The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-11-17

II the young woman be pretty, she Is made
foolish egotist by hstiery, that distnrber OF
the peaceful harmony Of the female heart II
she be homely-envy and maleyolence, and
perhaps vanity still more disgusting, will
make her soul the theatre Of their strife one
lesson of discomfort will follow another, and
a Notifying neglect will destroy in her the
beautiful pearl OF her sex--benignity.
The young man finds every encouragement
for the impetuosity Of his nature. He knocks
passionately and is let in--complying arms
are expanded TO his sensualiiy. The open
doors, even where he looked for locks and
bars, teach him early TO despise sex, that
exchanges its most sacred treasures for gold,
or yields them To compassion or fervent en-
treaty. He comes 10 the unjust conclusion.
that all around is deceived-thas all around is
deceiving! He now ranks all women
alike--destroys with impunity the gem OF in
nocence-and remorseless, avails himself
where he may, Of the prerogative Of his age
and of his sex.
| The young woman desires, wishes, trem-
bles Wo to her if she follows her instinct
| The more and more spreading celibacy Of man,
| opens to her, if she is NOT rich, tho dismal
| prospect of old maidenhood. She seldom has
any choice-seldom may she possess whom
she loves The young man chooses-the
young woman is the picture hung out among
| hundred others waiting for customer; il,
at last she finds one, oh, she will often see
herself forced out Of the favorite place, into
some by-room for new conner.
/ The young man falls :. No matter y says
the woodland he is not esteemed the less
| by his contemporaries.
The young woman falls; and by the fall
she loses her better self she becomes impu-
| dent and wicked; she leaves the sacred cir
Gle of morality for ever and dearly does she
pay for the indellble blemish by hot tears and
burning pains-by shame and by disgrace!
| The young man marries-he becomes mas
ter and commander
The young woman is a housewife, subject
to his humor, to his passions, to his peevish-
| ness.
The young man revels amidst the roses Of
enjoyment.
| The young woman, now wife, ministers
often without common enjoyment, to the sem
sual intoxication Of her master; and is con-
tinually in danger Of pains and death, or sick
ness for life The fruits of matrimony are to
the wife steps towards the grave. Nature,
knowing her cruelty, gives to her in compen-
sation the indestructble feeling Of love to-
wards her children! Her husband becomes
indiherent-in the full blossom of his age, he
finds no more, in the person of his fading wife,
those undulating lines that charm sensualiry.
She perceives, with pain, that the spring only
attracted him that the falling leaves of au-
tumn cannot give him joy The more he
compares, the more she loses. Morality
teaches him how to act, but he follows the
voice of his Unsuitable heart He is unrea-
sonable and whimsical.
Her duty bids her to love and be silent! If
she is jealous, he'll is opened in her house !;
and the world (called fifty enough, the bad,)
laugh at her, plies her at the most, ard par
dons the husband!
She makes a false step; every one agrees
with the husband if he throw her out Of doors,
without shoes, and clothes, and abandon her
to misery and shame.
He becomes an old man. Dignity and es-
TEEN attend on him; his confederates honor
grandfather 81 R6p5sa Children he 81
ton of his contemporaries accompanies him
to the nigh grave.
The wife becomes matron or "a widow !;
who asks for her! In every society she is
seen as unwillingly and received as coldy as
auStere Virtue.
Who would not be man Alas, who
would be woman!