For the Ladies.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 68, 28 October 1875, Page 7

Fo r the Ladies.

A-AAroiO, a ,6-iayoJO .r^dC} The modest true gentlewoman is becoming at her easa_ia.. every rencontre, in every mode of innocent social intercourse]; "At prayetsi"Beriow and reyererit^without' k -eitheV g -grimace oplbverconsciopsnfiSSljj^ti^iW^^^ 13 * 3 an(^ merriments, blythe, sportive, and joydiffffsifi| f 5; --at^heri^mb-asehbldj cdntiesj Wfe -P^ c ?fc a^ -Pf exercises, at the dance; br attne-fe'astj ever- r full iofj, the; *buoyajtt;t. f abandon, pf : a pujre , x niind., The prude is* otherwise! Slie drags' ' forward' x iritd : sbtbia'l- ; in ter-: ftourspiuher; .austpre Ippks ,pf > and she mars innocent gaiely^' arid sometimes even necessary business, by her misplaced cant. : .-_.m,

The Magic of a Marriage Fee. — Not very long ago a lady of interes^ipg and lovely appearances called upon me. I had married her,„ ; bu^ ...shp. recalled the circumstance, and she"'' then said that heaven had not blessed her with children, and she belieiv-fedlthe reason was that because her husband did not give me any fee.V,. | -y laughed, of course, as you do now, and tried to laugh her out : of the. idea,^ but she was very serious, very-earnest about it, so I had to submit, and accept the honorarium which !i fche offered; Some time after I met her ' father, whom I recollected in the street ! as we walked along itogether*. I j.asked j him how his daughter was. He said! she was very Veil and bappy with her| little, bpy ! Now, my brother ministers, ! take heart ! If Providence looks out so vigilantly for the marriage fee, do not; concern yourselves about sublunary! niatters, but give yourselves heart and! sbril to tbe* good work of serving the truth — Rev. Dr Furnace.

A Yankee Preachers thoughts on} Women — A queer cbinpbUrid is woman.! She is made up of industry,; boldness; beauty, silks, satins, jealousy, love,* hatred, horse-hair; whalebone, piety, 1 paint, gaiety,, gum-elastic, bear's grease, sympathy,-, tears, smiles, .affection, and.' kindness. My friends, h(W lofty is wbrriari'. ' No rmatterowhetKer ,bor„ri,iri -a cellar, she can sometimes be as lofty as a garret. Wheriy.she once gets her back up, oh J ! cats -and'broomsticks loot out for ypuselvesj, v She is, as big as Olympus, and as savage as' a savage machinei l Inc bier .wrath] shpjsjas ;crasy as a bed bug, as strong as a tiger, and as terrible as a tornado;- She blazes up as though '-she. were :a tar berrel, and in" a moment.. 'all is over — and nobody killed^ WHen she comes down froni the mountains, whence she was rolling big stories 'upon the people -belbwV she softens dbwh* tb a. jelly, arid become^ * as quiescent as a-goose-pond after a; t tei^test. t .^he '.brpeches won't fit. hpw loyirig'is wouaari**? Ay ! she is atriazirigiy sticky in her attachfi ments. ..She will cling to the^choseri ; objept of her heart lik, ; a 'possum to. a'l gum; aft^ you ■ can't separate her without snapping, strings that no art can merid, and leavinga : portion of her" soul upon-; the, upper r leather of her; affections— andwhen.ber. fondness is

fastened upon a fellow, it stays there; like glue and mblaisses in a bushy head of hair.

In his' "s. Ariadne; Florehtina," just' .published, JMlr Rusl^in giyes an interesting description' of three pieries' of Florentine; n.eedlpw,o?k, which attracted his attention in the i Bea room m which he slept at the King's Arms Hotel, Lancaster.'* Mrßuskiri while stftyipg .at*. this, "good old inn,", was engaged in; revising a' lecture pii "Design iri the Fl'pre'n tine Schools of Engraving," arid "he thu*s illustrates his' subject-— "Ori the' walls 'of. the little room where , I; finally revise this lecture hangs an old silken sampler . of -„ great- gr.andame's work, representing the domestic life of Abrahalri—chieny the : stories of Isaac and IshnVafel— Sarah at hei* tent door, watching, with folded- arms, the dismissal of HagaTjT above, , in a., wilderness full of* fruit trees, birds,' and butterflies, little Ishmael lying' at' the rpptlof -a tree,- and- the.- spent. „bottle„uhder -attotheil; -.Hagard;:-. pras.in#-- j.jindrtjhe angel appearing to her out ofa wreathed line of glbomy *..: undulating clouds, I which, with a dark-rayed sun in tiie midst, ' surmount: the entire- co.mpositijon in two arches, out of which descend .sfeafts AtiJL£h^ose)y beneficent rain j lpaying,^how^yer,^rppqi . jiri the corner opposite to Ishm.ael , s angel for' lsaac's^ who^stay-y; Abraham .Jn^.the sacrifice* j' the ram in the „ thicket, the squirrel j iri the .pluiffi tteej abavea. him, -j* and. ; the grapes, pears,-: apples, roses, and dairies of :th*e i foreground , .being ;:alliwrought with " iri Volution J. of .[ isuch ingenious i rieCdte'worka9§,.anay wplkrank-, in the patience,v,the -waiuiial : c skill j: and, the in**^ nocent pleasure"- of it, with the truest; ; wm l fis' pif FloreittM^e^ Nay : th8 r afetulil ■'-. tradition of mari"y of the forms. of jinpient art isjn^m&ny places pvident-^si'for. i^taricejin the spiral |Jii:,flp,mW ot , wdbd ; on -ifirst- i sprin&i'ng..>fdrn. ..Gn^the Jyall pppositfe'is* '* smaller -- riPiripo'sition, reprer ; ,sftn.tingo-*lriatJitß' -felVi' te.Hfej^i ? nd t&wbrdy .standing/ betweenrthe isun pnd the moon, with a bac^gfbii-rid^of :mriks^-•-borage, and corncockle ; a third lsjpnly y a^clustprgof; "and f "m?,"J ; s|._. two Byzantine p^cocks f but ifhe sjjijfttp^: Penelope and Ariadne reign vivid*ln all able: fancy is as great stuUin these, Sfe? ktturs and golden - roof of the Cathedral or* rMqnJceale." ; -j-*- -y **- lyyyy.A -> ■ '■