The Arkansas advocate., 1831-04-06
MISCELLANY. A

MISCELLANY.
 FEMALE SOCIETY.
 - would call thee somewhat higher
 still,
 But when our hearts search heaven for ap-
 peliation,
 Thsy echo back the sovereign name of wo-
 man!
 Thou woman, therefore. . thou loyeliest
 woman!
 The advantages of Female society are numerous, and extend themselves over almost every custom and every ac- fion of social life. l; is to social inter- course with women, that men are indebt- sed for every effort they make to please and be agreeable; and it is to the ambi- ton Of pleasing they owe aff their eie- gance of manners, as we'll as the neat mess and ornaments of dress. Itis to the same cause, also, that they frequent iy owe their sobriety and temperance and consequently. their health; for to drunkeness and irregnlarity nothing is SO cffectual check as the company of modest women; insomuch that it is sell edom we find man so lost to shame as to drunk, v sis.si =iia is iIls oF to into their company. To them we are not less frequently indebted for the calming sof violent disputes, and preventing of quarrels, which, with every other spe- -cies of rudeness, are happily reckoned 80 indecent in their presence, that we 0flen postpone them till another oppor- tuii;;ttj5 and in t interim, sthe rein which passion has usurped. But 8his is not all, many disputes and quar- 5els, already began, have been amica- ply settled by the interposition of their good offices, or, at least the fatal effects Sd them prevented by their tears and meditation. Fond of the softer scenes of peace, they have often had the ad- Slress to prevent, hy their arguments and sintercession, the dire effects of war; and, safraid of losing their husbands and re- lations, they have sometimes rushed be- f4Meen two hostile armies ready to en- gage, and turned the ho,rid scenes ol destruction into those of friendship and 3estivity.
 In our sex, there is a kind of consti. tutionul or masculine pride, which hin. sders us from yielding, in points of knowl- edge, orof honor, to each other. Tho ftl,is maybe designated by nature for sey- 'eral aseful purposes, yet it is often the 0DuFce also Qf aNvariety of evils, tire most tdangerous to the peace of society hut we lay it entirely aside in our con nexion with women, and with pleasure submit to such dictates and behaviour s4rom their sex, as from our own would ~ ,rzss ' ;i e;:;ccsJ ;rsseihie particle of our bloods and inflanae every 4Ans nserernahle passion. This accustomed submission gives new and less imperious turn to our ideas, teaches us to obey where we were used tt command, and to reason where we used to be in a passion; to eonsideras only good breeding and com p]aisanco, that which before we looked upon as the most abject and unbecom- 5ng meanness{ and thus the stern severi- s&y ofs ttllsss unale is soltened and rendered 6ild by tho greatness peculiar to the ieniale natdre. Hence we may res. as- 6ured, flint II is fhe conversation of rir- fItosf and sens;kle women only, that can
 0pefly il us for society; and that. by nbating the ferocity of our more irasci- s!e pessi0ns, can lead us pn in that gen.
 1ss of deportment, distinguished by (I.a mine 0f hunlanity. The tenderness xl] IIaye for them. sofiens the ruggedness 4 our nature; and the virtues we as- 1l11ae m 6rder to make a better figure in Their eyes, sometimes become 50 habit..- n to us that VIC never afterwards lay them aside.
 
 A Clergyman seeing his son about to take giass of bitters, says ssson do not rink that filthy stuff, for ardent spirits ke the worstenemy you have" q know
 ather, :, replied the son, Nbut VIC are
 1lnnanded to love our enemies--s