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V IMII'". I'.II'N l.AJSI IIHIII I .
I BY MRS. t-lGOCRNEY.
IIalf raided upon his dying couch, his head
IVfwiTk'.l .ri- lio trwktlirT-'h: lifwi-tru llL'O 71 hint
Which, broken fruia.iL parent rtalk, adheres
By some attenuate fibre. I lit "thin hand
From 'neath the downy pillow drew a book
And -slowly nress'd it to his bloodless lip.
" Mother, dear mother nee your birth-day gift :
"Fresh and unboiled. Yet have I kept your word,
And ere I slept each night and every morn,
Did read its pages with my humble prayer,
Until this sickness came."
He paused for breath
Came wnit'ly, and with toilsome strife,
" Brother, or eKtfT have I none, or pise
I'd lay this Bible on their heart, awl say,
Cmie i read it on my grave, among the flowers:
, So tpu who gave must take it buck again,
And love it fur my sake." " My son ! My son !"
Whispered the mother in th it tender tone
Which woman in her sternest agony
Commands, to soothe the pang of those she loves
" The soul ! the soul ! to who-ie Charge yield
vou that?"'.
" To Gnil who gave it .r" So that trusting soul
I With a Blight shudder, and a lingering smile,
Leil the pale clay tor its Creator's arms.
' THE EYE-ISSUES.
' The beauty and expression of the eye is
not altogether dependent upon its colour
and brilliancy. It may sparkle with intel
ligence and wit, or mildly beam with bene
volence, innocence, or pity ; and yet if it
be overhung with a ltat and singly eye
brow, or but imperfectly shaded with eye
lashes, composed of a few short bristles set
wide -apart, much of its beauty will be lost.
Ilencn we find those who place most im
portance upon external charms, have been
in almost every ago extremely solicitous to
improve and preserve the form and symme
try of these important appendages to the
organ of sight. Without stopping to notice
the plans pursued at the toilet of the East
to give a darker hue to tho eye-brows, and
by the females of other nations to form
tliera into a, slight aiid ptrfeci 4xcJi, vc pra
pose to say a few words upon the beauty of
thc eye-lashes.
Wo need not dwell upon the importance
to beauty of long, silken, glossy eye-lashes,
which bare so often heen the theme of lo
vers and poots. Lord Byron, w ho to all the
enthusiasm of an eastern lover, added the
deep fading of a poet, has hung some of
his finest g;'ins on a beautiful cyc-lash :
o;ie example? will he sufficient.
As a stream late conceil'd
-By4ifrtnweirif--i willows, -' ;
Now rushes reveal'd
In tho light of its billows,
As the bolt burst on high
From tho black cloud that bound it,
FlaMi'd the soul of that eye,
from the long lashes round it.
While the females of our own country,
as well as of those of most parts of Europe,
pay little attention to promote, by artificial
means, the growth and beauty of their eye
lashes, in Cir:ast"ia, Georgia, Persia, and
Hindostan, this is one of the first objects of
a mother's care. We mention this not as
reproach to the former, nor as a commend
ation to the latter, but merely as a matter
of fact.
It is well known that the hair, w hen left,
to itself, seldom' grows long; but either
splits at the top into two or more forks, or
gradually tapering from the root, terminates
in a very fine almost ..invisible point.;
When this is the case, -its. further growth is
completely arrested. The Circassian fe
male,, aware of this fact, carefully removes
the fine point from caerr eyelash by means
of a pair of scissors. Every time this is
done, their growth is renewed, and they be
come long, close, finely curved, and of a
silky . gloss. . This operation of tipping is.
repeated every month or six weeks.
Excepting among the ancient Romans
and the modern Chinese, large eyes have
ever been esteemed essential to beauty.
By this test alone, we may distinguish
whether an antique statue of Venus, or of
Juno, be Roman or Grecian ; the classic
Greeks having more taste than to represent
a goddess with small peering miserly eyes.
Homer, indeed, seldom mentions Juno
without comparing her eyes to those of an
ox. The oriental poets drew a more ele
gant simile from the large-eyed antelope or
gazelle, which has not escaped Lord By
ron. .,
Her eyes' dark charm 'twere vain to tell ;
But gaze on that of the gazelle,
It will assist thy fancy well.
The brilliancy of the eye, and its ap
pearance of fulness, depend, in a great mea
sure, upon its form, and on the magnitude
of the eye-ball ; but still in no slight degree
upon the closeness and amplitude of the
eye-lashes, and the diameter of the pupil.
It is the eye-lashes only over which' art pos
sesses any power the perfection of which,
as we have seen, may be increased by a ve-
ry simple process.1 But this is not all the
oriental beauties have, from time immemo
rial, practised the art of darkening the eye
lashes with a pigment, which is applied to
the hairs themselves, and to the skin at
their roots, while a small streak of it is of
ten extended outwards from the exterior
angle of each eye. Although we are far
from recommending this practice to our fair
readers, yet it has certainly a very impos
ing appearance when artfully performed.
It is said to give a brightness and beauty to
the eyes, altogether inconceivable, making
even the plainest little grey eyes appear full
orbed, and piercingly dark. Upon our
selves, we confess that the effect in these
cases would be entirely lost, from the mo
ment we became aware of the artifice by
which it was produced. Though admirers
of beauty, wc should prefer a pair of eyes
possessed of a vory moderate portion of it
" but' speaking of modest thoughts and
intellect refined," to all the charms these
orguns can acquire from artificial means..
HOW TO WEAR SPECTACLES.
The usual practice, when an individual
experiences a diminution or defect in his
powers of vision, is to. have recourse imme
diately to the aid of spectacles. Paying, in
the majority of ctrses, no attention to the
actual condition of the eyes, by which the
imperfection of vision is produced, nor in
quiring whether it may -not-he such a one
at will be aggravated by the use of glasses,
it is not at all surprising that we find so ma
ny complain of the rapid deterioration of
their sight alter commencing to wear spec
tacles. But this is not all the glasses
made use of are often inadequate in the na
ture of their senses to the state of the eye ;
are ihore often defective in their construc
tion, and when otherwise correct, are not
unfrequcntly worn in a manner calculated
rather to injure still more the eyes than to
increase the powers of sight. The follow
ing directions for wearing spectacles are
from the work of Adams, and are well worth
the attention of all who arc obliged to have
recourse to their aid.
In the proper use of spectacles there is
no circumstance of more importance than
their position on the head. They should
be worn so that tho glasses may come as
close to the eye as possible without touch
ing the eyelashef ; they should also be so
placed ,lhat,lh& sfae ofethe r glasses .may
be parallel to the object viewed when this
is held in an easypositioo. To accom
plish this, let tho sides of the spectacles
bear upon the swell of the head, about mid
way between the top of it and the ear; the
eyes will then look directly though the glas
ses to the object, and will derive the most
advantage from them, instead of looking ob
liquely through them, as in those cases,
where, as is toocommonly the case, persons
place the sides of their spectacles in con
tact with, or very near, thejr ear" in
which condition they cause a distorted im
age of the object viewed to be produced on
the sensitive coat of the eye. Tlic sides
of the spectacles should, also, be placed at
an equal height upon the head and the
hands being applied to the point of the
sides, will generally direct their equal
height, as well as qllow of their opening of
their full extent without injury.
- We may here, remark, that the habit, too
often assumed by young persons of both sex
es, from affectation, of j viewing objects
through a single glass, the quizzing glass,
as it lias been fashionably termed, is deci
dedly injurious to the eyes. What is worse,
like the acquired relish for ardent spirits
jr- for tobacco, tlteevil grows by indul
gence : after using a glass but phghtly
convex or concave, for a short time, tho ef
fect produced upon the eye is such that to
produce the same degree of vision, glasses
more and more convex or concave are re
quired. This was clearly 'proved by the
observations of Mr. Ware at the English
universities, wher it became fashionable
for all to make use of these ridiculous and
destructive glasses.
44 It was very common, at one period, for
persons who had, or were fearful of having,
weak eyes, to wear plain glasses of a green
or blue color; and the practice is still fol
lowed by many individuals. A more effec
tual mode of weakening the eyes could
scarcely be conceived; the obscurity pro
duced by the diminished transparency of the
glass, causing the eyes to strain themselves
whenever any thing is looked at with atten
tion ; the eyes are in this manner even more
fatigued and injured than when exposed un
shaded to the light. The injury is further
increased by the bright points of reflected
light from the silver frame, from the angu
lar position of the glasses, or from the refrac
tion of the lighteaused by inequality in their
thickness."
WHAT norHEY THIS W THE COACH ?
When a coach sets off again from its stop
page at an inn-door, ther is a sort of fresh
ness and recommencement; the inside pas
sengers settle themselve in their corner,
or interchange legs, or take a turn on the
outside ; adjust themselves to their scats
and their bits of footing ; the young woman
looks, for the ninty-ninth time, to her box ;
the coachman is indifferent and scientific ;
he has the cause of power in his face ; he
shakes the reins ; throws out a curve or so
of knowing whip, as an angler does his line;
and the horses begin to play their never-ending
jog. A horse's hind-leg on the road,
to any eye looking down-upon it, seems as
if it would jaunt on forever; the muscle
works in the thigh; the man at the same
time dances a little bit ; the hock -joint looks
intensly angular, and not to be hit (it is
horrible to think of wounding it;) the hoof
bites into the earth; wheels and legs seem
made to work together like machinery ; and
on go the patient creatures, they know not
why nor whither, chewing the unsatisfactory
bit, wondering (if they -wonder at all why
they may not bold their heads down, and
have tails longer than five inches; and oc
casionally giving one another's noses a con
solatory caress. It is curious to sec some
times how this affection seems to be all on
one side. One of the horses goes dumbly
talking, as it were, to the other, and giving
proofs of the pleasure and comfort it takes
in society; while the other, making no sort
of acknowledgment, keeps the "even tenor
of its way," turning neither to the right nor
left, nor condecending to give or receive
the least evidence, of the passibility of a
satisfaction. It seems to say 44 you maybe
as amiable and patient as you please ; for
my part I am resolved to be a mere piece
of the machinery, and to give these fellows
behind us no reason whatsoever to suppose,
that I make any sentimental compromise
with their usurpation over us."
Horses in a coac
certainly be the
most patient, or
fferent, or the
most unth
'he mule
i he is
not to oe Uri-Kr
og passes
a horrible, unsay I
it under the
butcher's or hakei.
Harnessed
elephants would be inconvenient. They
would be for rcjusting their buckles, and
making inquiries, with their trunks, into the
behaviour of tho "position. They mightto
be sure, help with tho other trunks, and
perform the part of half horse half hostld.
The Lama of Peru has inconvenient tricks,
if you ill-use him ; and so has the camel.
But the horse, w hen once he is ground well
into the road, seems to give up having any
sort of mind of his own that is to say, if he
ever had any, except what his animal spirits
made to be mistaken for it ; for the breed
ing of horses is such in England that, gen
erally speaking, when they are not all blood
and fire, they seem nothing but stupid ac
quiescence, without will, without curiosity,
without the power of being roused into re
sistance, except, p jot souls ! when their last
hour is come, and non-resistance itself can
go no further, but lies down to die. Wc
dock their tails to subject them to the flics;
fasten their heads back to hinder them from
seeing their path ; and put blinkers at their
eyes for fear of thrir getting used to the
phenomena of carriage and wheels behind
him. What must they think '(if they think
at all) of the eternal mystery thus tied to
their bodies, and rattling and lumbering at
their heels? of "the load thus iakened to
them day by day, going the same road for
m" earthly object (intelligible to the horse-
cawasttYVaTideven now and then depositing'.
and talting tipi other animals who waUtS&n
their hind-legs, and occasionally come and
stroke their noses, kick their bellies, and
gift them with iron shoes?
Well, circumstances drive us, as we drive
the horses, perhaps with as many smiling
remarks on tho part of other beings at our
tliinkingas little of the matter ; so wc must
be moving on.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
Show your love for jour wife and your
admiration of her, hot in nonsensical com
pliment ; not in picking up her handker-
chief, or carrying her in ; not, though you
have the means, in hanging trinkets and
baubles upon her ; no: in making yourself a
fool by winking at, and seeming pleased
with her foibles or her follies or faults ; but
show them by acts of real goodness toward
her; prove by unequivocal deeds, the high
value you set on her health and life, and
peace of mind ; let your praise of her go to
the full extent of her deserts, but let it be
consistent with truth and with sense, and
such a's to convince herLof your sincerity.
He who is the flatterer of his wife, only pre
pares her ears for the hyperbolical stuff of
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b "Ntf
1111 i ii wn m&
others. The kindest appellation that her
Christian name affords, is the best you can
use, especially before faces. An everlas
ting 44 my dear" is but a sorry compensation
for a grant of that sort of love that makes
the husband cheerfully toil by day, break
his rest by night, endure all sorts of hard
ships, if the life or health of his wife demand
it. Let your deeds, and not your words,
carry to her heart a daily and hourly confir
mation of the fact, that you value her health,
and life and happiness, beyond all other
things in the world; and let this be inani
Test to her, particularly at those time when
life is always more or less in danger. Cob
bet., From the Southern Literary Messenger.
to a lock of Hair.
BY J. nOOOETTi JR.
Bright auburn lock ! which like the wing
Of me kind angel sweeping by,
Shines in the sun a glossy thing.
As soft as beams from beauty's eye,
Thou dost recall, sVeet lock, to me,
All of the heaven of memory.
TIhmi once did sliade a marble brow,
WJjere beauty raised her polish'd throne ;
Mcthinlu I gaze upon it now
And listen to a silver tone
Which floats from lips in notes sweet
As angel s greeting when they meet.
Fair lock! T'd rather hold with thee
A silent, blissful, strange commune,
Than join that boisterous gaiety
Which seems of happiness the noon :
For thou dost whisper, nhining hair,
Peace comes not, rests not, is not there.
Philadelphia, June, 130.
HOMCEOPATII1A.
The following remarks will chiefly be
comprised of extracts from a pamplet writ
ten by Jo, as Green, Mr IX, -entitled
Familiar Exposition of HomwoiHithia, &c."
in whieh he endeavors to set forth its ad
vaatagca,avcx.tho,,iisulJ,mctlwd . of treating
diseases.- It describes, the efforts of Hah
nemann in introducing this system, his dis
coveries, &c. With 'a view of acquiring a
knowledge of the specific properties of me
dicinal agents from their. "effects, as they
are administered lo the siek, Hahnemann
conceived the idea of giving them to per
sons in a state of health ; and he and some
of his friends, immediately commenced a
series of experiments upon themselves
with those medicines, whose powers were
so .well known, as to entitle them to the
appellation of specifics ; the result of these
experiments amply rewarded him for his
pains, but did not venture to submit them
to the public, until he had multiplied and
varied them with various different medici
nal agents for the space of fifteen years.
44 Among the objections urged against
the homeropathic sysSm, there is none
which is more tejracwstjfciidhercd to thin
that relating to the jiize of its doses. The
numerous and unanswerable illustrations of
the grand therapeutical law similia simi
libus curantur,' which occur to the mind of
the medical veteran, incline hiin to listen
to the doctrines of Hahnemann with a cer
tain degree of respect, till the atom-doses
are submitted to his attention : here the
smile of incredulity is too apt to arrest the
current of his faith, and too often de
ters him from further investigation." Nor
can we much wonder at such incredulity,
when we reflect upon the gross nature of
the -current medical doctrines, which attri
bute to diseases a material origin. But
their rawsesenn not possibly be material,
fo the least foreign substance introduced
into the blood-vessels, however mild it may
appear to us, is suddenly repulsed by the
vital power, as a poison .: or where , this
does not take place, death itself ensues.
Even when the smallest foreign particle
chances to insinuate itself into any of the
sensitive parts, the principle of life, which
is spread throughout our interior, does not
rest until it has procured the expulsion of
this body, by paid, fever, suppuration or
gangrene." ,
A series of explanations are given as in
ducements to institute the final test of
Homoeopathia, stating that Homoeopathic
medicines are in all cases given for the
purpose of combating djseases directly, that
is, not by means o evacuations, as sweat
ing, vomiting, purging; but by applying
their specific or potential energy to those
parts of the organism which is effected by
the disease. That the remedies arc given
to such patients only" as will abstain from
all other out pure nutricious food, and sim
ply thirst quenching drinks. Consequent
ly having no artificial impressions to com
bat or surmount, the dose can be very
much less, than it could, if the patient were
at the same time to be subjected to the in
fluence of Alcohol, Spices, Coffee or pther
Even water or atmospheric air introduced
hito the veins has caused doath, ,
drugs, which often either wholly annihilate
the specific action of a rertiedy, or very
much diminish its force in the system.
The medicinal power inherent in allrugia
a peculiar force', '"differing essentially from
chemical or mechanical forccsand there
fore cannot be held by analogywltinherh,
to operate with greater or less intensity in
proportion as tho substance of tho drug is
increased or lessened. Expeiiencc teaches
us to avoid this false" analogy. Calomel,
for example, produces as violent purging
in a dose of 8 or 10 grains, as it does in 30
or 40 gr. doses ; but if the analogy were
sound, the latter doses should operate from
3 to 5 times as violently as the former. Of
Emetic Tartar it is affirmed on the author
ity of Rasori, Peschier, Brussais, and many .
other physicians of high standing, that in
very large doses, it ceases to vomit or purge
the patient almost entirely : whereas, it is
universally known, that in doses of 1-8 of a
grain to 2 grs., it nearly always produces
copious vomiting and sometimes much
more serious consequences. It has long
been known to the medical profession, that
it is .sometimes necessary to give remedies
in extremely small doses: that th'cy are
often more effectual to use the language of
a celebrated Allopathic author, 44 in small
and minutely divided-. Quantities, than in
larger doses and in. ahiore concentrated
state." It is often fhe case that Mercury
in doses of fractions bfja'graiu will accom
plish cures which it-jcould not in larger
quantities. 44 In fact," says Parr, "every
medicine beyond its proper- dose is usually
the source of considerable inconvenience,
promoting generally increased or irregular
action." It is owing to the extreme, in
deed, quite homoeopathic division, in which
lronr .Sulphur and many Saline mat fera ex
istjin medicinal springs, that health is re
stored to the thousands of individuals an
nually resorting to them at the suggestion
of their medical advisers, who though they '
have these article' in their possession, do
not know in what small doses to give them
to cure their patients. The extremely
small quantities of the ingredients of ac
knowledged efficacy in these waters abund
antly prove that the homoeopathic rule for
the application of remedies, to wit, the giv
ing the smallest quantity known to possess
the power of affecting the living energy, in
a specific, mode, is founded on Nature's
truth and therefore, worthy of the most
respeetful and mitt ring obserVat idh. The
ridicule, that has been lavished on this de
partment of IIomoDopathia, however just
and efficacious it may be esteemed by those,
who have not faithfully repeated the experi
ments of Hahnemann; or with whatever
zeal it may be propagated by those, who
sec in the extension of the new system, a
death-blow to their consequence, as wri
ters and inventors of pathological reveries,
can not arrest the progress of truth, nor, wo
hope, outlive the present age. It is well
for an era, like the present so constantly'
crowded witji new illustrations of unknown
forces in Nature, to be satisfied with ridi
cule in place of argument, or even argu
ment in the place of experiment? What
propositions of llomrropathia are more ob
noxious to ridicule, than arc those, consid
ered a priori, that is, by an unenlightened
individual, which constitute the basis of
the science of Electricity, or of Magnetism!
And yet tl facts pertaining to these sci
ences, a thousand times more dissonant
with all previousexperience than any of
Hahnemann's discoveries, are not only not
ridiculed, but universally btliettd, and
have assumed an. indispensable station a
mong the useful agents of human civiliza
tion, knowledge and . comfort. The Ho
mceopathic method of preparing the reme
dies is such, as in all cases, to present
them entirely unadulterated to the physi
cian for use. They are applied singly
and not as in the ordinary practice com
pounded of several similar and opposite)
drugs, whereby it becomes necessary to
give the main remedy in such large doses
as to render its specific action upon the seat
of the disease uncertain, and often to pro
duce painful and even dangerous diseases
in other parts of the system. By theso
means, as well as by a proper reference to
the selection of his remedies, the Homoeo
pathic physician is enabled w holly to avoid
the danger of giving them in such doses ai
might destroy the health of the most deli
cate patient. If a person be susceptible to
the influence of Smallpox, it is well known,
that he may be fatally affected by the small
est quantity of the matterT'trven by its im
perceptible effluvium, which radiates to the
distance of many yards from the patient.
Now, fhe method of Hahnemann enables
the physician to find for each patient the
remedies, to which his disease renders him
susceptible, in a similar manner as. in tho
case above cited. Disease ..certairilv height-
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