Daily national Democrat., 1860-01-05
Ladies at Libraries.

have uncommon personal altracuohs' Nuoe"
~ gait, noble figures, the hnest iaeeS ",H
brows, and the brightest eyes IN lhe Worlu'
are the beautiful marks OF not lew oil theh'
PHILADELPHIA beauty is famous in all countries.
The fame is Just; but it is certain that the
most radiant beauty Philadelphia has, is to
be seen at the libraries. Our finest black
haired brown.haired, and fair haired girls
are to be seen in them at intellectual opera
tions, which seem to add new lustre to thelr
smooth, blushing countenances. The fashion
able promenades are not the surest places IN
which to see our brightest and best young
ladies' This custom among the sex OF ire
quenting the libraries cannot be too highly
commended. Cultivated women are as much
an ornament and honor to n city or State as
cultivated men, France has as much dis
tincton from Madame de Stael as from the
most brilliant OF its philosophers. Fanny
Burney (Madame d 'Arblay,) Mrs. Macauley,
Agnes Strickland, and numerous other ie'
males, shed the highest lustre on England
The Irish boast of Miss Edgeworth OF the
Porters, Of Lady Morgan, and Of Lady Bles-
tngton, with spirit indicative of the highest
appreciation. Scotland, too, has gained in
honor through the educated genius of more
than one of its bonnie, bright eyed asses
Every country in Europe has been benefited
by talented women. So has our own beloved
America. Our female poets and fiction wri-
tiers have done as much for our intellects
morals tastes and honor abroad, as our lite
rary men, Miss Sallie Bridges, of this city,
Mrs. James Campbell, (Chief Justice Lewis
daughter,) Mrs Hale, Mrs. Sigourney, and
scores Of others, have written poems that
America will be forever proud Of Besides
public glory as result of elevated female
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TALLY obscure, is followed by effects Of i'm
measurable Importance"
We may remark, also, that the ladies who
usually visit the City Library in this place
are not only the most intellectual but the
best looking. 1t is a very mistaken idea,
which many seem to entertain, that intellect
and homeliness among females go together,
and that to be a woman of mind is to be mas
culine The very contrary is most frequent
ly the case Mrs. Norton, the great English
poetess the loftiness of whose passionate
verse is more Byronic in its character than
that of any other female of the present age,
was, in her younger days, woman of sur
passing beauty. 1t was blended mental
and physical beauty which gave her the
majesty that so well belonged to born
queen in the realms of song.
Miss Landon, the charming "L. Z. l.,
goes down to posterity almost as much re.
nowned for her lovelincss of form and fea.
ture as for the superior force and beauty of
her intellect.
Americas sweetest warblers in the haunted
groves Of song have been Americas loveliest
daughters Mrs. Francis Sargent Osgood,
Amelia Welby, Rosa" and a host of other
divine and gifted beings, native to our
shores were or are most richly endowed
with all those personal charms and blandish.
ments which the gentler sex SO much covet
and the other so enthusiastically admire
Nor do we need to confne ourselves to the
limits Of the poets, in order to find our &c.
male beauties. In the province of many of
our best prose writers,-in the ranks Of our
lady editors,-among the devotees of the
art preservative Of arts" in the walks of
SCIENCE the atmosphere of the divine art
OF painting, and everywhere in the whole
range of intellectual exerion, we find the
lovelest and most beautiful of women.
True, there is occasionally dried up old
spinster, some long necked incorrgible blue.
stocking, who queens it in literature, by the
sole power of mind, and owes nothing to
nature on the score of personal attractions
but then there are so many of different
character that the exceptions can be afforded |
Among our school-teaehers, our teachers
of music, and those engaged in all those in
telleetual occupations which require superior
talent, do we not find very, very many
sweet and charming women? We rather
think we do. Among the ladies also of our
social circles, are those who converse the |
most deliciously, who sing the most entran-
cingly, who play the most divinely, or give
other evidence Of superior mental cultivation
and superiority, always the ugliest? By no
means, by no means.
If we turn to ancient days. we shall find
that the most gloriously endowed of all the
Intellectual women of Greece and Rome
women who were deemed worthy of associa-
ton in the councils and the studies of the
chief orators, statesmen, poets, painters and |
sculptors Of the time,-women who talked |
Of philosophy to Socrates, or of politics to
Pereles, or of eleoquence to Cicero, or of
poetry to Virgil-were no less munifcentlv
endowed by nature with all that goes to
make up the sum total of that overpowering
loyeliness which takes captive the hearts of
man.
On such theme as this there is no end,
for to cite the instances of blended intel.
leetual and physical beauty in the ranks of
womankind. would be to re-write large
portion Of the whole history Of the world.
The Overland Mail which left San Fran
cisco, Monday, carried 1904 letters, of which,
lo7 were way letters
On Monday, fire broke out in the Per.
kins House on Folsom street, san Francisco
destroying a great portion of the building. 1t
was occupied by a number of small families.
some OF whom lost all they possessed
AT the American theater, San Francisco.
on Monday night, Mr. Hackett made his first
appearance on the California stage, in the
character of "Sir John FalstaiE" He was
s'se'ea oy an immense audience.
ED FOR BleAMy.-Thos. w. Browder,
VINO was sometime since arrested in San
francisco on charge of bigamy. but dis