength
ened and your breast armed with a panoply
against every trick of fate; truly you will
wonder at yonr own improvemeDt.-JeoI
Paul Richter.
CORRECT SPEAKrnG.-We advise all
young people to acquire in early life the
habit of using good Language, bn,h in speak
ing and writing, and to abandon As early.
as possible any use of slang words and
phrases. The longer they live the moro
difficult the acquisition of such language
will be; and il the golden age of youth, ths
proper season for the acquisition of Ian
guuge, be passed in its abuse, the unfortu-
nate victim of neglected education is very
probably doomed 10 talk slang for. life
Money il not necessary to procure this ed
ucation. Every man has it in his pow,r-
lie has merely 10 use the language which
he reads, instead of the slang which he
hears; TO form his tasts from the best
speakers snd poets OF the country; to treas
nre up choice phrases in his memory, and
habituate himself TO their use--avoiding at
The same time that pedantic precisio1 and
bombast which show rather the weakness
Of vain am bitten than the polish Of an ed
lcated mind.
HAPPINESs, TRUE AND rALsy.-True hsp-
piness 10 of retiring nature, and an enemy
To pump and noise; il arises, in the hrst
place, from the enjoyment Of ones SELF
and in the next, from the friendship and
of Few select companions
1t loves shade and solitude, and naturally
haunts groves ant fountains, fields and
me adows: in short, il teels everything is
wants within itself, and receives no al
1iiion from multitudes of witnesses and
spectators. On the contrary, islss hsp?i-
ness loves to be in crowd, and to draw
tho eyes OF the world upon her. She does
not receive any satisfaction from the ap-
plausss which she gives herself, bu, from
the admiration which she raises in others.
She fourishes in courts and palaces,
theatres and assemblies, and has no exist
ence but when she is looked upon.-AS-
diScn.