Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS
BOY-MEN AND G.RL-WOMEN.

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last paragraph of our extract. Let them
look at their own pictures, aud blush that
they have SO vilely caricatured what came
from Dame Nature, a tolerable piece Of
handy wo,k
| The girl-wonan is generally a rather
pretty creature, dressed IN something be-
tween trock and a grown, made of white
| muslin, with pink sash round his waist
Her lace has lost the free aud unembar
raised expression Of childhood, withou,
having attained the selGpossesslon of the
woman. The graces OF her person are as
yet but halt developed; her shoulders are
sharp and angular and her arms look long
aud unpleasantly slender. She is too
mature to wear her hair in crop, and too
childish to have 1t piled in towers of curls
aud COMBS on the top of her head. Indeed
let her dress be what it will, it appears
alike unfit Tor the stage through which she
, has Just passed, or he one on which she
is about To enter. Her intellectual facul-
ties and conversation are IN an equally I'M
certain state, aud the person who address,
eS her Is sor"ly puzzled how to hit
the right medium between juvenility
and maturity. She has not made up
her mind whether she likes Byron or the
Skipping RIPE best, hut decidedly prefers
MIS-. O1ie Ia the author nf Waverley. If
yru talk at scnorl you offend her, and yet
SHE KNOWS int NV u discourse abnut any
thing else So that all the conversation
CONSIST It an abrupt observation and an
embarrassed rejoinder; aud If she can be
prevailed upon TO venture more than SIX
syllabies AT time, she has bad habit of
speaking unpleasant truths, and after
wards looking distressngly conscious, no,
exactly knowing whether she has done
right or wrong. She sits ON her chair
holding III one hand a white pocket hand
kerchle', and not little perpeXed what
To DO with the other, with an eternal SIM
per banging around her mouth, ready to
be aggravated into laugh upon tue most
trivial occasion. any body tells Joke
with grave face, she looks grave too, but
Is nightly tIckIed with the byneniaI alIu-
sions and matrimonial wItiIcisms of which,
The more mature part of the company aye
| delivered. She does Mt understand or
appreciate worldly knowledge, yet she has
school learning enough to Ind ont il you
talk fo"'IshIy. In short, she is altogether
IN a very unsettled state, filled with child.
ish "reminiscences and wnmanly aspira-
tons, aud Is, when man feels grave or
low spirued, one of the most uncomfortable
annnyauceS with which he can be well at
hlct d.
But IT your girl-woman Is All undrsira-
bic individual, your b"y-man is one OF the
greatest nuisances npnn the face of The
earth. There Is something claiming a.
bout the female sex at alm"s, every period
# ter existence and even in town, a Uery
young lady, though certainly subject for
| apprehension, has seine redo erning points;
while I'm the country, after scamper in
the felds, or chase after a bird or butter
fly, with her eyes filled with fire and ami
nation, her cheeks glowing with health
and exercise, her clustering curls dancing
IN the wind, and her pretty bonnet hang
ing loosely aud carelessly on the back part
of her head, she is a truly beautiful and
poellcal object. But your boy-man is a
monster wherever you meet him. In the
country, he IS an unlocked cub" loul,
pumpkin I'D town, a half made up cox.
comb, an unfinished puppy, thing with
nearly all the vices aud follies Of a man,
without his sense OF passions. 1t is his
oath that rings loudest in the taven, and
h,s tongue that is most cIan0rous in its
demands for strong drink to destroy his
pnDy constitution, merely because he
thinks il looks manly. He is altogether
FOOLISH and Contemplate creature, for
even his vicious habits do not afford him
pleasure. He does not, like the real va.
luptuary, "ioll sin like a sweet morseI
under his tongue" bur counier'eits bad
habits, ana will drink and smoke, though
both be unpleasant to him and make him
SICK, merely because older people do so I;
ana tins . Is which prevents him ever be-
coming what it is the height of his amb-
ton TO appear man aud this it is hat
makes SD many portions of the human
family bear such a striking resemblance
tn =" iorked radinhes" ard thread papers
lhen the swearing Of these grown chll-
dren Is perfectly disgusting. From man.
borne away by passion, or from an old
sailor, to whom it has become trick Of
custom, and who moreover, seems 10 be a
sort of person privileged to wish his eyes
no good, a few aDathemas do not come
with so bad grace; but to hear these
wouId-be men repeating, like parrots, all
| the vulgar oaths that low blackguardlsm
has invented and perpe,raied merely be-
cause they have arrived at the dignity of
shaving, is very nauseoas. These too are