Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-13

are many ultimate attendants on the
courts Of falhion and diaipation, who will
not retrsce their aeps at the crack Of the
fatitic thosg. To convert thole, it may
be pecefIsry to note the p~leafures which
awair then, in the old fafhioned and beat
en- path Of life. The hope ofrcward isa
fronger incentive to virtue than, she
dread Of puaiihment.
NY Object, more particularly, i, to lore
bachelors into the matrimonial noofe. IT
any thing ellie were neceGary to convince.
Us of the dangerous tendency, which the
ladies have jufly annexed to- TxsEAgy's
Clubs it is certainly that the pleafdres of
a Jingle life are RrenuoOG y3urged .as theie
reforts. IN the intervals Of convsrfation,
each member huns with dols.u- eouatc-
nance.
:" tmy t1itsd,, ye hHk 4Ssv
The ErroGrs 7Vbicb from sre4!oek G01p,'
and 6 TIE Deum' was never ehsanted with
more energetic zeal through the wind pipe
of a monk, than the concluding lire OF a
popular CLUB fong- Gs~ :.
Il evgywara 70V will 6stfAs y'H
Jet!
1t is not my intention, at p%relent, 10
notice all the pleatures of a welded life.
/ fhall merely mention one, which 10 the
m7ujftivt mind, is a co%unterpoife to all
the evils which folding, weak, or ex.
travagant wives in the opinion of Bache-
lors, introduce into the domeHic ci'cle.-
/ alluds TO the ebs,aarrforJeersy, which
among unmarried females, a man obtains
by becoming a hufband, and the COME.
quent opportunity we polefs Of becoming
he conhdant Of every young gill and old
maid who Wits his wife.
While a man remains Jingle, it is impof.
Gble for him TO know the ~ieerets, which
pats in whifpers at tea parties, from me
girl to another. The pointed obferyati-
ons and fatiric centuries on the dreis and
manners of the company which 20 often
& 70 good natnredlyfow from the creative
fem ale fancy, are loft on him /; the lpor-
tive ailufors, and the pointed plns, for
with women have been 70. much and
70 judy celebrated, never f,ike his ear ;
and the thoufand keen pangs, to which 40
eager and unqualified curiofty is tubjea,
damp the genuine rational pleaGlre, which
tea. parties are capable of~aferding, while
he lofes much and important inarudion,
on the fujea Of men:and manners and
IF This is, his painful ftua;ion,
while the rnaried man riots in all the
pure delights IF focal intercoutfe. Is a
eoed tbing fid in company by a female?
Oh! you my tell it to him, for he is
merrs1 mark or, if it Garnet 90 Arta
from an unmarried female lip, it can be
told to his vie, and man and wife are
one. BeGde$for the greater convenience
of telling a fsret, without being over
heard by the fompsny, it is very natural,
and certainly very proper, that a young
lady may feI, herfelf on his LAP, for he
is only a m4tned mau! The ladies think
&iiuAly togithere is ro.hatm in killing a
married NAB; ard although if a Jingle
gen,lemanfwere TO be thus favored, it
nigh. apptar as if modeRy was off her
guard, YET modeay views with a fmile
1uch an ,htercourfe between a. young lady
and a n.arritd man, for. epicureans would
tell us, with a profound knowledge Of hu.
man nature, that the fame OBJECTION does
not apply to it in the latter cafe, thatdoes
inTthe for mer. A married man looks Or
!, as 4 mark OF confidence, and thinks no
mole Of it. To a Jingle man it would sf,,
ford fome materials for rejection. n
Is it then, Mr.. Saunter, of no advan
taee to a man, that he fhould poaefs the
unreferved confidence of young woman |;
a confidence, which mutt inevitably make
him better acquainted with her difpoiition
thanh could be without it.s a confidence
which pouss into his ears a thoufand plea
FAINT anecdotes, aud teaches him the clue
to the labyrinth Of the haman heart { If
il be Of no advantage, I hall net tempt
them. TO violate the vows Of celibacy,
which,they hayemsde at their clubrooms;
but if to be on 'fach lociable terms with
Young ladies, be really