The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-03-11
A PATENT SERMON.
by DOW, lR.
My text this morning is contained in these
words
How solveloa is woman!
How tender 10 woman!
How loving is woman!
How child.like is woman!

My hesrers-sure enough, how solvclcss is wo
man! She is an ungucSsabe ridde-a most iutr.
cute enigma; n flower which by analysing no one
can tell to certainty whether it be poisonous or
innoxious-not always. She has been with man
from the beginning. and ho hasn't found her out
yet. She is comparatively an unexpored country,
an alphabet OF hieroglyphics, magnetic mystery.
Nobody knows what her head cont aims. Sometimes
il seems stuffed with love- tenderness aud symps-
thy; and al Others filled with nothing but grit and
gravel. 1t won't answer to shake her; you cause
the acids aud alkaes OF her nature 10 come in
: contact aud then such an etiercvescencc takes
place as might lower the ambition of pesrlaSh and
cider.
Like the month Of April she is all sunshine and
! showers Many tcar-drop evsporates in the
warm light OF u smile, ere it has u chance to fall /;
and many bright smile is suddenly quenched by
a sprinkle OF some passing cloud OF sorrow about
the size OF a blanket. Cries bubble up from her
bosom to burst in an atmosphere OF JOY, like au-
tumnal flowers, sprnging from the warm bed Of the
heart to be cut down by the sudden frosts of grief
| A queer compound is woman She is made OF
modcsty, beauty silks, satins Jealousy, love, ha-
tired, horse hair, whaIebonc, piety gaety, gum
elastic, bears grease, sympathy, tears, smiles and
kindness She talks with her tongue, speaks with
her eyes, il eloquent in her actions and yet cant
understand her.
tender u chicken, and as tough all old gobler.
She must be screened from the hot summers sun,
sheltered from storms, and protected from the
| blasts OF wnter-and yet il she makes up her
mind she can out sweat the sun, face northeasler,
aud be match for the devil But nwardly, she
is as tender as the merccs Of heaven; her heart 10
as much softer than humans beeswaX is softer
than brickbat. Her sYmpathies are as delicate
as the down on an angels wing, and her love ap.
fr,,sh and ,,,,E, ha nf
adversely, as the evergreen wreath that encrced
the brow of Old winter Her tenderness is too
tough TO be destroyed, whatever chance fortune
or time may bring as tough as trpe, and twice MS
common.
My dear friends lofty is woman. No mat.
ter whether born in cellar she can sometimes be
as lofty as garret. When once she gets her
back up, o, cats and broomsticks look out for
yourselves. She is high US olympus aud AZ say
age as u sausage machine. In high wrath she is as
crazy as n bed bug, rs strong as tiger aud Us
terrible as q tornsdo. She can blaze away as
though heaven hell, and cart were coming to close
quarters but q few moments it is all over--no-
i body killed Then she comes down from the noun
tains whence she has been rolling big stones upon
the people below --softcns down to ieIley, and
becomes as quiescent as goose pond after tenn
pest. The breeches won't it---She must resume
the petticoat and be woman after all
i My henrers--how lovely is woman. Aye, she
is amazingly sickly in her attachments cling
to the chosen objects of her heart like II possum
to gum tree, and you can't separate her without
swapping strings that no art can mend, and leaving
portion of her soul upon the upper lcnther OF
her aIfec tons She will sometimes see something
10 love where others can discover nothing to adj
mire and when her londness is once on fellow, il
sticks like glue and molasSes in u bushy head OF
hair. ..a..
AZ I
thing for herself she is fond Of every paythng in
the worlds great toy shop. Her home is the realm
Of fancy--her existence is the very essence of hap
pineSs--hor very mscries are mingled with d
pleasing romance e-hcr present is always bright
and her future still brighter. Would that were
woman, TO be pleased with every pocsy that pops
its head above the weeds of wicked world, and
have no thorns to moeSt me whilst gathering the
wild flowers of Imagination. Child-like, woman
is ever happy. Tickcd with the straw of 1attery
deiigk,ed with every ranbow-tinted bubble that
floats upon the wave of time-as anlic as n young
coon by moonlight, and as merry as q cricket, she
dances in the sunlight OF JOY, and seems to use ev
cry endeavor to coax us male, moody mortals into
brighter and happier parts. So mote il be.
-"Good morning, Jones-how does the worlt
use you?'-"lt 1t uses me up, thank you."
= Three thousand new school houses have beer
erected in the State Of Illinois during the past two
> years.
"A white man received thirty lashes on ,h,
bare back at Winchester, Pa, OH Friday last
: for stealing stove.
AT Chicago the breach of promise of mar
riage case OF Louisa Hoey VS.. George LeIz, hal
resulted in a verdict of $4,000 damages Tor th,
, plaintiff.
The following names are sad to be in th,
5 Cincinnati, Ohio Directory. Messrs. Gum. Can
5 non, Pistol, Fusse, Shutter, Bultt, Shot, Muskct
! and R, riIlory!
: -Four miles from San Jose, California, rher
is a Touring mill, owned by Mr.. Lick, the wood
work Of which is all Of mahogany, aud the entir
cost of the building, 300 900.
In communication to the Legislature o
California. Governor Weller stated that 25 O0C
dead letters were destroyed every quarter at SuI
| francisco. The Governors brother is Postmas
ter al that place.
; A parishioner inquired OF his pastor the mean
: ing Of this line in Scripture" He was cloth
with eursrs as with gdrment" alt signifies
replied the divine, that the individual had go
a bud habit Of Swearing"
"A little boy about three yeas old, son o
/ Patrick Hanlen, in Worcester was playing will
matches Monday. when he accidentally set hl,
clothes on fire, and was SO badly burned that ht
died in about eight hours.
THE Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican records
the death OF Mrs. Winnie Lasster on the 2Stt
ut.. aged one hundred and thirty years Sh,
was native Of North Carolina, and was mar
ried ia The colony many years before the Revolu
tion.
The Honmos Sugar Plantation, near Donulls
vile, La, lately owned by Col. Jonn S. Preston
has been sold 10 John Burnside for one million
dollars. The estate contains $4,000 acres an(
has working force of fve hund.ed and fit
slaves.
VALUE OF foUsG l. DYs TEErH.-The Pari'
: courts value young lady's eelh at 900 francs
u An English gOverness was recently knocked dowr
by carriage aud lost by the accident all her teeth
> She brought all action ol damages and The triLu
nal awarded her the above anouut.