The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-01-19

New York city spends $6oo ,Ooo per year Tor
kiniling VOID.
A clerk at Washington "fell in love" with
yretty widow :. she did not reciprocate; he
made little party for his male friends and
drank an ounce Of Prussic acid! he was
dead in half an hour. |
A Woman
The Turks, and some Americans are very
turkish in their views, say that ga woman is at
the bottom of all mischief" We have known
rhilosophic bachelors who insist that women
know a good deal the most, and all we innocent
men have to do in life is to watch and pray lest
the super-cunning females get ahead of Us and
make us slaves. We do not subscribe to either
of these views, though in quilted sense, both
are strongly tincturcd with fact. The first has
an odor of truth for the reason that the ranta-
looncd gentry are such worshppers of ''ihe last
best gift' that they will go into almost any mis-
chief to secure the smiles of the Dulcineas who
have captured their hearts the sofness OF man
being more a fact than the wickedness Of wo-
man. The last position is assumed 10 be true
because will all the vain boast of strength and
superior mental stamina which men indulge in.
little bit Of woman, less perhaps than
ninety pounds in weight, with nothing but
"swcet curls, pretty eyes and a dainty foot
has often brought two-hundred. pound monster
to his knees Not that she "knew the most"
in matters pertaining to the affairs of the world,
politics, war, lager beer or other subjects of
general discussion, but because, like home
ora,hic physician, she knew precisely how and
where to apply the remedy to that disease Of
roughness or bearishness with which her rival
in government is afflicted. The truth is the
light of woman's eye filings more joy into the
art-chambor of man than all the cheers Of a
crowded Senate or the guns and banners of an
army of processionists. and we'd bet hat that
the "Lttle GIANT though victorious over
every opponent and surfeited with a man .wor-
ship never before conceded to an American
Civilian, fearless of all the foes which party
spleen or personal hate could bring into the
| field against him, derives more heartfelt plea
sure from the approving smile, or would expo
rience more anguish from the condemuing
glance of Madame Douglas. than could be con.
veyed to him by the praises or the censures Of
all the world beside. And yet, Mrs. D. though
a lady of intellectually, is not suspected of be
ing competent to fill her husbands place in the
Senate, nor does she aspire to the Presidency
however much she may have to do in advising
the selection of the Cabinet in 1861
1 Jca Il, t,o xcl,
is invested with q tenderness, an amiability,
; charm Of impress which robs cold, abstrac
} knowledge of all its power and renders it fee
BILE and imploring at her feet. Here is wher
, she is forever Queen, and it is only when sh
} steps from this throne of persuasive eloquenc
and puts on masculine severity, that she loses tn
, crown which the Almighty has placed upon he
brow. But We are becoming frightened at OF
own temsrity here we are fairly on the roa
to a lecture ON Woman's Rights. subject whic
forty horses could not draw US into.
We positively assert that it was only our d.
, sign 70 refer to little Washington gossip rela
ting to Mrs Ousley. or, tospcak less Americanl,
. Lady Gore Ousley,' The wife of the itinerar
; British Minister who has been figuring for tn
my Lady has Been fnesscing al the Whit
House. 1t is now said that the change whic
has marked the course of the President O
Clayton-Bulwer and Nicaraguan affairs, is to
attributed TO the irresistible ways of the preit
English woman. and, Scandal Avaunt it is ia
Their said that il the President was not know
to be virtuous old bachelor, so great is II
+. intimacy Of the two, and SO much commar
d has madame Ousley al the Presidential Manso
:. that the wicked would be justified in
t nouncing such familiarity as quite unbecomir
in the Executive Of a Christian people!
o We do not believe word of it, but it
mentioned merely to illustrate the pow
d which it is wicked]y supposed by the woll
: woman's fascination can WELD over hi
g whom all the elections Of 1858 failed to frighte
3. An American lady to whom we mentioned Il
report says it is an unbearable affront to 4
|. Native charmers of the U. States, that
Buchanan should remain, during the impres
:. ible period Of his life, unmoved by tho attic
!, tons of his countrywomen, and now in his Q
d age jeoFard the interests of the republic q
e descend from his position as statesman, Gil
]. encelike. to the trifiing dalliance Of an Engt
1t gladys chamber! - 1t occurs to US as a run
J. that the influential lady is really of Americ
h. birth. and il SO, the fact takes of the point
ct ourficnds objection.
A astronomical.
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