The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-02

their dead. She would have STAYED in
the dwelling, and put away little dresses
and broken toys while the family were
at the cemetery. She will never do it
again. Never again find time for the
sweet amenities of life, or the comfort
ing sympathy with the bereaved. She
will never again be satisfied to live in a
country town, or 60 to church sewing
societies, or sit up with the sick. She
is above that now. And yet she was a
sweet young girl; a fair young wife; a
gentle young mother.
Left in retirement she would have
bloomed out long, fragrant life of good
deeds, and been truly mourned at her
death. Sore hearts that she had bound
up would have remembered her, per-
haps, as clear-eyed saint, who wore a
soft white cap and a plain alpaca dress
in her old age, and on autumn Sundays,
when quiet hung like benediction over
the still woods, they would have led
little children around the simple head
stone, have loitered and told of her
lovely life until the memory breathed
into infant hearts would, like the seed
in the soft, mellow earth, have brought
forth good deeds in some future strait
Thus, although dead, she would live
again. But now! she is spoiled fol
everything. She will fly her round,
friter away her day, drop out of life,
and not ripple on the tide of fashiona-
BILE society will show where she has gone
51lgn. She will perchance have big
monument, luther eulogy will be mean
ingless, and her epitaph awaken no ten.
der thought in any heart.
There are hundreds of women, the
currents of whose lives have been
turned by the veering winds and treach-
erous sandbars along this coast. Power
makes fools of men; admiration makes
fools of women. They can't stand it.
They have not independence to set up
and carry on an ideal life which would
satisfy their thirsting minds and elevate
their souls. They are not bad, mol
really weak, but they drift into the
sameness and meaningless round, and
in time the whirl becomes second ma
ture, and they cannot strike out a
straight line for themselves. They
amount to nothing, in the sense of true
heart-living and learning and courtesy
A woman who can maintain her in
individuality, person who can make g
distinct impression on Washington life
is remarkable person. For instance
everybody says the system of calls and
invitations is villainous. Yet every day
long lines of carriages before the doors
of foreign Ministers and Cabinet Off
GERS show how the swarm of buzzards
hover around. Everybody, good and
bad, can 90 unbidden into these houses
Everyone who calls on the public men
has in time an invitation to reception
To these places people of every shade
Of character throng. There is a crowd
like the throng about the gate of &
county fair in our country. There are
champagne, and punch, and Holsters
and flowers; ruined toilets, lost tempers
and sore Threats.
Is there one good result? Not one
Neither learning, refinement, nor com.
fort do they afford. No exhibition OF
culture or taste.
1t has lowering tendency, and brings
everybody down to the same level. Il
is no wonder that crime in high place,
is the rule, not the exception. do not
mean by lowering that people not in
high life lower those in high life by ia.
miliar contact. l do not believe in
grades or classes, save the division o.
those in good standing morally in the
community from those whose lives are
VIGOROUSLY impure and profigate. Ii
Washington there is no distinction so.
cially.- Washington Cor. Chicago Times