Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-12-12

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rebel. five suppose tradition from. . :.
remotest antiquity handed down, among l.a1
women. about St. Keyne and her weiis' WIN
i not happily account for the fact, that we,
men in the DAYS of Abraham and Jacob and
lone afterwards were so wiling to SO to
zpcils 70 draw water
From all the information which I can
collect. am led to conclude, that THIS We
nerabls Saint has been very fond OF visiting
onr earth. and that she has appeared IN va.
r;ons aces and countries. For there IS no
,r;,;l;zed nation mentioned In history, IN
which there is not ample proof OF her hay-
mo ;ustftuteda yell She has, indeed, rare
w If ever been seen among savages, Tor
luckily for them) they neVer dig 1veH'.-
Tbeir wives are, of course, proverb'al Tor
their conjugal submission. Yet she IS not nc.
yery nice on this point, for Symes, in his
embassy to Ava" mentions it as an lmme.
mo rial custom in that country, for the Ia
dies, on particular day Of the year, 20
thyozv a Pail Of zoater ON every man H1ey
meet--water drawn, unquestionably, from
well of St. Keyne.
lam not much acquainted with the do
mestic economy of other parts ct New Eng,
land but certain am from the past ana
nresen, state of things in the district where
/ I've. that madam St.Keync was one OF the
first settlers of the colony. From variety
of scraps in our ancient history one is forced
10 believe and believing, to regret that
the FIRST work our ancestors undertook was
the digging her well for though family
secrets of this kind are pot apt to leak Out,
vet euough-have oozed to indicate the pres
suYe within.
That there is such a We'll in my neigh
borhood, Mr., Editor, no man acquainted
with the subject can honestly deny. 1t IS
but few days since | heard one Of my
neichbors assert isas a positive fact mat
there was tut one man in his street, (not
meaning himself who governed his wife i;
and NOT ONE in the street adjoining! ifs tar
as | can learn these two streets are tar re-
representatives. of the rest of the town.
Uncle Selby, in Sir CHARLES Grandson,
complains, that women have too much
Fresmasonyy. never realized the truth OF
the complaint, till | considered that in spite
of their natural propensity, the ladies IN this
part of the country have been able tor cen-
tury and half 20 KEEP the situation OF their
Well of St. Keync so profound secrst.-
Tha. there is such We'll somewhere in the
country round about is fully proved by that
very lust mode of arguing from effects to
fbo;- c1uoee
g Fo,, there is not suife in the avhole country,
/" Bur has drank ola WeH Of S.. Gey1le.
have heard frequent complaints of the
wells in this town, and several gentlemen
have seriously proposed to have it.surpled
with water by agueducts.* But this plan
woult! be Inc Hectuai, unless we could induce
the ladies to allow all the wells to be filed
up Ga concession not to be hoped ) as |
am fully persuaded. that ifhut one zven re-
NAMED, it would prove q 7ysH cf ST. he,'se.
In such state Of things, what man among
Us is not readyte exclan with the CID Ro-
man Historian.
O saecula au,i, Aeas,,es lonsibus haarie6anf {
0 the golden days, before mankind dug 7DcHs2
sUxoRI .NUPTUS.
.IWe would just remind our respectable
correspondent, and he may, if he chooses, re-
peat the information to the gentlemen OF his
town, that the plan of supplying water by aque-
ducts, will answer no purpose as 1t respects
the present generation of ladies', for they
doubtless have ali, young and old, found the
g Well ofSt. Keyne" in that town.. more
certain mode will be found, in running array to
the IVtstsverd, and at the end ofthrce gears,
by the aid Of orr lasos, their wives will be able
to procure divorces.
[ED1roR.]
From the Bahim2re Federal Republican,
IJpon no subject have false impressions