The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-09-16

cessfully if he had come after Moustafa
Pasha's departure, but after Omer Pasha's
cruelties, it had not the slightest chance Of
a favorable termination.
BEHAVIOR OF FEMALES IN CoMPANY.-One
of the chief beauties in a female character is
modest reserve; that retiring delicacy which
avoids the public eye, and is even disconcert-
ed at the gaze of admiration. When girl
ceases to blush she has lost the most power
ful charm of beauty. The extreme sensibil-
ity which it indicates may be considered as a
weakness and incumbrance TO the other sex,
but in females it is peculiarly engaging, as
blushing is so far from being necessarily on
guilt, that it is the usual company of inno-
cence That modesty which is so essen
tial to the sex will naturally dispose them to
be rather silent in company, especially in a
large one; people of sense and discernment
will never take such silence for dullness. A
person may take share in conversation with
out uttering a syllable-the expression of the
countenance shows it, and this never escapes
| an observing eve. Converse with men with
that dignfied modesty which may prevent
the approach of the most distant familiarity,
and consequently prevent them feeling them
selves your superiors.
| Wit is the most dangerous talent which a
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great discretion and good nature, otherwise
it will create many enemies. Wit is perfect
ly consistent with softness and delicacy, yet
| they are seldom found united. Wit is so fiat
tering to vanity, that they who possess it be-
come intoxicated and lose all self-command.
| Humor is different quality; it will make
/ your company much solicited-but be eau
tious how you indulge in it; it is often a
great enemy to delicacy, and still greater
one to dignity of character. 1t may some
times gain you applause, but it viii never
procure you respect.
Beware of detraction, especially where your
own sex are concerned. You are generally
charged with being particularly addicted to
this vice, perhaps unjustly; men are fully as
guilty of it when their interest interferes
But as your interests frequently clash, aud as
your feelings are quicker, your temptations
to it are more frequent. For this reason be.
particularly careful of the reputation of your
own sex.
Consider every species of indelicacy in con-
versation as shameful in itself, and highly
disgusting to modest men as well as to you.
The dissoluteness of some mems education
may allow them to be diverted with a kind
of wit, which yet they have delicacy enough
to be shocked at when it comes from the
mouth of a female. Christian purity is of
that delicate nature that it cannot even hear
certain things without contamination. 1t is
dihdlb III BOhGI Vi hOludu W dNOlu
these; no man but brute or a fool will in
suit woman with conversation when he
sees it gives her pain; nor will nc dare to do
II if she resent the injury with becoming
spirit. There is a dignity in conscious virtue
which is able to awe the most shameless and
most abandoned of men. You will be re-
preached perhaps, with an affectation of del
icacy, but at any rate, it is better to run the
risk of being thought ridiculous than disgust
ing. The men will complain of your reserve;
they viii assure you that frank behavior
would make you more amiable; but they are
not sincere when they tell you so. 1t might
on some occasions render you more agreea-
BILE as companions, but it would make you
less amiable as women, ap important distinc-
ton of which many of the sex is not aware
There is certain gentleness of spirit and
manners extremely engaging in young women
not that indiscriminate attention, that I'M
meaning shipper which smiles on all alike.
This arises from an affectation of softness or
from perfect insipidity. We wish them to
possess the most perfect simplicity of heart
and manners. They may possess dignity
without pride; affability without meanness,
and simple elegance without affectation. Mil
ton had the same idea when he said of Eve:
"Grace in all her steps, heaven in her syei
In every gesture dignity and love-"
A PERILoUs RIDE ON THE RIvER-The
NtMOuIH w L y 0DuFJtut luc IOllON-
ing incident which recently happened on the
steamer Mary I6reH: AS the steamer Mary
RlCeH was making her landing at Cozzeh's
wharf, the fireman heard a cry in the port
wheel-house, and, on going there found a
lad IA years of age, clinging to the iron bars
on the inside, having sailed in that position
nearly 80 miles. As might naturally be ex
pected the poor lad was almost drowned ; /
his face and bare feet were blue and wrinkled |
with the cold and continued soaking, and he |
was just able to hold on, and had just voice |
enough to give another alarm. He had /
swan to the wheel-house while the Mary 1
I6,ceH was lying at her pier in New York /
and took up his position there, intending to |
"hook" a sail to RondOnt, as he had no /
money to buy his passage. When he began |
to find that the water came in upon him 1
faster than he had bargained for, he raised /
an alarm, but of course could not be heard, /
and he had to hang fast till the Nary made /
her first landing. The marvel is that he did
not drop from his perch and receive fatal in
juries from the wheel, or drown. He was
tsken to the boiler-room and chung up to
dry IA suspension which he sadly needed.
In consideration of his efforts and sufferings,
he was presented with his passage the re-
mainder of the distance. He said he was a
poor boy without money or friends, and on
his way to Rondout to look for WORK.
HAD 'EM.-A Paris correspondent guar
rantees the following: A Frenhman prison
err in Edinburgh, having managed to escape,
took refuge in the powder magazine. When
the authorities wished to seize him, they
found him seated on barrel with a lighted
match and threatening TO blow up the town.
The authorities reflected prudently, and their
were that it would be better to
starve the Frenchman out. But they reckon
ed without their prisoner, who loved good
cheer and was determined to live well. In
he called out that he would
blow the town to pieces If he did not get
three meals per day; he would write ont the
bills of fare. Swaney succumbed, and the
demands of the prisoner went on increasing.
Sometimes he had serenade under his win
dow, then a review Of the garrison, after
wards a sham fight, in which the troops rep
resented the French army beat the Highland
ers. At last he enacted that every Sabbath
the Lord Provost, in full uniform,
should make his appearance and read him
m address. This lasted until the allies en-
tered Paris"
GEOLOGICAL CHASGE-GeOlOgieal change
appears to be more rapid, or more obvious,
ilong the coasts of China and Japan, and
he country to the northwards, than in any
)ther part of the world The changes that
nave taken place within the memory of man
IRE almost incredible. The land is elevated,
md gains on the sea. Mr Biekmore, an
American traveller, has made careful obserya- I
ions from Canton up the mouth OF Amoor
liver, and his general conclusion Is that the {
acts taken in connection with the dry beds
If friths and bays along the Siberian borders
If the Attic Ocean, and the remnant of the !
I'D gulf that once washed the eastern flank I
If the Ural, enable the geologist to form an ]
dea Of the large increase of the Asiatic con- {
inent within comparatively recent period ]