New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05
FROM BOSTON,
..of The N. Z. Tribune

tbst the millennium had really come, that the Lion Of
March had indeed lain down with the Lamb OF April
that there was 10 be shverng more, and that rheu
,na,ism and heart-ache 10 dee away eorever
yhat sudden condensation was there OF this golden
vaeor of Hope Last week was week OF SHOWS
We took leave Of Perambulation. Social HE was not
The brayest Of Us opened doors and over the So"
heaps in front of them nodded ST our neenooS
opposita. and wished we were able 10 shaae
hands with them. Exchanging mild smiles ana shrues
of inability we closed thu door sgsn turned over tne
books ON the studyabe, wished there wss corner IN
kitchen. psrlor cellar rag-bag that we hAu eA-
plored and did MT know by heart How We hate our
} homes. TRIBUNE when we can get out OF them ana
how we long for them when we can't get a. then!
These contrasts are curious and should he deeply con-
sidered in the plan Of every life. Mme. de Mntehoh
gave her confessor reason against embracing nc
nastc career that =" in the world our returns are A'
"ways for God, but in the convent our returns Aie
always for the world" This wss true woman
saying, simple, but full OF suggest n. IL IL Hoou"
place ourselves sometimes 30 that we Shall nave e'ur'
which. take it, are resetionsry longings toward
the best things and toward our best t1ehuS'
Isolation bgbtens sy mpathy and fear our poor vir-
tue needs the seasoning of an occasional repentance
Besdes we like to make clean cut occasionally, and
and thew get 40 welded that scarcely know ourselves
apart Do own these four walls or do they own me,
and detain ME here for their pleasure and peservaonf
Do want these books, or do their ghostlN authors
seize me wandering near he stelves mpennel me by
the buttonbole, and insis; upon pouring their bottled
ND wisdom into my passive mlndl once read terri
bic tJeatse of Fichte upon the me and not me- IN
which be gave 90 many why could not be The
ysshs,and nor the washstand l. that Logan alter q
while 70 doubt the fact Had re I'd further, tbink
should never have known myself from boae-furnlture
again. Let me here remark that many OF these gym
nastics of German seem 10 have DO oehet
Office than that of harmessy euPtyDg the BRAN OF MI
It's electricity. Their battery sri, no hammer turns
no wheel Fchte having decided that he was not the
wsshstsnd smoked took beer, and walked out TO meet
some philosophic friend who, viewing himself 'Hcfn-
s;ve ss the Germans sag, thought be might be that
among other things. Fatherand meantime gong 10
the Dev--sropg hands wanted clear, practical brains
--inf1itesmal oppression to be undermined the csb'
tury helped on. 81 am not the washsisnd,' says
Fichte; am everything" says Hegel. Fstberand,
take care Of yoursef Yet who ebal say that Is not
vital point to know real selves from tic Fictitious
personalities imposed upon US aDo to Distinguish be-
tween the symptoms Of fancy and the valid phe-
nomepa of our hvesi All this is deep, TTisuNE,
don't put it in your wastepaPer basket which Is deeper
still cruel moreover the basket Of the beadsman, who
waits upon the guillotne. But VAS going 10 tell you
Of the weather how bad it was, and bow We lived
through it-how horse-cars could not get out OF tho
stable and bow hears-like old omnibuses on runners
carried Us about boxed up ike convcs or hker 10 our
late Minister at the court OF Pekin il some OF bis nte-
rior explorations; how windy night We were all
rocked in our beds as in 30 many cradles how house.
holders dreaded the fall of chmneys and waited the
day Boston, that night, was filled 10 oveItowing the
usual systole and dastole between and the country
suspended half way trains impractlcabie many
eurey beds m Concord, Worcester, Hsverhl and the
Ike. double amount Of bedding wanted In
thu metropolis But where's the use
"of living over what was well lived
through The snow is all gone now, the birds are
out again the grass begins TO color, and the wina
blows mildly from pleasant quarter-not the cast
Sir though zee by your smile that you think So The
only merry memory Of the bad week was the class at
Dr. Lewis's Gy mlasum, which has become one Of the
institutions of Boston. Class composed OF females Of
various ages-excuse the expression, but ladies ID
TOO ambitious q designation, and the term woman
nowadays implies rights, and has political sgnif-
canoe. No hoops-dresses various, from Bloomer to
Bath costume. Ladies, take your places, some forty In
number. Strike up music. The Athlete stands on al
all eyes are fixed. We begin with the wooden dumb
bells. Flourish them wildly over your beads; strike
out right now left swing this way and that all in time
10 the music. All you're distressed for breath
Shove you wanted the exercise badly. Now take the
wands. Straighten, tip, present, uAneuver. Now
form lines on two parallel boards the bean bags
and see which side will pass them all the way down.
and all the way back, soonest. One, two three
bearetisl how the bean bags po--Our aide has won
the other this tme-and 90 We look like the able
bodied witches in Macbeth, but merry witches,
and mean no harm to any Only, if husbands, IA
Tiers and suitors knew precisely tie strength Of
and depth of chest tend develop they might think
It best TO put little restraint upon Dr. Lewis, lest
pursuit Of happiness always under difficulties, should
become too vigorous occupation for domestic peace
Up at the State House, time passes as best 1t may.
The Governor is beseged in bis green-room, in his
walks and even in his pew in church, by offce-seek
ers They plague one like the Athanassn curse,
which wound intimately through every fold and tissue
of its subjects body that infnitesma membrane
muscle might escape the invoked msedction. Like
other rites Of false religions it led, doubt TO
accurate knowledge of anatomy, and did no possible
harm rave 10 the men who called it down upon others.
The shelf on which the Divine wrath s kept is 10 high
above us that there is great danger OF pulling 1t down
upon our own heads, when NEEDLE with II for the
detriment Of others. But the otbce-seekersthey are
everywhere. Dread TO open ieIter-dread to See a
mild looking enter your study, Office, or drawing
room. He wants your influence, ETC., etc You tell
him thst you have no influence. Establish one,
them, he oooy suggests and, being much persuaded,
departs Not that our men are worse than those
on the other side-how could they be But they
have been 90 long excluded from every smallest sphere