The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-18
DAILY JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY,, NAY is, 1870.


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she must be married), honestly loves
her husband, but does not thrust her
affection into the face of the world,
and never fiirts with him In public.
Indeed, she hirts with other men just
enough to make time pass pleasantly,
anC enjoys 6 rapid waltz or a lively
conversation as much as when she was
seventeen, and before she was appro-
priated. She does not think it neces-
sary to 60 about morally ticketed, nor
does she find it necessary for her dig
nifty or her virtue to fence herself
round with coldness or indifference to
the multitude by way of proving her
loyalty to one Still, as 1t is notori-
Gus that she does love her husband,
and as every one knows that they are
perfectly content with each other, and
therefore not on the lookout for sup
plements, the men with whom she has
those innocent little jokes, those trans
parent secrets, those animated CONVEX
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 so much admired. She
is a mother, too, and q fond one, so
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 a we'll managed house, and
is notorious for the amount Of needle.
work she gets through, and of which
she is prettily proud, not being
ashamed to tell you that the dress you
SO much admire was made by her own
hands, and she will give your wife the
pattern if she likes; while she boasts
of even rougber upholstery work
which she and her maid and her sew
ing machine have got through with
despatch and credit. She gives dim
ners with a cachet of her own, and that
have been evidently planned with care
full thought and study; and she IS not
above her work as mistress and organ
izer of her household. Iet she hnds
time to keep abreast with the current
literature Of the day, and never has to
confess to ignorance of the ordinary
topics Of conversation. She is not
woman of extreme views about any,
thing. She has not signed improper
papers, and she does not discuss i'm
proper questions; she does not 60 In
for woman's rights; she has q horror
of facility of divorce; and she sets up
for nothing being neither an ad-
vanced woman DESTROYS of usurpiD &
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 becoming
an inferior crsature. She does not
dabble in politics; and though she
likes to make her dinners successful
and her evenings brilliant, she by no
means assumes to be a leader of fash
ion or to impose laws on her circle.
She likes to be admired, and she is al
ways 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 chill
dren to love her, and poor pensioners
to admire her, quite as much as she
enjoys the brilliant receptions where
she Is among the most popular and
most beautiful. Her nature is gentle,
her affections large, her passions
small; she may have prejudices, but
they are ladylike prejudices of mild
kind, mainly on the side of modesty
and tenderness, and the quietude OF
womanhoOd She is a woman through
out. without the faintest dash of the
masculine element in mind and man
ners. and aspires to nothing else. She
carries with her an atmosphere of hap
piness. of content, of spiritual COM
pleteness, Of purity that is not prudery,
her life is filed with variety OF in
terests, consequently she is never
peevish through monotony, nor yet,
on the other hand, is she excited, hur-
ried, storm-driven, as those who give
themselves up to "objects," and per-
feet nothing, because they attempt too
much, She is popular, because she is
beautiful without being vain, loving
without being sentimental; happy In
herself, yet not Indifferent to others
because she understands her drawing
room duties as we'll as her nursery
ones, and knows how to combine do
mesticity with social splendor. This
is the best type of the popular pretty
woman to whom is given admiration
and against whom no one has stonl
TO fling or SANDER to whisper; ant
this il the ideal woman of the Engllsl
upper class home, of which, thanl
Heaven, we still raise few specimens
lust to show what women may be i
they like, and what sweet and Lowell.
creatureS they are when they are con
tent to be az nature designed them
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