Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

MoDiAa YouNa LADIES. .-As for 70.
nance, it has had its day. Young wo-
men, in whose fresh, untutored minds
and generous hearts it had known from
time immemorial its sure stronghold
and sanctuary, have gone over IN al
body to the enemy, and now rAngei
themselves under the brown banner of
matter of fact, stern reality, and COM
mon sense. They no longer pore over
Byron and Lamartine, delight in moon
light and solitude, and the sacred SYM
pathy of one congenial spirit. They
study M Culloch and Adam Smith, and
light the candles directly it is too dusk
to read or write. Moreover, they have
grown gregsrious in their habits ; they
incline towards committees, and take
pleasure in associations. They know
too much about sanitary laws, and pay
too great attention to them ever, to,
think Of such things as moonlight RAM
bles, or meditations after dark at an
open window. The Juliets Of the 18th
century would decline holding any clan
destine communication with Romeos
from ; balcony. In the FIRST place they
would consider it weak and NONSENSE
cal; and secondly, they wouldn't like
to risk catching cold. They have
wholesome consideration for rheuma-
tism and catarrh-disorders which the
damsels Of my day regarded with lofty
and ipcredulous disdain. As for thin
shoes, except for dancing, they appear
to have altogether vanished from the
feminine toilet. "Balmoraw boots,
soles half an inch thick, and military
heels, have usurped their place. Those
boots, and the martial red petticoats
now 50 familiar to every eye, are to be
eloquent manifestations Of tho change
which has come over the spirit of wo-
manhood. 81 VIA ~ q e
CUNNING AND DIscREr1oN.-Cun
ming has only private selfish aims, and
sticks at nothing which may make them
succeed. Discretion has large and ex-
tended views, and like a we'll formed
eye, commands . whole horizon: cum
ming is kind of short sightedness, that
discovers the minutest objects which
are near at hand but is not able to DIS
Germ things at distance. Discretion,
tho more it is discovered, gives . great
er authority to the person who possess
es it cunning, when it is once detect
ed, loses its force, and makes man
incapable of bringing about even those
events which he might have done, had
he passed only for plain man. Dis
erection is the perfection of reason, and
guide to US in all the duties of life /;
cunning is kind of instinct, that only
looks out after our immediate interest
and welfare. Discretion is only found
in men Of strong sense and good un-
derstandings cunning is often to be
met with in brutes themselves, and in
persons who are but the fewest removes
from them. In short, cunning is only
the mimic of discretion, and may pass
upon weak men, IN the same manner
as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,
and gravity for wisdom. addison.
HoME.-We have rarely ever seen a
simple child story that more touched us
than the following, which we find in an
exchange: .se
"This is my home!n' cried a little
ore, treasured boy of four summers,
as fresh and rosy, he came in from
school, at the close of q short winters
/ afternoon. s5ps.s.
"Indeed, little Willie," said his
mothers visitor, chow is it? Suppose
you 60 out on the sidewalk, and try at
the next door; suppose you step into
the entry, throw off your little sack as
you have here, and proceed to the par
lor-would not that be your homer pr
"No, indeed" said Willie, "that
would not be it!''
"But tell nae why not 20
Willie had never thought of this.
He paused a moment, then directing
his eyes tc where his mother sat quiet
ly sewing, he replied, with an earnest
gesture, "She lives here ~ 81 r
The WOUNDED IN THE LATE VAR
A letter from Brescia, received in En-
gland, describing the scenes in Italy
after the war, says more than 1900
limbs have been amputated. "Many
have both legs, and there is one poor
trunk, fine spirited young French
man, wao has been deprived Of four
limbs, that is both feet, one arm entire,
and the hand Of the other. And vet
alas! he lives not, certainly, as one
of your English wits once said to the
mourners over fatal case Of like mu-
tllation, to be an ornament to society.
The hospital reports yesterday reduce
the sick and wounded remaining to-
about 5000, chiefly French and Pied.
montese. The mortality among the
Austrians is surprising; only about 500
remain. -
MISTAKES IN PER CssrAeE.-Mis.
takes are often made by person, not
business men in calculating per CEN
tage. If a merchant marks his goods
for sale at retail at 50 per cent. advance,