Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1861-10-25


7 CL1NorNc To- YourH.-t abominate the:
PADDED. rouged, dying old sham; but 1
heartily respect tue man or woman, pensive
and sad, MS some little circumstance has
Impressed upon them the fact that they
were growing old. A man or woman is
fool who is indignant at being called the
old lady or The old gentleman, when these
phrases state the truth but there is moth
ing foolish or unworthy when some such
occurrence brings it home to US, with
something of shock, that we are no lung
er reckoned among the young, and that the
innocent and imprcssionabe days Of child
hood $50 we'll remembered,) are beginning
to be fur away. We are drawing nearer,
we know; to certain realities of which we
speak much and feel little ; the uudiscov-
cred country (humbly sought through the
pilgrimage Of life) is looming in the dis
dance before. We feel that life is not
common place, when it is regarded as the
portal Of eterni,y. And probably nothing
will bring back the season of infancy ard
early youth upon any thoughtful mans
mind SO vividly asthe same that he is
growing old. How short time since
then Yon look at your great brown hand.
1t sceas like yesterday since boy com
panion (gray now) tried to print your name
upon the little paw, and there was not
room. You remember it lis FIVE and twenty
years since y as it looked when it laid on
tho head of a friendly dog, two or three
days before you found him poisoned and
dead; and helped, not without tears, 10
bury him in the garden under an apple
tree. You see, as plainly as you saw it
then, his brown eye, as it looked at you in
life for the last time. And as you feel these
things, you quite unaffectedly and sincerely
put off, time after time, the period at which
you will accept it as a fact you are old.
Tweuty-eigbt, thirty, thirty-fve, forty -eigh.
mark years, on reading which you will still
feel you are young. Many men honestly
think that sixtyeight is the prime Of life.
BEFORE me is bouquet of beautiful
flowers, containing many Of Flora's chois-
est treasures. Among them are many
gaudy colored ones, and some that are as
exquisitely painted as the fairy-tinted shell
from the depths of old ocean, there are
others as deIcately wrought as gossamors.
With the rest is sprig of mignanettc-
without which no bouquet is complication
who does not love it even moro than its
fairer sister, it is so plain yet SO deliciously
fragrant. Who has ever thought that in
the interesting Bile history Of Ruth she is
nowhere said to be beautiful, fair to look
upon, as Sarah, Abraham's wife, was, or
Rcbccca2 Still every artist paints her as
more beautiful than any othe, Of those
splendid women of Israel. We are accus-
toned to think Of her as cquslling the
queenly Ester, though not so regal in her
beauty. Now imagine that she was like
this mignonette, though possessed Of a
pam SoubtShohSS3 tho SOoobSoo Va hSa
heart, like the fragrance Of the flower, made
men call her beautiful. Her spirit irradia-
ted her face, and shone in her eyes with a
sweetened temper that made her loveliest
Of them all. What an example here is for
young ladies who wish to be deemed beau
tiful. 1t is not the beauty of the face but
Of the heart that makes lovely woman.
1t is the affections that we admire most in
woman. There must be bit of her heart
in all things she doeth and that true
woman's. 1t should vibrate on her tongue,
shine sweetly from her eyes, drop benevo-
lently from her hands, and ibe left scattered
in her footprints. Then, whenever che
goeth the rustlipg Of her dress would play
sweet prelude to her coming, her words
would be like songs Of the affections, the
works her hands performeth like tho blosso.
ming of fragrant flowers. In her eyes we
should behold soul.pictures, deep in mean.
ing, calm and holy scenes, like the rehec-
tions id the crystal Of mountain lakes.
Her influence would be ike fine undula-
lions in the atmosphere, her acts would in :
terweave the web Of her life with that of
ali huma6ity, running through it like
threads of 6ne gold.
A NAN Wno Has. a man
fail in business, what wonderful effect it
has on his former friends add creditors
Men who have taken him BY the arms,
laughed and chatted with him by the hour,
.shrug up the shoulders and pass on with
chilling how do you dos' Everystrifie
ofsa bill is hunted up and presented, that
would not have sesn.daylight fos months
to come, but for The misfortune Of the