Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-02

straw and its plating, is, to my way OF
thinking, quite as sensible as good bit
Of the so.Calleu art work of to-day.
Probably the best thing in il is the
tribute il pays To women; for, after ac-
knowlsdging all her weaknesses, 1t de-
sCrbes her III these words: 'Ah How
little acquainted are they with the laws
Of nature, who. in their opinion of the
two sexes, lock Tor nothing further than
THE PLEASURES or SENSE.
They are only culling the flowers OF
life, without once tasting its fruit. The
fair sex that is the phrase N our men
OF pleasure; women are known to them
under no other idea. But the sex is
fair only to persons who have no other
faculty except that Of eyesight; besides
this Ii is Ito those who nave hearty the
creative sex, which at the peril of life
bears the burden Of a man, and brings
him into tue world; and the cherishing
sex. which Suckles him and cherishes
him in infancy. 1t is the pious sex,
Which conducts him to the altar while
he is yet Il child, and teaches him to
draw in, with the milk of the breast, the
love OF religion, which the cruel policy
Of men would frequently render odious
TO him. 1t is the pacific sex, which
sheds not the blood OF fellow creature;
the sympathiZing sex, which ministers
to the sick, and handles without hurt.
ing them" This it is expressly told,
was written py man; out IN those Gays
la'uers seeiiiou :" 'aNc ai iilV'lest ~ 'uo
EDUCATION OF THEIR DAUGHTERS,
and one of them writing says to the
child Of his heart, "Observe, particu'
larly among those with whom you now
converse, what it is that renders one
agreeable and other disagreeable. One
becomes agreeable and obtains u good
name by being modest, gentle, af1able,
prudent, diligent, peaceful, friendly,
obllglng, sincere. strive To initiate such
one in these and the like amlable
| qualities. But another is, perhaps, as
ulslgteeable, because she is peeylsh and
| perVerse, pert ana forward, tattler,
false, proud, censorious, spiteful ana
| contentious; OF plotting, nlschleFuus
| disposition, and given to cunning and
| Discrimination, to SANDER anu back
| biting. ACQUISITION yourself, therefore,
to think, and to think justly OF what
| you read, or hear, or see, SO as to apply
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,a't go H. a"s.ee' go 81 eS ~ O1 m,',,
E tn"n n lay 'n 49,, any u u;so new
,,, "ma W Ju9' ~" Nioeo''i
sou''s SINS ie"''iNs
ADMINISTRATIONS CALLED NOVELS,
that arc slMply descriptions of nasty
diseases and exaggerated passions. I'd
1 rather go back u the mllk-and- water
young lady, who slept i'll curl papers,
and told her lover That she could not
marry him, and yet, dear, womanly
creature, She invariably cioped on u jet
black steed, with u waving plume III
her hat. She may not have been very
strong, but she made good wife and a
good mother and she didn't spend her
girihoud's pays in analyzlng her love,
US II 1t had been microoe OF some sort.
Give me Amelia i'll preference to the
sapernuOus woman, or to the lady in
the Heavenly Twins, who made up
her mind to reform all the world, and
must have been regarded as a meddler
IN the business OF otner people.
After this uiatrlbc returned to my
old book, and the conversation flowed
along, the colonel talking
ABOUT CORN BREAD.
He said; wrhc milk and the errs
must be above SUSPICION: while
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