The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-02-07


rarely been equalled. Whether this young
lady approaches very near to the graces and
charms of her fair and immortalized name
sake or prototype of the fourteenth century,
will not pretend to say, but perhaps if she
had a poet-lover to throw the illusion of his
genius over her name and person, and lend
the prestige of his fame to her history, with a
borrowed reflection of his greatness, she might
pass down to posterity and to future ages
with all the reputed charms of Petrarch's
love. If repose of manner, the absence of
stormy passions, gcntleness of department; if
the absence of sarcasm, of consciousness, of
uncbarltableness, of sel6shness, if self-deny-
ing politeness, good breeding, if pious princi-
pies and practice, if very fair share of per-
sonal comeliness, if correct taste and pro-
per appreciation of what is seemly in deport-
nent as in dress, render a young lady worthy
of a poets love and admiration, then Petrarch's
love may not have been so far beyond her un-
pretending namesake. But what shall say
of the other "twin Cherries, the second brace
of bosom friends and "halved hearts, the
second edition Of Damon and Pythias in fe-
male guise, of Nisus and Euryalus in petit
coats, each one younger sister OF the two
previously described but unlike them in face
and FORM. being much more on the petite
order. Cander compels me to say that they
have more personal beauty, but what fear
fully practical jokes they were guilty Of per-
petrating upon their unsuspecting male
friends and acquaintances when they were at
the hoydenish age Of firteen Their sweet
ness and beauty have often been described as
angelic, by many Of their male and female
acquaintances, brt those who may have ex-
perienced the pungcncy of their practical
jokes at the period spoken Of, are very likely
disenchanted of,any such ideas, and will be
more likely to class them in very different
category, for in spite Of the velvet softness
of tneir looks and manners in general, it was
the purring smoothneSS Of a certain domestic
animal Of the feline species, whose paws ar
soft ard smooth to the touch, bnt which con-
2cIr S':'IT P0IiS VIII :" ttch ma
ture has provided them for selfzdefcnce. But
more Of this anon.
The ordinary phase of character which
these young ladies exhibited, and which l
believe is their normal condition, is~that of
the most amiable sweetness, gentleness,
uartyr>like. submiSsiveness and, non:resist--
ance to their elders and superiors or mentors,
and most universal charity. One of them
rejoices in pretty Irish name, but it is not
Bridget, and the other reoices in the sweet
est.but commonest of names of Hebrew ori-
gin, but which was honored in the person~of
the mother of Christ, and is widely dissent
mated over all the Christian world; has been
sung in poetry by one of the greatest natural
geniuses of Britain, Scotland's own poet
has been handed down fEom past ages in his
tory's page,as belonging to one whose beauty
and misfortunes, though stained with crime,
have. enlisted worlds sympathy in spite of
her Identification with the ''scarlet woman"
whose bloody tenets have so horriGed the
Protestant world and whose tragical death
forms one of the epochs in the chronological
division of the events of all time whose Life
and death, beauty and misfortune, royal dig
nifty and hapless fate; whose. personal accom-
piishments and life of vicissitudes, have been
the fruitful and exhaustless theme of histo'
rians, biographers, poets5 play writer's, novel
lists, and opera composers ,..~-......s. -.
But what shall say of the slyly nischie-
vous younger sister, who looks very demure
to strangers, but who has her own sly fun
and humor, which she enjoys very much and
then she dearly loves to talk of the beaux,
and talks of them with so much naivete.-
And then there was the brilliant "Rowena'
Ia belle aine01nue', as she was dubbed by, a
eorrespondentsof. several of this circle, who
had hearasfrom friend so much Of her at
tractiyeness, and who actually opened cor
respondenee with the modern Aspasia, before
he had seen her; whose brilliant letters
and sparkling wit in conversation, and her
general accomplishments rendered her so in
teresting as a correspondent and as social
companion, who was in her element in society
and whose fine mental powers and poetic tenn
permanent found aliment in the crowded
city mart as well as In the rural retire
ment of the mountainous districts, in the
dim cathedral aises, as in the temples formed
by natures own hands. 'Rowena,' although
indigenous to the soil ofN-, was not Of its
growth, having been transplanted at an early
stage of existence, out was again transported
to her native soil after long years. to grace for
a period its long deserted scenes.
r.. To be contimued. .
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