The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-02-02
Byron's Prose women.

AT Genoa, one III 9 day IN May thirty
six years ago, Lord Byron was t.lkingto
Lady Blessington; we say talking to, for
when in company where no whiln made
him contemptuous or dumb, he did what
he himself charged Madame de Stael with
doing; he declaimed instead of conycrs-
ing. r
He had been saying in his flppant.
wicked way that he was thought devil
because Lady byron was allowed to he
an angel, and that it formed pretty an
titbesis, and thus continued:
CATER twenty, it is difficult to believe
in the ex stencs of angels, though tho
first and last object of ones affection has
some of their attributes. Imagination,
said Byron, resembles hope--when un-
clouded, it gilds all that it touches with
its own bright hue; mine makes me see
beauty wherever youth and health have
impressed their stamp; and after all ! ain
not very far from the goddess, when ! ara
with her landmarks, for such they certain
ly are. Sentimentalists may despise
buxom health with rosy hue, which has
something dairymaid-like, l confess, in
the sound continued hc-,for buxom,'
however one may like tho reality, is not
euphonious, but | have the association Of
plunpness, rosy hue, good spirits, aud
good humor, all brought before me in
the homely phrase; and all these united
give me better idea of beauty than lam
Ky laneuor, sicklied DER with the pale
cast of thought; and bad health, and bad
humor. which are Synonymous, making
tomorrow cherries as to-day. Then
see some of our fine ladies' whose nerves
are more active than their brains, whs
talk sentiment an ask you to admins
ter to a mind diseased, and pluck from
tho memory rooted sorrow, when it 10
the body that is diseased, and the rooted
sorrow is some chronic malady; these, \
own, alarm me, and delicate woman,
however PRETTY it may sound, burrows
up my feelings with o host Of shadowy
ills to come, of vapors, Mysteries, m rves,
megrims, intcrmitting feyers, and all tho
ills that wait upon poor weak woman
who, when sickly are generally weak in
more senses than one. The best dowera
woman can bring, is he nth and good hui
NOR; the latter, whatever We may say Of
the triumphs of minds, depends on the
former, as according to the old poem
Temper ever waits on health. u@ag
AS luxury depends on wealth. 81
But mind, when object to delicate wo-
men, Il at. is to say, women of delicate
health, alias sckly, don't mean to say
that like coarse, fat ladies, ala Ru6ens,
whose minds mnst be impcnetrable, from
the mass of matter in which they are in
cased. No! I like m active and healthy
mind, in an active and healthy person,
each extending its beneficial influence oven
the other, and maintaining the equlllbr-
UNI; the body illuminated by the light
not let out by any chinks made BY time;
in short, | like as who does not, a hand
some, healthy woman, with an intelligent
and ineligible mind, wlno can DO son'c-
thing more than what it is said French
woman can only do, habiNs, babil'e, dig
ha6iUe, who is not obliged to have re-
course to dress, 81 opping, and visits, to
get through a day, and soiroes, operas,
and flirting, to pass an evening. You
sec | am moderate in my desires; only
wish for perfection. .ae