The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-07-09

when can shut my eyes to the fact,
that in England women are occasionally
hanged.
lshah believe in it, when actresses
are no longer subject to be Kissed off a
stage by gentlemen.
shall believe in il, when DORMANT
hands fish-wife across the kennel; or
assists the apple-womau to pick up her
wandering fruit, which some unlucky
dray has just dissipated.
shall believe in it, when the Dori-
mants 'Dandies in humber life, who
would be thought in their way notable a.
depts in this refinement, shall act upon it
in places where they are not known, or
think themselves not observed-when
| shall see the traveller for some rich
tradesman, part with his admired box
coat, to spread it over the defenceless
shoulders of the poor woman, who is
passing on the roof Of the same stage
coach with him, drenched in the rain
when | shall no longer see woman
standing up in the pit of London
Theatre, till she is sick and faint with
the exertion; with men about her,
seated at their ease, and jeering at her
distress, till one, that seems to have
more manners or conscience than the
rest, significantly declares s. she should
be welcome to his seat, if she were a
little younger and handsomer." Place
this dapper warehouse man, or that
rider, in circle of their own female
acquaintance, and you shall confess you
have not seen poGter-bred man in
Lothbury.
Lastly, shall begin to believe that
there IS some such principle influencing
our conduct, when more than one half
of the drudgery and coarse servitude of
the world shall cease to be performed
by women.
Until that day comes, I shall never
believe this boosted point to be any
thing more than conventional fiction;
pageant got up between the sexes, in
certain rank, and at certain time of
life. in which both find their account
equally.
shall be even disposed to rank it a.
mong the salutary ictions of life, when
in polite circles ! shall see the same at
tentions paid to age as to youth, to
homely features as to handsome, to
coarse compilations as to clear-to the
woman, as she is a woman, not as she is
a beauty, a fortune, or a title.
shall believe it to be something
more than name, when a weII-dressed
gentleman in well-dressed company
can advert to the topick of female old
age without exciting and intending to
excite sheer; when the phrases g an
tiquated virginity," and such a one has
overstaid her MARKET pronounced in
good company, shall raise immediate Of
fence IL, man, or woman, that shall hear
them spoken
Joseph PAIGE, of Bread-street hill. mer-
chant, and one of the Directors of the
South Sea Company-tbe same to whom
Edwards the Shakespeare Commentator.
has addressed fine sonnet---was the only
pattern Of consistent eaiiantry have net
with. Though bred a Presbyterian,
and brought up merchant, he was the
finest gentleman of his time. He had
not one system of attention to females in
the drawing room. and another in the
shop, or at the stall. do not mean that
he made no distinction. But he never
lost sight of sex, or overlooked it in the
casualties of a Instantaneous situation.
| have seen him stand bare-heaGed-
smile. if you pIease-to poor servant
girl, while she has been inquifing Of him
the way to some street-in such DOS
ture of enforced civility, as neither to
embarrass her in the acceptance, nor
himself IN the offer, OF it, lie was DO
dangler, in the common acceptation of
the word, after women; but he rever-
enced and upheld, in every form in
which it came before him, zcomqnhood.
| have seen him-nay, smile not--ten-
DERBY escorting a market-woman, whom
he had encountered in a shower, exalt-
his umbrella over her poor basket of
fruit, that it might receive no damage.
with as much Carefulness as if she had
been Countess. To the reverend
form of Female ED he would yield the
wall( thoughit were to an ancient beggar-
woman) with more ceremony than we
can afford TO show our grandams. He
was the Preux Chevaier of Age; the
Sir Callidore, or Sir Tristan, to those
who have no Calidcres or Tristans to
defend them. The roses that had long
faded thence, still bloomed for him in
those withered and yellow cheeks.
He was never married, but in his youth