The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1858-09-10
d US B A EDS VS.. WIVES:
Or, the Great Principle.

One of my peculiarities is a strong ten.
dency to differ in opinion from other peopls
upon almost every possible subject. never
mouth the matter-I come out roundly.
l have no doubt The reader is fond of
roast beef and p!um-pudding. Now, de.
test them. Nothing could be more gross,
earthly, stultifying. Besides no man fond
OF such stuff, does, ever did, or ever can, sit
down to meal without running into excess.
Then comes custard, ice cream, fruit, al
monds, raisins, wine You rise with dis.
tended stomach, and heavy head, and stag
ger away with british apathy. am for
light diet-milk, rice, fruit-sweet, harmless
things of nature. No lamb bleeds for me.
No stately OK is slain that may feast. Old
mother earth supplies my slender appetites.
4he deep, deep spring, clear as crystal-tbe
innocent vegetable ethereal food. Thus
am light as air. I am keenly susceptible
to every moral and natural beauty, which
few enthusiastic beef eaters are.
Idiffer from every body in another thing.
believe in love at first sight. We ought
to be able to tell in a week whether wo-
man would do for a wife. The judgment
of true love is intuitive; a glance and it is
done. A man of genius has own imagina-
ton a standard Of the object of his love-
an unexplainable model-the prototype to
which exists somewhere in reality, although
he may have never seen or heard of her.
This is wonderful, but it is true. BE wan.
ders about the world, impervious to all the
delicious, thrilling, and soul melting beams
beauty, till he reaches the right one
There are blue eyes they are tender, but
they touch not him. There arc black
they are piercing, but his heart remains
whole. At length, accident filings him into
contact with creature-he hears the tones
Of her voice-he feels the. warm streams of
soul shining from countenance. Gaze
meets gaze, and thought sparkles into
thought, till the magic blaze is kindled, and
-tReylfall inlove.
1t sometimes happens, that for one model
'h'the imagination Of this man of genius
there are accidentally two or three proto-
types in real liss; or rather, he has two or
Three different models.
It's agreat misfortune for man to have
more models than one. They lead him as.
tray. They involve him iu difficulties.
Iheyplay thevery devil with him. -
And yet metaphysicians and phrenolo.
gists ought to know, that it is no affair of
lis. Z If aschoolboy have the organ of des-
tructiyenese, you may whip him for killing
f'ier, but you must not wonder at him. II
ayonth-- -bnt tlis brings me back again
to'my, subject. e.
TgeEaf could tsIl how many of these
models Fred had ]; agreat nsany, no doubt.
He wasa cad dog Don Juan--a sort Of
Giovanni ins Eopdon-sand be bade fair to
ka Giovanni asin- but that was his
pdsjnesS. =:
oh, tie s~eetwomeni II Is almost N.
assdulous. He mpstbsve deal. in magic.
h-was perfect blesaiugto be near him !; to
catch the light and shesf Of The thousand
glapcss WHICH fell upon; him, and o. which
you essgtt . few stray oDesy though opl,
by aesiaent Lovely woman -fsll6nto lii
AnopE Ike ripe plums. sHe bad olustsrs ol
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