The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-12-26

FooD FOR THE CRAVING AFFECTIONS.
Wise mother, be not afraid of this
craving for affection, which frets he
heart of your daughter; do not always
see in il husband. rs the speedy and
inevitable conclusion; she loves. she
W shes to be beloved. Well, open to her
the vast field of charity: let benevoIence,
Instead of being to her ap almost selfish
gratificat on of the heart. an aims which
one losses as one passes, become cond =
ton, and enter into the habitual course
Of her life, like prayer, like study, like
the care of her cwn person. 50 many
hours every day for this occupation, and
every day the same hours; give her one,
two, or three families to visit and help.
To impress upon her this practical in
struction, take her into the factories, and
there do not spare her the terrible and
hideous spectacle; the lesson can never
be stern emo 2gh, for it can never be too
well known. Show her, (she who seeks
protection against the fghtest breath Of
air by rich, warm clothing, who rrolongs
her sleep till morning in downv bod;)
show her poor little girls of six years old
dragged away from their repose in win
ter before daylight, and carried to the
factories weeping and shverng upon the
shoulders of Their mothers. Show her.
in the large manufacturing towns, poor
young girls of her own age, victims of
thousand painful diseases, their bodies
deformed, their uecks swollen with scrof-
ula, their fingers consumed by ulcers,
their limbs distorted. Although at first
sight she may recoil with horror, persist.
Hers is not visit of idle curiosity, it is
the beginning of duty. Then will her
soul be flooded with this love, the pnrest
and most fruitful of all--love for the poor
Before such stern realities, fictitious griefs
and meretricious attachments will vanish
as if ashamed of themselves. She will
behold life and marriage, which until now
have appeared to her only as fascinating
dreams, in their austere aspeets-with
their care-wor husbands, their sick child
rem, their childsbcds of agony. At eight
teen we give up our whole souls to what
ever interests US, This continual exercise
of charity, this dai y association with
misery, will fill her life and her heart to
the very brim; love, for everybody will
keep at distance the love for one
Moral History Of Womua.
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''AxINe FOR HER."-Colonel Dick
Nash tells rich story about 'axing for
hsr in his earlier DAYS. He was deeply
smltten with the daughter of a wealthy
old skinflint residing in Alabama. The
colonel, seIt-confdent Of succe SIS, arrayed
himself in bis best suit and proceeded to
call on the 'parient,' for the purpose of
obtaining bis consent to the consu.ri1l..-
ton he devoutly., wished. Matters had
al along gone on smoothly. Colonel
Nash had every ground TO hape for sue
cess. Finally conyenen 8 son arrived
for him to approach the old 'un. Says
the colonel: Squire, my business today
is to ask for your daughters hand.' 1t
is, is it What! you marry my gal?-
Look here. young man; leave my prem
lses ;nstanter, and if you ever set foot
here again I'll mako my niggers-skin you.
Marry my daughter, indeed! YOU
The colonel LETT; he saw that the old
gentleman was angry. After getting off
to safe place, he thought he would turn
and take last fond look at the homo of
his lost idol, when he spied the old man
busy, with spade in hand, shoveling
up his tracks from the yard and throw
ing them over the fence. Col Nash i'm
agined he was ali unwelcome visitor at
that house.