The Nevada journal., 1861-01-18

An HONEST GRowL-Fanny Fern writes the
following "honest growl."
am sick of politics. I am sick of torch
light fzzles. am sick of "the Prince" I am
sick of men who never talk sense to women
I am sick of gloomy Pharisecs, and wordy,
soulleless sermons, and narrow creeds. am sick
of lawless sabbatarians, and female infdels, and
and free lovers. I am sick of unhealthy, dis
eased books full of mystifca.ion and transccn-
dental bosh. am sick of tehaste ribbon" and
''ravishing lace" I am sick, in an age which
produced Bronte and Browning, of the prate
of men who assert that erery woman should be a
perfect house keeper, and fail to add that every
man should be perfect carpenter. 1 am sick
of woman self-styled literary, who think it
proof of genius 10 despise every day household
duties am sick of schools for the manufacture
of bent spines. I am sick of parents, the coffins
of whose children are lready being made, ask
| ing teachers to add another branch to the al
ready suicidal pile of lessons. I am sick of
overworked, ill paid female operatives. am
sick of seein strsss 4istSiAated where soup and
bread should go. I am sick of seeing noodles
in high places, and intelligence and refinement
sitting in inglorious ease by their firesides.
L am sick Of the encouragement held out to wo-
men by the other sex to remain pretty idiots,
followed by long moral essays upon the enorm-
ity FLEEING such. I am sick Of fummery and
nonsense and humbug and preteution of every
kind
I am sick of this everlasting scrambling and
crowding. and pushing and josting on the edge
ofthe five feet of earth which is all any of us can
have at last, after all of orr pains.
Nov, don't lay this growl to indigestion, for
I never had it, or bilioGsnoss, for I feel as ifI
was just made, or long arrears of unpaid bills,
because Ipay as I go. No, sir-as the Episco-
pals have it, call this do steadfasty believe"
There-now l feel better.
ASTIQUirY OF HooPs.-There is a curious
little song, dating back to 160l, entitled
- o mother, a Hoop" in which the value of
hoop skirts is set forth by fair damsel in
terms that would delight modern BELLE
1t commences thus:
60 What a fine thing have I seen to day
o mother, Hoop,
must have one; you cannot say nay;
mother, Hoop!'
Another stanza shows the practical use
fulness of the hoop:
" Pray, hear me, dear mother, what l have been
taught:
Nine men andnine women o'erset in boat;
The men were all drowned, but the women did float
And by help oftheir hoops they all safely got out'
The fashion of hoops was revived in I'LL,
in which year was published in England
- A Panegyrick upon the Late, but most
Admirable Invention of the Hoop-Petty
coat" few years later, 1725,) in New
England, three-penny pamphlet was issued
with the title, " Hoop Petticoats Arraigned
and Condemned by the Light of NatuIe and
Law of God" by which it would seem that
our worry ancestors did not approve the
fashion. In l72S we find hoop skirts and
negro girls and other /" chattles advertised
for sale in the same shop At Noath{Y.
Roses AND THoRNs.-We wonder what
this world would be to us if, throughout
our hves,we reposed on bed of roses
Should we, in reality, feel more happy than
when, under the present social dispensation
we frequently feel a sharp thorn in our sides,
and score Of. their keen, biting points star
ting up against our heads in the nighttime,
as if so many lttleimp were holding a car
nival amidst the feathers of our pillow ?
We have often asked the question: both of
ourselves and others, but never could OBJ
tain a satisfactory answer and being OBJ
liged to take refuge in the court of exper-
ence, we very soon discovered that appear
ances were invariably deceptive, aud that
the roses and thorns of life minge promis-
together that they were inseparably united
-one for a stimulant to man. the other as a
reward to him during the natural pauses
between his exertions.-Home Journal.
VERY CoNsoLTNG'-It was a very ancient Gus
tom for the beman of the parish of St. Sep
uchres to go beneath the walls of Newgate on
the night prior to the execution of condemned
convicts, and ringing his bell, to recite these
admonitory lines
All Won thot in tho con ndamnad ho1d do 1;a