The St. Cloud journal., 1870-07-07

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happiness bohind it on each pillo,
upon which it had rested for minut,
with its last goodnight. g.
! (To BE coNT1NUED.)
4 POPULAR WOMEN.
From the London Satur1av Rev;ew.
! The popular pretty woman is ont
who, take her as a young wife (aud
she must be married,) honestly loves
her husband, but does not thrust he,
affection into the face Of the world, and
never f1irts with him in public. In.
deed she flirts with other men iuet
enough to make time pass pleasantly,
and enjoys rapid waltz or lively
conversation as much as when she was
seventeen, and before she was appropri.
ated. She does not think it necessary
to 60 about morally ticketed, nor does
she find it necessary for her dignity or
her virtue to fence herself round with
coldness and Indifference to the multi
tude 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 ore perfectly con-
tent with each other, and therefore not
on the lookout for supplements, the
men with whom she has those innocent
little jokes, those transparent sccerts,
those animated conversations, that con-
fessed friendship and good understand.
ing, do not make mistakes, and the
very women belonging to them forget
to be ceosorious, even though she is so
much admired. She is mother, tho,
and fond one, 50 can sympathize with
other mothers, and eypatiate on her
nursery in the confidential chat over 5
o'clock tea, as all fond mothers do and
should. She keeps well-managed
house, and is notorious for the amount
OF needle work she gets through, and
Of which she is pretty proud, not b.
ing ashamed to tell you that the dress
you admire so much was made by her
own hands, and she will give your
wife the pattern if she likes; while she
boasts ofeven rougher upholstery work
which she and her maid and her sew
ing machine have got through with
dispatch and credit. She gives dinners
with cachct of their own, and that
have been evidently planned With care
ful thought and study; and she not
above her work as mistress and organ
izer Of her household. Yet she finds
timo 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 a
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 go in
for woman's rights she has horror Of
facility Of divorce and she sets up for
nothing-being neither an Advanced
Woman dssjrous Of usu rping the pos
sessions and privileges of men, nor a
Griselds who thinks her proper place
is At the feet Of men, to take their
kicks with patience and their caresacs
With gratitude, rs is becoming in an in
terior creature. She does no dabble in
politi>s; and though she likes to m axe
her dinners successful and her evenings
brilliant, she by no means assumes to
be . leader Of fashion, or to impose
laws upon her circle. 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 tina: comes in
her way, and she 6nds time for the
careful overlooking Of few pet chari.
ties, about which she makes no parade,
just as she finds time for her nursery
and her needlework. And truth to
tell, she enjoys these quiet hours, with
only her children to love her, and he,
poor pensioners to admire her, quite as
much as she ENJOYS the brilliant rccep.
tlons where she is smong tho mos,
popular and the most beautiful. He,
nature Is gentle, her affections large
her passions small she may have pref.
udices, but they are laky-like pref.
udices Of mild kind, mainly on the
side Of modesty and tenderness and
the quietude Of vonanhood. She il
woman throughout, without tho faint
est dash Of the masculine element il
mind or manners, and she aspires t.
nothing else, She carries with her al
atmosphere Of fhappiness, OF content, o
spiritual complete ness, Of purity whiol
is not prudery her life is filed with
variety Of interests, consequently 81
Is never peeyisb through monotony
!. nor yet, On the other hand, is she e1
cited, hurried, storm driven, IS thos
who give themselves up 70 aobjec.s'
], and perfect nothing beeause thsy 4