Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-24

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A SERMON TO BoTH SEXEs.-Much
remains to be done in winnowing cut of
peoples minds ridiculous ideas Of eer-
tain purely Fictitious styles of living,
without which it is impossible to keep
house. There are plenty Of young
men who have to unlearn the Iorpery
of expenses disproportioned to their
means, and tho sordldness of luxuries
which feed, not self-respect, but glut-
tony and pride. The possibility must
be secured to daughters and younger
sisters growing to be rational, apprecia-
tive companions girls who, if they are
ever married, will choose and value
their husband for what he is, and be
interested in his calling and his oppor-
tunities of Observation-Disclosures who
will estimate the grave and sweet real
tiles Of wife and motherhood, beyond
any accident of precedence or superAu-
ity. By dismissing false and foolish
notions of responsibility, by refusing
the cheap destinations of a paltry edu-
cation Of display, by misunderstanding
restraints instructed or too rigorous,
by cultivating an intelligent and unas-
Stunning mode of intercourse, by care
full foresight in assisting young peo-
pie to prepare themselves for the exer-
ton and cost Of one day being the cen
ire Of a peaceful, hospitable home in
these ard other ways much may be done
to remove Instructions to that gradual
acquaintance and that unaffected re-
spect and attachment which leads to a
happy marriage.
In the meantime it will be we'll to
think, with not only the sympathy, but
the generation that women deserve of
many among those who will never mar
ry, to assist in multiplying the few oc-
equations suitable to the female or at
present open to her above all not to
preach, oy implication or otherwise,
that woman's life need ever be dwarfed
to negation, or consumed miserably
away, by causes completely out of her
control. There are women strong
enough to keep their footing in the
world singly, without loss of womanly
dignity and sweetness, and to organize
around them the moral elements, at all
events, of an independent existence.
They whose steps are feeble need the
more to be helped rather than hindered
in the struggle with their fainting and
more yielding self. If they fall here,
is it at all cerain that in welded life
their lot would have been auspicious
Alas how many faltering will has
been bent and "given'' beneath san
guine, unfulflled resolutions to reclaim
and humanize the husband who has
pulled the wife down instead to his own
mean and wretched level. Marriage is
not lottery, but it is mere wllful
blindness to forget that in all its high
er relations it may be wofully inverted
or appallingly debased. Not all the
grand provisions of tender ties and
gracious instincts which surround one
of the greatest Of divine ordinances
will make people pure and happy who
irsist on being peevish or frivolous, or
worldly, sensual or devilish.
Welded life is great and holy mys-
terry, and source of power for good,
often far beyond estimation but un-
less there be at least one soul filled
with unselfsh love, and strong in an
unaagging faith, the formal union be-
tween two persons is no guarantee
whatever for will ennobled, or affec-
tions enlarged and cleapsed. And the
faith which so works by love can make
sunshine in shady place without an
infants or husbands eye to look in
to. The harmonies Of developed and
TRANSPORTED womanhood have been set
many time to other music than that
of wedding bells. She who is enthron-
ed never, under any roof, in a moth
er's holyssovereignty, may earn the
right, in many a house. of compelling
every soul to love her. She will Gre
ate or find an atmosphere in which to
keep unwithered "the heart out of
which are the issues Of life." Her
hands will redeem the time, and her
brain not be idle. Living singly, yet
not solitary, when she dies it will not
be till "smote" by many a touch of
gratitude and cheerful, reverential
sympathy "the chord ef self has trem-
bled past in music out of sight"
Church Of England Revie,U.
TIE FRosT.-The following, which
we find in the N. Y. Post, is evidently
from the pen of the poet. editor Bryant:
There is something impressively sub
lime in these quiet yet potent influences
of nature thus working in the stiffness
Of night, and in few hours noiselessly
undeing the long and busy labors Of
the tillers Of the soil. Like the angel
that destroyed the first bern Of all the
houses Of Egypt, an icy presence pass
es over the fields all bursting with the
treasures Of growing vegetation, and
the first Born Of the earth-the budding
grain, the iipening fruit Of Spring time
shrivels away and dies. No human
power cansoppose the progress Of the
destroying angel !; nor is there any
bloody sign upon the door-post that
foretells Of his coming. And yet the
fearful visitant is sometimes fooled by
,oencies that man wonld never th;nk If