Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-06-25
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"C0URTISG'' VS.. s'ATFENTIONS."

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"COURTISG'' VS.. ATTENTIONS.
This is subject which, always important,
is daily becoming peculiarly SO and we design
TO call the attention Of the Young people occa-
sional'y, in hope of arresting an alarming and
destructive evil.
Young ladies are bound TO fall in love as
soon as possible, and bound to be bound to a
partner for life, as soon as the necessary pre-
llminaries can be made-sueh as getting low
er, fascinating him thoroughly. being couried,
having the question popped, getting the we'd
ding garments IN array, and inviting friends
to see them prettly married. The young man
is bound to be gallant and polite, and to adj
mire, without stint, all the pretty young girls
known and unknown--to doli' the beaver, Of
fer the arm, invite TO the ride, the pleasant
saunter-in short to do all and sundres need
ed 10 show his devotion and gaIantry towards
the sex, until some enchanlress throws her
spell around him, and he sinks, subdued into
a commonplace, indifferent, careless, Bene-
diet.
Now out of these things grow difficulties
A young man admires pretty glrl and must
manifest it: he can't help doing so for the life
OF him. Tine young lady has tender heart,
reaching out like vine tendrils for something
10 cling TO, she sees the admiration, is lattered,
begins soon to love, expects some tender avow
al, and perhaps gets so far as to decide that she
will choose white satin under a thin gauze,
&c, at the very moment that the gallant, that
she halt loves, is popping the question TO an
other damsel ten miles off. Now the difficult
ty lies in not precisely understanding the diff
erence between polite attentions, and the ten
der manifestations ofsighing love. Admitting
beautiful girl. and wishing TO make a wife
of her, are not always the same thing, and
therefore, il is necessary that a damsel should
be on the alert TO discover to whose class the
attentions paid her by handsome and fashion,
able young gentlemen belong. 1t is hard 10
draw the exact line Of separation between po-
lite attentions and downright counting, but our
great age and extensive experience have ena-
bled us TO observe enough TO aid the young
and artieSS, in deciding upon this matter
First, then-if young fellow greets you in
loud, free, aud hearty voice-lf he knows
precisely where TO put his hat, or his hands
If he Stares you straight in the eye with his
own wide opcn--il he turns his back 10 YOU
to speak TO another-if he tells you who made
his coat-if he squeezes your hand--if he eats
heartily in your presence--if he fails to talk
very kindly of your mother--if he sneezes
when YOU are singing, crlucises your curls, or
fails to be very foolish 10 fifty ways every hour,
then don't fall in love with him for the world;
he only admires you, let him do or say what
he will. But if he be merry with every one
else, but quiet with YOU; II he be anxious 10
see that your tea is sufficiently sweetened and
your dear person well wrapped up when you
20 out in the cold if he talks very low and
never looks you steady in the eye; ii his checks
are red, or il he be pale and his nose but blush,
it is enough; if he romps with your sister,
signs like pair ofbeows, looks solemn when
YOU are addressed by another gentleman, and
in fact is the most still, awkard, stupid, yet
anxious Of all your male friends, you may go
ahead and invoke the shaft Of Cupid with per
feet safety and make the poor fellow too hap
py for his skin TO hold him.
There are also thousand other minor par
ticulars which a lady's wit will need no
prompting upon, but the foregoing are sure
and safe tests There is so much trouble made
in the world for want of understanding this,
that we have kindly volunteered our advice in
the matter, with the admonition 10 keep their
hearts in case of good leather or other tough
substance, until the 'Iight one" is found, be-
yond doubt--after which they can go on and
love, court, be married and happy, without
the least bit of trouble.--Boston Star.
COFFEE Bag SgrRrs.-The ladies of New
Orleans il is said, are in the habit Of using cot
fee bags, instead of grass cloth skirts, and late
ly very dashing splnster, passing the RUNS
of an old building, her light dress was caught
by a nail, and was torn almost entirely of, re- !
vealing TO the astonished spectators the well
known commercial phrase, Prime old IN |
pa.p written IN large characters upon the skirt,
underneath. The mortihcaton o. the lady