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a 
united within herself great talents for society 
with a high and soaring ambition. Those who 
only recognize In the world of polities the dry de¬ 
tails. can form but a scanty notion of the excite¬ 
ment derived from the high interests of party, 
and the great game played by about twenty 
mighty gamblers, with the whole world fot the 
table. In this grand role women perform no 
Ignoble part; nay, It were not too much to soy 
that I heirs Ls llic very motive power of the vast 
machinery. 
There Is one thing not subject to the nll-de- 
vourlng art of chromo-lithography, to wit—A 
black eye. It’s colored by liana. 
A select assort ment of Baxter St. Baatil-bazouks 
surrounded a policeman a few nights since, and 
were on the point of committing an atrocity, 
when the officer referred them to the daily papers, 
and they had to confess, In a splrltor humiliation, 
that they could not show a record for brutality 
equal to that of the guardians (?) of the peace. 
Place no confidence In the report that the 
“ Rape of the Lock ” ls to be dramatized by the 
author of “ Mlst-tress and maid,” nor that the 
same hand wrote the ** Wandering llclr.” It ls 
true, however, that “Helen’s llables ” have been 
sent to the " New School Ma'am ” because of her 
success with “ Other People’s Children,” but 
“ That Husband or Mine ” says becauseThey 
All l)o It ” la no good excuse for such a riood of 
trash being poured over “ Poor Humanity.” 
oP 
A LOVER’S QUARREL, 
i. 
You will find, inclosed with this note of mine. 
Your letters anil gifts Iti their order set. 
1 have kept aw you see, not a single line 
To recall what I now would lain forget. 
Your picture— I never liked the pose— 
The ring and chain, and I he rest you know, 
I have placed with care, for indeed, who knows 
But. another will prize— Well let it go! 
So snaps In a moment the chain that bound. 
Oh ! butter, no doubt, to cud it thus 
Than find too late, as we must, have found, 
That charier alone, had united us. 
You can throw, if you please, the blame on me, 
-As it always comfort* a man to do : 
No matter ; enough If r can see 
That the fault of our quarrel rests with yon. 
Let us never meet—it it; better so; 
For after all, oeiug only human, 1 feel to the 
Heart—not angry, no; not angry, but still— 
Alt Injured woman, 
P. H.—Ou the whole, as our letters might 
Stray to some other Hum you and me. 
For just this once I willjiueet you to-night 
At tlio usual time, by the sycamore tree. 
II. 
1 send you hero, together with this, 
Your letters you aslted for back again. 
And pardon it if a luckless ki&s 
lias blotted the pages now and then ; 
The curl ol your hair the glove you wore - 
Th> mignonette-take back the whole. 
And with them the faith that once I bore, 
The love and trust of a man's whole soulA 
The Past—is there aught that remains behind? 
The Future—what hope nave you left mo there? 
If i go to the deuce lull never mind ! 
I scorn to threaten, to rave and swear. 
Ho, mi, be happy us* no Tuan will 
Before the kiss on their lip* i* cold 
That pledges them to another; still, 
I n the mnv love lightly forgetting the old.) 
Yes. all i* over between us now - 
1 n.i err shall look on your face agaiii; 
Ho go your way with your broken vow, 
And think no more of—a desperate man. 
P. H. lit order that.you may see 
I have lo pt hack nothing, not even u flower, 
On second thou ht.i, to the sycamore tree 
I will bring them myself, at the usual hour. 
in. 
They have met to utter their last good-byes! 
And there by tin; sycamore tree they Btaud, 
Gazing' each in the other's eyes, 
Holding each to the other’s hand. 
The letters lie on the mossy rent— 
King and picture and curl and glove; 
While the donbly-iierjiiri'd lips repeat 
The ull-told talc of changeless love; 
And over their heads the slurs of even 
Twinkle down through the sycamore boughs, 
Laughing perchance, as the hosts of heaven 
May‘laugh to listen to Lovers' Rows. 
A SENSATIONAL ARTICLE. 
A respected correspondent, of the Rural New- 
Yokkkr furnishes an article which appeared In 
the number tor September 20, and which 1 re¬ 
gretted to sec emanating from the pen of a 
writer usually so correct In her sentimentsand 
statements. Tho article 1 h headed *• Insanity 
Among Farmers' Daughters,” and without In¬ 
tending any Injustice to the writer, 1 feel con¬ 
strained to Say that In this case l think she has 
based her arguifu nl.ion false premises, and that, 
her conclusions arc consequently very erroneous; 
and inasmuch as they tend to I hi pi lento so largea 
class ol our business population, to wit, the 
farmers and l.lielr sons, they should not, In my 
humble opinion, be permitted to puss without 
criticism. 
Tho writer commences with saying, “ In the 
last Report made by Dr. Parsons, Medical 
Superintendent of the New York city Lunatic 
Asylum, there arc two remarkable statements. 
One is, that during the past year, nil (he patients 
admitted wero women—-ITS in number, showing 
an alarming increase ot insaully among women. 
The other statement is, that of these patients, 
farmers’ daughters rank numerically highest ft* 
to social position, numbering forty-three, while 
farmers' wives number nine.” 
The writer then, after characterizing this pro¬ 
portion, (which it will be readily perceived Is less 
than one-eleventh of the whole number) as 
“painful and startling,” goes on to inquire, 
“ why should tho largest proportion ot these 
women who have become Insane bo found to bo 
tho daughters of farmers'.'" IT ease notice that 
less than one-eleventh part is termed “ the 
largest proportion!'" Rut ol this hereafter. Sho 
then looks about to discover a cause for this 
large proportion, and tlnds It to be “ bom or dis¬ 
content." A ud this discontent, as she imagines, 
originate* In “the annoyances they are obliged 
to bear from the lndirferenoe, carelessness or 
thoughtless unkindness of their fathers and 
brothers!” 
Now this lsa very serious charge It must bo ad¬ 
mitted, if true \ and to substantiate it, the writer 
asierts that they are not allowed the privilege of 
“taking a drive on Saturday evening* In the 
summer-time Just the same as their brothers;” 
that ir they have a taste for the cultivation of 
flowers, they are too frequently “snubbed, or re- 
gnrded with lndUTerenco ” and If they have some 
regard tor homo appearances, mure than I heir 
elders, they are charged with “putting on 
airs," or the whole matter “Is promptly disposed 
of, by father or mother, by a contemptuous 
‘ Pshaw!’ ” 
I have quoted thus largely Horn the article, 
that I may not he charged with misrepresenting 
the Ideas advanced by t he writer; and must say, 
with all duo deference, that I do not assent to the 
truth of a single point she makes. During a 
somewhat protracted life. I have mingled largely 
wit h most of t he industrial classes of society, and 
have had considerable knowledge of their fami¬ 
lies antf of their family relations, and at dlllerent 
periods of my life have myself borne the several 
relations of son, brother, husband and father to 
farmers’ daughters; ami T lmvc yet to learn that 
their fathers or brothers are more justly open to 
the charge of “ ludllTcrence, carelessness, or 
thoughtless unklndness” towards them than urn 
those bearing the sumo relations in other dames 
or families. I have yet to learn that, formers’ 
daughters arc more subjected to petty “annoy¬ 
ances,” or are more frequently snubbed. or 
pshawed at than others—that, they are more 
discontented or more liable to Insanity than 
those In tho families of any otherof the industrial 
classes. 
1 have yet to learn that, the daughters of farm¬ 
ers, (who arc presumed to keep horses), have less 
opportunity for “taking a drive on Saturday 
evening,” or ou any other day or evening, than 
the daughters of mechanics who do not so gener¬ 
ally keep horses; that they have not at least 
equal privileges for gratifying a taste for the 
cultivation of flowers, where land 1-; plenty, as 
(hose In other classes, who aro limited, perhaps 
to a single rood of ground as the extent of their 
entire domain; or that they aro more likely to bu 
charged with “putting ou airs" If they have a 
proper regard for horn© appearances. Such 
wholesale charges, Mr. Editor, aro at, variance 
with the common sense, and every day’s experi¬ 
ence of those who are at all familiar with rural 
life and habits among our native American popu¬ 
lation, and would never or mide by one who had 
taken pains to Invest igate the subject. 
But ls the proportion of forty-three farmers' 
daughters, among ITS female lunatics, alarmingly 
large? Let us see. The only data given us, by 
your correspondent, Is the report Of Dr. Fa chons, 
referred to by her, as wo have seen. The report 
Is not before me, neither do I know precisely the 
character of tho Institution to which It relates, 
further than that It Is “The New York City 
Lunatic Asylum." 
If tho institution is exclusively for female pa¬ 
tients, tbuh It ls no matter uf great surprise that 
“ all the patients ail milted were momen." if, on 
the contrary, It. Is designed for both flexes, as may 
be Inferred from the writer's Italics, then, indeed, 
ls the statement a very remarkable one. But If 
true, It does not aiTeet the point 1 make, it does 
not seem that IS In t, * Is a very large percentage, 
as I have already remarked. It ls less than onu- 
elevcnth part, or, decimally, a trifle less Ilian u 
percent. la this proportion “painful and start¬ 
ling ” when we understand the proportion the 
Industrial classes bear to each other? By 
the census Of Use state, Mechanics comprise 
about 25 per eenJ^jf rftn whole number engaged 
in Industrial puiwulta. All other branches of 
business, except farmers, include about thirly- 
ilve percent, while lln)8t> engaged In Uin cultiva¬ 
tion or t ho soil make up tho other forty per cent. 
Those propOrlloDH I have ascertained with much 
care, and although not perjecUy accurate, they 
are sufficiently so for our present purpose. 
It is presumed tha t each ot' the other classes 
tiro blessed wlfh daughters In about the same 
proportion that the farmers are. Now, If wo as¬ 
sume that they aro equally subject to insanity in 
the different elasseB, wn shall rind that of -ITS 
insane, women, all a"mjhires aj somebody, the 
proportion would bo (omitting fractions), of Me¬ 
dia tiles’ daughters, i in; or. other classes, except¬ 
ing farim-is, Iti*; Ot farmery’ daughters, 191; 
which u more than four fold the number actually 
admitted to the New York City Asylum, as given 
by the report quoted. Is the proportion, I ask 
again, so very startling ami alarming? 
But we arc not Informed how extensive the 
Parish of the New York city Asylum actually is. 
If Its patient* are all gathered from the city 
proper, then the proportion is indeed large, tar we 
do not usually find farmers' daughters residing, to 
any great extent, In cities. Their homes a re In the 
country. If, as the wives Of cP.iy.etis, they reside 
there, then their insanity can no longer lie attrib¬ 
uted to tho annoyances of fathers and brothers, 
from whom they are freed. Il, being single, they 
go to the city seeking employ inenl, then Indeed, 
as a rule, they must have been at least partially 
Insane before leaving home. But as your corres¬ 
pondent, in the course or her remarks, scums 
evidently to refer to farmers’ daughters, as a 
class, residing with their fathers and brothers, 
and of course, in the country, I Infer that the in¬ 
mate* arc, at least a portion Of them, received 
from localities outside the city, otherwise her re¬ 
marks as to tho proportion, loso their entire 
force. 
She admits that Insanity among farmers’daugh¬ 
ters is not so much caused by hard work, as by 
the other causes we have quoted, indicating a 
degree of unfeeling lnluim vulty, not tosay bruitu- 
lly among farmers and their sons, which I cannot 
fur a moment believe to exist, only lu exceptional 
cases, as they may exist in ail oilier classes. 
That a Ilia In the country, secure irorn the 
snares and vices of the city, and aloof from their 
temptations, where the pure air of heaven ls 
freely breathed, where surrounded by the beau¬ 
ties ot nature, the mind Is t he more readily led 
from rim contemplation ot nature “ up to Nature’s 
Hod,” ls certainly most conducive to the health 
ot the mind as well as of tho body, I know by ex¬ 
perience. And that a City llto is calculated to 
tree the minds of farmers’daughters from feelings 
of discontent Is, I believe, a dangerous doctrine 
to be Inculcated. Clinton. 
WOMAN. 
“ In multitude of counsel there Is wisdom.” 
Certainly, then, Woman should be very wise. 
For countless ages women have been expected to 
havo nothing In view but the happiness of men, 
and yet so unsuccessful are they In (his, (heir 
one sole line or business, that a tremendous pt-rs- 
ntiro of masculine Intellect has been diverted from 
Its natural and diversified channels ami diverted 
to their instruct Ion. it 1* truly remarkable that 
the overwhelming Instinct, or wir hood, which 
men so love (o ascribe lo their Ideal woman, 
should require such an amount,or naiient cultiva¬ 
tion, such faithful teaching and rebuke. 
It would seem tb -tin live nr >;|\ thousand years 
this method of teaching had been elven ;i. fair 
t rial, and to do OUr Instructors justice, thev have 
succeeded remarkably well. It Isverv generally 
dinned into the feminine heart that, It's rather a 
poor, useless organ until It beats lo unison with 
some stronger one. Candid men and women will 
foresee the result, ir education upon tho theo¬ 
ries suggested, give* the world the stronger, 
purer, more polished womanhood, then let, the 
system prevail; if not, then we utter a mild pro- 
te‘f for womanhood for womanhood distinct 
from wifehood. 
Marriage should in* an accident, or something 
that may or may not com a. uirt, a precious 
treasure li It come* unsought, but a something 
Without which i lr.iior men or women may live a 
perfect, noble, happy life. And to this end wn 
must make nor daughters strong, self poised, in¬ 
dependent; not by Rgonenl course ol lustrum Ion, 
but by earnest personal. Uni t. Make them some¬ 
thing, Tor God's sake, do not, turn (hem adrift 
with all Iheir bright possibilities, in marrvbe- 
C'lUSO It Is the only tiling thev can do. Make 
them so strong, so stTl-SUltlelent, so huppv In a 
sense of work to do. and ability to do n, that If 
• bey merry af all, the men who win their love 
must esteem it a blessing beyond price 
Young women of to-day may be divided Into 
three classes: 1 . Those who, accepting the pop¬ 
ular theory that marriage is tho acme of font ale 
exlaienee, lend all their energies fa Us accom¬ 
plishment and snap llieir lingers In the face of 
anyone who lelljj them tb.it self Improvement 
will serve them anv good purpose In life. z. Con¬ 
st tent loo* girls who fall In with the current, but 
scrupulously liupiove their opportunities with 
a dim sense ot some good to h© dorm by tlm!r 
cflorin, lu a future t he working of which they aro 
forbidden to control And :nl, a iew atrong- 
hearted, clenr-brolned women, wlm d ire to think 
for themselves, and take the working of Midi-own 
lives Into their own lmnds. The IJreu, elans give us 
our frivolous voalely women, our butterflies, 
around whom our young men hover because ihelr 
shallowness flatter* musoullno conceit. There 
young women marry .airly, marry well, .is socleiy 
say*, quite frequently, and In middle ngo are 
either luult-llnding. db-contcnlerl nnbndtcx, or 
pallid girlish noboillen, Tho second class, Heaven 
pity them! Mud themselves nud tlmir talents, 
great or small, sent from school to hope long, and 
shrink back enveloped In a dump mist or help¬ 
lessness, with no work to do, nothing expected of 
• bem but marriage, and no right to sock tor even 
that. 
l need not tell you what they become In later 
lire: your neighbor’ll wife, and perchance your 
own Is one of them. You meet them everv day, 
women who have hn-u cheated out of their own 
souls by falsi*education ; women who might havo 
been t he world’s helpers, dwarfed Into hindrances, 
and all because there wn - nr, voice In bid I hem 
bravo the world and Its teachings, and make I lie 
most of vvliat (>nd lmd given them Let us not 
be too ready with censure for Maun ; their timidity 
Is no greater than i hat or nine-ton11 is ol our prom¬ 
inent rnen In all professions, ir society had 
frowned on every young lawyer, doctor or minis¬ 
ter who entered his profession, as it frowns on 
every young woman wlm undertakes a. similar 
work, our lawyers, doctors and ministers would 
be. few. 
All honor and respect are duo to the few noble 
women who have flung oft uselessness ga thering 
slowly around them, and refusing to sit with 
folded hands or ilo merely the work «f a machine, 
have grine forf.l), to failure some times — some¬ 
times lo .success. I tuteven failure In a dhjaijled 
Work Is heller Ham success m not hi tailless. 
Fora woman i<> mooned in an.v new undertak¬ 
ing to-day. requires far mere ability ou lierpa.i t, 
than Is required liy a, m m In the same elreum- 
stanees, for with her, much mental force must be 
expended in overcoming prejndiee, m jiving down 
oppoidilons. which, with him. may be brought, to 
bear directly on his work, one of the good things 
which time mm in store for Uumaalty, Is a per¬ 
fected womanhood. A womanhood strong and 
polished and MUiderand brave, ass* lf.helpful and 
unselfish ns Independent,, and grandly generous 
OS the ideal womanhood is lo-duy.—Jj Biggie Colli, r 
Graham, in Woman a Journal. 
-♦ ■ - — . ■ 
ANOTHER PROTEST AGAINST THE CHAP¬ 
ERONE. 
Well, that’s a jolly ideal Because men are 
naughty, we poor girls are to have some fossilized 
specimen of womanhood foisted on ns. That’s 
Justice wl'li a. vengeance I To my thinking, it 
would be much more equitable for the men lo be 
chaperoned. They are the aggressors. Wonder 
how they would enjoy being toted around by 
some old fogy of a man. For my part, I shall 
never submit to t his species of private detective. 
If my mother introduce* one Into our house, i'll 
engage to make time* lively tor her. She’ll throw 
up her position In a month, I ll tie willing to 
wager. Tho girl* of America ought to tar-and- 
10011101* Mr. Rhodes. What a picture he draws or 
us! He must have a precious set of acquaint¬ 
ances; wonder If Ids girl friends enjoy Hie results 
of his observat ions of them. I don't bdlevo Amer¬ 
ican men are such unmitigated wretches either. 
I’m a little mixed, though, on the question or 
men. Reports appear to be so contradictory, it 
Is rep resell io<i to ils girls that, men are so supe¬ 
rior, that they are to he looked up to, and that 
they are our “ heaven-appointed proteinors.”- all 
of which we are trained to implicitly believe; 
and now comes Mr. Rhodes, with qiroful revela¬ 
tion* concern lug i.m*. wickedness of men, and tells 
us Unit Hie “protectors” are really ravening 
wolves, who are always lying in wait for a lamb 
of aglrl. Perhaps Mr. Rhode* knowsbcSL Being 
a man, he ha* undoubtedly enjoyed special oppor¬ 
tunities for observation; hut I'm suspicious of tils 
statements, for If he doesn’t know more about 
men than lu: does about girls, tils bowlings must 
bo the result of a disordered Imagination. Won¬ 
der why they don’t propose to shut us up lu Ha¬ 
rems. Plenty or seclusion, and no danger of 
wolves there I “As for me, give rue liberty ”- 
or I'll Ux tilings so that the duenna will require 
the .services Of a coroner. Girls, let’s raise tho 
standard uf revolt, and inscribe, on It, “Death to 
tho Chaperone.-” “ Onjj of tuk Girls.” 
Klpon, AVIs. 
We read any amount about tho luxury of mu¬ 
tinies; but for tasteful extravagance, commend 
me to the Romans. Now there are flowers, for 
Instance. Wo think our epergnes, and the man¬ 
ner In which we decorate tho dinner-table, a bit 
ot neat affluence. Why, they “ see” our gardens, 
and go us conservatories better“ To enjoy the 
scent of roses at meals, an abundance of rose- 
leaves was shaken out upon the table, so that the 
dlslies were completely surrounded. By an arti¬ 
ficial contrivance, roses, during meals, descend¬ 
ed on the guests from above. Heuogabalus 
caused violets and roses to be showered down 
upou his guests In such quantities, that a num¬ 
ber of them, being unable to extricate them¬ 
selves, were suffocated In flowers. During meal¬ 
times, they reclined upon cushions staffed with 
rose-leaves, or made a couch of the leaves them¬ 
selves. Tho floor, too, was strewed wit h roses, 
and In this custom great luxury was displayed. 
Cleopatra, at an enormous expense, procured 
roses for a feast, which she gave to Antonv, had 
them laid two cubits thick on the floor of the ban¬ 
quet-room, and then caused nets to bo spread 
over the flowers, in order to render the fooling 
elastic, iiei.i on arai cs caused not only t,ho ban¬ 
quet-rooms, but also tho colonnade* that led to 
them, to be covered with rosea, interspersed with 
Riles, violets, hyacinths, arid narcissi, and walked 
about upou this flowery platform.” Row our flor¬ 
ists will sigh when they read this! 
The French certainly have a graceful way of 
saying a cutting thing. Madam© Dk Stage was 
remarkable for her ugly feet. Tho day after a 
masked ball she twitted Prince Talleyrand for 
not having recognized tier. “ Pardon, madame,” 
said Talleyrand, “fat recount/ lepu-a de siael 
(piedeslat ).” 
The original home or well-known quotations ls 
a source or endless bother to most people, ami t he 
real author of soaiu of tho most familiar, is rarely 
known. A lady once told me that if the parent¬ 
age. of an olt-quoled line was asked among a 
room-ful of educated people the chances wore as 
nine ls to ten that the Bible or Shakespeare 
would be given. 
Like angels’ visits, few am I far between." 
ls from Campbell’s “ Pleasures of Hope,” and he 
purloined the thought from Blair’s “ Grave.” 
“ Visits 
Like those of angels, short aud far between.” 
Colly Cibber’s tic tlug version of “Richard tho 
Third ” la responsible for, 
“ Oil with bin head ! Ho much for Buckingham ! ’’ 
From “ Lochlel'a Warning,” a poem by Camp¬ 
bell, we nave 
“ 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. 
And coming events cast their shadows before." 
Davy Garrick in his epilogue on quitting the 
stage said: 
“ A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind." 
“ True friendship's laws are by this rule expreet; 
Welcome the coming, speed the farting guest.” 
Pope’s Oilyssr y, j:v., S3, SI. 
“ Where ignorance is bliss 
’Tis folly to be wise.” 
" Prospect of Eton Gofkoti l>y Gray. 
It Is in Sterne's “ Marla,” Instead or the Bible, 
that we And 
“ lie tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” 
In the “ Mourning Bride," by Congreve we 
learned for the first time that 
“ Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” 
And here area concluding hand-lull. 
“ Pity's akin to love.*’ 
Oroonolin; a play by Southern. Acts 2, Ss.,'l. 
“ For why ? because the good old rule 
Suftlcetb them, the simple plan 
That they should take who have the power. 
And they should keep who can.” 
" Mob Hoy's Grave.: ” by Wordsworth. 
“ Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm.” 
" Hurd : ’’ by Gray. 
“ He that complies against his will 
Is of the same opinion still.” 
Butler’s '* fludibras.” 
