The Shasta courier., 1859-04-23
The "Coming" Woman.

Men often say, "When I marry nv wife
must be this, that and the other enumerating
all physical, mental and moral perfections Cne
can not but smile to look at the men who saw
these things; smile to think of the equivalent
they will bring for all the amiability, beauty,
health, intellectually, domestieity and faithful
ness they modestly require smile to think
of the perforated hearts, damaged morals, bro-
ken down constitutions, and irritable tempers.
which this bright, pure, innocent girls to re-
ceive with her wedding ring If one half the
girls knew the previous life of the men they
marry, the list of cid maids would be wonder
fully increased.
Doubted! Well, if there is room for doub.
now, thank God the coming" womans Alpha
and Omega will not be matrimony. She will
not ofnecessity sour into pink-nosed old maid,
or throw herself at any rickety old shell of hu-
manity, whose clothes are as much out of repair
as his morals. No, the future man has got to
step lively; this wife is not to be had for the
whistling. He will have long canter round the
pasture for her, and then she will leap the fence
and leave him limping on the ground. Thick
soled boots and skating are coming in, and
"nerves, novels and sentiment (by consequence)
are going out. The coming woman, as see
her, is not to throw aside her needle; neither is
she TO sit embroidering worsted dogs and cats,
or singing doubtful love ditties and rolling up
Heaven forbid she should stamp round with
cigar in her mouth, elbowing her feIlo,os, and
pulling smoke in their faces or stand on the
free-love platform, public or private-call it by
what speclous name you will-wooing men who
low as they may have sunk in their own self
respect, would die before they would introduce
her to the unsullied sister who shared their
cradle.
Heaven forbid the coming woman should not
have warm blood in her veins, quick to rush to
her cheek, or tingls at her fingers ends when
ner neart Is astlr. No, the coming woman shall
De no cool, angular, fat-chested narrow-s -shouI- |
deIed skimpy, sharp-visaged Betsy, but she shall
De bright-eyed, full-chested, broad-shoulder-
ed iarge-souled, intellectual being able to walk,
aole to eat, able to fulfill her maternal DESTINY
ana able-if it SO please God-to 90 to her |
grave happy, self-poised and serene. though un-
welded; for this world, though it NAV do for
men, IS, after all, but narrow place for wo-
mans heart to beat in. That many die and
make no sign, is no proof that martyrdom died
ou' with John Rogers-fanny Fern.
CASNIBALIsN.--The Rev. Messrs. Williams and
calvert, missionaries, for many years among the
fiJians, state, in their recently published work,
that those unsophisticated childrenof nature eat
long pig" as they call, with graceful humor,
roast man, in contradistincticn to "short pip u
by which they designate our squealinQ fellow
roasters from three different motives When
ehief has gala day, or desires to signal his
arrival by right royal feast, it is considered be-
hitting to slaughter some men, to let the blood
run IN the path of royalty, and to have on the
table some rodst-homme. Our Captain Wilkes
toid US, years ago, that, for this roast-homnae,
pump fglana, of some twelve or thirteen years,
Is Is preferred. They know very well what's good
Tue second motive is hatred. When Fiian
mortaliy hates person, he endeayors to kill
MN and having killed the enemy, why should
the victim not be eaten Lastly, it would seem
that ahectionate regard, especially for favorite
wife, sometimes rises to a mordant passion and
anu 'uueonquerable longing for material assirnila-
uon-so much so, that the loving husband roasts
his Penelope, and neighbors are invited to par
tcipate in his better fourth or fifth, as the DO
lygamic case may be.