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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Depredations at Mathias' Point. (search)
oncerned. When, and how, then, do men find their wives? In the quiet homes of their parents — at the fireside, where the domestic feeling and graces are alone demonstrated. These are the charms which most surely attract the high as well as humble. Against these all the finery and airs in the world sink into insignificance.--We shall illustrate this by an anecdote, which, though not new, will not be the worse for being told again. In the year 1773 Peter Burnell, Esq., of Buckenham, in Kent, whose health was rapidly declining, was advised by his physicians to go to Spain for the recovery of his health. His daughters feared that those who only had motives entirely mercenary, would not pay him that attention which he might expect from those who, from duty and affection, united, feel the greatest affection in ministering to his case and comfort; they, therefore, resolved to accompany him. They proved that it was not a spirit of dissipation and gaiety that led them to Spain, for th