The Portland daily press., 1875-08-20

man, you do it at your peril. Many collegian
of Amherst would have stood higher in his
class this wear had he not yielded TO the dam
gerous spell and endeavored to construe a
glance in his favor when he should have been
constituting his less bewilderirg gerunds. If
not tickle wild rose, she's wild mountain
deer"
A Brooklyn sick girl cleared space around
thirteen ears of green corn at one meal the
other day, and, picking the fragments from
between her teeth with hair pin, observed:
"1f ever get well enough again to eat much,
think could live on corn
Miss Young, the English High Church
novelist, is to give paper on "Women's Work
in the Church." at Stoke. on-Trent, before a
Church Congress.
You can tell Southern girl at once, She is
FOUNDER than her Northern sisters-indeed, she
is never thin or lank; she walks with languid
step, and all her movements are slow and in
dolept; she is never alert. She has fine, soft
eyes, with a serene expression, very different
FROM the quick, keen eyes of the North. She
has not the beautiful white and red complexion
of New York and New England; rather is she
sallow, with few rose tints; you might call
her cream color. She never looks anxious, no
matter what happens. She does not think she
can help matters by her advice or interference,
but sits back calmly and leaves everything to
"brother," or 'pa," pronouncing the latter
word in way defy Northern girl to mi'
tate. The word might be used as shibboleth;
it is not exactly "pay," but halfway between
that and the sound of "a' in Scat" Our
Southern girl dresses picturesquely rather than
trinity, and has brighter colors and more floating
ends and curls about her than a Northern
belle allows. She has pretty, plump hand s
but she is not particular about the gloves that
cover them-I mean particular compared with
Fifth Avenue rules. Iu short, she is more
voluminous sort of a girl in every way, and
cares little about 'the fashion," She has one
decided advantage over the Northern girls, how
ever and that is her voice; it is sweeter and
lower, a little trinane, perhaps, but essentially
gentle and neutrality-suspicious. Wootson.
Some months ago, an Oregon man named his
girl baby after Queen Victoria, and wrote TO the
Queen to that effect. She didn't seem to care
cent, and he changed the child's name to
stSal," and went out and pounded the first
Englshman he met.
''Man," says Victor Hugo "was the conun-
drum of the eighteenth century: woman is the
cconundrum of the nineeenth century," We
can't guess her; but we will never give her up.
No never.
DIR. Birch in his new history of old Egypt,
says that women occupied higher position
there than in the neighboring nations. In do
nestle life the Egyptian was attached TO his
wife and children, and the equality of the fe-
male sex with the male was most marked: the
Egyptian woman appearing always as the
equal and companion of her father, brethren, and
husband. She was never secluded in harem
like the Asiatic lady, but appeared in private
company or public.fetes, participated in equal
rights before the law, served in the priesthood,
and even mounted the throne She was thought
to have soul the same as man, unlike the
conceptions of Islam. Her name is mentioned
in the genealogies. of families. Unfortunately
the women known in Egyptian history, or de-
picted by romance, do not bear a good charac-
ter, nor is it probable that their education was
sedulously conducted, as no literary compost
tions or other writings of women are known.
They form, in this respect, striking contrast
with the remarkable women mentioned in the
Scriptures. They, however, were accomplish
ed in music and some of the other arts and
sciences. Both sexes sat together at the table
on chairs or on the ground; and the Egyptian
never reclined like the luxurious Assyrian or
Greek while his wife sat respectfully on the
chair at the foot or the couch. In eating, the
hands only were used, and the only appliances
on the table were the bowls and mats which
held the viands.