The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-11-18

luS. HOW nucil pluck anu spirit Will
horse get out of ton of rye straw O.
The truth is, that good and abundant die
is not only essential to the highest physi
cal health ard development Of man, bu
it modifies very importantly the develop
ment and manifestation of the soul. A
man cannot acquire courage by feeding
on theories and milk. An Englishmar
cannot fight without beef in his belly
and no more can any of us.
Boards.
! should be unjust to the age were to
omit the mention of a special point Of
physical culture" which has been long
neglected. You find as you come into
mans estate that hair has tendency to
grow upon your face. 1t is the mark by
which God meant that men and women
should be distinguished from each other
in the crowd. That hair was placed there
in Infinite wisdom, but your fathers have
been cutting it off from their chins in
small crops from thirty to fifty years, thus
impngnng natures policy, wasting pre-
cious time, drawing great deal of good
blood, creating great deal of bad, and
trying to erase from their faces the differ
cncc that was intended to be maintained
between them and those Of women. If
you are man and have beard, wear it.
You know it was made to wear. 1t is
enough TO make man with a decent
complement of Information and a COM
mon degree of sensibility (and hand
some beard) deny his kind, to see these
smoWh-taced men around the streets, and
actually showing themselves in female
society! Let us have one generation of
boards.
TALKING IN ECTsATICS.
And now that am upon this subject
of talk, it will be well to say all have
to say upon it. 1t is a very common
thing for young women to indulge in hy-
perbole. A pretty dress is very apt to
be perfectly splendid :" a disagreable
ferSen is too often perfectly hateful :"
party in which the company enjoyed
themselves somehow becomes TRANSMIT
ted into the "most delightful thing ever
seem A young man of respectable
parts and manly bearing is very often
"such magnificent fcllow" The adj
jective "perfcct,' that stands so much
alone as never to have the privilege of
help from comparatives and superlalives,
is sadly over-worked, in company with
several others of the intense and extrava-
giant order. The result is, taat by the
use of such language as this, your opin-
ion soon becomes valueless.
A woman who deals only in superla-
tives demonstrates at once the fact that
her Judgment is subordinate to her feel
ings, and that her opinions are entirely
unreliable. All language thus loses its
power and significance. The same words
are brought into use to describe "A ribbon
in millncr's window as are employed
in the endeavor to do justice to Thai
berg's execution of Beethoven's most
heavenly symphony. The use of hyper
bole is SO common among women that Il
womans criticism is generally without
value. Let me insist upon this thing
BE more econimical in the use of your
mother tongue. Apply your terms Of
praise with precision use epitheis with
some degree of judgement and fitness
Do not waste your best and highest words
upon inferior objects, and find that when
you have met with something, which real
ly is superlatively great and good, the
terms by which you would distinguish it
have all been thrown away upon inferior
things--that you are bankrupt in express
sion. If thing is simply good, say 50;
if pretty, say SO; if very pretty, say so
If very fine, say SO if grand, say SO; if
say so if magnificent, say so
If splendid, say so. These words all have
different meanings, and you may say
them all of as many different objects, and
not use the word perfect once. That
is very large word. You will probably
be obliged to save it for application to
the Deity, or to his works, or to that Sc
rene rest which remains for those who
love him.
AMERICAN SLANG.
Young women are very apt TO imbibe
another bad habit--the use of slang.
was walking along the street the other
day when met an elegantly dressed lady
and gentleman upon the sidewalk. My
attention was the more attracted toward
them because they were evidently stran-
gers. AT any rate they impressed me as
being very thoroughly refined and genteel
people, As came within hearing Of their
goice-they were quietly chatting along
the way-=l heard these words from the
womans lips / +" You may bet your life
on that" | was Disguised. ] could al
most have boxed her ears, remember
once being in the company of belle
one who had had winters reign in
Some kind of a game was
in progress, when, in a moment OF sur