Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-31


M~ Marriage and Death Notices, when not
exceeding eight lines, fifty cents.
STRONG MINDED WOMEN HUSBANDS "A
correspondent of the Golden Age INDUCES in
the following views on the loss OF Individuality
by the husbands of famous women:
However much a man may have seemed to
be before marriage with strong minded wo-
mau, from that fatal hour the process of abb
sorption begins, and never ceases till he disap-
pears utterly as an individual existence. The
case of the husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
is an instance of this sort Mr. Stanton before
his marriage was young man Of fine culture,
u broad and liberal thinker, young orator for
whom great fame was predicted by all who
knew him, and for some time 1t seemed that
his native powers were such as to enable him
to escape the action of the general law-but
there is no resisting the forces Of nature; by
slow degrees the process of absorption went on;
little by little he sank from the public view till
he disappeared from sight altogether as one of
the editors of the Sun. The husband of Lucy
Stone offers us another variety. II. B. Black
we'll was never much before his semi union
with Lucy Stone. He is less than nothing now.
The husband of Paulina Wright Davis is anoth
cr unimportaut fact of conjugal history. The
husband of Mrs Livermoore is known only By
tradition. There is myth to the effect that
an innocent and worthy clergyman OF that name
and of the Universalist persuasion once married
Mrs Livermore. Having immortallzed himself
by this feat, he retired from the public gaze to
the modest seclusion of the domestic clrcle-as
was very proper. The husband of Julia Ward
Howe did not yield to his fate without strug-
Gle. He made superhuman efforts to bring
himself up by philanthropy. He grasped at
the Santo Domingo Commission with the clutch
of despair, but it was all in vain. Destiny in
the shape of Mrs Howe was too much for him.
Let us respect the courage which deserved a
better fate The husbands of Victoria G..
Woodruff have climed the hill of notoriety
solely through her mediumship. As Agrlcola
owed his Immortality to the pen OF IacltuS, SO
DR.. Woodruff will be known to fame only by
the annals of his wife IS biographer Col. Blood
is doing his Intellectual best to retain his ndl,
viduality in the columns of Woodruff and
Clafius Weekly. His struggles are heroic,
but he may rest assured that he cannot escape
the general fate of his class Susan b. An
thonv has no husband. Though stern she is
:ulerciful. Various desperate and devoted men,
ensnared by her grlish charms, have essayed
to plunge headlong intr the maelstrom OF mat
rmony; but with firm though gentle hand she
has withheld them from the fatal leap refusing
TO accept the sacrifice,
EATING AND WORKING. We find the fol-
lowing 10 jouraal devoted to the exposition OF
the laws of health
is hearty meal in the middle of the day
good thing for literary person who expects
to write in the Afternoon? A-No. The dim
ner should be light, or DELAYED till the work is
done ,Lntelse brain work SHOULD not 60 on at
the same time that the stomach Is strongly
., Il, food ~
Of course. much may depend ea what is
mcaut by a hearty dinner' or flight dim
n4r. They may mean one and the same
thing What one may call hearty, the other
may think light If either means just enough
10 satisfy the demands OF nature, we endorse
him. If he means any more or less We are
not his man. We would as soon think of running
An engine without fire and water as to expect
the brain to work well without Il due amount
of nutritious food in the stomach. 1t is the
source of supply to the brain; and If 1t does
not furnish the material, the brain must be-
come exhausted and collapse. We have work
ed on full stomach and on an empty QUE
The full one is the best in practice, whatever 1t
may be in theory. Nothing so quickly indl-
Gates to us an empty stonach-not even its
gnawings-as the waning of the working power
of the brain. Ghttony is injurious to both
man and beast: but nothing can be more talla-
cious than the idea that starvation is favorable
to healthy mental activity. Ii one has not
abused his digestive organs, he will lind hls
brain stimulated and strengthened by good
dinner If he is a miserable dyspeptc, perhaps
he can not bear full meal and retain his in-
rllectual vigor. or SO much OF it as indigestion
leaves him. But if healthy, and desirous to
preserve his health, let no man run the risk OF
working his brain and going hungry tic will
tboro 1c layr Inti1rtln
the penalty of exhaustion when the supply is
mot equal to the demand. 1t is nonsense to
assert that the brain and the stomach can not
harmoniously and healthfull work at the same
time Why not insist upon every other tunc-
ton of the body? If the stomach is not di-
eesting food, it is preying upon its own Innings
and getting into diseased condition. We
prefer to have it digesting the dinner. We
think the author OF the above extract must be
"a relative of the boy who complained that it
was working between meals that was killing
him.
SOUTHERN MATTERS Grcrous Outlook
To the careful student OF affairs the prospect
South seems gloomy enough. Virginia, deep
" in debt, shows sorrow. courage and despair
but enough of life lett to keep her chin above
water And Virginia has been better governed
and is in better condition than any other
Southern State North Carolina is IN polltlcal
tumut and financial misery South Carolina
is torn with political dissensions, and has been
Il prey to rascals, who, though gorged to the
throat with prey, are lean and ravenous still;
Georgia has the benefit of change in the
channel of trade or the State would be poorer
than the field hands in her rice swamps. She
has been robbed and insulted by the men she
trusted. Florida has nothing to say, but would
sell out cheap. She has almost lost hope. AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi and Tennessee have
been robbed and scourged Arkansas has been
robbed, is being robbed, and there seems to. be
no future for her. Louisiana is helpless as a
child against her prosecutors, and Texas Is