Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-05-23
EVENING STAR.



Do our Young women know what IL il thu
Strikes one who has been away from the coun-
Try TOT time tLe most Unpieasantly on his
retzrnf " - NOT their faces, assuredlv which
1or regJ larity of outline and deIcacy and
FRESHNESS OF TINT, are unsurpassed, indeed are
not equaled by aRytAiRg that one sees abroad.
save IN The hnest pictures. Nor Il il their forms
which are 1.-THE, supple, and graceful. with a
sprlng IN the step and a freedom OF carriage
Ihst are always delight 70 the ewes. Nor can
NJ be said to be their dress TOR though they dress
700 much, IN colOrs too positive aud decided,
and are b'this respect far behind the French
NOmen they are Yet in advance OF al! others
English, German, or Italian. But it is the
voice ard the management Of the voice. After
looking at our American girls II IL almost
always disappointment 20 hear tirem speak.
what they say l. perhaps well enough, but the
tone and mode in which they say II is not well
enough. Their voices commonly too thin
and shrill. and when they are not, are pitched
IN too high a key. Sometimes they come
through the nose a good deal more than IL
'siTable. They have a metallic ring, OF at least
Sdy and gda n5t nat ss s 'Ss SDs Of 9sI the
tty which Shakespear proclaimed so excel
Iin woman" Climate has no doubt a good
= 10 do with THIS result, for the fault is most
Icrceputle At the North and East, and least
PeIeeptible at the South, but carslessness has
quite as much 10 Go With il. Our mothers and
teachers, We suspect do not take much pains to
tram their children and pupils into good habits
OF ennnc'ation. They arc carefully taught to
sing. bat they are not carefully taught 20 read
and TO sp ak Yet more than half the charm OF
able or disagreeable use OF the voice. How re-
pulsive, when one has been lost in admiration
OF a beautiful face and q noble figure, to hear
1he mouth open Ike the grating of q hinge, or
The ''squawk' of a guinea fowl How delicious
when II opens with the sweet trill of a flute. or
with the MARBLE or birds. or with that deep
rich, mellow, and sympathetic liquidity. which
no other instrument but the human throat ever
attains!
"The moral men in New York who voted
against opening the Mercantile Library on Sun
days. cheated IN balloting.
@Fincastle, Va, since the great fire, pre-
cents saddeRing aspect For squares nothing
rs TO he seen but biackened ruins. houseless
chimneys and smOuldering walls. The court
house stands alone in the centre of the town.
AL around it lie the debris OF ire.
NIn tho case OF the Rev. Mr.. Clark, on trial
before the ph1O Presbytery Of the United Pres
for breach Of promise Of marriage with a Young
lady. the charge was sustained, and the Presby-
fery administered a rebuke.
6~At an assembly of the members of the
German SchutzengeseIIschaft held not long
ago, the question of holding a universal schut-
zenfest was discussed. and 1871 was fixed as the
time when il should take place. Both Dussel-
tOri ard Hanover wish TO be the scene of the
festival
EJudge Wexford has, on a habeas corpus
released from imprisonment in the Virginia
Penitentiary cOlOred man from Campbell
county. convicted by military court, of murder
In $50, and sentenced by that court on the
around that the trIal and sentence were Illegal
IhsOther military prisoners" in the peniten-
1iary have been sent to Albany.