Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-07-06

ioikS, pu6 Wnon 1t comes to gentlemen S0c1e-
ty,, that is a different thing, and you cannot
help being bashful. / don't know why you
should be. Men are human aud very like US,
just as kind, ready to help us, or make allow
ances tor faults or accidents, and they don't en-
JOY having US act prim and stiff and precise
and keeping our hearts shut, and lust saving
yes, " mo, and agreeing with all they say,
and accepting their invitations when we don't
want to, and pretending we enjoy their society
after ten o'clock at night, when we don't; T
say they don't like such deceit and unnatural
ness from us any more than we should like it
from each other | do not see why we should
not be just as frank and social with the boys as
the girls, and regard their friendship in the
same light. Looseness or yulgarities should new
er be INDUCED in at any time or under any cir
cumstances Slang, low speeches or personal
degradation is quite as culpable and demorali-
zlng among ourselves as in promiscous company.
Halt the ''old-women tea parties ought to be
abolished on the ground of immortality. And
girls, when you have a dinner or tea party,
make it one Of your principles to invite the
boys as well as the girls. 1t is your duty so to do,
and it is pleasure we should not deprive our
selves of. 1t tends to keep the boys from being
afraid OF us, thereby educating them to be easy
and graceful and manly and gallant
Cultivate self-control. Do not part with a
bit Of your spunk or ''high temper" only make
i serve you, instead Of making fools of you
Have it under your power as the engineer has
| the engine, so, if you ever need it, you can
make it do you good service.
An other thing. Study repose of character.
Do not be gruffled or diverted by small things
Some girls, in church or elsWhere must always
turn their heads around to see who it is coming
in, or yawp their heads forward, stretch up on
tiptoe to see something or somebody all Of
which is in very bad taste.
As for etiquette, there is no rule SO good, so
true and so reliable, as the one Christ gave us,
and which is called the Golden Rule. IF you
are in doubt as to the propriety of doing thus
Or SO, for your friend or stranger even, place
yourself in her place in your mind, and you can
easily tell if by so doing it would be pleasant to
you. Acknowledge favors by an expression of
thanks, either by speech or manner. Both are
best If man gives you his seat, or in any way
discommodes himself in your favor. dosnot fail
to thank him sincerely 1t is rude illbred, and
very unwomanly not to 90 so. 1t is equally in
cumbent upon you to beg pardon for offense
done, though slight and unintentional.
Scientific Daring
One dull day few weeks ago, just after noon
balloon rose in the air at the foot OF Cleed
Hills, on the Western edge OF the central plain
of England 1t was inflated with the Gghtest
of gasses which chemical skill could produce,
and it rose with surprising velocity A mile
up and it entered stratum of clouds more than
thousand feet thick. Emerging from this,
the sun shone brightly on the air ship; the sky
overhead was Of the clearest and deepest blue
and below lay an immense eXpanse OF clouds,
whose surface looked as solid as that of the
earth, now wholly lost to view. Lofty noun
tains, and then deep, dark ravines, appeared
/ below; the peaks aud sides Of those cloud
| mountains next to the sun glittered like snow,
bat casting shadows as black as if they were
solid rock Up rose the balloon with tremen-
dous velocity. -Four miles above the earth a
pigeon was let loose; it dropped down through
the air as if it had been stone. The air was
too thin to enable tito fly. 1t was as if ship
| laden to the deck were to pass from the heavy
waters of the sea into an inland unsallne lake;
! the bark would sink at once in the thinner wa
ter. Up, up still higher What profound 81
lence The heights of the sky were as still as
the deepest depths Of the ocean, where, as was
| found during the search for the lost Atlantic
cable, the fine mud lies as unstirred from year
to year, as the dust which imperceptiby gath
ers on the furniture of deserted house. No
sound, nor life-only the bright sunshine fall
ing through sky which it could not warm.
| Up-fve miles above earth higher than the
inaccessible summit of Chimborazo or Dawnsi-
| ri. Despite the sunshine, everything freezes.
The air grows too thin to support life, even ter
few minutes. Two men only are In that ad-
venturous balloon-the one steering the air ship
the other watching the scientific instruments,
and recording them with rapidity bred of long
practice Suddenly, as the latter looks at his
Instruments, his sight grows dim, he takes
lens to help his sight, and only marks from the
falling barometer that they are rising rapidly.
A flask of brandy lies within fo,t of him; he
tries to reach it, but his arm refuses to obey his
will. He tries to call on his comrade, who has
gone up to the ring above; whisper IN that
deem silence would suffce-but no sound comes
from his lps-he is voceless. The steersman
comes down into the car, he finds his comrade
In a swoon, and feels his own senses failing him.
He saw at once that life and death hung up
on few moments He seized the valve IN or
! der to open it and let out some OF the gas
His hands are purple with intense cod-they
are paralyZed. they will not respond to his will:
He seized the valve with his teeth; it opened
a little-once, twice, thrice. The balloon began
| to descend. Then the swooned marksman re-
turned to consciousness, and saw the steersman
standing before him. He looked at his instru-
ment-they were nearly eight miles up; but
now the barometer was rising rapldy-the bal
loon was descending. They had been higher
above earth than mortal man or living thing
had been before. One minute more OF mac
! tion on the part of the steersman. whose SEN
ses we're failing him, and the air ship, with It's
intensely rarifed gas, would have been floating
unattended, with two corpses, In the VIDE
realms Of space Once Week.
THE PRESS. The Rev Henry Ward Beech
err delivered an address at Mr.. Raymond's flu
neral. in New York, on Monday. Speaking OF
the Press, Mr.. Beechcr said: The lawyer has
a narrow sphere before him; the Senator and
the Representative the walls hedge in their
voices; the minister has his parish walls about
his church. But there is pulpit that now has
no linit-it is the Press. There is, literally
the voice of one that cries In the wilderness
for all across the populous land. out into the
Territories, and to the very Pacific ocean, the
daily papers speak and there is not, In mod
ern civilization, place of power that can COM
pare with this
BoupoIR.-This word is used to denote la
dvs private apartment, in which she receives
only her most intimate friends and 1t carries
with it ideas of refinement and luxury. How.
ever, if we trace the word to It's origin, we nnt
that the root, or first syllable, boMd Is the same
as our English word pout; and the term sgnl
fes, literally, place to which woman retlre'
to sulk-a poutery, as we might call It, LIKE
many other words, however, 1t has lost the
tinge Of vulgarity it once bore, and has acqulr
ed an air of elegance which coucealS all trace
Of its low birth.
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