The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-03-26


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4 By the way said l, Georgian'
y your teacher Ri drawing must Ma
@ been an excellent one.' l did neete
!, her that had saen evidence OF th
D in her own Efforts III art, but toucl
) ed the right spring, and the lad
:. gave me the teachers credential
- and told me what such and such pc,
~ pie had said Of her. we'll sd
u 4 am glad that there is one yonn
= woman who has learned drawn
. ! properly. Now you Rave nothing
lido but to practice your delightfl
2 art, and you thust do something {,
n 1.-THE benefit Of your friends. prom
. ised q sketch or my house to a pa
y ticular friend, at . distance, aud 70
e5tShall come up tomorrow and mal
zone. Remember tbet sca 80 e
! saBs among y06r 5ketches; and, I
SHOULD prize q sketch ofmy o wn even
If half as we'll done, very highly
The poor girl was blushing again,
and from the troubled countenances
of her parents, saw that they had
begun indistinctly to comprehend the
sha!lownees--the absolute worthless.
ness--of the accomplishment that
had cost them so much. Georgiana
acknowledged that she had never
sketched from nature--that her tea.
cher had never required it of her, and
that che had no confidence that she
could sketch as simple an object as
my house, the Greens took an early
leave, and | regret to say cool one.
They were mortified, and there was
not good sense enough in the girl to
make an Improvement ofthe hints |
had given her.
The Green family resided upon a
street that | always took on my way
to the post office, and there was rare
Iv a pleasant evening that did not
show their parlor alight, and with
company within. heard the same
old variations of o Dolce COncento
evening after evening. The Battle
Of Prague was fought over and over
again. The portfolio OF drawings,
(luch ofthem as had not been expen-
-ively framed,) was exhibited, |
doubt not, to admiriDg friends, until
they were soiled with thumb:ng. At
last, Georgiana was engaged, and
then she was married--married to a
very good fellow, too. He loved
music, loved painting, and loved his
wife. Two years passed away; and
determined to ascertain how the
pair got along. She was the mother
OF a fac boy. whom | knew she
would he glad to have me see. |
called, was treated cordially, and
saw the Identical old portfolio, on the
identical old piano. | asked the ia.
tvor or rune. The husband witt, a
sigh informed me that Georgiana had
dropped her music. | looked upon
the walls and sew the crayon Sam.
uel, and the awful shipwreck in India
ink. Alas! the echoes OF the Battle
of Prague that crme back over the
field Of memory. aud these fading
mementoes around Ine, were all that
remained of the accompllshm .nts of
the late Miss Gcorgiana Atkins
Green.
Now, young woman, think you
will not need any assurance from me
that l have drawn a genuine por.
trait, for which any number OF your
acquaintance may have played the
original. What do you think Of &C.
complishments like these. 4 How
much do they amount to' Ny opin
ion of them is thar they are the shah
biest of all things that can be asso-
ciated with woman's lie and his
tory. | have told you this story in
order to show you the Importance OF
incorporating your accomplishments
with vour very life. 1t is compare.
lively an easy task to learn a few
tunes by rote: to get up with the as.
sistance of teacher \ few drawings,
to 70 through with few Ere roh ex-
ercises; but it is not 50 easy to learn
tho science Of music, and 90 through
with the manual practice necessary
to make the science available under
all circum stances. 1t is not easy to
comprehend the genius OF the French
language. and so to tamiliarize your
self with it that it shall ever remain
an open language to you, and give
you key to new literature. A
true accomplishment is won only by
hard work; but when it is won, it ia
part OF you, which nothing but your
own neglect can take away from you.
And now let me tell you secret
Multitudes OF married men are led to
seek the society OF other women, or
90 ont among their own fellows, and
often into bad habits, because they
have drank every sweet OF life which
their wives can give them. They
have eeard all their tunes, seen all
their efforts at art, sounded their
minds. and measured every charm,
and they see that henceiorth there ia
nothing in the society of their wives
but insipidity. They married wo
men Of accomplishments, but they
see never new development, no inn
provement. Their wives can do sb
solutely nothing. The shell is brok,
en-; the egg is eaten.
The fret accomplishment I would
urge upon you is that Of using the En-
glish language with correctness, ele
gance and facility. There are CON,
psratively few young women who
can write 9 good note. l know o
; hardly one who can punctuste he,
sentences properly. Ibeg you nevel