Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-24

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YouN0 LADIES WHO WAIT FOR DREAMS
TO Come TRUE. 1t is complaint as old as
man that we only know how to live when we
have have done with life. The saying is essentially
,rue Of marriage and of the right kind of per
son to choose. Girls of romantic tendencies
thiuk they ough, not to marry unless with the
most passionate turore Of love. They do not
know that respect and compatibility of temper
are bette sureties for happy lite than pas
sion which must III time wear itself out, how
ever strong it may be now, and OF which the
best hope is that it may become friendship
Good plain common-sensc men, who would
make excellent husbands, but are nothing to
look at, are refused by certain of the feather
headed, 10 favor of dream that will never be
realized, fancy that has no more substance
than soap-bubble. Or personal worth is re-
fused for mere wealth, quite as often as for
penniless romance. The man OF a girls fancy
is too handsome to be traitor, rouc, weak,
or Of SO wayward temper that her lltc, It she
narries him, will be simply torture. She is
sure Of him, she says with Indignation when
stony y-heartcd wisdom points out his patent
flaws, and experience teaches caution and re-
nuncation She knows that love will not fly
out uf her window when poverty stalks IN at
the door, or she docs not believe he is rouc
now, whatever the evidence. Aud even 1t he
il. she comforts herself with the sensible re-
fection that a reformed rake makes notorio,ls!y
the best husband; and 40 woman is proof
against tho seduction of reforming the man
she loves, aud bringing him TO virtue by
means of her w!lcs. She is in love, and she
believes that her love is eternal. Pretty
girls of poor circumstances and belonging to
large families whom it would be an iucacula.
be relief to get we'll settled, have been known
to refuse eligible offers from good men because
of this fancy OF .hcrs about Prince prcttyman.
OF cours, Que would not like to see women give
themselves to any one, no matter who he might
be, for the sake Of getting married; but tho
solid things Of life should DC taught them
rs well as i;s poetic beauties; and false
hopes, false ideals, unsuhstantial loves,
should be vigorously excluded. A bad mar
rage Or a lovcless lite is not pleasant coda to
tilal never acted romance; nor is The disenchant-
ncnt which comes with sucl, cruel certainly
on the heels Of the love sick and unsuitable mar
rlagca blessing to he desired. Beauty fades,
passion cools, the blindness Of romance gets
couched when seeing is too late; poetry docs
not pay the bu.cllcr and gallan,ry Of bearing
of The "onE sword, saddle, bride kind is apt
to lose itself in domestic bad language when
the pot is empty Of pudding and half a dazcn
children swarm about the musty lodgings or
dugy quarters to which love and folly have
reduced The gay lieutenant and his bride. Ou
the whole, Prince Prctiyman is dangerous
fellow either to get or to wait for, having the
trick OF unsuhs,antiality throughout. Ruluan-
tic girls would dn well to reflect that if they are
to have ouly one gown in lifetime, they had
better buy one that will wash and wear credi-
tsbly to the end, rather than tlimscy bit OF
fiuery tina. looks we'll only in the beginning,
and goes to pieces before the first year is out.
London Saturday Revieao.
DARwINIsM. His last lecture at Cambridge,
Professor Agassz closed as follows:
'"rhen while it may be said on the whole in
ageneral sense that lower forms have preceded
higher ones, and that embryonic dcvclopemcnt
follows the same progress from the simpler to
the more complex structure, it is not true In
detail that all the carrier animals were simpler
than the latter. On the contrary, many OF the
lower animals were introduced under more
highly organized forms than they have ever
shown since, and have dwindcd afterward.
Such are the types which have called synthe-
tic types, combining characters which were
separated later and found expression IN distinct
groups. That presentation of archaeological
phenomena which would make it appear that
the whole animal kingdom has boon marshaled
in a consecutive procession beginning with the
lowest ard ending with the highest, is false to
nature There is no inevitable repetition, no
mechanical evolution in the geological success
sion of organic life. 1t has the correspondence
OF connected plan. 1t has just that kind OF re-
semhlance in the parts, so much and no more,
as always characterizcs intellectual work pro-
eeedug from the same source. 1t has that
Freedom Of manifestation, that independence,
winch charuc,crizes the work of mind as COM
pared with the work of law. Sometimes, IN
looking at this great epos Of organic life in lts
totalty, carried on with such ease aud variety,
and even playtulpess of expression, one IS re-
minded OF the great conception of the poet or
mental harmony is heard beneath all the diver
a'y OF rhythm or of song. So great is this
freedom, 20 unlike the mcchancal action Of
evolution, and that We 6ud endless dscrcpan-
eleS, endless lncongruitics, appalling anachron
lsn's IN the woud-he uninterrupted series Of
progressive events as advocated by the suppor-
.Trs "l the transmutaton dogma Animals
mat sllonld be ancestors if simplicity of struc-
'ure Is 10 characterlzo the first horn, are known
70 DC OF later origin; the more complicated
i'luiS nave frequently appeared first, aud the
amper ones later, and this In hundreds of in
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