The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-22
A Nice Chapter about Nice Girls.

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We clip the subioined graceful COM
pliment to the gentle sex, from the
Washington Chronicle. 1t was a warm
and tender heart that inspired the pen
to which we are indebted for it
a. cannot imagine a home more in
complete than the one where there is
no little girl to stand in the void of the
domestic circle which boys can never
fill, and draw all hearts within the
magic ring of her presence. There is
something about the little girls which
is especially loVeable; even their wild
naughty ways seem utterly void of
evil when they are SO Dol followed by
the sweet penitence that oYerhows in
such gracious showers. Your boys are
great, noble fellows, generous, loving,
and full of good impulses; but they are
noisy and demOnstrative, and dearly as
you love them, you are glad their places
are out of doors but Jennie, with her
light step, is always beside you; she
brings the slippers for papa, and with
her pretty, dimpled fingers unfolds the
paper for him to read she puts on a
thimble no bigger than a fairy's, and
with some very mysterious combina-
ton of doll rags" fills up a small rock
er by mama, with 8 wonderful assump-
ton of womanly dignity. And who
shall tell how the little thread of speech
that flows with sweet, silyery lightness
from those innocent lips, twines itself
around the mothers heart never to
rust, not even when the dear little face
is hid among the daisies, as 30 many
mothers know.
But Jennie grows to be a woman,
and there is a long and shining track
from the h~slflatched door of child
hood till the girl blooms into the ma
ture Woman There are the brothers,
who always lower their voices and
talk 70 their sister, and tell of the
sports in which she takes almost as
much interest as they do, while in turn
she instructs them in all the little
minor details of home life, of which
they would grow up ignorant if not
for her. And what a shield she is
upon the dawning manhood wherein
so many temptations liel Always her
sweet presence to guard and inspire
them, a check upon profanity, q liv-
ing sermon on Immortality. How
fragrant the cup of tea she hands them
at the evening meal; how cheering
her voice as she relates the little incl-
deats of the day. No silly talk of
lncipient beaux, or love of the
young men met on the promenade. |
A girl ike hat has no empty space in
her head fer such thoughts to run
riot in, and you don't find her spend
ing the evening in the dim parlor
with a questionable young man for her
company. When her lover comes, he
must say what he has to say in the
family sitting room, with father and
mother, or, if ashamed to, there is no
room for him there. Jenpie's young
heart has not been allied by the per-
nonsense which results in so
many unhappy marriages or hasty di-
vorces. Dear girl, she thinks all the
time of what q good home she has,
what dear brothers, and on Bonded
Graves the blessings of heaven
to rest on them, butshe does not know
how far, very far for time and eternity,
her own pure example goes, how it
WI ASNAHA0 a. a hA0SsAhk AutO Olltf
homes, where a sisters memory will
be the consecrated grounds of the past.
Cherish, then, the little girls, dimpled
darhngs, who tear their aprons, cut the
table cloths, aud eat the sugar, and are
themselves the sugar aud salt Of lifel
Let them dress and undress their doll
babies to their hearts content and
ion't tell them Tom Thumb and Red
Hood are fiction, but leave them
lone till they find it out, which they
gill ell too soon. Answer all the funny
questions they ask, and don't make fun
# their baby theology, and when you :
must whip them, do it so that if you
hould remember it, it would not be !
Nth tears, for a great many little girls
ose their hold suddenly before the ,
which they have Just escaped
) shut and find their way back to the
ngels. So be gentle with the darlings, .
see what a track of sunshine Will 9
ollow in the wake Of the little bobbing =
eads that daily find many hard prob .
los to solve.