Year: 1861

person. So sure as the mother of child
sees in that child's person any reason for
the world to regard it with contempt or
aversion, does she treat it with peculiar
tenderness as it she were commissioned by
God-as indeed she s-to make up 10 it in
the best coinage that which the world will
certainly neglect to pay.


With the world at large however, there
are certain conditions on which this variety
or compensation is rendered and a man
who would have compensation for defects o T
person must accept these conditions or furn-
iSh them. Such u man as Lord Byron
would have been offended by pity. TO
have been commiserated on bis misfortune
would have made him exceedingly angry


lie would not allow himself to be treated as
an unfortunate man. He bound up his feet,
and made efforts TO walk that ended in in.
tense pain, rather than appear the lame
man that he really was. Of course there
was no compensation in the tender pity and
aGectionate consideration of the world for
him, nor is there any for the sad unfortuuates
who Inherit and exercise his spirit. But
for all those who accept their life with all
its coudtioas, in cheerful spirit, who give
up their pride, who take their bodies as
| God formed them, and make the best of
| them, there is abundont compensation in
the affection of the world. A cheerful spirit
exercised in weakness, infrmty, cahmity-
any sort Of miSfortune-is just as sure to
awaken peculiarly affectionate interest in
all observers, as q lighted lamp is to illumn.
ate the objects around it. / know men
and women who are the favorites of a whole
neighborhood, nay, whole town, because
they are cheerful and courageous, aud self
respectful under misfortune and | know
Of those who are as much dreaded as pes.
thence, because they grow bitter and jealous
and because they will persist in taunts
and complaints.


The class Of those who are, or who con-
slider themselves, unfortunate in their physi-
cal conformation, is larger than the most
of MS suppose. presume that at least one
! half OF the readers Of this article are any
thing but well satisfied with the tabernacle
in which they reside. Que man wishes he
were a little larger one woman wishes she
were little smaller one does not like her
complexion or the color Of her eyes and
hair; Que has a nose to large another to
small one has round shoulders another
has low forehead and so every enc be-
comes critic of his or her style of structure
| When we find man or woman who is
absolutely faultesS in form and features, we
usually fud first rate fool | do not re-
member that | ever met very handsome
man or woman who was not as vain and
shallow as peacock. recently met n
magnificent woman of middle age at rail
road station. She was surrounded by
all those indeScribabe something's aud
nothings which mark the rich and well
bred traveller and her face was queenly-
not sweet and pretty like dolls facc-but
handsome and stylish, and strikingly impress
sive, so that no man could look at her once
without turning to look at her again yet
had not been in her presence o minute be-
fore found to my utter disgust that the
old thing was as vain of her charms as
spoiled igirl, and gIoried in the attention
which she was conscious her face every
where attracted 1t would seem as if ma
ture in mankind, had always been little
short Of materials, so that if special atten.
tion we're bestowed upon the form and face,
! the brain suffered, aud if the brain received
particular attention, why, then, there was
somthing lacking in the body and so, with
out thinking, we have run into another it,
ustralon of our doctrine of compensa
tion.


This large class of malcontents generally
find some way Of convincing themselves,
however, that they are as good-looking as
the average ofmankind They make a good
deal of some special points of beauty, and
imagine that these quite oVershaiow thelr
defects Still, there is proportion Of them
who can never do this and l think OF them
with sadness which it is impossible for me
to express For hCmcly-cVen and ugly
mani have no pity to spare. | never
saw one so ugly yet that if he had brains
and a heart he could not find beautiful
woman sensible enough to marry him. But
for the hopeleSSly plain aud homely sisters
"these tears |" There is class OF womer
who know that they possess in their persons
no attraction for men,-that their faces nr(
homely, that their frames are Informed
that their carriage is clumsy, aud that what
ever may be their gifts of mind, no man cat


have the slightest desire to possess thelI
persons. That there are compensations FOL
these women, / have no doubt, but many
them fail to find them. Many OF them fee
that the sweetest sympathies of life mus
be repressed, and there is world OF atec
ton from which they must remain shut GU
forever. 1t is hard for a woman to fee
that her person is not pleasing-harder thai
for man to feel thus, would toll why
ifit were necesSary-for there is abundle o
very interesting philosophy tied up in TIT
: matter but l will content myself with state
ing the fact, and permitting my readers t.
reason about it as they will.


Now if a homeIy women, sourod and dis
couraged 10y her lot, becomes mlSanthrorl
and complaining, she win be las little loved q
she is admired but if she accepts her lc
, good naturedly makes up her mind to
happy, and is determined to be agreeble
| all her relations to society, she will be So
= rounded by loving and sympathetic heart
and find herselfa greater favOrite than 81
would be were she beautiful A womt
. who is entirely beyound the reach OF Il
D jealousy Of her own sex, is an exceeding
: fortunate woman and if personal home
) ness has won for her this immunity, TIT


homliucss has given her much to be than
r full for, A homely woman who Ignores IL


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