St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-01-21
WOMAN.
THROUGH MASCULINE EYE-GL.
THROUGH

iAHoUGh MASCULINE EYE-GL-
Napoleon Bonaparte: The way
| to womans heart is through her
eyes or ears. The way to O mans
is down his throat.
Lord Bacon: He that hath wife
and children hath given hostages
to fortune, for they are impedi-
ments to great enterprises, either
OF virtue or mischief.
| Alphonse Esquirol: Women are
made more to be loved than to love.
like the flowers which know nothing
of the perfume which they give to
the senses of others.
Archbishop Leighton: Give hon.
or uuto the wife as unto the weaker
vessel. This seems at first little
incongruous. Honor, because
weaker. But when we consider the
kind of honor. The weaker The
vessel be, the more tenderly they
should be used.
Don Qulxotte: No paddock,
bolts or bars can secure q maiden
SO well as her own reserve.
Thackeray: 4 woman may be
loved for three things: for her su-
perlor intellect-a love serious but
rare; for her beauty love vulgar
and brief; for her qualities of heart
"a love lasting but monotonous.
Seneca: The goodness of gold is
tried by fire, the goodness of women
by gold, and the goodness of men
by women.
Archbishop Whately: Woman is
like the reed which bends in every
tneeze. but breaks not i'll the tenn
-pesA
Lord Bacon: Wives are young
mems mistresses. companions for
middle age, and old mems Misses.
Alexandra Dumas: True love al
ways makes man better, no mat
ter who the woman is who inspires
it.
La Rochefaucauld: There is but
one kind of love. but there are o
thousand different copies Of it.
Adolph Ricard: A woman and
her maid servant, together, can get
the better OF dozen devils. i
Ruskin: You cannot think that
the buckling on of a knights ar
NOR by his lady's hand was q mere
caprice of romantic fashion. It is
the type of an eternal truth-that
toe souls armor is never well set to
the heart unless O woman's hand
has braeed it; and it is only when
she has braced it loosely that the
honor of manhood falls. =
Lord Lytleton: Women, like
Princes, find but few friends.
A. Dupuy: Before promising q
woman to love only her, one should
'ee them al, or only see her.
La Bruyere: A beautiful woman
With the qualities OF a nobleman is
he most perfect thing IN nature.
Balzac: The mistakes of woman
esult almost always from her faith
n the good and her confidence in
he truth.
Dupuy: Women are right to
rave beauty at any price, since
eaIaty is the only merit which men
o not contest with them.
j. J. Rousseau: A woman who
tetends 10 laugh at love Is Ike a
8ii3 who sings at night when he is
iraid.
Heine: A woman without reli-
ion is like flower without per-
lme.
Herbert Spencer: The truth is
lat out of many elements uniting
various preparations to produce
a mans breast that complex
notion which we call love, the
rongest are those produced by
lysical attractions; the next in or
n OF strength are those produced
moral attractions; the weakest
e those produced by intellectual
fractions; and even these are de-
ndent much less upon acquired
iowledge than on natural faculty,
ickness. wit and insight.
We have had several plates
corated lately by female members
ou-r family. The way they lid it
8 after this fashion. They first