Of horn, or lute, or soft guitar,
The songs repeat.
’Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
And only then—
The sigh that’s breathed for one to hear—
Is by that one, that only Dear,
Breathed back again.
—Thomas Moore.
The Education of Woman.—Education is not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular character—to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.—Hannah More.
On a Summer Holiday.—After shutting up her house for some time, a woman used a weak tincture of iodine to stain herself and her children brown, and then succeeded in convincing all the neighbours that she had been to the sea-side.