Smyrna times., 1867-08-21
Duration of One Life.

Among the death notices in the Ledger this
morning is that of Mrs Alana L. Clark, who
died in this city on Friday week at the advanc-
ed age of one hundred and seven years.
Whal volumes of history have been made in
the world during the period of her birth. Her
lifetime connects the ancient and modern his
tory of our city and State. When she was
born, George the Second was not only King of
Great Britain, but of Pennsylvania, and the
whole Of our State was held as a domain by
the family of the original proprietary Phia-
delpha was small town, confined between
Fourth street and the river Delaware The
| thoughts OF the people were yet occupied by
the event of the old Fren war;" Fort Du-
quesnc, now Pittsburg, having been taken but
two years before, and Wolfe having just star
tied Europe, as we'll as America, by his mar
vellOus assent of the heights Of Abraham, near
| Quebec, closing the long ca mImign victorious
y for his King, but losing his own life in the
heroic effort. Frederick the Great was still
fighting the battles of TIE renowned seven
years war, and Europe was still ringing with
the artillery thunders of Prague, Minden,
Maxen and Olmutz. We had not yet got into
the preliminary controversy with Great Britain
that led to the Revolution. Washington was
young man, about twenty eight, just newly
marrl ed to the widow Custis, and Just coming
! into political lite as delegate to the Virginia
! House Of BurgeSses, although he had achiev-
ed some distinction as gallant and able young
soldier against the French and Indians. Mrs
Clark was five years Old when Massachusetts
made the first proposition for a General Con-
gress OF the Colonies she was g,rl of thir-
teen at the date OF the Boston tea party
sixteen at the time Of the Declare ton of indie
pendenCe twenty two at the close of the war;
twenty eight when Washlngton was made Pre-
sldent under the Constitution and forty-eight
| when .IatfprSOn no latt bni,
one that none but very old men can remember
now. She was thirty years old when Pitt, Fox
and Sheridan were lighting their great parlla-
mentary battles, the very history Of which
seems to us now SO far back in the past Her
life spans all the features of our political his.
tOry-cOlOnlal, revolutionary, confederate and
constitutional under the latter she sur
vived the terms Of sixteen Presidents and more
than two years of the term of the seventeenth
But in the advancement Of civization-social,
scientific political, mechanical and humanta-
! rlan-what a progress has she seen. The his
tory of it embraces the whole era of steam en-
glnes, steamships, railroads, telegraphs photo
graphy, lightning printing presses, modern
chemistry, geology, the humane treatment of
prisoners, the destruction of the old madhouses
and bedams, and the almost world wide ditfu-
sion of republican ideas of government. Thus
may a single life link together remote genera
ry .! the world.-PhiIG. Ledger-GM Instant.
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PERSIAN SMOKING ETIQUETTE the
Persian is, on all OCCASIONS a careful observer
of etiquette, he has numberless ceremonies to
observe with regard to the pipe. He has sum
mer and winter pipes; pipes for different ranks,
| ages and sexes When party Is given, for
instance, it is dcr7gueur that pipes be offered
to the whole company simultaneously. The
servants approach in line, each offers his pipe
to the smoker tor whom it is destined at one
and the same moment, and it is only when
they have retired that the master Of the house
opens the gurgGng concert, all the guests care
fully keeping time with him. After few pulls
the pipes are exchanged both parties observ-
ing set formalities and making many bows as
they mutually give and receive this token of
esteem and confidence. Neglect i'll this cere-
mony is the height of bad breeding, and to put
the pipe more than half an inch in the mouth
is a mark of greediness. 1t must, however, be
observed that these niceties of behavior are
observed not merely by the higher and bet
ter educated classes but are in vogue among
the lower orders also, for every Persian wishes
to be considered polite. The ladies, who, In
Persia, enjoy considerably more freedom than
in Turkey, can indulge themselves in smoking
with less gene than In the latter county,
| Young girls and elderly matronS alike spend
hours over their pipes, the richer ones accom-
panying every third Whit with bit of sugar
As smoking out of the same pipe is accounted
a sign of friendly feeling and confidence, the
pipe plays an important part in interviews ofa
tender nature. The expression to eat out of
the same dish is, in Persia, applied to the
pipe. AS the fair sex here are even more as
sduously devoted to the practice of smoking
than in Turkey, the mouths Of princesses and
peasant women alike have a very strong odor.
MEN AND WoMEN-Men love things--as
facts, possessions and estates; and women,
persons; and while man regards only abstract
scientific facts, woman looks only at the per-
son in whom they are embodied. Even in
childhood the little girl loves an imitation of
humanity-her dOll-and works for it the boy
gets hobby horse or tools, and works with
them. But the noblest quality wherewith
Nature has endowed women for the good of
the world is love-that love which seeks no
sympathy in return. The child is the object
Of love, kisses and Watching and answers them
only by complaint and anger, and the feeble
creature that requires the most repays the least.
But the mother goes on her love only grows
stronger the greater the need and the unthank-
fulness Of its object and while fathers prefer
the strongest OF their children, the mother feels
more love for the feeble and garrulous.