The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-09-08
af(i'stellaneons.
MN LAST WALK WITH
THE SCHOOLMES-
TRESSe
BY THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAK
FAST-TABLE.

[ CAN'T say just how many walks she
and | had taken together before this one.
found the effect of going out every NOR
ming was decidedly favorable on her
health, Two pleasing dimples, the pla-
ces for which wore just marked when she
came, played, shadoUy, in her freshening
cheeks when she smiled and nodded
good-mornipg to me from the school
house steps.
| am afraid did the greater part of
the talking. At any rate, if 1 should try
to report all that l said during the first
half-dozen walks we took together, fear
that might receive q gentle hint from
my friends the publishers, that sepa-
rate volume. at my own risk AMI expense
would be the proper method of bringing
them before the public.
II would have q woman as true
as Death Al the first real lie which works
from the heart outward, she should be
tenderly chloroformed into a better world,
where she can have an angel for gov
ernness, and feed on strange fruits viii h
will make her all over again, even to her
bones and marrow. Whether gifted with
the accident Of beauty or not, she should
have been moulded in the rose-red CLAW
| of Love, before the breath of life made
a moving mortal Of her. Love capacity
is a congenital endowment; and I think,
after while, one gets to know the warm
hued natures it belongs to from the pretty
pipe-clay counterfets of it. Proud she
may be, in the sense of respecting herself,
but pride in the sense of conforming 9TH
ers less gifted than herself, deserves the
two lowest circles of a vulgar woman's In
ferno, where the punishmonts are Small
Pox and Bankruptcy. She who nips off
the end of brittle courtesy, as one breaks
the tip of an icicle, to bestow upon those
whom she ought cordially and kindly to
recognize, proclaims the fact that she
comes not merely of low blood, but of bad
blood. Consciousness of unquestioned
position makes people gracious in proper
measure to all; but if a woman puts on
airs with her real equals, she has some
thing about herself or her family that she
is ashamed of or ought to be. Middle
and more than middle aged people, who
know family histories, generally see th'ro
it. An official Of standing vcs once rude
to me, Oh, that is the maternal grand
father,-said wise old friend to me-
be WAS boor. Better too few words
from the woman we love than too many;
while she is silent, Nature is working for
her; while she talks, she is working for
herself. Love is sparingly soluble in the
words of men; therefore they speak much
of it; but one syllable of woman's speech
can dissolve more of it than a mans heart
can hold.
Whether 1 said any or all these
things to the schoolmistress, or not
whether 1 stole them out of Lord Bacon
whether cribbed them from Balzac,
whether l dipped them from the ocean
of Tupperian wisdom, or whether have
just found them in my head, laid there
by that solemn fowl, Experience, (who,
according to my observation, cackles oft
ener than she drops real live eggs, I can
not say. Wise men have said more fool
ish things,-and foolish men, l don't
doubt, have said as wise things. Any
how, the schoolmistress and I had pleas
ant walks and long talks, all of which l
do not feel bound to report.
You are stranger to me Ma'am
Il don't doubt you would like to know
all said to the sohoolmistress. | sha'nt
do It'll had rather getBthe publishers
to return the money you have invested in
this. Besides, l have forgotten good
deal of it. l shall tell only what | like
Of what remember.
My idea was, in the first place, TO
search out the picturesque spots which
the city affords sight OF, to those who
have eyes. know good many, and