Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17
Woman and Flowers.

Let woman summon around her home ali
the beauty with which the Creator has cn,
dowcd this earth. let her surround herself
with wilderness of sweets, and there amid
fragrance and beauty she will find that the
virtues Which are german to the unpollutod
heart will also spring up. Her children will
have more tenderness and beauty of character
and will be far less apt to 90 astray among the
brlars and brambics of vice and error The
effect of cutivating beauty around her home
will be to cause every sentiment that swcctens
her own existence TO spring up into ncwncss
of life, to bud and to blossom in all its lowell
ness. She too will come to prefer display
of rich colors in her garden walks to such a
display on her own person, and learn to ap-
prccatc that habit which covers the form in
profusion of huge and brilliant printed flow
crs or muslin, and which seems to indicate an
absence of the flowers of sentiment and an
absolute want of that taste which shows itself
in the cultivation of the garden
we would have every woman both lover
and sedulous cultivation of flowers. We arc
confident that many of those women who
grow and expand like weeds in the heated
apartments of gaicty and fashion, and become
dried i'll heart and stale in sentiment. might
be rescued by timely attention to flowers
They would regain their lost freshness, the
bloom would revisit their wan and wasted
checks, and fresh life would circulate through
their chilled veins. The effect would be to
reclothe the saddcncd and attcnuatcd victim
OF fashion with beauty, and to cause flowers
of sentiment again to spring up in the hearts
which had been ovcrrun witt! weeds Take
thin and sallow and diseased person from
the room in which he has respircd the un-
wholesome and close atmosphere that there
prevails, and place him on the mountain side,
and how long will it be before the blood in
his system, that has half the time been CON
gealcd and only flowed fast under the impulse
of fever, Will so mcrrily on its winding way :"
through arteries and veins, and he will again
become strong and vigorous? so also one
who has wasted h beauty and her fresh
ness, tho tone of her heart and the reGnemcnts
of her sentiments in those saloons i'm which
the atmosphere is full of moral disease, and
whore fashion aud folly dance hand in hand
in positive mockGry OF all those qualities of
which men and women have,a right to boast,
and which ally thens to he angelic exist
enccs, will, when transplantcd like blghted
flower to q. garden, and there learns how to
worship nature instead Of the painted idols
she has been accustomed to, soon begin to re-
gain portion of the original lovclincss of her
nature, and may by and by become entirely
redeemed from the taint that has stolen {" ere
from her eye and yigor from her bulbs" j.
EGYprIAN CorroN.-Thc New Orleans
Pfcayunc says:
We have bconshowh several bolls Of this
fine cotton, grown ON the plantation of, Sena-
- m \
il nearly two inches in length, aud is'as fine
ard glossyas toss silk. The plant is said to
grow from six to eight fectin height aud viii
produce thousand pounds of clean lint to
the acre This is certainly the kingof cotton.
Iks came from school very much agitatcd,
because he couI,ln't understand the principles
Of Allegation downin Groenlief. ".Therc,
deer,D shid Mira Parttngt9n, "Don't frotabout
its you must tcllthe teacher yCu aiI't no alligaS
tor. aud i know he'll rclinquish yonp :" Tho
lad was comforted accordingly.