Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-07-01
wholesome Advice for Women.


The author Of the following advice to women Bishop
Doane has Just gone to reap the reward Of well spent
life and the words used were the last he ever spoke in
nnbic They contained in an address delivered
Few weeks SINCE before the female graduating class of
o. Marv's Hail. n j. After brief alIusion to the com
mencment of their worldly career he proceeds follows
The times are out of joint. Corruption stalks in
orr high places Liceniousness has well nigh lost its
shame. lnfdelity is bold and bracenlaced. The wave
Of barbarsm is rolling back upon For these things
YOUR sex is greatly answerable. Women are not true
10 themselves They wink at vice. They make COM
promise with wordliness They tolerate irreligion-
And they are the victims of their unaithfuness-
The stronger SEX look up in best things to the weaker
They have all had mothers. They have all had sisters
They own them in the sex to which they owe them
And women are but true to God true to their posi-
ton true to Themselves they would have strength from
Him to hold the world in check. No woman ever fell
Int by her consent AS at first, the woman is the
temper. There is man, that has not passed into
brute to do tigers d. that can resist the matchess
majesty of a resolved woman And stronger than all
law stronger than anything but God when it is strong
in His strength, would be the power of woman to put
down rudeness and lay the bride upon license. But
the age is sefindulgent, And setindugence grows by
what it feeds on
Women are occupied by fashion. Women slaves to
dress Women are willing to fatered. Women are care
their amusements Young set up for themselves
They look upon their parents as old fashioned
They are impatient OF domestic restraints
They are averse to domestic occupations
They vote their homes a bore They congre-
cate away from its control They indulge unreasonable
hours to meet the other than half way. They
make themselves debtors for their escorts to places of
sort They permit the approaches of familiarity. They
tempt the hidden devil of their nature They forget their
Bibles They neglect their Prayer Books. They are
women OF fashion. They women of the world
What else they rather shaped by the opportunity
than by themselves In this way the female atmosphere
loses its freshness and its fragrance. The woman is
longer what she was made to be-"a help meet" of the
man. A man ceases to be what God designed him for
her partner, her prop and her protector.
Crossing NIAGARA FALLS ON TIGHT RoPE-
Mons BlOndn, gymnast, is making preparations to
walk over Niagara Falls on q tight-rope to be erected
about $50 feet above the water rocks &c. The distance
to be travelled on this rope is about 100 feet The
exploit is advertised to take place Thursday next the
Goth inst The Niagara Falls Gazette of Friday, has
the following in reference TO the preparations
Mons Blondin performed one of the most daring eats
record, yesterday afternoon. With several Others he
engaged in putting the large cable upon which
he is to the river The end of the cable was fas-
tened to the end of the seveneghths inch rope aready
across on the American side and machinery attached
the other end of the latter the Canada side The
small rope used to draw the large one over. When
the large cable had been drawn within two hundred feet
Of the bank it feared that the small rope would
uol prove strong enough to take it to land Had the
rope broken all the previous labor in getting the first
across would have been thrown away. In this dilemma
Mons BlOndln attached a cord to his body and went
out the small rope the distance above named and
after attaching another to the cable descended slack
rope to the top of tree which grows from near
the waters edge Ali this done with the agility of
squirrel, and with no apparent fear. The cable was
then landed and made secure. During the performance
Of this hazardous feat large number of spectators look
ed in utter amazement The performance is thought
by those who saw it to be fully as difficult and attended
with quite much danger, as tC walk across on the
large cable. Those who witnessed it, and have been
more or less skeptiCal, now give up. They have no
doubt of his ability to walk from bank to bank-eeven
hundred feet.
Hundreds of people daily visit the grounds at each
end Of the cable to witness the progress of the work.
The guys are now being fastened To do this Mons B.
has go out on the cable to the places he wishes to
and well worth seeing The whole will be ready this
Week. The crossing will take place. we have before
stated, on Thursday next, the Both inst.
STICK TO THE BoAT-The Richmond Dispatch gives
some advice to people who like to sport on the water
which is appropriate every where:
At this season Of the year, when pleasure sails on
the rivers very common, and capszes and other
cdcnts not unfrequent word of advice may not be i'm
proper In times of accident selfposessiOn IS OF the
highest Importance. With presence of mind man may
sustain himself in deep water for several hours by pac
ing his hands upon small board or row oar floating
with it, sailboat capable Of carrying six persons in
her. when in good order, WILL after filling, sustain
dozen for indefinite length Of time if they put
their hands upon her aud float with the tide If the
craft capSizes she is even buoyant than when full
of water and would sustain and carry safely to shore
half dozen who could not swim If they did no more
than put their hands upon her, and thus prevent them
selves from sinking Never attempt to swim ashore
alone long you within reach OF the boat ant
she is aHoat but stick to her like leech and guide he
the shore by the of hand and your feet More
persons are drowned from fright than in any other way
Remember that fact if you get cast into the water sct
to the the ship while there is plank left to ride thu
waves"