old friendships
and memorable passages of trial or happiness, who shall fetter her
thoughts to the selfish indifference of the present, or the dull
routine of daily toil called duty?

If she is gentler and meeker, purer and loftier, Christlier, for
contemplating God and the angels, who can bind her conscience to
worship her husband or 'God in him'? (MILTON.)

Summarily and concisely, if she is more _womanly_, in any sort, for
doing, saying, thinking, whatsoever, howsoever, whithersoever, is
not what she ought the term and measure of what she may? or else
who shall presume to prescribe other bounds to her nature, and
undertake to restrain its ongoings in this or that direction?

Is female determined by male? woman's mind by the wind of man's
caprice? or both mutually interdetermined by the law of their
correlation, his wants and her capacities, her wants and his
abilities? And if he preaches utility, but she follows taste,
whether is to be concluded, that he needs more of practicality in
her, or she more of aestheticality in him? Is it that women lack
usefulness or that men lack beautifulness?

The sterner sex, by assuming to itself superior desires, can
stigmatize the other because the female disposition does not meet
its own; but truth and right may be much upon the other side. Women
may be nearer _standard_, just in this land and age, than men; and
their unsatisfied longings for handsome, chaste, and noble men are
swifter witnesses than all the low complaint about feminine finery
and extravagance. When men can seem to better understand that it is
not necessarily madness to prefer (as Nero) a fortune in marble to
a fortune in gold, or a Raphael's painting to 'money in the bank,'
when they shall come to recognize the utility of beauty and
holiness, then will not women be slow to acknowledge the use and
usefulness of so much utility.

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Honor to Sigel! honor to Heintzelman! Whatever may have been said or
sung against others, there is no doubt as to the ability, faithfulness,
perseverance, and courage of these gallant _Deutschers_, and with them
of many others of their glorious nation who have followed their national
and instinctive hatred of tyranny, and taken part with us in battle
against the South. Hurrah then for our German