The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-03-17
From the Knickcrbookcr for February.
" BOTHERATIONS OF WoMEN!"

DELIBERATIONS OF WOMEN!"
correspondent, JoE MILLER, JR.,'
discourses to some purpose upon The Bothera-
tioms Of WOmen ;" albeit he has rather over
elaborated his exordium, as well as a few of his
illustrations. He contends that there is no man,
bachelor or Benedict ancient or Juvenile, who
can lay his hand on his heart and say, that since
he wore his first long tailed coat, the whole
sex, from the help in his mothers kitchen To
the girls at meeting, and from them up 10 the
young ladies who play on the piano. have not
been couStantly-going on, never ending and
out and out Botheralion. We are presented with
a sample of our sex, as an embodied and fixed
fact in this regard. While shaving in the
morning, his thoughts dwelling the while upon
the young lady with whom he fiirted last eve
ming, he starts (and cuts cash in his cheek) at
sight of beautiful danse at an opposite window
who is watering flowers; now bending down to
pick out decayed leaf, and now lifting her sweet
face, blooming with health, TO look after some
stray morning glory which her small white
hand would train up in the way it should 90
Breakfast over, he hurries down Broad way to the
marts of trade, and scuds like business man
through crowded streets, change and in all
public places, his thoughts distracted and his cal
culations spoiled by the apparton of some daugh-
ter of Eve, who has CHANGED to trip past him in
all the wtchery of loveliness; beautiful alike in
lace anu HSuIe HeI elegant uTeSS swelling round
her person after the latest fashion with one hand
deposited in side pocket. her face cast down,
innocently and gracefully sucking the knob on
the end of her sun shade, biting with her
small white teeth its ivory ring. Who could re-
sist attractions like these2 In an instant his
thoughts steal from art to nature. Notes, dis
counts, purchases and sales, flee from his excited
brain. All the joys of happy home rise before
nina fond wife and merry children. And now
Fanny runs over space of twenty years; and
in his minds eye he sees n long train of beautiful
daughters, all walking the streets, sucking the
knobs of future parasoIs in the graceful
manner the beauty who has just passed him
1t is a curious fact says Mr.. Miller, jr, that
although the whole sex have conspired together
for one object, they have yet various methods OF
operation, all tending TO the same grand result
botheratiOn. There some of the softer sex, OF
an amiabie turn of mind, who think that the
quiet system is the best, and they prefer to gain
their objects by wheedling. Others having great
confidence in the assumption Of authority. prefer
to adopt commanding manner, and trust to their
powers of cumpulslOn While third class prefer
a constant and well directed course of teazing
believing that continual dropping wears away The
hardest stone. The sex may be divided into three
grand classes namely CoAXERs, DRIVERS,
and WORKERS. Let us glance them for
moment. in their order.
ING ? when ,ciU they cease Coax why
they coax from the cradle to the grave it comes
as natural to them as smiling. In early lfe or
mature years. it is all the same. If we are chill.
dren, it Is Augh do now if you don't 'pon my
word, I'll never speak to you again All, | think
you might; ! think you're mean if you don't
If we children of larger growth it is
Dear William, won't you, for ny sake now p
only once I'm sure you can't refuse this one
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ling eyes, and pOut out their ruby lips so pretI-
ly, that for the Soul of you you can't refuse and
before you know it, you are banboOzled out of
your independence and frnness When Corio-
lanus threatened to destroy Rome, who was il
cOaxed him to fOrego his intention, and spare the
city Why, the women. And when Governor
Dorr undertook his last revolution, who was it
furnished recruits for his valiant army The
Yankee girls. just look at the superiority oi
female tactics in every branch Of this elegant
accomplishment Suppose Understand, say
suppose, } lady wishes you to kiss her. Now
if man wanted such a thing, the probability is
that he would ask for it right out, or it may be,
proceed to snatch one without asking at all but
if damsel desires one of the long, long salutes
of which Byron speaks, how much more finished
is her plan Of operations! She has some great
secret to tell her lover and gets behind his chair
To whisper it softly in his ear; her long curls
sweep over his face; her bamy breath spreads
incense around him and her secret by reason
Of her agitation, is murmured so low that he can't
distinguish a word Of it and most naturally, he
turns his face around to catch her meaning from
her eyes and IN doing so, his lips accidentally.
Of cOurse,) meet hers and then oh linked
sweetness long draw ont isn't a touch to il ;
and the most brilliant exploits OF military slrale
Cy are completely dlmmed by This specimen Of
female moneuverIng, which lawyer would pro.
ho oil. tf >, ofrirg 1.
under false pretences. This IS just the way they
coax, bewilder and bother and # they can't sue
coed in this manner, they make their next at
tempt as DRIvERs'
Sam Slick says, The men hold the reins but
the women tell them how to drive : and theoreu-
cally and practically such is the fact. A woman