The Hickman courier., 1877-07-20
SOCIETY COLUMN.
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image of his Maker. How blessed 10 live
in its'enchanted eirolel You call it i'm
pulse; I call it the echo of soul to soul. 1t
is the symphony of human Kindness,
which intelligentIy developed
Constitutes POLITE SOCIETY.
have said that dignity of character
was the essense of true culture. Il is
true. and it's adornment is intellectual
force. But | hear silent music. Ah,
silent is the word, for it steals softly and
sweetly over aud through our better ma
lures. its notes are sound-less but are
well remembered, read aud heard. Il
places tone above intellectual force. II is
the half my site, half poetic, half musical
lalf spiritual, which unified, makes the
whole truth.
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YoU WOULD HAVE
oTHLRs DO UNTO YOU.
This Is the very, quinteseence of polite
socie,y. Culture improves. edifes, en-
livens, electri6es and adorns, but the
golden rule is the entree ticket-the
keystone to the sacred areh-the stone
" irich il the besildeE reieets. must destroy
the temple of good Society. Practice it
young, old, rich, poor, fashion dressed
or lily clad, and it will bring responsive
courtesies in and from any circle
Our correspondent Of last week touches
a very salient error Of our older society,
and one of especial interest to parents
The young must have recreation, am"se-
meuts, society. 1t is essential to their
nature, young, fervid, buoyant, enthusI-
astic, their spirits will seek aud hnd
congeniality. Pent up, by arbitrary die
taiion it will fnd vent in excess and IN
discretion, and yet uueonstrained and un-
controlled it almost certainly lapses into
that communistic degeneracy which these
articles have been specially lamenting.
Hence
SOCIETY SHOULD ENTERTAIN
The close selfshuess which interdicts
parents from an occasional and timely
entertainment of those with whom they
are willing their sons and daughters
should associate, too often drives those
sons and daughters into the acceptance OF
baneful associations Learn this: the
young nature yearns for society, life, en-
joyment, recreation, and will have it. 1t
will accept aud learn to love the good, the
polite, if offered; but if this is denied or
withheld, the allurements and fascins
tions Of worse society is sought. These
entertainments
SHOULD BE HAsHIoSABLE.
All, you dislike the word You think
there is something too pretentious-too
aristoc stic in il, do you? Well be it so.
/ ID not going to defend the vanities and
frivolties of fashions, for no one 40
hors these more than 1. But fash ion"
is the prototype Of cultivation, the avant
courier Of refinement, the conductor
which leads the crude, young mind, into
the beauties Of cultivated life Tell me
that you hate TASTE and elegance You
may envy, but you do not dislike The
ne@tness OF dress is bound to please,
though useless gaadiness may disgust; a
polite bow and Gaeetal motion viii charm
when obsequous action will be ridiculed
. You walk into aAower garden, surround =
ed by shrubbery that Shentone would en-
w, but you will admire; and you listen 10
music that might charm Calypso and her
nymphs with .onder and adulatiou, bat q
strained rendition is harsh and repulsive.
Fashion" then, a my meaning. is the i'm
italion of the beautiful and good, aud to
this extent let Us sll be fashionable.
BLOOD Is NOTHING.
Theu parents, make straws for your
children, for Nature is nothing, if there
is nothing in blood. know "the brat of
custom is ever active degenerating our
purest and best, and that "weeds once
taking root. in the rich ground, grow
strong as flowers; but, as once in our
veins it runs, true blood yearneth for its
pareu, food. 1t is true in all creation.
Teach The woodchuch to sing like the
( nightingale If you can. or the scrub to
move like the courser. Happily, in our
country, where we are as free as the air
We breathe, Advancement, progress, i'm
provement, are the caSelistic words inter
woven in our institutions. Honor and
fame, from no cond tions rise; act well
[ your act-there ali the honor lies. But.
when you risk social association beyond
the confines Of self approved blood, your
( sous and daughters are out upon a peri
lous sea.
PIEtY AND PRETTY BoNSETs.
Oh, how l love a pretty bonnet what
woman dout2 In all the world of art,
there's nothing half so lovely as pretty
bonnet on pretty woman's head. III
was man, l9hould say except the wo
man herself, bnt AS a woman give
/ precedence TO the bonnet. Shape It, turn
/ it, place it as you will, it is "a joy-if not
forever-at least until some woman gets "A
prettier one Ny pen grows wild with
/ the theme Last week | spoke of why
/ country people did not attend town
churches. Oh thon lovely little bit of a
wee-teensy Bo20et. 40 " cruel a part thou
! playest in this church complaint. The
religious causations | leave to pri
and preachers, but as friend of genteel
society, must deprecate fashionablt
dress at church. There are occasions for
! fashionable dress, in the ball room on
State occasions, and times when society is
Joyous and fsnciful, aud love il with
ali woman S instinct, but church is not
the place Let your dress suit the occa
sion. A, church le.it be neat nice, gen
,.al but paver shawv
The SECRET Is OFT.
/ The secret is out-the magic charm
with which thought to delve into our
society customs incognito, is broken and
/ thev have found out who Maud Muell er is
Henceforth, criticism is dangerous, and |
shrink from the responsibility. Here then
resign the name,
Bright heart,
| Thy lustre, should | wear thee, will be
false
For thou, the emblem art, of love and
truth.
Away then with the disguise. NY non
de plume gone, the jewel of influence
would WELD. is lost. At your feet, edi.
tor of the COURIER, I lay the unvalued
empty casket.
DYSPEPSIA
Americans are particularly subject :,