Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-07-16
A WOMANS LETTER.

A WOMANS LETTER.
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1t is common assertion here tha
some OF the hottest weather Of The
season comes IN June. True, II does
The June of Virginia is the July o
Massachusetts,. Set here and there
set amid its fervors, is a perfect chry
solite OF day-a day made of amber
and azure, when the vast spaces, iar
as the sight can reach, are flushed
with transparent nebul@, through
which the sunlight siits with absolute
radiance, till the whole atmosphere
seems limitless ocean of delicate, un-
imagined hues, in which every object
from the glancing sparrow to the
dome of the Capitol, the very earth
itself seems to float. Vapors veil the
Maryland and Virginia hills in super
nal purple, and even the deceitful Po-
tomac glints with every tint OF the
opal. Yet, strange to tell, the charm
Of charms in the day is the tonic in its
air-'a southern day with northern
blood in its veins" 1t is joy to live, to
bask and ripen, to "mix your blood
with sunshine, to take the wind into
your pulses" The world is full of OK
pectancy, the enchantment of youth.
Only your months on will wait the
gathered harvests, the serenity Of iul.
fillment, the last lingering radiance of
a glory gone by. But to-day is June.
Its charm is the sense of inextinguish-
able youth. Children are not children
long. Men and women fade. The
world grows old; yet every twelve
months is repeated the miracle of re-
juyenation. Again and again we live
through the delightful surprises Of ma
lures painless births; behold anew
the genesis of beauty; face, as Adam
faced them with astonlshed joy, new
heaven and new earth. 1t will come
the safety oil summer, its languors,
its wearlness. Dust will cover this
virginal freshness of the world the
season will decline you with 1t. Never
mind. Health, power, youth is ma
ture's to-day and yours. If with her
you wane, with her You will live
again. Thine and mine 10 the eterni-
ty of youth,
The Capitol has its own charm
these early summer days. From the
goddess Of liberty--the great dome
itself, which day after day persists in
floating out into the luminous atmos-
phere-down TO the grand rotunda, so
strangely, sweetly clean, it hath its
charm. No hurrying crowds in the
corridors Loiterers sit on the settees
in the rotunda and watch the venera-
bic Brumidi, bearing the weight OF
seventy years, on a scafiolding far
aloft in the dome, where he is painting
the wonderful frescoes which will bear
his name down to posterity. 1t is so
pleasant TO see clean tiles under your
feet to have plenty OF room. The
doors of the Senate gallery stand wide
open and going in, you find in 1t its
usual summer occupants. The pretty
girls, in fresh muslins, who come to
sec and to be seen. The high-nosed
spinster, who glories in looking SUI
perior to "ail nonsense. She often
carries note book and pencil, where
by then and there she sets down the
eccentricities and peculiarities of the
unfortunate masculine beings who
serve their country on the floor below
Then the Senate gallery is the chosen
resort of old ladies and gentlemen who
have plenty Of spare time and an ex-
traordinary fondness for the affairs of
the nation. II is wonderful the hours
and days these pairs spend in gazing
down on these not over.interesting
looking law-givers, often holding long
and not entirely private discussions on
their iavorite Senators. Besides these,
tnere arc those specimens Vi .ne cre'''
'ure FEMININE wno are io'nlns II no' -.
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winter tney cnar'er nack' Ill II ol'ei,
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sally forth to make formal calls, telling
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carriages. IN .nls way lnvy secure
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