Year: 1859

weight, bubble in endurance, cobweb in
strength. You know better all the while.
and 50 do ]. am as certain that you were
at your wits end for subject for paragraph
| or poem, before you chose woman's incon-
stancy as your theme, as you are that your
wife will ignore your sherry cobblers and
late hours, and attribute your mornings.
headache to application to business. a
woman's love is the most adhesive thing in
existence. No matter how worthless its
object may become, no earthly power can
detach therefrom its tenderness once loved
men are loved forever, and that is moro than
many women can say with truth.


Perhaps-poor fellows! pity you if it
be true-Perhaps, you may never yet have
met with any woman who really loved you.
All women are not angels, or even true wo.
men; and though it is not necessary for q
woman to he angelic, it is Indispensable for
her to be true woman before she can real
ly and absolutely love. A flirt, for instance
never loves. You might as well expect
rose handled by many fingers, placed in
many bosoms, or worn amid the sickening
heat of the ballroom, to remain fresh and
fragrant, as to hope for blood and purity in
heart which has acted love for the benefit
Of fifty different suitors, merely to crafty
a silly vanity.


A woman who marries coach, diamonds
and real estate, and tolerates the proprietor
thereof as a necessary encumbrance, does
not love Of course! And if you hear even,
tually that she has astonished society and
the owner of the real estate and diamonds
aforesaid, by running away with Signor
Stringemhigh, her eldest daughters music
master, don't be astonished, and on no ac-
count speak Of the fact as proof Of wo-
mans Inconsistency; for, benighted mascu-
line in all probability she did have some
faint idea OF love for the first time in her
life when she still further degraded herself
for the sake Of Signor Stringemhigh.


But the love which comes for the first
time to the young soul-or the old one eth
er, pcrhaps-which outlves all change, and
burns in the depths of the little heart until
death extinguishes its flame and lays that
heart at rest that is the true love Of true
woman, whether she be poor or rich, q
peasant or an empress. Yes, and you know
it. Despite your sneers at woman's faith.
and constancy, you feel the truth, even if
you will not acknowledge so much, or bow
submissively to feminine argument. .,.


Somebody loves you-a blue-eyed, bright
haired somebody, upon whose finger there
is an engagement ring, within whose bod
dice lies concealed a miniature of which the
beauties are only distinguis liable to her eyes.
Didn't that somebody (we'll call her Kitty
chose you-you, with red hair and squint,
and five dollars a week salary-in prefer
ence to Apollo Percival, the handsomest
man in his set, and Grampus Moneybags,
the millionaire? Why did she do it? Be-
cause she loved you and couldn't help it.
Can she see that you squint? or could all.
the argument in the world dispossess her Of
the belief that your fiery tresses are auburn.
No indeed; that love Of hers is bit Of
golden glass, through which the eyes Of her
heart look at you, and you only of all Others


You fancy that Kitty fell in love with your
fine figure, your straight limbs, your broad
graceful shoulders Well, ''lay the hatter-
ing JUNCTION to your soul,' if it be any con-
solation-but mark me: you may fall down
stairs, or over precipice, or in a state Of
oblivion caused by a late supper with Tom,
Dick and Harry, lay down for a nap upon
the railroad track, and so break your back
or get rid of few of your limbs, and it
will make no difference to her: she'll only
be fonder and more tender Of you, and mar
ry you all the same-as surely as she loves
you. Would it be thus if the case were re-
verscd? Sarcastic doubter of feminine con.
stance! you know so little Of unswerving
woman's love that you can scarcely credit
the statement


BY and by, when you are married, who
will put up with all your whims and fancies
obey your contradictory housekeeping or
ders, founded on ignorance aud the Guide
to Young Housekeepers' every
acquaintance of whom you do not approve
- feel the greatest gratitude when you con-
descend to ospend the evening at home, and,
like the Alice of Ben Bolt"


''blush with delight when ysu give her smile


And trsmDie with fear 1t your frown.


Kitty, of course that same ''iuconstant
woman and all because she loves you
Who will sit up late at night, and come
down in stocking feet to the door to let you
in, that no one but herself may know how
late you have stayed out? Who owill throw
hot water on young Spooney when he comes
to serenade her W hen you have gone on a
fishing party up the Hudson? Who could
it be but Kitty?


When, after years of crying babies, boys
with the hopping cough, girls with the
measles, and Irish servant girls with sancy
tongues and light fingers, kitty's beauty
fades or takes French leave, and you find
that you have mistaken your heart, and that
Miss Hoaxem, the spiritual medium with
light eyes and cream -colOrcd hair, is your
affinity, who will, amid her tears and misery,
think Of you with tenderness, and teach the
youngest baby to remember you in her
prayers? Kitty: for she has loved you.-
And, indignant though she may be, you
know that you have only to return, with PEN
itent words and an onion in your pocket
handkerchief, after the lapse of any num-
Der of years, to be received with entire for
giveness, and appropriate the money she has
made by keeping boarders in your absence.
Inconstant woman! Oh? l groan in
spirit. ...


1t is my belief that you may divide those
individuals who write upon woman'S in
constancy into three classes: Firstly con-
ceited young men, who believe that every
woman who looks at them must be in love,
and, proposing on The strength Of bright
glance, are refused to their great astonish-
ment; secondly, those who want to get rid
Of an old love to be on with new, and
''make believe good deal" in order to per-
suade themselves that the INCONSISTENCY is
not all on their side; and thirdly, old bach
clors, who never spoke to any female but
the washerwomsn in their lives-for, amid
wonan's many faults, INCONSISTENCY never
vet was numbered.


Dancing.


A religious paper, speaking Of dancing,
says it is frivolous and corrupting. This Is
a common error with certain class of re-
lgionists, and shows their ignorance and
folly. Nothing is frivolous which is inno-
cent and pleasant, and adapted to promote
healthy action. Persons who are capable
of being corrupted by dancing will certainly
find some much more effective mode to be-
come so if this be denied to them. Dancing
among the very young is usually conducted