Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-01-17

The following scintillations on man
from the pens OF some of our ablest lit.
erary women will be read with interest:
] know q man who can write gentle,
gossiping letters like women. He is
straight-minded and tender-hearted,
with immense energy and great good
spirits. He smokes pipes, goes out shoot
ing, plays billiards and cricket, is charm.
ing with all the grumbling old men and
women. he enjoy life and all its good
things with q grateful temper, and
makes most people happy about him. He
belongs to the school of athletic christi.
anity.-Anna Isabella Thackeray.
With a vacillating man / never had
any patience. If Esau chose to be
foolish and sell his birthright,
l like him to do it with a dash and
. spirit, and will of his own; not to
stand shilly-shallying between the two;
hankering after the one, yet wondering
whether the other is not the better. Ali
the favor is gone out of his mess, and
like the dog of EsOpian fame, he loses
both meats in that fathomless river,
where idle regrets lie buried, never to be
recalled.-Ouida.
Here is a man who possesses in perfec-
ton that sure criterion of abilities, a
great power over the minds of his &C.
quaintances; and in high degree that
rare talent, the art of Cancellation, with.
out the aid of fattery. He is master Of
one great advantage in conversation,
that of not only knowing what to say,
but exactly when to say it; in knowing
when to press point, and when to for
bear. He has the air, manners, scnti-
ments of gentleman, without any sac
rifice of his Hannah Moore.
Do think men are strange beings? |
do, indeed. However, they regard the
position of women in another light than
they used to do; they are beginning to
approve and aid instead of ridiculing or
, checking us in our efforts to be wise
must say, for my own part, whenever
l have been so happy as to share the con-
.versation of really intellectual man
have not felt that was accounted q
superfuity.-Charlotte Broate.
When n man becomes only an elegant
piece of furniture in women S life, to be
busted at times and admired at others,
it will be generally found that he en-
durcs the annoyance of neglected furni-
ture-little more. Tie level that we
strike in the soul that touches us most
nearly is almost sure 10 be the high
water mark of our own.-E S. Phc'ps.
1t is hardly an argument against a
mans strength of character that he
should be apt to be mastered by love. A
man may be. very firm in other matters,
and yet be under sort of witchery from
a woman. Who shall measure the sub
tlety of those touches which convey the
quality of the soul, and make a man :
passion for one woman differ from his
passion for another as the morning light
over valley, and river and mountain top
differs from light among Chinese Ian
terms. and glass panels. -!George Eliot.
In a general way, some men are good
natured, easy, willing to be pleased. In
the intimacies of life, in the uncurtained
moments, they show themselves - they
are. There seems nothing fixed, moth.
ing vital in the feelings Of women for
each other; their mutual attachments
are only pretty bands of ribbon. Can
bear to reflect that you men can guard
your hearts and we women can nOt?-
Eu0enie De Guerfn