The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-24

uleh ahJ Wa. auo lean women always
and if l we're a legislator, such wo
men should bo pronounced incapable
in the marriage line.
Then, again l do not like to sec
pale mothers. The sentiment of ma.
ternity is full health, bright red blood
aud a rounded outline, Rubens was
right in his IDEA of womanhood-
something bouuteous and benign
magnetic, complete. Those thin, pale
mothers, whose instincts must be de-
feient, make me think Of the e Little
Sister Of the Canticles, whose pri
vaIioos is SO feolipgly dcploroddand
Tor whom. such singular remedial de-
devices are suggested. l like wo
man with a rich quantity Of, brown
hair, not over nicely dressed, relied
back with sumptuous negligence asif
it might incommode tho baby. | have
watched mothers narrowly; it is not
every woman who brings into the
world poor little iuheritor of, misc, $.
~, that is mother, Thousands Of
women have no maternal instincts.
aud are 20 more ftto be mothers than
the fierce Hyrconian tiger. AS
general rule, l think persons Of gen.
lus are deficient in the paterual in. E.
stincts.
From my own observation ] know
that Poe aud Tukerman and G iswold
were deficient, while some Of the
choicest gems of poetry written by
Alice and Phebe Cary, are express.
ions of this instinct and Mary For.
est has written one of the sweetest
lollabys in the language.
Poor little Fannie Osgoed used to
take her two spritc like children up
into the corner aud play "cats era
die y with them, and invent poetic
little stories to amuse them. She
would carcss them and romp with
them, show them off like little pup
pets, for they had thousand grace
ful winning ways about them; bat It
was always sad sight to me. She,
Fannie, was not material; she was ro
mantle, poetic; she was a child her
self--a weired, tender child, whom
one wished to shelter. She made one
think ofa delicate excite rudely trans.
planted to an uugonial climate.
| Authors are certainly deficient, as
| have before said, in the paternal
feeling. They have more fondnes.
for their children of tho brain thar
for those of their blood. They, for
the most part, show great solieitudc
to have the first ushcIed we'll into the
worl |, fairly and handsomely pre-.
sented, while the latter have to take
their chance, poor, meagre things,
whose choerless childhood is the pre-
lude to more cherries precarious
existence. / think that people should
see which is the most essential to
them, the children of the heart, or the
brain, aud sacrifice the one to the
other.
Think how tender father poor
Charles Lamb might have been, who
talked SO wisely and sweetly with his
Dream Children. Then look at the
portrait of him as he sits at his desk,
and see how large and speaking is the
organ Of paternity upon his head,
aud you can easily imagine what it
must hayecost him to resign the moth
er of his Dream Children.
Here you behold a portrait of j Johu
Neal, a pasionately devoted father
aud here is the face Of Fannie Os--
good, oriental. not, Madonna-like;
her soft brown eyes beaming upon you
as if conscious Of their loneliness;
but never could bear to think Of
her as a mother. She was so fragile,
so dependent, 80 utterly impractica-
bic, that maternity looked distorted
upon her Yet she loved her chill
dren, did not mean to neglect them,
and when she died ere the june ro-
ses came" as she so touchiugly ex-
pressed ii, these two little angelic
offshoots of spirit, too fine for earth,
were drawn by the mothers magnet
ism away from this world. and in less
than a year the golden gates of Para
disc closed upon all three.
I confess 1 was relieved when
learned that these two delicately or
gauized children were lured away to
anaranths aud lilies of that cline
which so few of US contemplate as a
reality. i.s
Genius is sacred and fearful gift
rather pity the child Of genius
The parents of Washington and oi
Napoleon had no genius-either faith,
er or mother-but they had talent al
a white heat. The next step mus
be greatness. ] am glad George
Washington had no children, aud il
was we'll that Napoleon and jose
phine were childless. Tho nursery
should be an Office by itself whore
[ .hara ehauld ha eimnln inoidenfs and