The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1865-01-19
NUMBER i.

time, for he must hurry along. as he was
gtfG'd the fashion might change before he
got home. :"
Personal beauty may be an advantage
70 20 It's Possessor, and yet beauty of face and
IornI alone Is not to be compared With n
cultivated mind. Nectar and ambrosia
vanish with the brief goddess-ship of
beauty, whose empire seldom lasts more
tnan ten or fifteen years, but knowledge,
virtue, and truth are immortal. After
all, we repeat 1t, there is nothing beauti-
ful but naAd, and if ''it is the mind that
makes the-man," tits the mind that makes
the woman; too
How often Is female education construed
to make US believe life was one great bol-
lday, to attract admiration, to allure. and
to shine-a grand display of "graces and
fnrbelows, draperies and effeminacies1I
Too often do the devotees at fasbion,s
shrine become SO intoxicated in the oiddv
loonu oI pleasure as to forget the design
9t their existence. When one of these
senseiess :riiiers was asked what was the
opJect OF her life, her reply was elegantly
llsPed IN the following shameful language,
ri ri don't know-only Just to breathe !''-
These are the painted butterflies fit only
Tor the may-day of prosperity:
Bred only and completed to the taste
VI 1retful appetance-to sing-to dance-af
10 dress-to troll the tongue and roll the eve
I ct empty of ali good wherein consists
"onan'S domestic honor and chief grace
Sound education can never be made ga
primrose path of dallianoe," and LET no
true woman feel she has only to seek
adornment, or to sip from the honey-cups
OF life, 1t is not merely creature who
eau paint aud play and sing aud draw ard
dance; who, ike an actress. is in the
morning all rehearsal, and in the evening
an performance, Who Is thoroughly educa-
ted; vi what advantage to young lady
VIII De the power to twang the guitar, to
drum the piano, and glide gracefully thro'
the mazeS OF the waltz, if there be nothing
else 10 win our esteem? She may be tie
belle OF the ballroom, the fascination of
the soIree, the admired of all admirers"
at Newport and Saratoga, and yet be only
a fashionable plaything, if her mind be
not stored with useful knowledge.
But the highest excellence of the wom-
anly woman is allegiance to her God
Plety, alone, can give true equilibrium of
character. You may discipline her in
every other way possible, but she will
present an unbalanced mind unless she
possesses this crowning attribute of the
human soul. "Acquaint now thyself with
GOD, and be at peace" was spoken by
higher authority than man. TO trust in
the world for the ''highest good' is to
pluck the fruit that grows on s'folIv's ton
most twig," which, like the apples of the
Dead Sea, will turn to ashes on the Iips.
La woman's heart has ever been found a
lodgment for the religion of the CruciGeJ.
Woman, "last at the cross and earliest OF
the grave" has always taken the greatest
delight IN sitting with Mary of Bethany
at the Masters feet,-purifed by the
blood OF Calvary, and absorbed in the
contemp plation OF the moral splendors of
the God head. In brief, the true woman
is a-Chrlstian, conSecrated, living. abb.
ding Christian. Here, then, we have a
Woman, woman among women, wom-
anly woman, 'a little, lower than the
angels, and crowned with glory and hon
or"
We would not think our prototype COM
plete without including In the necklace Of
womanly virtues that of Patriotism. as a
golden clasp to Ink them all together. Tn
these ''simes that try mems souls" very
much depends on the influence Of our Iovai
maids, heroic wives, and patriotic mothers
who, in this life and death grapple, nav
be, under God, worth more than armies
and navies. Heretofore, we have loved
our women for their beauty, gentieness
and virtue, but now let tbem win a decper
love by their uneyiug devotion to their
country. Let them lead their fathers
husbands, brothcrs and sous TO the sacred
altar, and have them swear eternal feal;v
to the God who made them and the flag
that protects them Let them initiate thz
self sacrificing spirit of the heroines OF
other days. Mary, the mother, and Mar
tha, the wife OF Washington, both contrib
uted to achieve the Revolution. just
after HulPS defeat in 1912, when the
mothers of the Northwest were bewailino
their lost sons, and -'would not be com.
Iorted," there was one noble, patriotic
woman stood up in their midst, and ex-
claimed, "Why are you here weeping p
Everything is at stake. Bring forth he
rest OF your sons. IF they fall, we viii
light ourselves. We must never give m
he conflict" There spoke true, heroic
Where is the womanIy woman
who Is not willing to make the same sac
rlhce for her country?
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