New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-09
For the CT
A Defence of Husbands.

MEssRs EDrroRsYour spicy correspondent Miss Jessie
is rather too Benedcts and like most wo
looks at only side Of the question aud not thu
whole Of that She sets down almost Unfortunately
as boorish clique, because don't devote ourselv-s
to the entertainment of young ladies when the,
have better desirable beaux I'm afraid Miss
Jessie has been figuring wall flower at of tn
gay parties last winter and has taken rather obqus
views of society from that position If sb.
will condescend to open her pretty eyes and look about
she viii see that our insulting indifference to the mer
its of young ladies is than couuerbaancrd Ia in
deed occasioned by their iucurabls blindness to
If we are unfortunately so placed " that
PEELED to exchange few remarks with of them,
generally have the modification receiving monosylabe
replies dropped out in the most nonchalant and
with air quite distract while if bachelor along
though inferior in point Of social
ability the fair creature brghtens eyes
sparkle smiles dsnce around her rosy lips whole
person reanimatedhst ii the bachelor address
es her If not she gets dgetty quiteatrandom
and shows plainly potenes permits that she
siders de trop What do under such cir.
cumstances but walk off, aud that right quickly
have been amused sometimes watch the effect pro-
duced the of youos lady by the information
that stranger for whom she has been wasting her fasc
nations thinking him single is lrred man The pol
itician who after spending hour eleconeering with
certain Influential party ascertaned that he has already
voted could not have changed counteuance dssp-
psared more quickly decidedly Poor fellow coming
suddenly down from balloon is nothing to it, lie don't
get parting parachute to break his fall but drops
at once like Lucifer into botomless abyssof
cence The presumptuous creature how dared he talk
we'll and drop the least hint about the wife aud
family he left in Boston
This unmercifn treatment the part of young ladies
towards married is extended those who ar.
engaged be married reported be paying
ticnlar attention to some fortunate young lady All
such regarded utruders thrustng themselves
welcomed into the matrimonial market and interfering
with the rights Of those who wish business This
no ezsggeratou can produce host Of snubbed Bene-
icts TO corroborate my and appeal to soci
ETY. at large to know justified in retaliation
Miss Jessie says the idea of such thing intellect
ual intercourse entirely forgotten Intellectual
Intercourse I'd like to q single woman under thirty
engage in such pastme when there any chance OF
hirtation-or at least of taking sentiment Intellect.
ual intercourse, indeed What does that mean Talk.
ing about the last novel the spiritual rappngs'
No Miss Jessie such thing intellectual inter
course is possible in society constituted and
the only approach to it that found smorg mar
ried people who being settled" have no matrimonial
projects to dull their faculties and chain them down to
one idea.
If neglected spnsters wish the attention Of married
men pis aer let them reciprocate and when they
meet one amiable enough TO talk subject Of
more general interest than cotton politics. let
appearance Of better game leave him paHtt with his
speech in his mouth BrxrptCT