New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-08
LECTURE OF MISS OLIVE LOGAN

highly entertained by the otf-hand and con-
versational manner in which she handled
what she understood of the passions. The
lecture was diversified with anecdotes,
given in a humorous vein, and If her idea
Of the passions differed from the long line
of poets who are, according to uasage, their
only interpreters, yet the lecturer gave
wherefore for every why, divested the
| theme of the cobwebs with which other
writers had invested it, and made the whole
subject wonderfully plain, even to the du l.
est comprehension.
The passions, the lecturer went on to say,
were our every day companions, and life
| could not go on an hour without them.
| They were friends or they were enemies.
! These are the brothers of hate, envy, re-
| venge, jealousy and malice; the sisters of
love, pity, hope and joy. Though they
were of the earth earthly, yet the good pas
| siOns would welcome US to heaven when we
go there. All the bad passions will be shut
out, and love and all good passions will
| there reign supreme. Miss Logan spoke
this far in plain, matter-of-tact way. and
going on to develop her subject, she said
she would make the best OF bad job, and
talk as good naturedly of tie enemies of
human nature as possible.
| The lecturer began on envy, and illus
| trated it by saying it had capered into her
| carriage while driving in the dark, and re-
| ferring 70 that glorious turnout" so much
| better than her own, and also whispering,
| Isn't it shame such coarse and shoddy
people should have such a turnout when
| would look so much better in it." Envy
would intrude upon all people at all times.
| No one could be perfectly free from it.
| Sometimes, when she was in the midst of
congratulations that it was not to be seen
again, back it would come again. The toad
was the embodiment OF envy; it would
spit upon the worm because it shone so
bright. Men are like toads, only little
| enlarged.
Hate was the brother Of envy, a man of
passion. Hate was a bad boy. There might
be some things we were obliged to hate
the Old Nick, for example: though if he
were as important parsonage as generally
supposed. it were better to treat him re
spectfulIy. Ii were better to have nothing
to do with the bad passions if we could
avoid it, Hate could make a man a villain,
a crawling, Shiny villain; crawling like a
snake in the grass. Hate always meant
death it was the spirit OF murder, bitter
cruelty. Eve, had she not been SO innocent
could have read hate in the snakes eye.
Down with these brothers-ervy and hate.
The best thing they could do was to fall
upon one another, like the Kilkenny cats,
and where there were two cats there was
afterward none at all
Jealousy was the first cousin Of envy and
hate: not a she cousin either and there was
not particle of love, she said, about it.
The mistake was common that love and
jealousy 90 together, but il was not so. In
going on to speak of family jealousy she al
luded TO tie appearance OF the passion be-
tween husband and wife. and held 1t to be
the cause of much misery. Many pretty
girl had set to work to rouse the passion i'll
her lover, thinking if he could not be Jealous
he could not love. This was a false i'm
preston Tie woman should beware how
this passion was raised in the bosom OF the
man she loved. 1t destroys that hope and
Confidence without which love is a baleful
fever
Revenge was a horrible creature to dwell
in Christian land, and WAS the prime
agent of murder. Murderers there were
who murdered simply for gore. Horrible
as he was. the worse of the two was one
-. -, -, ,,o
springng upon him unawares. kills him,
and then on the plea of insanity trusts him
self to an American jury and is discharged.
Life is too short for revenge and hate !: we
have barely time to say pleasant word to
our neighboIs before we are summoned
hence.
Avarice far as could be seen, had neither
relations nor friends. It asks 10 be let alone:
its idea is the miser who counts his money
in the corner. She brought smile on the
face of the audience by telling Of a certain
doctor who took a hen along on his visits to
patients in order that the hen ight get fat
on the crumbs thrown away IN the numer
Gus households he visited She respected a
man like that who was more apt to pay his
debts than the dashing, ree-handed fellows
who sometimes made free with other peo
pies money The lecturer went on to de-
tail. by way of illustration, Of avaricious
passions, the experiences of California life
where, for a long time, 10 one would
look at anything less than silver
dime. This portion of her lecture
was full OF anecdotes. First, OF
the Dntchman, who having insured ms
life and his property in the same company,
saw no difference in the cases. His property
was burned, and or applying for the money
the agent told him he would build a new
house to take the place of the old. On the
same principle as this, the DutcEman went
on to saw that if he should die, instead of
paying his wife the money, the company
would provide new husband for his wife.
Avarice was the love of gain, the spirit of
the miser The spirit shown in a certain
money lender who kept his securities in a
trunk at the head OF his bed. so that ''he |
could lay awake and hear it draw interest
To one of these fellows {. man once said: |
"Why do you take so much care of your
gold! Il will do you no good when you die. |
You can't take It with you there, and even !
if YOU could it would melt"
ALWAYS stands in the way OF love. 1t were |
best to know if man was proud, OF what |
he was rrouH: if of his birth, she wanted |