The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-21
THE JANUARY MAGAZINEs.
tHarper's."


Mr.. Harry Fem. Mr.. Theodore r. Davis, the
artist of Harper's Weekly, now with Sheridan
in the Indian country, furnishes an illustrated
article on "The Buffalo Range" "Paul Du
Chaillu Again" gives some facts and pictures
from Du Challu's book for youpg people en-
titled "Wild Life under the Equator" re.
Gently published by Messrs. Harper & Bro
thers. "South Coast Saunterings in Bng
land" saunter II, gives an interesting ac-
count of the celebrated Druidic remains Of
Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. Learning
Common Sense" is short and to the point
'My Old Woman and ~ is a poem by Mr..
John Brougham, which we quote-
We have crossed the bridge Ger the middle Of
life,
Ny old woman and l,
Taking our share in the calm and the strife,
With the travellers passing by
And though on our pathway the shadows are
rife,
There's light in the western sky.
Some losses and crosses, of course, we've had,
My old woman and l.
But, bless you we never found time TO be sad,
And a very good reason why.
We were busy as bees, and We weren't so mad
AS to stop in our work to cry.
On our chapgeable road as we journeyed along,
My old woman and |,
The kindly companions we met in the throng
Made our lives like vision fly;
And therefore the few that imagined us wrong
Scarcely cost us single sigh.
The weak and the weary we've striven to cheer
My old woman and |;
For we each of US thought that our duty while
here
Was to do as we'd be done by,
In the hope to exhibit a balance clear
When the reckoning day is nigh.
j. w. De Forest disoourses about "Chval-
rOus and semi.ohivralrous Southrons." He
gives the following description of some promi-
nent traits
vIRILITY.
II seems to me that the central trait of the
'chivalrous SOuthron" is an intense respect
for virility. He will forgive almost any vice
in a man who is manly; he will admire vices
which are but exsggeratiOns of the masculine.
II you will fight, il you are strong and skill
ful enough to kill your antagonist, if you
can govern or influence the common herd, if
you can ride dangerous horse over rough
country, If you are a good shot or an expert
swordsman, if you stand by your own
opinions un1incbingly, if you do your level
best on whisky, if you are a devil of a fellow
with women, if, in short, you show vigorous
masculine attributes, he will grant you his
respect. doubt whether man who leaves
behind him numerous irregular claimants to his
name is regarded with disfavOr at the South.
He will be condemned theoretically; it may be
considered proper to shoot him if he disturbs
the peace of respectable families; but he will
be looked upon as nObler representative of
his sex than Colebs. The good young man,
as pure as young girl, whom one finds in the
Abrahamic bosom of Northern Puritauism,
would not be made a Grand Lama of in Dixie.
The chivalrous SOuthron would unite with
the aTistocracy Of Europe in regarding him
as sort of monster OF neutral insipidty. |
doubt whether even the women of our meri
dional regions admire that sort of youth.
81 shouldn't fancy hen husband" said
lively Southern girl, Alluding to a man without
vices.
1t may be taken for granted that people
which so highly prizes virility looks upon
man as the lord of creation, and has the old
fashioned ideas as TO what is the proper sphere
OF woman. If the hgh-tOned gentleman con-
tinues to be influential at the South, it will
be a long time before the ''strong- minded"
obtain much Of a following there, very long
time before they will establish female suffrage.
Next to our supposed passion for putting the
negro on an equality with the white, there is
nothing in Northern life so abhorrent to the
SOutherners, of both sexes, as the movement
in favor Of wOman's rights.
81 do think, " said an emphatic old planter
to me, ''that your free-lOVs business, and
W0man's voting, and all that, is just the mise
rablest mess that ever was invented. don't
see what ails you to go for such vile non
sense. But then you always We're as full Of
WITNESSES as the devil"
II would have been useless to tell him that
he was binding in one fagot ideas which had
no connection. | did my wissst by him; left
him unanswered.
COURTESY,
There certainly is more su4vity of manner
at the South than at the North. 1t is delight
ful to see two hgL-toned gentlemen OF the old
Virginia or Carolinian school greet each other.
Such graciOrs bows aud insinuating tones
Such melliiluous compliments, particular in
luiries concerning health and welfare, anima-
ting congratulations as to future prospects
Such sunny and, one might almost say, equa-
torial blandness You feel as if you were in
Paradise, hearing Dante address Beatrice as
'graciOas lady" The moral thermometer
rises TO summer heat; your humanties ex-
pand and bloom under the influence; you are
a kindlier and think, better man for the
sight. 1t is a pity that we have not been
better educated in such gentilities, and that
we have not the requisite time for the exercise
OF them. If there we're twenty-eight hours
in day the Northerner might possibly be-
come thus urbsne; as it is, he has barely OPP
portunity to fiji his pocket with the necessary
greenbacks and his head with the necessary
information to get on in the world; he is too
much hurried by probabilities to make his
manners. AT the South there has hitherto
been leisurely caste which set the example
to all others.
But the hiph- toned gentleman fll1 of nro