The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-25
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Hrpartmsnt.
pEEcILLINGs BY LAMPLIGHT.
Personalities in conversation.

Personalities in Conyersation. =.
Guesses at Trulth--a very readable book,
by the way-very sensibly remarks upon this
topic. thus r.5ET
( " Personalities are often regarded as the
zest, but mostly are the bane of conversation.
For experience seems to have jascertaiucd, or
at least, usage has determined, that PERSONAL
| tiles are always spiced with more or less of
malice. But surely you would not have mix
ed conversation always settled into a discus
sion of abstract topics. Commonly speaking,
you might as well feast your guests with
straw, chips and sawdust. Often, too, it har-
pens that, in proportion as hesubect of cor
versation is more abstract, its tone becomes
harsher and more oogmatcal And what are
women~tosdo? Fheywhosez thoughts always
cling to what is. personal, and seldom mount
into the cold vacant air of speculation, unless
they have something more solid to climb
rauisd---Yd allst-adnait e+e-s@ettltI be
asad deartl of entertainment aud interest and
lie in conversation without something of
anecdotc and story. Doubtless But this is
very different from personality. Conversation
may have all that is valuable in it, and all
| that is lively and pleasant, without anything
that comes under the head of personality -
| The house in which, above all others, have
ever been an inmate of, the life and the spirit
and the joy of conversation have been the
most intense, is a house in which I hardly
/ baorJ a,,i1
one"
Dandy EXPENSES 1
Are thus e cutup" by a recent paper in the
Home ournal: e.
If the present frightful advance in the cost
of clothing continues, we do not know what
will become of the nice young men who
| spread themselves daily on the aristocrltic
side of Broadway. Not only has the value
of garments increased, but the charming little
surroundings of gloves, cravats, perfumery,
ETC., realize almost fabulous. prices. We SYM
pathise with the unfortunate creatures to
whom these articles are matters of necessity
ard entreat our National Congress to provide
a remedy forthwith for the dreadful affliction
Kid gloves at two dollars per pair will soon
resolve our dandies into very ordinary beings
for they will be compel. ed to deprive them
selves of this essential article of luxury. Il
is a serious matter, in a pecuniary point Of
view, nowadays, for young gentleman te
have the distinguished honor of doing escort
duty to one of the gentler SEX The draft or
his exchequer for enterprises f this character
| is trightfuily depicting. Take for example
1.-THE recent ball given at the Academy of Mu.
sic, in aid of the Fire Department Fund, anc
aggregate the expenses for T" doing'' the en-
tertainment in the handsomest manner One
of our most reliable authorities on such mat.
ters, has furnished us with the subioined fly.
4 ures, assuring us that they embrace the mos
economical expenditure possible on such oc
casions: card of admission, five dollaLs; hack
ney-coach, five dollars; petite soupe, five dol
lars i; gloves, crayat, ETC., four dollars total
nineteen dollars. If our young gallants ar,
compelled to disburse the above amount 70
an evenings amusement, we fear that the la
dies on their visiting list will receive but few
FifhN4tdtIotlS uHGi tlle GoSt VI SuCu eilJONIlleU
BIS largely reduced. -. .7s .saz
Brilliant Paper 80 ~ 1va --ss. :;
In the last Blackwood, contains the follow
ing passages which have been. happily segre
gated from it, and furnish food for most prof
t'itable thought: ~ zs5Ssz9 aSsA SssAt
/ have a special dislike to live begirt witt
dependents for whom have no use, and t
incur restraints for which there is no object
have fixed my expenditures at the high
est rate which, to my mind, "a man. Of i'm
mense fortune,) is compatible with ease; fo
in all walks of life, there is quiteas little cas-
in an ouer-la,ye shoe as there is in a tight one
=! The career of active genius is a career c
I, Waf-'s Nd uie, cest asu consbnt,'' said Votair'
! IfWahat aspirant for fame which other asp
!. rants contest does not say the same? But
> undergo an equal worry, and feel an equ;
: acerbity of temper in provoking little battle
:. for little triumphs; to ride the whirlwind of
keyhole and direct the storm of SANGER;
d a word, to enter upon country hJei lookir
a round for excitements, in ambition, vanity,