Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-07-07
WORLD PICTURES.


tleman," has just published a new book,
entitled GA Thousand Thoughts about
Women" from which we make the fol-
lowing striking extracts:
AN OLD MADI.-s'She has not mar
ried. Under heaven, her home, her life,
her lot, are all of her own making. Bit
ter or sweet they may have been-it is
not ours TO meddle with them, but we
can any day see their results. Wide or
narrow as her circle of influence appears,
she has exercised her power 10 the utter
most, and for good. Whether great or
small her talents, she has not let one OF
them rust for want of use. Whatever
the current Of her existence may have
been, and in whatever circumstances il
has placed her, she has voluntarily was
ted no portion of it-not a year, not a
month, not day.
published or unpublished, this wo
mans life is goodly chronicle, the title
page of which you may read in her qui-
ct countenance; her manner, settled,
cheerful and at ease; her unfailing inter-
est in all things and all people. You
will rarely find she thinks much about
herself; she has nccyer had iiii;.ce for it,
And this her life. chronicle, whlcn, out
of its very fullDess, has taught her that
the more one does, the more one finds to
do-she will never flourish in your face,
or the face Of heaven, as something ui.
commonly virtuous and extraordinary.
She knows that, after all, she has simply
done what it was her duty to do.
"But-and when her place is vacant
on earth, this will be said of her assur-
edly, both here and otherwhere-"S She
hath done aOlat she could"
AN OLD BAcHELoR.-"Scarcely any
sight is more pitiable than a yonng man
who has drifted on to past thirty, with
out home Or near kindred; with just in
come enough to keep him respectfully in
the position which he supposes himself
bound to maintain, and to supply him
with various small luxuries-such as
thirty guineas per annum in cigars, etc.
which have become habitual TO him.
Like his fellow-rGortals, he is liable
enough to the unlucky weakness of fall
ne in love, now and then; but he some
low manages to extinguish the passion
before it gets fairly alight; knowing he
'an no more venture 10 ask a girl in his
'wn sphere to marry him, or be eugag-
ID to him, than he can coax the planet
Venus out of her golden west into the /
Iirty, gloomy, two.prir back where his |
aundress cheats him, and his landlady
buses him; whence, perhaps, he occas-
onally emerges gloriously, all studs and
Thite neck tie-to assist at some Young
eauty's wedding, where he feels in his
cart that he might once have been a
appy bridegroom-if from his silence
he had not been driven to go desperate
and sell herself to the old fool oppo-
tie, and is fast becoming, nay, is al
eady become, FOOLS clever mate;
lere woman of the world. And he,
hat a noble ideal he has gained of our
ex, from this and other similar exper-
'nces! With what true emotion will he
i've the toast OF "The bridesmaids,
lie hackneyed quotation about pain and
brow wringing the brow, and smile
alf adOringly, half pathetically, at the
ministering angels" who litter around
i'm. They, charming innocents! will
go home aVouching "What
elightful person is Mr.. SO and SO! |
wonder he never gets married"
'hile Mr.. SO and so also goes home, sar- {
'nically minded, 10 his dull lodgings,
S book and his cigar. or-he best knows l
here. And in the slow process of in
liable detoriation, by forty he learns a
think matrimony decided humbug;
ID hugs himself in the conclusion that P
high minded, and disinlirest- .
woman, if existing at all, exists as P
ere luSas aatur@-not to be met with d
mortal man nova days. Relieving d
feelings with a grunt-half sigh, half .
eer-he dresses and goes to the opera, q
the ballet, at all events, or settles him.
the sofa TO French novel, and ends v,
firmly believeing us women TO be d,
lat we are painted therei" ol