The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-06-24
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WOrO-P1ctUreS.
The author of"John Halifax, Gentleman"
has just published new book, entitled "a
Thousand Thoughts about Women" from
which we nuke the following striking cx.
tracts:
AN OGD MAfb.-"She has not married.
Under heaven, her home, her life, her lot,
are all Of her own making. Bitter or sweet
they muy have been-it is not ours 10 med.
die with them, but we can any day see their
results. Wide or narrow as her circle of
influence appears, she hos exercised her
power to the uttermost, 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 circumstaces it
has placed her, she has voluntarily wasted
no portion of it-not q year, not month,
not day.
"Published or unpublished, this woman's
life is goodly chronicle, the title.page Of
which you may read in her quiet counten-
nnce; her manner, settled, cheerful and at
ease; her unfuiling interest in oil things and
oil people. You will rarely find she thinks
much about herself; she has never had time
for it. And this her life. chronicle, which,
out Of its very fulness, has taught her that
the more one does, the more one finds to
, do--she will never flourish in yolr face, or
the face of heaven, as something uncommon
" vlrtuous 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 assuredly,
both here and otherwhere--"She hath done
,phat she could"
! AN OLD BACHELOR. - "Scarcely any
sight is more pitiable than young man who
has drilted on to past thirty, without home
or near kindred; with just income enough t
9 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 ci
gars, etc.--which have become habtual L
' him. Like his fellow. mortals, he is liabl
! enough to the unlucky weakness OF falling
: in love, now and then; but he somehow
manages to extinguish the passion before
r gets fairly alight; knowing he can no NOR
!. venture to ask girl in his own sphere t
IS marry him, or be engaged to him, than h
n can COCK the planet Venus out Of her golt
d en- west into the dirty, gloomy, two.pair bac
y where his laundress cheats him, and hi
x landlady abuses him; whence, perhaps, h
= occasionally emerges gloriously, all stud
and white neck tie-to assist at some youn
y beauty's wedding, where he feels in h
y heart that he might once have been til
J: happy bridogroom--if from his silence sh
! had not been driven to go desperately ar
sell herself to. the old fool opposite, and
/ fast becoming, noy, is already become,
,r FOOLS clever mate; 10. mere woman of Il
II world. And he,, what q noble ideal he HI
Ill SolHCu " Uut oSh1 tloik tNIA uHA .oIhO' slu
i. lar experiences! With what, truth of EN-
ID ton Will he rereat, as he giVesthe, toast
" "The bridemuids," the hackneyed quotatit
~ about pain and sorrow wringing the bro
y and smile half adoringly, half patheticall Il
o at the administering angels" who litter arou
! him. They, charming innocents! W
ny doubtless 60 home avouching "What d
n. lightful person is Mr.. So and so wont
he never gets married" While Mr.. So a
he so also goes home. sardonicaIly minded,
al, his dull lodgings, his book and his cigar,
n. he best knows where. And in the 81
in process OF inevitable detoriation, by forty
to learns to think matrimony decided hu
II. bug; and hugs himself in the conclusion Il
] a virtuous, high minded, and disinteres
ad woman, if existing at ell, exists as a m
ith llsus nature-not to be met with by mol
'ad than now days. Relieving his feeli
he with q grdnt--half sigh, half sneer-
ion dresses and goes to the opera, or the ba
sp. at all. l.sventsiur settles himself on the
led to French tlosel, and .ends,by firmly bel
Sc, ing us women to be--whst we are pair
the there !" ---
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