Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1874, Page 10

e R L S AR R .23, . AUGUST: 1874. 10 WOMAN.: Mothers Responsible for Man’s Refu- ’ sal to Give Woman Her “ Rights, They Can Pat Such Heas as They: Please Into the Minds of their Sons: The ‘Hewly-Arrived Woman, Who Cannot: Be Talked Dawn or Wrilten Away. I'lxtlnct:ion of the Housewife Oxne of the Results of Her Coming. What Will She Do with Both a Fusband and a Profession ? « YWoman’s Fighting Capacily ¥ a Ilum- bug:--The Reasons Inducing Women fo Serve as Soldiers. What the ‘“Strong-Minded * Want Is, Not Equality, But to Change Places with Men. How Wonten Can Get Their ¢“Iziahts.? It bas always scemed {o ns, in tins much-vexed + and ventilated'question of woman's rights ver- £us man's tyrauny, that the parts of the first , part are quito forgetful that tbese same men of the resent generation are precisely what they and their motkers have made them. - Beold 2 man- cLild is born. and all womankind especially in- terested in that birlh are down on tleir knees to worship him. From infarcy until senility their recks ore under his foot for bim to trample on them; and, when it hurts a little moro than nsoel, they crv out agaivst it:: What- sympathy do they deserve? They have chosen to raise up an idol to worslip; and, if he occasionally proves 2 Juggernaut and demands their lives, they are ouly REATING AS THEY HAVE SOWX. When ke is au infant, this worship is quitd compreheneible. Like lis less consequential sister, be is helpless and requires care. - As ho zdvances to blonses and playthings, he is never cxpected to pick them up and put them away. NMamma does it, if there is no elder sister or purse to wait upon him. Wero it a little girl who wes Leing tacgist the rudiments of an edu- catipn, whoever was the reiguing power would require her to be, in a certain degree, orde , Some of her things, at least, sho would be ex- ! pected to put in place. Bat * Ie's a boy " an- swersall suggestions in regard to the young Prince being taught these things. When Tommy reaches the nge of jackels, knickerbockers. aud { collars, samebody always puls them away for Lim. Should he, by any chance, be told to do it for himscif, he thrusts them away in & wad, and somebody—some girl or woman—smoothcs them out for Inm, and leaves them as ho shoukd Lave d Heis a boy; therefore he is not to do it properiy. o e arrives at adolescenice, and grows critical about his meals. Immediately the whole Louse- boldis in an uprour. Tommy docsn't like Lis tonst. Itian't buttered cnough.and the ecus cre overdone, and cuc might know that ho didn's want steak at this e { the year. Why couldn't we bave spring-chickens ? ile may and may 1ot bo npheid in bis gramblings by Lis father. If Lie is, then the ferment commenceant once. If nox, it is suppressed until the paternal reiative leaves Lome, and then hows 1tself in violent conversation. Is it kirange that the «Foung rascal beging to think that he is A LITTLE GoD, and must be worshiped? We remember one iso parent,—ably ceonded Ly his wife.—who Lived an esh oo soon.—who, when hig cinldren, whetker sous or danzbters, found wholesome, shundant food repuguant to their tastes, mvarie ably sngeested that sumething was wrong with their dizestion, and fasting was tho best rewmedy. * Le refused to belp them to anythmg, and gen ally, by lancheon or dinner time, they were quite recovered from their distaste for food. Those hnldren made good husbands and wived. Gen- erally, however, when tho fatber discourages suck fancies in bis children, or rather in his sons, the mother apoils it il by cateriug to them 2s soon as bis back i tormed it auy wonder that such men grow up uncongciously selfish and fussy ? They don't Lnow it. 1t hes been their mothers and’ sisters who were to blame. If men and women areever to reach an equal social and political scatus, the gern:s must be planced in the nursery, well cul- tivated in childhood and adolescence, with the hiope then of some desirable fruitage when they Teach manbood “ihe nwa which govern both the labors and the roprietics of uen and women are the most ar- itrary in the world, and they ALE OF WOE Let vs instance onc.— same time, that it is cesicr o p practice. Did’ you ever kuow woman, city-born _at least, not gay, 2, at tho ach than to who I bate to rce o man I'd rather my back would break 1 it thauw to let my husband do is!” So, in case it ever becomes a quertion of ne- ceseity,—which, it must bo aduntted, it rarely womd “ How carry a baby 2 | witli carryi does in these days [ of nurses und baby-carriages, —the will nearly break her back toiling with tho burden, rather than per.nit her busband fo tako it; which he might do with ease. She knows the eleepless nights, and days of pun, thay fame carrying will produce, aud that he could {ake the clild in Lis arms &nd never know bo Liad 2 back, but, with strong, elastic tread, got over the ground much more rapidly than eise cun ever hopo to. Custom—at least civilized cus- tom—forbids her to slng it on her back, where she might encceed in bearing it without much diflicuity. This eame arbitrary notion of looks Trevents ber giving it to her busband. Now, WHT SHOULDN'T HE CABRY TUE BADY ? Heis the reputed father of it. It bears his Dame. Hoaccepisit ashia. Ho interferes in regerd to ita eucation, dief, cie. Why ehould Le not have the privilege—nay, the right—ac- corded Lim of carrying the child when ncces.. eary ? e may argue that, in tho brute crea- ticy, it is the fewalo that always rears and looks after the young, (2lthough wo might prove the fallacy of tbis, still we naiit it for the sake of argument): but just call hima brote, and sce o graciqusy tic will accent the title which ho has wo anxiously tried to prove Limeelf worthy of. Morcover, in theso days of Durwiniunisui, the rights of ihe strom 3 to ba cousidered, and i this matler he is proven tho strougest. Wo believe that it is of very littlo use tryiny to do anything with tho present race of e whetherin regard to the clective franchise for women, or ceriain other frauchises which may trenchh npon the former's peculiur dutica and orivileges. Lot the Progressionists . TALK %0 THE MoTiLERS. Auy boy who kias a motuer in the least worthy of ibe nawme will geuerally swear by her a3 long as 4elivea. Let the present generation of mothers, that they will utes io elr wives in tho years T e : the mothers preaci” suffmge to ihem whilo they ate in the cradle, 1f sufliags for pomen is desirablo. It needn't Le all political sutlrage ¢ither, nor ail on oiie side. Our gods :wn‘n?{;" mfi‘éd ;auf !cllllug us that Eve was created iliius ‘i’h‘““'x Adam; whick we ars quite port of this never 5 grh&cm fi c;\-m e ‘!fi"; ”é";f; then Luva taken the v doubt, tied on the 1 ] e children cried, Le ross'fromn L’ coech of £kins to see what w: i be allomed Eve to assist i artor 894 whilo llo in the woothin; process, he {aught her i L 1t wis onlvas a betpmate, or,if jae mack, st Jectionallo to modern fomtutnity, no s 20 worker,—no_ 1ore cutitlod to sit 0P and worsy over those children_alono than Lo waw. "Rr might labor with him, bt his tight to remair oG and assiet or suggest, uniil tho liitie oes wey comforted and again asleop, no insisted upon, 0! how lizs tho ‘modern Adam _detorioraceq Ho hias quité forcotten this God-given privilage. And how hanghty and overbeanng five Lag grown. Lot Adam sleap. Don't disturb hitn. sbout babics. 1 seh 2k cers of Lo ¢ can tako caro of them myelf.” Aren’t you ashamod of yourself, Eve? You are suppoged to bo tho weaker vessel; to lave nerves that ate- ensily disarrangedy.io feel fa- tifme cooner : and yet you resolutely. and with ‘malice nforcthourtit, déns the modern Adam his special prerogat_ve, his absolate authority as the strongest, and assume your owa . and- bis ghare of parental duties. *Ihate o nolly-coddle for u lueband. Idou't want s man interfering in the kitchen,” is the very natural opinion-of most women. The present writer quite agrees with you. Fussy men aro intolerable, and tho man ‘who nnnccessarily invades the kitclion quite do- gerves to be adorned with the Order of the Dish- cloth: but isu’t thero a jaste millieu ? #T3ut e, Adam, Lias to go down towwn, sad bas all the pecuriary caro” of the Lousehold,” is urged on tho’ otlier hand waen, as Grand Seig- neur, he orders and expects evervthing to be m Teadiness for of to wait upon Lis Serene High- ness; Admitted; and we have often found :t in our bearts to wish that every woman Was, at some time of ber life, obliged to provida for tho pecuniary wants of Nerself and some one clse. | SLo could then sympathize fully aud intelligibly witls that hueband. ~She would' know bow hard it was to reslize that omo must live, and yet thero might be mo income to do it on. It would teach many sn idle- woman the use- leseness, tho- wickedness, of vaim fretling about nfles. It wonld: make them ETHONGER AND BETTER; but it might open thieireyes lso to other mat- ters, Such women, who bad to labor for their support, no donbt would have, at the samo time, to 1ill not only a father's, but a mother's, placo 1 the family. Days given to business, aud nights to rest, and cigars, or o pipo? By no meuns: Day's spent overa ledger, aud nights in msnufacturig bouncts, and other articles of appatel ; darning stockings ; 1t might even b doinz extralaandry-work, that all might te it aud seemly for her and bhers. Soou late into tho night. Fancy a man acting as his own { tailor and batter after tho day's clerical worlk-ia done, or ironmg Lis shirls, to gay nothing of cug his meals aud washing the dishes. You hear tho groans ho would mtler? and pungent_remavks when tlie sturch elicks? Yot why should I not? Why w it that #uine womzn i nlways to be found who is ready to rolicve Lum of theso supertiuons cares # Many u woman has her own aud hcr children's living o earn. sud all the otber” work which would fall to her lot, Leside, to atiend to, That cuTrics us back t0 our origiual assuig~ tion, thit it 18 in the nurserry children shoald be educated to bo AMBI-NATURED AS WELL AS AMBI-DEXTERED. Epicure ouly 1n this: that, in case of necessity, or when it should prove desirable, they mway fuliill the duties which custom bas ascribed to each. Whether a man shall boahelp to his wife, or a nuisanco and a worry, depends entirely upon the wowen who wait upon the youni Trinco when he‘arrives. Get down ou-your knees to bim; bend your heads beueath bis f each Liim be'is supreme, that Lie is to be waitod upon, that sisters muat’ yield to him in_everything ; and you will succeed in making him the latter. If you are without & girl, dou't expect him to peal potatoes or wipe dishes. Thatis a girl's work, remcmber. Do it yourself, if you faint by the war, cvenif bo might do it as well; and then, it he marries, and forcune frowns,.and he haw @ sickly.wife, why, he will have 3 chance-to choose a secoud in a little while. It isquute pos- gible thut you ure, to a_certain estent, en accomplice in that first wife’s murder; that that you took tuo initiativo; but never mind, You brought your son up in a manly way, and never ler him dewean umself by bringine in coals or lighting a fire, while you and the girls could doit. You did nob teach him to glory in his strenuth and show it in helpfal ways. Ho iearued to skate, fly kits, play Lall, aud amuso Inmseif, while you toiled. Tf he grumbled at your humbleTare, you went without, sud denied b e might bavo sometliug a little Detter, until he grow to consider it not a privi- lege, Lat a rights and, all his life, his tastes must be consalted, lev who might suffer or go without. Would it not have been a little better to bave assured bim that what was g00d enot.;i for you, Ius mothier, lus superior in age, wis quite goo4d enoagh for him ? When men aie intolorant, tyrannical, or fussy, SOLIZ Wolsan at some time HAS BEEN TO PLAME FOR IT, The oid adage. that the uuseltish mother makes the sellish cbild, and vice versa, is, n & certain feuse, trac, except that it is, perhups, not al- weys unselfishuess that makes women abmegate themsclves to their cinldren. In mauny cuses it 18 merely another phaso of gelf-love. Lot tho vrerent gencradon® heed it, then. When the voung Princo comes, let bitn leain that, after all, be is only the Quoen’s son, and she is sn- wreme ; that 1t is both bis duty and jyrivilege to gcrve her to the beac of bis abilitv. If her Ring- com 13 very smail and poor, g0 wmich more will eho need Lis help. I remouber now o young la almost grown to manhood, at the hoad of b club in all athletic sporte, but tender sod help- fu! a3 2 woman to his invalid mother. Another, a hitle Prince, only 3 vears old. taught al- ways to wait upon Lis littie year-old sister first. ** Ladies first, Memma ? ” be will query. *Yea, always, Willie.” Edueate the babies, especially the Princes, properly, aud TIHERE WILL B%, X0 TROGRLE. Preach cqual wages, sufftage, and anything clee you want, or thini you waik, in the nusery ; aud, if you kave time enough o siay at home aud attend to it, depend upun it your boys will grow up with different notions frow their fath- eis’. A crusade through the nurseries, xnd s 16 to young mothers, are tho gares: road to 258, Susail, and even you may live to ace ull S g 8 (- =3 our pet schoues realized. 3 The Newly-Arrived Woman. “The Coming Woman" hss at last coma. While the Man of the Period sat idly smoking, and cogitating upon her possible advent, and wondering what would be her viows about but- tons, and what was the occult relationship be- tieen buttons and femininity anyhov, the yifo of his bosom cried out, “The Philistines bo upon thee, Ssmson;” and, lifting up his eyes, |. he beheld the Coming Woman ALRFADY ARRISED, 300,000 strong, and.terrible as ap army with bauners. There wero a grezt many questions to be seitled before she should have appearcd,— questions physiological, psychoiogical, political, legal, and educationsl. Bat she is here; and thio questions concerning her, which were to have been solved for her, she will probably solve for herself. She bas made ber appearance armed witli tho chisel, the brush (painter's, not char- woman's), the pen, the scalpel, tho forceps, the camers, the ledger, and the appliances of nearly all the other tradesand professions. She means businees. She may ho found in the editorial clhuir, at tho merchant’s desk. in tho real-estato ofiice, over the disseoting-table, on the rostrum, aud in the pulpit,—anywhero, in ehort, except in tho kiichen. She cannot be talked down nor writton away. Sho is herg o stay, and it only remains to be scen what ard to bo the results of thé introduction of this new power in the land. The first and most ovident is o ESTINCTION OF THE HOUSEWIFE. At the present rato of extermiriation, it is fair {o presume that, by the tie two more generu- tions bave como and gono,—perkaps even svoner,—the housewrfo wil]_be 23 extines as tho mastadon or tbo dodo. Like them, she will bave filied her place in tho seale of creation, aud Liave vanished, Solomon described her as rising while it was you niht, and giving meat to lier housebiold, and & portion alsoto ber maidens. But no hasband of tho presént day wants his weat given im winlo it 'is yeo night ; and the modern wife who would insist on such’'a break- fast-lour would be & wife, tho writing of whose memoir woald bo & pride and o pleasurs to her Lusbaud. ‘The housesife was acompendium of all trades. She manufactured carpets, and shirts; and sf inge, end bounets, and drceses, and jellies, hung paper, and corved boef, end made soap, sud did a Lundted owker things: and brought up her children between whiles. Her daughters cannot do oll that. Noris it neceasury. Amer- Jeau inventive geniua challenges tho world ; and it Las wronght to little purpose if women are to 0 0u forever weaving their Lves into rag-car- bets, aud sealiwg their brains up in_jam-pots. 'xl:;e cildxdjltxozx_s of social m;‘d domestic Life are so chunged thatwomen's work is no lou hat was. Would to Heaven Be AR . TUELE COULD BE AN EXD of thia grandmother woislip, und the Woman of To-Day might ecjoy in peace the benefits of an advanced ‘cwvilization ! Iustead of buttony, there ehail be studs 5 justead of knittng, thers shall be irou-fratwme hoso ut 30 contda- pair; 1n- stead of eternal stitching on seam, and_gusret, aud bands, there shall be ready-made shirts, and thie irasc:ble owners thereof may veut their ex- pletives on {lro shir-manufacturing company harmlessly,—for companies have 1o sonls,—and family harmony shall not be braken. ‘'Lho laudergarten shail allow the weary mother the mid-dsy nap; co-vperative housékeepiug shall Teliya Lier of the thousand carking cares. of the house; o delightful, apgetizing mystery shall haug over her prospective meals ; and Loy weary soul ehall no more pace round and round the weary circle of beef, twutton, pork, and chickens,—ccking 8 solution of the conuadrum daily propounded by the maid of all work: ‘What shail we have fordiuner to-day, Mem 2 ¥ Al tiose delights might be the lot of tho Women of ‘To-Day, if they would shat their ears o 3 ‘against tho platifdinarians who are extolling thie domestic arrafigements of their grandames, conscience. if sbo i8 not . SOFERBING SOMT MARTTRDOX. If the domestic machivery-ruus smoothly, and domestic cares git lizhtly, she bag an undetivable coaviction that ehe is * not & zood housekeeps:. er.” Thorois an impression ou lier mind, pro- duced by hearng good bLousowives discourse, that the mistress of 'a well-regulated house last hali-dozen brooms wore ont so much quick: personully Buperintend the solling of all the rags and wasts paper, tha “sorting of ‘old” potatocs, nudithe . other. rarged cdges: of housekeep- ing. The Newly-Arrived Woman will kuow Detter. Sho will lave some faith in tho. sgacity of other people to do manual labor aw well end better than herself She will realize that the time and personal su- pervision of the Queen of tho Homo should be estowed upon its most important features, . The art of good honaekeeping is not ro se¢ how much can bo done by the housekeeper herself, bat how well she can get Ler work dome for her: Napoleon might' a5 well have expected tobe a great General by carryine a mushket himself as for'a womwan 6 expoct to bo & good Lousewife, becauee sho'docs all things with her own hands. While the Coming Womian was still iu abey- ance, the Publio was agitating itself as to'what sho would;do with both” . - A HUSDAND AND A FROFESSION. Sho secured the former and took her chances as to tho latter. It did not appear, notwith- staunding: gloomy predictions: to the contrary, that ler chinncos in that direction were any poorer than if she bad givan bersell over o the vauities of erocliet and Berlin wool. Batween the men who liked tho'society of women with kindred tastes, and the meu whose own inability to rucceed in Life enabled them to appreciato tho advantage of o bswess woman for. a wife, it would ecem that a profession was rather s help than a‘hindranco to matrimony. = The second question was, Would professional women want. to marry? That Great Busybody, the Public, was greatly exerosed in mind' lost matri- mony shonld be on the wane. What would become of the world if once: women should tako 1t-into their heads that they needn't marry if thoydidn't wish,—and then they didn't wish? The Newly-Arrived Woman setties that. 41 huvo my professious” announces this astonish- ing speeimon of her sex. “I can support mynelf, aul'burden no oue. If T fiud anybody I love well enough to marry, why UH marry; but & shan't muwry because mafrimony is wouwon's refnge. ‘Tnat’s all old-fogy bosh.” **But tire “Very well.. Let every woman Lusten-then to muko harself a home,” retorts the Nonly-Arrived Woinan, Mariges will diminixh ono-half,” grouns Socicty, * and divorces will ceaso alto- gether, is the answor. In truth, the Now-Arrival is ADMED AT ALL-POINTS, Ts she a spister,—sho need be beholden to no one for food, sbelier, sad clothing. Is she'a wife,—she knowa by experience how bard ic is to exrn moueg, aud cah give her husband an intel- ligent sympathiy in that pursutt. Is she a widow or, snddor still, o divoreed wife,—sho bas in her posseasion u sliicld_ngainst poverty better than auy life-insurance company.can give Ler.. It is tho weukost of all Argiununt azainst the professional and busincss oducation of women to eay that they will nse it to attack tho fustitution of mar- ringe. Women are popularly represented to bo " more inchued to marriage than men (though, 83 it has always roquired one of boti soxes to muke 2 marriage, it is still an open queation), and yet 10 mea ever declated ho was so dovoted: profession bie couldn’t marry; or, if ha didsay so. he'd Dbetter stick to his word. The Newly- Arnved Woman will- inovitably have n business or profession, aud she will use it, not as a weapon of "attacls,- but of defense ; defenss not only sgainst poverty and shame, but against tho idle- ness that settles down like's pall uaon the girl just out of school, and ngainst the evils aud temnptations born of the motiveless life and un- occupied hours of maturer years, Wrren-IAzzL. ‘4 Woman?s Fightine Capacity.?”? *Woman's fighting capacity!"—ob my! If tiat isw't bringing the sublimo 2nd the ridiculous together with a vengeance, Idou't know bLow it could well b done. Fighting capacity! I bared my arm, and tried to find out abont how much muscle I had, Lut found only a net-work of bluo” veins, I dolefully concluded, as I slipped down my sleeve, thal, if I had to fight my way to the polle, I shonld never get there; and I know I sban’t suyway—it's po use talking. Caudlo Icctires arc about the ouly sort of warfare in which women will bo victors; aud K 3 HER TONGUE— | eharper than a twe-edged sword—the only ia- sirument she will ever nse to advantage. k Mr. Brown, when he comes in from a lit- tle eocinblo with a few friends, in the “wee sma’ hours,” with but just wit enongh to know what awaits him, which ke DLad rather meet: the policemanor Mrs. Brown? 7 kmow; and I don't blame lim. 8Le bLas told him a hundred times already that sho would not stand it; a Lundred times be has promiced her “she mever necd again,—he would be the most domestic and irre- proachable of Benedicts forever after that ill- starred hour,"—and ho thought he got off cheaply, and ‘was fl:d to buy peaco with soft worda. Now he has learned, after countlezs breaches of promise, that * Hell hatl no fary like = woman gcorned.” Zic can tell you that their fighting capacity can’t bo beat, or, if it cau, it i ouly because the **flesh is weals,"—the 'spiril certaiuly is wiling. like Barkie, only waiting to be invited to manifest A vriter in last Sunday’s TRIDUSE cites an in- stance in which a woman proved that she could do o goidiers duty, and tmuks tho proof is all in that ome mitshell, I dom't. I have scen & womau split kindling-wood ; but IT 18 NO PROOF sho could mako s living at sphisting rails, or he a suceess at chopping cord-wood,—certaiuly no in- dication that wouten are cspecially adupted to that work. As the wifa of an army-surgeon quite familiar, during our late War, with ricld aud hospital life, Imet o number of women who succeeded in ovading inspection and entering the rauks as common noldiers; and, though many presersed the scrct of their sex and _gave en- tire satisfaction. Imever met or heard of & sol- itary instance where one enlisted from a desire to serve her country, from a love of glory, from martial smbition, or irom patriotism ; nor do I believe thera is an iustance on record where ono bas deserved and carued military fame. ‘'he foct that love wes tho moving power,— love o uneeltish that she .could forget, brave, or defy danger, exposure. fatigue, and death, to Lo near ono who must imperil his life on the battle-field ; that sho could forsako home, friénds, case, and tho | refinemeuts wi which w6 was wont to Lo surrounded. for the rude tent or the. ruder barrack, subjecting Lerself to that which must shock hor woman's £enso of fitness and decency; that she would innre herself to hardship and foil, scorning tue self-gacritice and deprivation whick made Lite so Liurd,—:s proof of her extreme womauliness, and of tliose qualitien swhich . UNFIT RATUER THAN FIT Lier for such scenes. Tuoluted cases may bo the test of possibilitics, but they are uo rolo by which to judge the raasses. IHistery recards but one Joai of Arc,— perbaps France had never need for avother; certainly America has never produced a woman who would live a soldiar's life aud dic a martyr's death for love of the Stripes aud Stars. licformers enough we have; but, forsooth, they aro such as trail their sllkon robes daintily over Bruraéls and Wilto in aristocratic drawing- Tooms; who prench what none but the dissolute, reckless, or insauo would practice; who build fires that noedlessly torture living hearts; who tlood the world with unpractical nonsense aud mischievous theories that weak brains cannot digest, Like miuce-pio sod cheese for midnight- lunch, they are pleasant to the taste, but awiully unwholesome, I wish in mercy to the world, that sullrago depended upon dieir shouldaring arms, I wish they Lad to do somethiug to prove that thioy wero ot any earthly use,.*! or over after Lold their peace,” and what a blessed silence would full over the carth! With them, cquality doesn’t mean equality aé all,—it only meaas that they want ta H CHANOE PLACES WITH MEN; ! they want to reverve the natual oider of things ; : they waut to play at Omphal and Hercules : Lot llrmlcr_l 1sisr-ann Spinning, spizning ke And the hero Loasts 80 1n0ra AL his doughty deeds of yore, Bint, with ad, sulmissivé mica, - . Bpinuiug, spiuniog stiil 1s seen. Well will it Le for both if there' ig still encugh Iatent human nature in Lier heart to mske Lir carry oul tho role, and if it may be said of Ler, when she has subjected lum, 03 it' wasof *the naughty Lydian Queen Bond-elave no mor Love has lovsed whom {yranmy 5 bound befors, 3fanly Strength i3 Beauty's afave, . And beauly yislds to lova. _ Some restrictions, IT 18 FORTUNATELY TRUE, are placed upon woman‘from which man ig free; ABiLis, the housekoeper has alwaya au unCasy’ ought to lie awake ot night-wondering why this | er-thaxn their predecessors ; and that she onght to home 18 & womsu's ssnciuary,” gasps Society | l some iberties of life and conduct granted him woich aro-denied her; somo liceuse given him which gho may not ask; somo faults and vices countemanced in Inm which eho 15 not suppored to_dexiro to become proficiout in. And:I wouder if, sitting by pleas- aut hoarthrtones in peaceful homes, that aro to the-tawult of life, weary -of the i day repeats, weary of sickening Iessons thoy must learn, of sin and its fruits, of tho hollow sclfichness of the world—the type of that home whence they shell go out no more for- ever, woman really desires to throw - herself into their puraits, and sustuin herself in a posttion in'no.way destrable or agreeable ? 5 It conld be but for the excitement to be found it. Thoso who are so eager for suffrago desirs it more for power than for reformation ; and if, by fixed and-nnalterable luws, they could vote, Lut never hold oftice,thoy would scorn the privi- lego, and the gift would be a dead letzer forever. Standing in the closest and dearest relations to man—as - the cherisned wifo and trusted friend; standing apart from, and taking no part in. tho exciting scenos that make up lus Iifo, a8 au undiased and unimrassioned jadge,— her influence aud advico will carry weight with them, 'and 1d2d him 1n better ways than he would choose. Tut once she ia bis equal, josthng him in the rode persuits; JER POWER WOULD DE LOST, and, while she sucriticed to hor ambition. and her folly that which should bo® held a priceless trensurc and guarded with jealous care, sho would gain nothing inatead. A In howes, in schools, in'social life, woman is queen; but, as & gladiator, a pugilist, a politician, oldier. sho will never stand very high, and I not be wisdom to attempt it. GanNer D, FREEMAN. A Workingewoman. “ Buth's™ Leller to the New York Journal of Con- 3 meree. Tookirg out of the window the otber morn- ing 1 saw a woman drive to tho gate, with a trim littlo_ establisument 1in excollent order.. 1.had never set eyes upon her before, I was sare of that, though. she looked up nt the win- dow with u .bright and cheery smilo as though she bad known mo all my days. Sprmging out of the high wazon like & girl of "16, though sho was evidently three times. that age, she hitched hor horse. and blaunketod it asif rhe wore used toit, and was ushered into the parior. She Lad come to in- quire about some lots mpon our farm, nad I assure you she taliod bustuess, it evidently bo- ing 1o 16w thing to ber. 1 found she was f1om a neighboring town, 5 miles distanc, whero her lsbund is o proeporous architect and builder. Atter' sho bad obtained the information for which she came, we fall into couversation such a3 our sex will indulgo in. + Have you much of a family # I inquired. “ Floven childron,” she replied. I opened my oyes in nstouishment. expecting to hear the usnal’ answer in theso days, *“ Three, two boys and' & mrh” or vice versa. * Huve you nevor lost any children?” s2id I. * Noue,” she re- plied, ** and none are marriod ; they are all'liv- ing at home.” ** What a family to look after I I oxclaimed. * Oh, I shouldn’t mind our family 3z all,” she said, ** but we bave always boarded threo or four carpeuters, necessary in iy Lusband's business, Then we have & farm and a good many cows to sce to, and butter to mualke, and a8 my hushand is alwavs busy in otaer ways, tho oversight of the farm devolves mostly on me.” ‘T hope you are more fortunates than the reat of uy, in baving £ood dowertics to help you with all this work," I ksid. The wood womau Straight- eued hemeelf up aud gave a deeisivo - reply. 1 pever keep auy,” £bo eaid; *they never suit ne. Your children must help you o good deal, then 2" ** Yes, but they havo their lessons to Jearn. 'Thoir cldest sister, who Las 28 good au education ay mouey could ' give ber, tesches them eutirely st home. We bave a roum iu our Lobse especially for this purpose They are more thoroughly taught” Ly her, ~ with the decp iutercst she feels in them, tuan if they went to school elsewhers : and’ being able to recite thoir lessons in the ‘carly part of tho day they mpend fewer hours_ ovor books, which is better for their health, and this enables themto give-mo more assistanve than they ottier- wise could = do.” What n sensible woman, thought I, for you koow what a favorite idea homo education is with me, when it iz at all practicatlo. So I drew my char up nearer to her aud said, ** You don’t do yourown sening, do you?" * Xever sentout o stitch in my life dreages or-avything elss, oven when we ha not a sewing-machine, and 1 don't know what excuse I could havo for it now with a good ma- chine.” * Do you make your husbaud's and all your boys'shirts? " I esked. * Every one of ihem. Myeldest son iy something of a dandy, as young men will be, and he bought some shirts awhilo ago. Oh!'sucha fitas they were! I spent more time ripping and fising them than would have cut and made a good Lulf dozen.” houso ?*" I inquired. ** Oh, yes,” she repiied with a smile; .“I am bere this morning, you 86, to inquire about the Lind, and day Lofore-yesterday I went to bhe State Fair with somo- butter, which took a pre-' mium.” E a;:chm must sit' up ‘very late nights,” I said. * Oh no, not very; we slways finish up our work by 8 o'clock “eveuinge unless zomething very special is going on, for we are quites music cal family. We bave a piano. 3y daughters are good players, and fathor and mother, boya and” girly, all count woon a good sing, often, beiore going to bed, and this causcs us.t0 sit up rather later; I have somotimes thought, than was good for us, considering we havo to bo up with the lauk in tie mornings. *You Luow,” she added, *that music is vory fascinatieg to those who love it.” *Aro yan always weil 2" Lasked. * My health is perfoct. I haye .o _good: nataral constitution, and havo no timo to_ bo debulitated and uervons.” Hero this paragon awose. to go. I followed her to the gato, saw ber unhitch her horse and dive off. while I retarned to tho house wich these re- flections: Eleven children, boarders, & farm, no servants, no sowing put out, all teaching done in the house, premium for butter at the State Fair, music, and the finearts! Think of it. O ve daughiers xho have = family of threo children, threa sorvants, biro ail your sewing douc. aud have neadache, dyspepsis, and gen- eral debiiity thrown 1. . As for wg, L went up-stairs aftor this inter- view, unrolled somo snists [ way just going to zend out. to be made, and oiling” up my ma- ching weut to work st them. Of course I haioit. Of coyrse .it will tiro me o deatl, but it is uo nice to bo smart like this goud woman. I have mado some inquiries avout Ler sinco,ghe was kore, and find ber story was not exaggerated. She 18 a living examplo of what perfect system nud industry wilt accom- vlish.” Sho was once a tencher, wéll cducated, and scnsiblo. She married ber husband when Lo was not worth a cent, and now they hvo iu_a 15,000 house, own & good farm, and to the good manazement aud tbrift of the wifo is attributed much of the husband's suc- cese. They and their children have the name of Leing oue of the happiest and most unitea fami- lics anywhere about. But my paragon does not write tuch long letlers' as thus, I suspect. I must go back to my machine; it actslike n witch to-day: Didn’t Kiss Iler. From the San_Antomo (r'ery Herald. A gentleman who hag been recently traveling . in tho lower countics tells usthe following amusiog story: 1lo was stopping over night at 8 hogse whéro thoparsition walls wero particu- larly thin, Tho adjoiing room was ocenpied by & wother and Ler daughter. Aiter retiring, the 1other began to rebitte the daughter for AG al- leged partiality to somebody named Johp, which mnl impeachment the dsugliter denied vigar- ously. _** But," said the mother, “I saw you kissing him nt the cow-pen yesterday marumng, Amanda.” d . “No, ma: he wasn't kissing me at all.” _“* Why did you havo your head so close up to Lis for? You deceivin’ critter.” -, ** Well, you see, ma, I hed been eating pital- 1as (the fruit- of 'a 8pecios of cactus); aod you ree, ma, I gfnb 8oma of the prickles in my lips— -and—"’ And what, you wicked, wicked eritter 2" “And I couldn’t get them out myeel, -you know, and Jobu pulied them out with Lis feath, but he didn't kiss me nary time." A Erench Lady’s Dress ata Watering= Place. A correspondent describes tho costumes womn b{ fashiouable French ladies at the watering- places in their nativo land as follows: **To go 10 her bath she wears o percale wrap- por. trinmed with English embroidery, over which is thrown snother longer and loosor wrapper of bluo flanoe!, lined with wnits cast ere, and slie covers ber head with a Charl Corday cap of embroigered canhmere tied under tho chin with biuo ribbons, Her biaakfast- toilette is a blouse of white cashmere, made with 8 stauding collar and large side-pockets, 2nd trimmed with threo rows of difforent wicths of eilver braid. Her walking-dress is composel of 8 kirt of eteel-gray rlace silk, with entaago aod apron overskirt of batistestriped white and gray, and trimmed with Darcow plaitinga of the batlate, showing the gruy stripes only, 18id ovcr. wider plaitings of white muslin, cdged with nar- o lace. Large buttons of ‘gray mothor-ol- pearl; a canotier hat, raised in front, trimm 84 bad with a bunch ¢ p = 0 vou ever Lavo tume to go- ontsido your of gray grapes and a bow of black. velvet, and worn with ‘an immensely long veil of white gauzs, 80 long, n fact, that it wonld trail on_tho ground did not the fair wearer carry it thrown over her arm. Suspended ot her sido by o chain ars -ber largo striped fan oad | gray Eun umbrella, lined with cherry-colored ° eilk. Tlor toilettea for the evening is composed of o ikirt of pink silk giuzo. witl narrow stripes, the narrow flounces trimmed with white plait- ings und with Mechlin lace. Tho corsazo and overskirt aro entisely of Mechtin insertion. In Ler bair she wears & single roso, with a-great many leaves, and. Lo .carriea o pink-silk fan, ‘Withi pearl-stick.” ‘Fhreo African Wives, By the blsck Tiver theee women ware, “And ono she hawled alond : “ They've killed our busband 1” Wilh her hand She ficreely, grasped ihe aun-scorch’d Kaud, Aud covered her head with o clous, | Another £at and sobted; her tesrs Fell,plentiful cod fust “ The kindest, faithtulest good mzn} My only frient siuce Jifo began ; ‘ 3ty first—he’ll be my lase 7 One silent stood ; her eyes vere dry; Sbe lool'd far into the Wesi: “ Tliero come the mon our cijef wSe slaw; There come the men who'. marry you.. She Gtabbed herseif in the bresst. —Louisritle Courtcr-Journal. - Misceliancous Feminine Items. Thedresemaking business is dull, and it is pot~ 8iblo now to get n $10 material made up for $22. —It makes o big duTerence when a lady faints away whetlier you bathe her temples with cam- ‘plior or molusses, —. dischurged fomale Treasury clerk sayr to her fellow-sullerers: “Take courago, * fainting’ sisters ; Goverameut dish-washing is 8 most do- grading service for woumen of ability.” g —.An Oregon_school-ma'am stands refractory urchins on their-heads, and pours water down their trousers’ legs. —Women have bocoms o plenty in Nevada that a cross-eyed 1emalo with her front teeth out is allowed to shoulder her own trunk and earry it to the hotel. —\When a Savennah yonth gets highly onraged at another Savannah youth, he ravanyes. himself by tbrowing snull in tho eyes of bhis rival's sweetheart. —Post-Oflice clorks aro weeping over the per- versity of the woman of tha. poriod, who will write tha sddresses of - hor letters ** catticor- nered.” —A correspondent explzina that married men have their Lair cut short during the vacation becauso they do not, in the abeence of their wives, need i: to dcaden the Llows of the rokl- ing-pin. —*Women,” says an experienced Weetern editor, *are the best subscribers in the world to | ; newsrapers. We Lave been editor for forty years, und never lest a dollar by female sub- scribers.” —>5ho can stand it pretty well once or twico; but, when you spill a enicer of raspberry jum i her lap tis third time, tlings get uncom-- fortable, and she works hiercountenance 2 if she wasn't born to be an angel. —Three men and a cross-cyed boy conldn’t 1ift lady’s trunk at Saratoga Jist weok, and she bud tounpack all her praity thingsin the corridor aud catry ‘em up four full-grown flight3 of scairs. Poor thing! —Of course, ons in the conntry sces, among other things, ** barcfooted meidens-tripping o'er the dewy grass,” but theu most of ‘em have sora Licols, and tho romance fades awey like 3 wash- ing left out over night. B -Among thio visitors at Santa Cruz (a Califor- nin watering-place) is a Sau Francizeo lady, tho wifa of a prominent stock-broker, who has tiade bersolf conspicuons by waring a hideous-look- ing mask of chamois leather. It i8 said vhe en- veiops Lersolf in leather tosavo a_singularly beautiful complexion. She is alluded to in town s * tho woman in the yellow mask.” —Tno Tituswillo ferall wants to know: * Is thera anything in the world more trving to the soul of & man-than to find that bis guarcerly gas- bill exceeds the hickest figures his prolitic i~ egination had whispered 2" Yes, there is. Itis to have. your wife come home from the country and find that bill, and-#nill out 3 remsrk to tho effect that * You suid that you wen to bed early while sho was away.”— Boslon Globe. t t &l » —El ins on_ Saratoga balls: Young gen- tlomon—* Charmin’ ev'ning. 3lth - Brown.” Young lady s, awful charmin'—perfectly lovely—splen—"" Young gentleman—- Donce a squar_dones to-night ¥ Young lady Sir. Brown! I kon't, von knen! donces are beastly—perfectly atwocious—hawi- blo—perfectly dro'ful. Let's donco a galop. Ticy'rs awful-jolly—perfectly divinc.” —1f wo may Lelieva a correspondent, the most dasgerous place in tho country (next to Bico Iyn)is Mount Desert, M., for ticre. ho savs, “ Lifeis of a very high order of exinlaration, and ono feels nll thie boy in. one to come to the surface. One fcels lio winking cordially -at avery pretty.girl, liko slyly nudeing good-iook- ing, middle-agod widows, and like tving grand- mother's cap-striugs for hor bohind her. ears, “('ha frisk of youth Lias.returnod, und tle fire of Life is laming.” —*They parted in sorrow, they parted in tears.” The husband was to romain av Bor- deaux, for he Lada situation thero ;. the wife wae togo to London 38° o governes3, and they tilled the railway station with the noise and s0rTow of thoir pasting. * Do not cease to love me, and do nat forget that you are the wife of 3 decent man," sad the husbiod, * Never, said tho wife, and she pulled out her haudkerchief aod tied a kunot in it, that she might remombor.— French paper. —An extraordicary marriago took place ab Jevingtou, Eng.. the other day, the coremony but these arc not sufici shown by comparing the eatalogues of dierent bookeellers. wheze tho_eame cdition of, & work will be designated by diferent terms i regard nover was. Fmous wit and, thongh vory sty! over, 2ud books of this kiud are naw chiefly ¥ reading lus own libiary, but desires to have Lis Looks in the best " FASHIONS IN BOOKS. The. Descent from Folio to G4-mo. Rage for OM Editions and Large Paper Copies. Rigo and Fall of Blue. and Gold Editions, Tie Practice of * Extending ” Books--- AWord About Bindings. 3 WWhat Books to Buy. 1t may scom strango to somo to bo told that there is, and always has bedn, s fashion in books, but such is the caze,—a fashion as pro- nounced in somo respects as any imposed by Parisian rules. firet -twonty-fivo yoars after printing was in- vented, no books, or very fow, were printed in anything but In olden time, and within tho FOLIO SI1ZE:: pondarous tomes which required a table to bear their weight, but which now ara consigned to the bottom shelves of librarics, to dampness aud rats. creasod, and before A.D. 1475 gavo placo in large measuro to Tho size of the folios gradually de- QUARTOS, which in turn were compelied in o fow_ years to Tegign in favor of oclavos and old-fashioned duodecimos. From this time tho change was rapid, snd, 28 the number of printers and bookbinders in- creased, uew forms and eizes were invented, uwtl at the prescat day a bookbuyer is bewilder- ed by larzo and small folios, elephant folios, royal folios, large and small octavos, royal octavos, imperial, folio-cap, demy, and square octavos,—books in 16mo, squars 16mo,.18mo, 2imo, 32mo, 45mo, and Gimo. The good old name of DUODECINO secms unfortunately to be almost lost. Un- fortunately, for it denoted » sizo nealy uniform, which is now replaced Ly the ambiguous tarm of - octavo, This word" OCTAVO has lately been subjected to severe nsage, and is he cause of much dissatisfaction and coafusion, including, as iv does, books rangng in size from Valpey's octavo volume, nearly the size of the old 16mo., up to Adler’s Unabridged Dictionary in royal octavo, nedrly 103¢ incliea in Lieight. Of course, soms distincs Pictorial Shakspeare, in folio-cap about 5! inches high, by sucl limiting terms as “ dewy,” royal,” - But fashion never is, and probably ateaded to bo regarded 9s. synon- ither couvenience o reason. or is fashion in books confined alone to thicir Alew yearw nga tho ouly correct thing 0 Bizes, 7us to have a'back o sh for o time, its day is aluable toa colleclor who i3 never guilty of Shape in & pecaniary To readers, an_ uueut book nly provocative of *cuss-words,” ly if it is deeired to Lastily tumn the 2 search of a possage. This fashion for zneat books, though only 8 rovival of an old mode, siill keeps the even tenor.of ity way awonfz bibliomaniacs, and_sccond-hand_book ecllers, aud often causes o volume, especially. it printed fifty or seventy-five years ago, to Le un- Teasonably advaaced in price, 09 many & ueedy book-lover has bad occasion to knoy. ‘Anothor bygone fashion was that for the ** BLUE-AND goLD " editipns, This was an excelleus style, and. was well euiitled to a louger Life. censiblo styles that ever was invented, Is thatia . Ono’of. the mest ogue to & large extent at the present dsy, GILT TOPS. It does not matter so much that the side and botcom edges of thoe leaves of o volume are ir- regular end rongh if only the top is smooth, where tho T 2 0 ouly this, but it sidsin s mterial degree in keoping the book clenn. as tho dust is not 20 apt to penectrate, and cau be the more easily brushed off. catches nos. instinctively the it. And Teat frings to ~tarn Leaving now tho external characteristics of a volumo a8 affected by the fashion, wo come to the dufference in THE SUDIECT MATTER. In this respect the rage at present is for early voms performed by the Vory lev. Archdeacon | 71, thi xespect i Philpott in i prosance of Inreo congregation. | Logish dramatile, - Amcres bas - jomed ‘Fhi married conplo both boloug 12 the parish of belned | penlisdy: to Englend, aud Jevington, but tho elngnlar partis the fuet that | o980 o Niion ™ pag” masd largely the brido has no.arms, and the ring had 1o be placed on the third too of her left foot. At the conciusion of the marnare caremony &he signed the register, Lioldine tho pen with Lier toes, 10 a very decent * hand.” —Ilarmnsburg, Pa., has jost witnesaed an ex- traordinary fecundity of logal proceedings. Let us state them accordig to tho order of their chronology: 1. Maggio Bennett charged several young meis with baving broken into hor shop. 2 Then o Miss Amanda, friond of the yonng mon, eauned tho arress. of Maggie for selliug *0 be joyful " without a licnso. ~ 8. Next Mag- srio caused tho arcest of Amanda and her young man for tmmorality.. 4. Amanda retaliated by having Maggio arrested for selling cigars without a United Stazes licenso. She has been taken to Puiladelphia for trisl, and so tho little gamo 18 for tae present suspended. —+ Weel, aunty what are your thochts about murryin' 7 eald 2 young luss of 17 ove day to a decent rpinster, wbo bad reachiod the shad¢ side of life withont committing matrimony. Deed, laysie,” frankly replicd ber rolativa, ©T had but three thoctits about it ‘s my .davs, and the lasy is liko to e the langest. First, when I vas young, like yoursol', [ thocht, *Wna'll I tak ?* thep. as tho timo Legan to wear by, I began to think, * Wha'll Iget? aw', after I got iy leg Droken wi' that whamel oot -0’ Saunders Mo- Drouther's cart, my thocht syne was, *Wha'll tak me?’ nn' Idoot I'll hae tho think the same e: Shukspeare feel the pleasuio of & small portion of, the world enjoys; not ouly is | be elevated uto the number of the select few, | but he cau Jearn something nob taught, by read- iug-books, of the cl:aracter of the tne iu which they were first priuted, and oven of the poopio of that tiwe. in raising the vrices of old editions of the earlier sh dramatists and poets to an almost fabu- lous amount, endrely at varisnce with their real wortn. stitute o large number of reprints, but those whose purses are decp, or tastes fastidious, spurn suything but tue original editions, al- though—perversity of human naturo—tho old editions may bo printed in a crabbed tyro, on ‘Lhus Lhas vecessitated as a partial sub- xcerable paper, and embeilisbed with wood-cuts that would shame a tyrom wood-engraviag st the proseut day. Much, however, may be said in favor of this passivu for OLD EDITIONS, . Not only doea the possessorof & first falio baviug what ouly Still another of the avcient styles was that of GAUFEEING THE EDGES OF TUE LEAVES, or marking them with different pattercs, or some Tunning dovice. Wo havenow tefore us & quaitt Tictle volume contaming Bocesceio's ** Labyrinth of Love,” and an Italian tzanslation of Apuleius’ “Goldon Ass.” It 18 about tho sizo of tho modern 16mo. volume, though called & daodecimo, cf nearly 09 p3gos. wnd printed entirely in xalio thache #ll I gang to 1y grave, unless something | rvos Tie date is 1550, aud thie ook came from Lappens mair by ordinar. tha pressof the well-known Giolito de Ferrari, in inighy 8 Tecent trinl, anAberdeon young ladygot | vyice Insiesd of numbering the pages on:y, into tho sritnoss box 1o be examined, whoa tho | NG tasiest of BEELGTRE 0 Pasts by, following couversation took place betweon her | 0 JcaVES aco. mpmborec. Tho budihig und the opposing connsel: _Counsel—+* How old are you?” Aiss ‘Jape— Oh, weel, sir, I am an unmarricd woman, and dinna think it right to answer that quostion.” “he Judge— Oh, ves,” answer the gentleman how old you are.” Mies Jane—* Weel-a-weel, Iam -50.” “Couusel—** Ara you notmore 7 Miss Jane Weel, Tam 6. The inquisttive lawyer still farther asked it she had any hopes of getting marrisd, to which Mies Jape replied : * Weel, sir, I winna tell aleo; X Linna lost hope yet : scornfully adding, * bot T widna marry you, for I am sick aod tired-o' your vulaver alréady.” —The Khussuful Akhbar, tho only Rindoostan paper published a1 Bombay, has the followin *iThe greatnesa of the Mahomatan religion in- book by vellum strips sewed through the cover. Thongs- of tho swme material formed in a locp o duty a8 clasps, and the loops are fastoned over buttons or knots of vellum gewed into the. covers. The edges of ths leaves, onco gilt, but now a dall, yellowish brown, are covercd. with some cabalistic-looking figures, surrounded by & fine narrow border, the whols being stamped into the paper. printed witiout s singlo break or_paragragh, and the lines, witn small and_insignificant, capic tals, and very nawrow spacing, look like svme gigantic word stretchiug on without au end, Lke the fumous Greak word in one of Aristophanes’ comedies, whuch is propounded to verdant Fresh- men £8 & test of their proticiency in that lan- Scores of pages togetler aco -croasos by tho grace of God. Op Friday last an thoir c 8 English *madam,’ sbrack by {he grostness of | SU3E% T:;’;dfid‘n"“":,"“‘rmh“’mguhdc"‘;gg tho Maliometan faith and its power to redeem | 3 Olle podrida - of Cfih. - desh, aud sinmers, adopted the ‘true faith' with her son DIAD!;O with the doloe-farmienta cheracter end daughtor. 'The woman ws wilo to o Mr. Bushey, who lived in Bombay, but is now dead. She has by him a s0a and daughter, G and 5 years old respectisolv. _The truth of the Islam 1aith has mado such an impression on her con- scieuce, the light of the religion has afectod Lier 50 much, sud the influence of the true and the last propbet (honor boto his name) has been 80 powerful that sho at once went to tne Jakeira Masjid sod adopted the new faith. The same might she joined an Afehan named Mahomed Khan by neela marringe.” ¥ —_— A New Eritish Tinisters The London correspondent of the Now York Tribune writes: * Thers 1s & report thas Sir Seymour Fitzeerald iy fo be seut a3 British Min- ister to Washingion. He is a stropg mav. In 1859 be was Lard Derby's Under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, and become kuown in Parlia= ment 28 one of ihose meu who were likely to do ; i Bometbing when tley got & caance. Then ho. -went somewbere in India a8 Governor of somo- -thing,—Bombay, I Lelieve,—wlLeuco Le got buck ia time to profit by the political convulsion of lagt Fobruary, which brought Lim once more i ¢ far his old Borough of Hor- of the ancieat Greek, than with the busy, eacr- getic constitution of the American of the present time. now, and calling on the astonished waiter for such a dish, the pronunciation of the name of which would occupy time enough, spesking after the inauner of some men, (0 Prepars it. pamful to think of the study that any mortal able of sounds, and the exercise requirdd would te sufficient to give an appetite to the most effemi- nate and fasiidious epicure tiat ever lived to oat 1t afterwards. Imagiue o man stepping into 8 restaurant Iris must havo undergone to Lo to articulato such a conglomeration But the fushions above named. are only s fow of the many that might be mentioued. Some, " nowever, of the following clasaificotions may mote properly be considered a5 dencting the dis- unctiod between different classes of collectors or boos-buyers, than as pamting ot the fashiors books which have intluencad the werld at large. Suil, tho difference iagosmall s times, that tho mania for black-letter books may be ad well cslled a fashion, a3 the desire for blue-and- gold edizi mer 18 zenerally confined to buying oid books, forrerly priuted in the heavy oid Englizh typs, and only extending jn a small de e, tucugh the collection of the for- &T00 1Q new- books of that kind, tho supply of an for these Iatter belog vers limitad. %x&fifi’ne‘ffi amon tha desirable kinds of books araong thea who make book-tollecting a fine art are thiose og LARGE PavER, Whatman's paper, vellum pzper, thick and, most espensive of all, Tndis paper | sjeg thoso rolating to tho early English, pootry. works of the first printers,—Caston and Wyniqg Do Worde, of gome paiticular editions, especials ly tho Aldie, Elzovir, Plantiniana. Eastersille, ({)r l;ifk'u“ng' Certain editions, also, are chosey or their paper, FINE ILLUSTRATIONS, or cunous wood-cuta. An edition of Horage was published iu England in 1793 which nad 3 <sct of plates by an’ engraver named Pino and tho early editions of Pino's Horao! mow brig large prices. Tho first editions, ulso, of “tho " works ccntaining Rerwiok famous wood-cats are eagerly bought up, tnd it i not unconimon for z volume contnining these * ILiustratious printed about the beginning of thg century to brug $20 or £35. These iwo exe amples, although by no means the best or most expensive, will gerve. for aa illustration, The taste for large-paper books seems to be increas. ing. Almost ail ting works, unleas histories, arp now supplemented by & small numborof ety on large paper, which are considerately doubled in_prico 'to prevent tho unfortunaty son of poverty from intruding bimself inta thy | ranks of the elect. Like all other purauits, that. | of printing on .large pzper Lua been carried to cxcess, until, a8 Las beon aptly sad, the toxzig | but a rivulet ranning throngh a broad meadsy of margin. : RIDBED PAPCR, or, a8 a lady once very aptly termed it, “repn paper, is aldo considered as giving decidsd tons to a boak, but although very pleasant to lockat tlo presence of a docided rib makes 1t difficuisty be read, and is not recommended for weak Books printed on_differcnt-cbiored pa; were once quito fashuonable, buk are selion - issued now, excent on what is catled - tinted" « paper, of a delicato cream—color. Works arg atill occasionally prinied ou vellam, but the dearness of that material renders a book printed on it very high-priced. A Mazarin Bible printed about 1455 on vellum, recently sold iu the Per~ kins sale in London for upwards of £10,000, RamITY in another criterion by which 8omo persoas are guided in buymg books. It matters little of what the volume treats; if thero are ont fow in existence, it is precious to suen a_collector; but it ‘need scaicoly bo said it 13 littlo crelitasto to Dba possessor of -a hibrary waere Litesars valup ia consideied as & secondaly muatter, or perbapanol considered at ail. i Stul another class of Look-buvers are thoza who seek after iNlustrated works. -Ly this is ua- derstood -not only works which.the pubbsher, and illusirated in the finst tie book, but: sots or singlo which have been further ~ beautified by tho iusertion of namerous wood-cats, one gravings, or even original drawings aud peint- ings, in ol or water-color, counected in soma ncar or remote dogree with the.subject of the work. Tins branch opens an . illimitablo field. No: only are direct illustrations inserted, but idnstrations of illustrations to an indefinite oxe tent THE GRANGETITE, smch is the term applied to aman whois cd with . the manin for illustration, is mob couiined to Englaud. If such o specimea of tho genus homo 18 meagerly endowed with @ scuse of tho differevce betwcen meum and tuum, his ravaces in a jargo brary are danger- ons aud diticrit to be detected. A fine engrav-’ ing can be cut from a book, ruining .its value, et not changiog its outward appearance. Ong of tho finest specimens. of ilustration ever mado was & copy of Shakspearo in folio, whicly had been exteaded to forty-two volames, acd * wag 8 few years ago owned by a pgenticraan m New York. The lotcer pross, a small item compared to. the coean of ilinstiations, wes of lacge, clear type, and, cach play wus keptin a separate portfolio, with * the engravings accompanying it. These illzs- trations, exceeding 200 to some of the plays, cine sinted of steel engravings, portraits, mags, cols ored plates of costmues, Zud painticge.—aay.. thing; 1n fact, that tended in auy way to thuow light'on Shakspeace's life-timo or works. Ths money value of euch s work can not easily bo computed, 18 in very many instances coctly boois were buught for the sase of their engravings, and when robbed of thesa wers thrown uway 84 useless. Anotber work which. wag, & year or two ago, for sale by o bookseller in New Yori, whica Lad taken thircy yearsta collect, was a copy of the Bible enlarged from two to sixty folio volumes, and valaed at $10,000. Tho 1liustrations were of every kind, meluding laudscape scenes of tie oly Laud aud. cyricus medieval illuminations, together with grotesque early Duteh and Ger- men pantings, dovoid of perspective, and the mors Ginborate and pleasing elforts of poiuters of qur.onn day, Over 30,000 iliustro-. tions were embraced 1o this collection, some of the worth 50 or $100 esch. 1But tume and space fau to more than mention 1 i the tzll paper books and the books in vellum aad morocco, tho.calf and the pigskin, up or downo to the copy of & wori which Disraell Atates a bibliomanisc named Askew bad bound in human skin. Buoks thero aro to delight tio cyes, and which ore eagerly sought after because thiey are bound by DsRome or Lewis, laday, or Bedford, orin the style of that. Frince of coectars, Grollier, whoso friondly Dbook-plate generousiy soys “Joanni Grollieri a5 Amicorum ™ belovging to John Grollier and Lis friends,” bat any tusther information must be deferred, or lett to. cach ouo 1uterested to- find for bimself. A few word: however, msy be, peshaps, pere | mitiod 1a regard to BUTING BOOKS. In the firet place, as far as pousible, buy a bock in good, large typo. If tho work is interestiLs, it may bo read the first time, though bac.y princed, snd in emall characters, but, Aexardi:g toan oid s3ying, 8 book that 1 worth readimg onco 18 worth reading tivice, and it will bo fomid that the inclination 13 e loss to givos sock second perusal if it is not inviting in appear- 2aco. T acdition, a book will st s Lifa-time; and 28 5 mow's life_creeps oo into tho scre and vollow leaf he finds it absolutely necessary to Dave large type books. A SECOND STQUESTION is to buy the complete works of an auther, when they canbe procuied. Itis unfortunate tuuid Lus never been the stvle or fachion, at leust t0 & marked degree, to print the complets works of authors, but a: somo time or anothr they bave been publishied, and can be procureds One resson is that an autbior can bo Lest known and estimated by the periral of his wheio works, or differeut parts of all of them, better then oven by the study of a part, and ‘another reasem is that it 18 often neceszary to refer to an autker - at random, and the ‘vexation attending an unsice cessful search for a passage or poem of o writer, when the person Las orly a part of that author’s productious, can ba but known by those who Lave been in such an uuhappy predicametty Nor need the complete works necessarily Cotd ‘much more than single esenye, if they arc, as 18 very frequently the cage, bound in oneor tr.0 larizo voiames, Stul o third hint is to be carefal to get s book with an index, and, if s his.orical work, with maps. Aoy worlk that is ever employed fur referenco {s completely useless without an index, unless the owner be as familiar with it as with Iug nlphabet. d TLastly, attention should be paid to THE BINDING. Of course, leather is preferable to cloth, but, though more expensive at firat, tho former i 1auch moro durable. Of tho varions kiuds of leather morocco1s by far the best. lts grain @ longer, and it will wear through without br ing along the back, as is so uten the case wi call. A ook in Lialf morocco looks well on tke slielf, Jasts 08 long, and gives tho best satiefacs tion, other things, especially the price, be.nf congidered, a3 any kind of kinding. Vellam if good in bindings. but little used ot present. Tc is nearly indestructiblo, but in enal works s very ohff and iflexille In large works it is ‘Dot 80 objectionable, & the various shades, from & rich cream:color to & dead, chalky white, make a pleasing varic:y 2Lt coutraat to the darkor hues of calf and mamcc'_&. " But, frally, even though you cannot eu‘juy Iuxury of largo vaper, or the etyle of gt 1014y or English editions, nor the cost of morrocco ¢k calf, bay books in clo;ga or paver, oF ‘unboun g oits. 80 long as they are [ ;A i _———— INTO THE NIGHT. towly and darkly the shadows come dowD, ‘sun of & day an . o Ay e ! < the car came the toll of ita knell ; B o e heset with f1a sorrow f-fel; Tut in sunsbine, or shadow, that Leart can "Mourafully tel of its night, in the Jower-bells nestled the dew, D he len where the wild Sowors rews But #t fell in the brightness of morning’s warm KGer= Tearfully felt for the night. As rises the dew, on tho Morning's wing, To ia native sky where the angels Sl Bo, exultant, ths hearts of the surrpwing SpEing. Intd the rest of God's love, Iy the shadows are coming down, ¢ A neler talle he eve of 8 life, 1ta sun Liaa gona duwy, e O atelilly, (a0 tha R | R