The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-22

HMI Charms, Astcs
Since the DAYS OF the worlds infancy,
vben Adam and Eve stood in all the
freshness and purity ofjust awakeped life
IN the beautiful garden, there has ever
isen a peculiar and irresistible charm
pertaining to all that was fresh and inno-
cent and pure-that was, in one word,
Young. For, sad as it may seem, l fear
lis too true that age and experience
bring but deeper knowledge Of woe,
Quilt and wrong, until we sometimes
almost distrust human nature entirely,
and can no where find vestige left of
truth and sweetness Of heart and soul
save in the children-and sometimes,
alas not even in them. But certain it
i that so long as the world stands, man
kind will turn away from intellect, intel
Y. gence, wit genius even, to gaze upon
The face of beauty, though there should
be but few signs of either intellect or wit
looking out from its dropping eyes or the
pink and white of its cheek. There is an
especial charm about youthful beauty,
and we often find reason, common sense
and experience sacrificed on its blushing
altar. How often is it the case that wild
overs, with grown up children, instead
Of selecting Il companion suitable in age,
and capable of being a guide and in
structress in the family, will marry
some pretty little round, rosy, laughing
DnirLING CHIT OF A SCHOOL GIRL,
as much child as any of them, who
loves him as she would her father, and
is good for nothing but plaything.
Literary men, and those of high mental
culture, and power in the more intelli-
gent portion of the community, seem to
have perfect mania for selecting wives
as unlike themselves as possible, and
who, positively, considered from an in
tellectual standpoint, know nothing ex-
cept how to look charming and wheedle
81 Their venerable husbands out of piles of
money wherewilh to buy "pretty things.
We'll, perhaps these learned Solons get
enough of culture in themselves, and
find it comfort to have in their wives a
n little less mental superiority and good
4 Ideal more physical loveliness-at any
Al 1rate it goes To prove the overwhelming
tattraetiveness OF youth and beauty COM
bined. | suppose 1T cannot be denied
that the ladies do dress and adorn them
Hselves in what they consider the most be-
#cOming manner for the purpose of at
#tacting and pleasing the numerous lords
HQf the other sex-more particularly the
lone especial lord, whom each one elects
as worthy to rule over her life and des
tnles, and thereupan sets him up as an
idol and proceeds to fall down and wor-
ship him, with the commandment, Thou
shalt not staring her in the face. ooh!
10 make idols and to find them clay =!
But | forbear to mOraliZe. For the same
reason she seeks to preserve as long as
possible her youthful appearance, know
ing we'll that if she grows old and looks
Passe or out of date in any way, the
glance that she tries to make herself be-
leye is all her own, will
WANDER 10 FREsHER FACES,
and cast speaking glances at brighter
eyes. That is a very beautiful doctrine
Of the old man loving his wife more and
more for every gray hair-'.threads OF
silver they call them in poetry-and
thinking she is just as lovely when her
once plump figure has grown wasted
and thin, and her upper teeth are all
l9iSe, and some of the lower ones are
gone forever. The sentiment Is good
and should be true, no doubt but it is
not true, and women know and realize it
to fearful extent. John Anderson,
my 10 John" is certainly most exquis-
ltely beautiful and touching, and when
properly read with little of the Scotch
accent, and by good elocutionist, will
RfthS tears to almost any eyes pHt real
have no sort Of d0ubt that while
NfS Anderson was saying all those
beautiful things in her old, childish,
quiyerlng voice, her 10 John was looking
Y the pretty girl across the way, aud
aamirlng the lovely color in her cheeks.
fty It's, Ills true. So it behooves all
who would retain the affections which
lHelr charms has or e won, to look well
saat they take ret Hato theE selves wings
SuG ny away. Half a century ago wolnen
naa not the appliances they how have to
Sohceal the ravages of time and care, and
we're obliged, per force, TO be content to
ieE ca age eon,e creeping gradually on,
Sna see The wrinkles blowing little tracks
across their foreheads, and planting
efoTs feet at the corners of their eyes,
ahu TO resign themselves to fate with a
Tsn, because there was no help for it.
+ lt2Se d9xs Ee~e &c chigncus no cr5nse
g. ai az, no iris powder fog the hair, dr
asl!eate India ink traeings for the eyelids
at least not known to the community
y general. Then sister Mehitable,
ssrging on toward forty,
TWISTED UP HER PEW THIN LOCKS,
sad fastened them with the inevitable
urn comb, or perhaps reyeled in a few
s;5Asgy corkscrew curls hanging each
t t,Se OF her spare, sharp features, and
f.ea q pqrpeal her age by wearing
snI eolors, bows and ends of frcsf
moG: and gay plaid dresses, thereby
Ia ~Alng herself look older than ever, anC
~ truly pitiable sight. To ;
ny Of the present day, such are tn,
,rSe H. of art in the adornmant 0
e person, and the general make up O
sa .ss9lona hle costume, that forty IS n,
me- a. an and one is often puzzled, see
~ Gs mother and daughter in the stree
te'ner, 70 account for the similarity 0
s sa0m appearance. But surely there
sn5 Se better way TO preserve the beautie
arts a:'ractions Of Yluth than to resort t
chs tfeia :, to simulate the color in til
s4eek' the sparkle in the eve. the grac