The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-13
For the Sunday Crescent
AN EVENING AT HOLLYWOOD.

my OeH COtOnet-l nave been visiting. /
have something to say:
Wives, learn this truth, who is worth winning Is
worth keeping. Put forth one half the effort In
trying TO attract and entertain your husbands,
that you did before they became such, and you
will get what israre, yet just what people marry
for, companonship and its happiness. Do you
suppose that your husbands are any the less men
because husbands That the tastes pleasures
and inclinations which characterized them as men
altogether ended when they became husbands
Don't you believe it. Then what are you to do
when the youth and beauty are gone which made
them first seek your society and find happiness in
your companionship, for depend upon it the day
will come when they will no longer write SON.
nets to your eye brows, have their hearts leap
in ecstatc measure at the sight of your old shoes.
Signing lovers full of ardent expectations, honey
moon husbands and their brides of seventeen
summers" may be indisposed to believe this but
an observing bachelor of forty-fve winters tells
you that marriage instead Of making you wives
and companions of men only sink you into re.
spectacle hOusekeepers with privileges. You are
not associates, you are not partners, you are not
companions most familiar most confding attractive
ana entertaining. You are q comfort; you are
neat, nice nurse when needed; you are kind
patient, meek, and, withal very genteel-water
and your services rendered. retire out of the con.
sclous presence Of one whose mind, cultivated or
ilhterste is running upon subjects that give him
living, fresh and entertaining thoughts. Go, l
might as well tell you, for you will do it anyhow.
and attend TO the children when he comes home
and the only time he can be with you, and you
might Of otherwise fitted) be companion to him;
or sit silent at your sewing, or talk all the small
Ia or nonsense, or I'LL bis ears full of foolish
plants. Especially let his evenings find you in
disposed TO recreation, to indulgence in such plea
sures as has tastes and incinatons dictate (tsstes
which nice discrimination should observe, affec.
ton seek to crafty, and sound judgment essay to
control or direct TO such objects as will permit
you TO share with him) and let him seek his en-
Joyments and recreations instead of your proyd-
ing them let him find you ever occupied in what
does not interest him, does not give animated
ried within himself in anticipation of dead echo
from you, and don't complain it, as a wife, you
are 1roHdn only and not a companion
Now, no sneeriDg at talk that comes from one
who confesses to a bschelorhood of forty-fye
winters, for, alas may be / am bachelor on
principle; there be such. Sheer as you may, aud
who sing like me, Alas, alas, and woe is me,
" vale, vsle," WOW WOW! oh, bat the memory
of her is precious. She would have made but
=. And why would she? Because she was a
woman Of mental resources.
Then what is TO be done for the girls, that when
youth and besuty are gone they may still make
home bright and attractive place? Educate, |
educate, educate them. No question of il, q more |
enlightened civilization will make the early edu- !
cation of all the faculties of the woman, the de-
veopment OF all her powers, matter of greater |
moment, II happiness is the object sought, than |
the education of the man, who will get informa- |
tioD, if he has to knock it out with his knuckles
And information does not bring happiness; en- |
hphtened understanding, cultivated intelligence |
does. Give this to her and her mission can be ac-
for
40 woman lovely woman, paf,,re 5soSe aom
10 temper we h d been brutes without you,
Now, all these thoughts come on rejecting
upon the incidents OF last evening at Hopewood
an evening most delightfully."- spent (while on
visit to Chatawa Miss.) as the guest of the girls
Of this school, whose merits should be brought
more cOnspicuously before the people of New
Orleans TO whom is presented an opportunity of
sending their daughters away from the distrsc-
tons and designations Of city life the close rooms
small play grounds and trying climate, TO a place
easy Of accts to New Orleans healthful as if its
springs were De Icons, picturesque as rugged |
1aiure can make it, with ripping brooks, rapids
Of river, rocks, sleeps. Druidical oaks, stately
magnolia, waving beech and lofty pine; and
ihese are the surroundings of Hopewood, whose
buildings elegantly finished, are provided with all
he modern appliances for successfully conducting
school for girls, and over this school presides
Mrs. Howard and the mention of this brings me
back TO last evenings pleasures, varied in music,
iancing, sports. and intellectual exercises a
eature, OF the soirees given here consisting of
e citations, tableaux, hstronics and select read
ngs, and in which the married ladies also take
art Ii N ~. be q. loHs -bsfors -forsst
hfs. Howard's rendering Of the Prisoner OF
JhilloD."
Success to every school like Hopewood, seek
DP TO elevate woman TO her true dignity. Let !
hem be encouraged, let them be supported aud
We may expect among women less unhappiness |
Vhen youth and beauty are gone, for then they
vii bsve resources ever within themselves for
'leasure, and beyond question then be of Infinite
omfort to those around them. Then we shall
ing of woman,
80 fairest Of creation, las. and Jes,
or all Gods works. creature in whom excel'd,
Whatever can TO sight thought osfo rn'd
Holy, d vine, gO-d, aaiabe sweet