The west shore., November 01, 1880, Page 289, Image 7

November, 1880.
THE WEST SHORE.
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COTSWOLD SHEEP.
The Cotswold is one of the largest English
breeds of sheep, though the improved nee ii
mailer than the originals, on account of the
inflaenoe of the Leicester element in iti arae
lioration. Ai a breed it ia of great antiquity.
It haa gained in fleeoe and form, and oomes to
maturity earlier; ia more prolific than the Lei.
cester, and hai greater itrength of constitution;
ia oftened fattened at 14 months, yielding 15 to
20 lbs. per quarter, and 20 to 30 it kept till two
yean old. The fleeoe ii 6 to 8 inohes in length,
and sometime! muoh longer; U eteong, somn
what coarse, of good oolor, and yield a heavy
fleeoe. The mutton ii suporior to that of the
Leioeeter, with a smaller proportion of fat, and
the sheep are also superior to that popular breed
in weight of wool, size, hardiness and vitality.
They are possessed of good figure, have a large
ABOUT GIRLS.
The "girl of the period" is subjeoted to more
violent oritioism than ever at the hands of some
of the English writers. A marked physical de
terioration, it seems, is visible in the budding
maiden of to-day, as compared with the youth
ful damsel of 60 years aqo, Thoso who live to
tell the story assert that the fashions of our age
are, in the first place, more injurious to the
health of women than the dress and customs of
their grandmothora. High heels and tight lao
iug have been the standing homily of more
proaohers than can be thought of without a shud
der. , But the heels of the present generation
are probably not so high as those of a oentnry
affo. - and tk'ht-lioinir. as a rule, la verv' liltlo
practised, 'The hour-glass style of figure is not
so muoh admired as it was 23 years ago. In the
portraits which represent different epochs of the
experience of life than girl possess to dlstin
guisu, notoriety irom lame, end to know that
physical advantages are only aooeesories to
MA4 l.. k.... iv:a.i .! .!..:.
UUKVI) HU1 UOTta. iwiuui Ml jr uvuuinv HUM
for her ooquetrios, the Amerioan girl sum np
her stock in trade and arms for the tray with a
oloar sense of the amount o( personal equipment
to be discarded or retained in the manumvro of
the campaign, VA Hour,
Fimali FHiiNiMuur. Women are the priest-
of predostination, and it is a wonderful
advantage to man in auy pursuit or avocation
to eooure an advisor in a sensible woman,
Disraeli saysi ' , "The society of ohamimg
women roAues the taste, quickens the percep
tion and gives a graoe and flexibility to the in
tellect, although a woman who likes ambitious
men must be no ordinary oharaoter." In women
there is at onoe a subtle doHoaoy of tact, a plain
soundness of judgment which art rarely com-
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bead, well set on, a broad chest, a weU-roondad
barrel, and a straight baok. They are often
used for erossing upon other breeds, and for ob
taining earlier market-lambs, both in this coun
try and in Europe. They are more widely dis
seminated in this oonntry than any other long
wool, and preserve wsll the popularity which
they have attained here. Home imported sheep
of this breed have borne fleeoe in this ooanfy
of 18 lbs. The engraving on this page shows
the style of the Cotswold quite welL
Always remember bo on can debase yon hot
yourself. Slander, satire, falsehood, injostioe
these can never rob yon of yonr manhood.
Man may lie about yon, they may deooo.no
yon, they may eherish suspicions manifold, they
snay make your failings the target of their wit
or orctlty never be alarmed, never swerve an
inch from the line yonr judgment and ooneoi
no hare marked oat for yon. They oaanot,
by all their Sorts, take away yonr knowledge
of vonnelf. the parity of roar motives, the in
tegrity of your character and the geoerosity of
yoor aetnre. While thee are left, yo are in
pout of tact, unharmed,
world's history, there is often greater artificial-
ity In letnal ooetuma than In those of our own
time.' Holbein a women are stilrly and tightly
encased in something Ilk armor, - Vandyke s
eourt ladies, from Henrietta Maria down,' have
every appearanoe of being severely compressed.
The our lor moral ailments is more diltloult
to find than the remedy for "ills that flesh is
beir to." Vanity and frivolity are the ehief mal
adies which distemper the ruing female genera
tion in England, aceordsng to present writers.
The spread of these not anoammoo diseases is
vast beyond precedent, and threatens to disin
tegrate and demoralise modern society, if not
oheaked by some bsppy devioe. To bask in ths
sunshine of royal favor and win notice from the
flret gentlemen in England, the I'rinosof Wale,
ia the prise for which many an English maiden
struggle. That tb road to such distinction
should be trodden in tight shoe with heels of
nowoated bight, with the accompaniment of
muoh tight lacing and other aanatural Inven
tions, may be the maiden' misfortune more
than ber fault 8b choose the shortest path
a a general thing and the on surest to lead to
the eel of ber ambition. But it requires mot
MUTTON SHEKl. '
bind to an equal degree In man. A woman, if
she be really a friend, will hat a sensitive re
gard for her admirer'e-oharaoterr honor and re-
put.'' iteuer ana esier, oi course, are anon
friendship where disparities of oironmstance
Sut ths tile ol love out ol tn question, ai id
le life bas rarely this advanUgei voath and
old eg have.- We may hsvs Umal friendship
with those muoh older and shoe muoh younger
than ourselves. Molisre's old bousekeer wsa
a great help to his genius, and Montagus'
philosophy take both gentler and loftier
character of wisdom from ths date in whloh Ii
finds in Marl d (Journey an adopted daughter,
"certainly beloved by me," say the Horace of
essayists, "with mors than parental love, and
involved ia my anlitnda of retirement as on of
th beet part of my being." fewsl friend
ship, indeed, is to man th bulwark, eweetener,
ornament of bis existence. To hi mental eelt
re it is invsluablsi without it all bis knowl
edge of book will never give bim knowledge of
th world. JEetAoev. . ,
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Tniri la a breach between the priesthood and
tb Irish Land League,