The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-12-27
THE SWEET WOMAN.
A Very Imagi ginatiVe Picture-.-But
One That Has Some Happy
TOuches.--Am Ideal Of
Infinite UnseIfish-


The sweet woman is questionable IN
loving her husband, and him only-ln
not caring to attract idle admiration or
the homage of the more serious adorer.
When she married, it was for love, pure
and simple, and she did not look to her
wifehood as to her papers of release from
control and her character for unlimited
freedom, She has not sailed near peril
Gus shadows, even in in the most lnno-
cent firtations,, and does not think it the
confession of her charms that she should
be made the centre of questionable at
traction, any more than she thinks it
the mark of superior understanding to
oppose her husband for the better asser-
ton OF her own independence and digni
ty. She has no very decided opinions on
politics, women's rights, or the doctrine of
fate and free will. She is not radical to his
conversation /; 'high" when he is ''broad;"
a bigot when he is liberal, Or an agnostic
when he is reverent, She slips insensibly
and by the natural training OF love, into
the groove of thought where he finds
himself, and holds his position to be the
best of all because it is his. She is more
content with his fame than she would be
with her own; indeed. she finds hers in
his, and would not care to be parsonage
on her own account. She desires for
herself, her honor and supreme personal
happiness, only his love, only his health
and prosperity and, so long as he is
safe, her star is without a cloud to veil
its brightness Her children while little
are not burdensome intruders whose ad-
vent she counts as the greatest misfortune
that could befall her; nor are they her
importunate rivals when grown up, as
her sister who lives only tor dress and
gayety, and she who cares for nothing
| but intellectual display and masculine
ambition, find theirs. She loves them
with the honest, hearty love of woman
who finds nothing to be ashamed of in
her instincts, and who thinks that dress
and pleasure, ambition and public life,
are of no account compared to the happi-
ness of love and the glorious possession of
/ children.
SHE LOVES AND Is LOVED,
and <fu1fflls all her duties towards those
to whom she has given life withou a
thought of self or a regret for sacrifice.
As they grow up she is their friend, and
: her daug ghte-s treat her as sister, if to
the sons sb5 is something more precious
than any sister could possibly be-moth-
er and ~&1er, ideal of womanhoOd and
saint IN one. She is a true friend to
thee whom she-adopts into the sacred
CIRCLE of her affections; and no one ever
knew her capricious or 1igloyal. Young
men CO. to her. as do g'Fis, to pout out
! the tale 0SStheir troubles into her ear,
but no one makes her c01lfldG1te of his
sins. She is purelin heart as in deed,
and instinctively those who have dark
spots in their histories c012ceal them from
her carefully, and let her ESee nothing
that would degrade them in her eyes.
She has nothing in common vita tb%
! horrors of life, if the affections and ~sRe
sorrows are hers by the right of the ssar-
ticipation of sympathy. Little children
crowd round her as round a friend al
ready known to them, and she seems to
understand them as by a second sense,
and to soothe them when no one else
can. Her servants love her as much as
they respect her, and supplement their
duty by an attachment which gives it a
personal charm too often wanting for
| she is wise in her management of them,
as well as generous, and treats them with
human respect as well as with the
guidance of superior Intelligence. In
society, when she appears with her
sweet, bright, pure face, which is lovely
from youth to age, she is,
THE sL1GHr OF ONES EYES"
to more than one. Whatever sorrows
she has had, she has never lost the sun
ny, frank aftectionateness which was her
earliest characteristic, and none of her
trials have worn on her temper. She is
ever ready to sympathize with others /;
and, while the tears are in her own eyes
by reason of the sorrow that lies in her
past, her sweet, small mouth smiles
tenderly as she talks to you of your
pleasures. Cheerful and bright as the
day, she is soft and tender as the night !;
religious and faithful to her creed, she is
neither harsh to those who differ from
her i'll their views, nor prone to judge of
others from her standpoint. Her life is
true to itself all through; but true with
out being aggressive, faithful without
being illiberal. Not often met with in
these dislocated latter times, who does
not love her when she is found? The
fate which brings her into ones horizon
is blessed beyond all others; and a chance
meeting becomes consolidated into a
friendship that counts among the hap
piest of ones life. Wherever she goes
she carries with her blessing and love,
leaving behind her admiration and re
gret; but every one feels both~he richer
and the purer for having known herS ant
the Sweet Woman of ones world stand!