The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-03-17

She early comprehended the thought in
4 Roman character. ROME is a fixed word.
1t speaks the power of will-of deter
mined purpose. Every Roman was an
Emperor. He translated his thought IN
to action, and WINS greater in life, than in
literature. The intellectual companion
ship of these old heroes gave a dignity, a
directness, and force to Margaret's own
character.
But while her mind was thus rapidly
unfolding itself, her heart-life was equally
fervent and rich. There was a little gar
den back of their house, where her love
ofbeauty found rich qualification. Here
were strengthened those aspirations for
life of harmony,which give so rich a color
ing to her moral being. | cannot better il
mstrate the state of her mind at this time
than by an extract from her own words.
Speaking Of this little garden she says:
-"There my thoughts could lie callow in
the nest, and only be fed and kept warm,
not called upon to fly or sing before the
time | loved to gaze on the roses, the
yiolets, the lilies, the pinks; my mothers
> hand had planted them, and they bloom
ed for me. / culled the most beautiful.
| looked at them on every side. ! kissed
= them, and pressed them to my bosom,
with passionate emotions, such as have
7, never dared to express to any human be-
t inc. An ambition swelled my heart to
G be as beautiful, as perfect as they L
have not kept my VOW Yet forgive me
We wild asters, which CLEAN SO sadly amid
/ the fading grass forgive me, ye golden
autumn flowers. which so strive to reflect
the glores of the distant, departing sun;
; and We silvery flowers, whose moonlight
9 eyes, knew so well, forgive. Living
h and blooming in your unchecked law, ye
= know nothing of the blights the distor-
+, tons which beset the human being, and
= which at such hours it would seem that no
! glories Of free agency could ever repay.
" Are such words as those the language Of
> mere contemplate sentimentalism? or is
y it aspiration in its noblest fervor--praye'
Ill us )uTeSl soHoo. <-'f f--
OF Margaret's school days, l have no
:, time to speak. She assumed the position
y of Queen by right of nature, and rule(
= her companions by the power of her gen
- Jus. Bltrshe found much to disturb her
a" The dashing city Misses, who had no
- brain enough to see her vast superiority
nv INDUCED in gigglng criticisms on her littl
v eccentricities, and when irritated beyon'
~ endurance, she would turn upon them will
u a sarcasm, which stung like serpent
- tooth. "
y a When fifteen years Of age, she give
~ the following account of her daily studies
~ AZ rise little before five, walk an houl
TIC and then practice on the piano, till sever
" when we breakfast. Next | read French
. -SismondTs Literature of the South
Europe eight, then two or three LEI
81 lures in Browns Philosophy Abo'
es- half-past nine | 90 to Mr.. Perkins scho'
af- and study. Greek till twelve when, til
of school being dismissed, | recite. go hom
80 and practice again till dinner, at tw'
'"' Sometimes, if the conversation is yer
TO agreeable, / lounge for half an hodr ov'
lad the dessert, though rarely so lavish of tim
tu- Then, when can, read two hours
fine Italian, but | am often interrupted.
-, six, I walk, or take drive. Before g
'oe inc to bed, / play or sing, for half
TEST hour or so, to make all sleepy, and, abo
,le. eleven. retire to write a little while in N
ork journal, exercises on what | have read,
q series of characteristics which i am II
- inc up according to advice. Thus, yt
hef see. l am learning Greek, and making a
cl- quaintancs with metaphysics, and fren'
was and italian literature biggest
VIC There is moral for students IN til
OF passage. Margaret did not rely upon h
nse. oenius for success. She knew that t
was marble must be quarried and the stat
her slowly chiseled into beauty before it cou
hat challenge the admiration OF the wofni
she The lesson which her example teaches
ing that it is labor, constant, untiring, UNI
and hitting LABOR, which wins the gold
hey crown of success. The nerve that new
t to relaxes, the eye that never blanches, t
A thought that never wanders, -these
'nly the masters of victory.
hey At twenty years of age, she was
leep Cambridge, and beneath the shadows
over venerable HARVARD she was gladly "
had coined into equal companionship with
ong strongest thought and ripest culture OF
she day. She had wealth aud wisdom to 81
out MS well as to receive. 81 s.f
ash In proof of the variety of her alta
I'd it mepts and the comprehensive nature
the her intellect, it is only necessary to
oan- that she was the valued friend OF Em
ame son-the clear, cold, glittering Poet-P
what losopher! of Channing--the cultured
'ther scholarly Christian Phllanthroplst;
g of Of Greeley - the erninenty sagaclo
any, practical Man.
{ the To show the wealth and intensity
u her thought, give an extract from
way, ter written at that time: