The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-11-17
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AwOMAN,s COMMON ExPE-
Z RIENCE. 1anaE sv1
OR THE MOTIVES EoR WHICH MANY wo-
u MEN MARRY.
nc. WRITER in some modern mac

@ acme, speaking OF his heroln
has said: "She had an ideal of life an
. love, as all women have; but, like almo:
all women, had neither tho courage nc
the integrity to cleave to that IDEAL"
1t is truth. He was subtle studen
in woman.s nature. And, had he geHer
ously added that woman may not go fortl
and search out her ideal as a man may
we-women would have read his word
without writhing.a d1 -}a b..
/ live in aquiet, inland town, and know
no people whose histories are called TO
mantle and thrilling. Still II know stories
of common lives which prove how diff
cult it is for women, unless they be sur
passingly beautiful, or wealthy, or gifted
to obey their best impulses of action, and
to live up to the code of conduct laid
down for them by men who think finely
but have never filtered.
! Il AMELIA HALL uttu uOb lU0 DSduGf
which belong to the complete woman, she
had her nature and her peculiar genius
And | hold it is the most poetic order Of
genius which makes home beautiful and
happy place, The painter and the wri-
ting poet have always exquisite and album
dant material with which to work. But
woman 1--WE speak of her in common
homes, not of her in palace) has often
dingy things and doled supply with which
to deal; but if she has genius, she always
creates a place to which man comes for
rest. - asa 19t ra- rtA44s.t
All women arc said to resemble some
flower, as all men some tree. Amelia
Hall was like rose, one of those roses
which have centre of faint star color
and single circle Of pink petals as they
spring up wild on roa sides and mead W :,
but which burst out with gorgeous, gold
en- hearts and prodigalty of crimson ceroils
if they arc transplantel to cultured gar
LIS. -zt-l-. -- sse r-s. s.-r
She was an English girl. an orphan,
and dependent on the bounty of her
uncle, rich old man who lived in my
native town. t-s r-.s.--5 E.. .a--- -i i
| think it is a trait of all girls, whether
gay or pensive, to tell to each other their
asn;ratioas and ambitious? 9' asere
"How often rememb rwhat Amelia
Hall used to say" remarked a friend last
week recounting to me the fatcs of various
dreamers. awhile some of us hoped to
be poets, and one queen, and onean ac-
tress, and another traveller, and many
content to be rich mems wives with splen-
did wardrobes and jewel cases, the for
eigner used to say:'O American girls =
None of you speak of your homes nor OF
your husbands, unless to say they must
be rich and handsome. Hear how |
could be happy. l would have home
in d village of white houses wide, cool
streets, parks, and many gardens and
fountains Half n mile from the village
each way, there should be woods, and ev-
cry where streams of water and rustic |
bridges. wish | might have husband |
dark, tall, fine and athletic as an Arab |
chief, chivalric as an olden knight, tender
in heart as gentle page, and gifted as
the Grecian poets. And unless / can
have such home and husband, 1 will al
ways remain Amelia Hall, and work in
uncle's dairy room.' Iremember how we
used to laugh at the English girl forsbe-
ng prosy and domestic"
Until she was st twenty y four four Amelia Hall
waited for her noble lover to arrive from
he picturesque village. She was content
he1while to make butter and cheese, and
o chat with the rustic young men of the
ADJACENT farms. Until then she was con-
ent, sandalled with the fairy shoon of fam
], to walk in the folding parlors of her
,orticoed and balconied future home, TO
'sTange the flowers, pictures, and furni-
ure, AMI at twilight to sit in the white pill
AIRED portieo, or to go down the avenue
# trees and watch at the Gothic gate for /.
he noble one beloved. As firmly and
Dolly as if alreedy afianced, she refused
der after offer from the wealthy and hon
st farmers f.
AT this period her uncle lost his prop I
rty, and then bis wife. Then they two
,ere peuniless--he an invalid old man,
nd she . poor, poor orphan. On her
wenty-fourth birth night, as she walked II
the orchard as usual at shutdown her +.
nels. Iame and auerulous, joined her and b
'aned on her arm. She saw hope on his