Southern shield., 1870-06-11
POPULAR WOMAN.

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 The popular pretty woman is one who, take her as young wife, (and she must be married), honestly loves her husband, but does not thrust her affection into the face of the world, and never tiirts with him in public. In deed, she fiirts with other men just enough to make time pass pleasantly, and enjoys rapid waltz or lively conversation as much as when she was seventeen, and before 'she was appro- priated. She does not think 1t neceS- sary to go about morally ticketed, nor does she find 1t necessary for her dig nity or her virtue, to fence herself round with coldness or indifference to the multitude by way of proving her loyalty to one. Still, as it is notorious that she does love her husband, and as every one knows that they are perfect ly content with each other, and there fore not on the lookout fer supple mentS, the men with whom she has those innocent little jokes, those trans parent secrets, those animated conver- sations, that confessed friendship and good understanding, do not make mis-
 takes, and the very women belonging to them forget to be cenSorious, even though she is admired.
 She is mother, too, and a fond one, so she can sympathize with other mothers, and expatiate on her nursery in the confidential chat over five o'clock tea, as all fond mothers do and should. She keeps we'll managed house, and is notorious for the amount of needle work she gets through, and of which she is proud, not being ashamed to tell
 YOU that the dress you admire So was
 made by her own hands, and she will give your wife the pattern If she likes :; while she boasts of even rougher up- holstery work which she and her maid and her sewing machine have got through with dispatch and credit. She 1 gives dinners with a cdchet of their own, and that have been evidently
 planned with careful thought and study,
 and she is not above her work as mls-
 tress and organizer of her household | Yet she finds time to keep abreast with
 the current literature of the day, and
 never has to confess to ignorance o1
 tue ordinary topics of conversation.
 She is not a woman of extreme view
 about anything. She has not signed ! fir improper papers, and she sae aeeS fs.s s", \ lths psxs ,sSsr spa 'a a horroFs,5f facility of divJ& sets up for notling-being iie.a
 Advanced Woman desirous of usulp- ing the possessions and privileges of men, nor a GriSelda who thinks her proper place is at the feet of men, to take their kicks with patience and their caresses with gratitude. as is be- coming in an inferior creature. She does not dabble in politics and though she likes to make her dinners success ful, and her evenings brilliant, she by no means assumes to be leader of fashion, or to impose laws on her cir cle. She likes to be admired, and she is always ready to let herself be loved; she is always ready, too, to do any good work that comes in her way, and she finds time for the careful overlooking of few pet charities, about which she makes no parade, just as she finds time for her nursery and her needle work. And, truth to tell, she enjoys these quiet hours, with only her children to love her, and her poor pensioners to admire her, quite as much as she en- joys the brilliant reception where she is among the most popular and the most beautiful. E
 Her nature is gentle, her affections large, her passions small; she may have prejudices, but they are ladykke prejudices of mild kind, mainly on the side of modesty and tenderness, and the quietude of womanhood. She is woman throughout, without the faint est dash of the masculine element in mind or manners, and she aspires to nothing else.l She carries with her all atmosphere of happiness, of content, of spiritual completeness, of purity that is not prudery Her life is filled with a variety of interests, consequently she is never peeVish through nlonotony, nor yet, on the other hand, is she ex- cited, hurried, storinldriven, as those who give themselves up to "objects," and perfect nothing because tliey at tempt too much. She is popular, be- cause she is beautiful without being vain. loving without being sentiment tai; happy in herself, yet not Indlfier- ent to others because she understands her drawing groom duties as well as her nursery ones, and knows how to com bine domesticity with social splendor. ,d This is the best type of the popular pretty woman to whom is given adora' tion. and against whom no one has a stone to fling, or a islander to whisper; and this is the ideal woman of the English upper class at home, of which. { thank Heaven, we still raise a few specimens, just to show what women may be if they like, and what sweet and lovely creatures they. are when they are content to be as nature de- 1 signed them. 1 sa .aea.nsta taai
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