Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-17

: III PoiS. Ii uic iOi IL, IuuSC own tnat L dor
think they have fair play. In the bargain '
make with them don't think they get the
rights. And as labourer VIGOROUSLY does mo
, by the piece than he does by the day, and FRI
J man works harder than slave, so l doubt VIII
, ther we get the most out of our women by en-
Shaving them as we do by law and custom. Thel
are some folks who would limit the range of VIC
mems duties to little more than a kitchen rang
Others who like them to administer to our de
iectation in ballroom, and permit them to dis
play dlmpled shoulders and flowing ringlets-
Just as you have one horse for mill, and anothe
ior the Park. Butt in whatever way we like then
IL Is Tor our use somehow that we have wome
brought up; to work for US. to shine for us, o
10 dance TOR us, or what not 1t would not hav
been thought shame of our fathers fifty years ago
That they could not make custard or pie, bu
our mothers would have been rebuked had the,
been ignorant on these matters. Why should no
you and be ashamed now because we canno
make our own shoes, or cut out our own breech-
esq We know better: we get the cobblers ant
tallors to do that-and it was we who made tn,
| laws tor women, whom we in the habit of say
ing are not so clever as we are.
My dear nephew, as grow old and con
slider these things, know which are the strong.
err men or women; but which are the cleverer,
doubt.
Long years ago, indeed it was at the Peace oil
Amiens, when with several other young bucks
was making the grand tour, recollect how sweet
we all of us were upon the lovely Duchess OF
Montepulciano at Naples, who to be sure was not
nlggardly of her smiles in return There came
man amongst u.s. however, from London, very
handsome young fellow, with such an air of fas
cnating melancholy in his looks. that he cut out
all the other sutors of the Duchess in the course
OF week, and would have married her very
likely, but that war was declared while this
youth was still hankering abouthi Princess, and
he was sent off to Verdun whence he did not
emerge for twelve years, and until he was as fat
as porpoise, and the Duchess was long since
married to General Count Raft, one of the EN-
peror's heroes.
mention poor Tibbts to show the curious diff
ference of manner which exists among us; and
which, though not visible to foreigners, is instant
ly understood by English people. Brave, clever,
tall, slim, dark, and sentimental looking, he
passed muster in a foreign saloon, and I must
own to you, cut us fellows out whereas we En-
glish knew instantly that the man was not we'll
bred, by thousand little signs, not to be un.
derstood by the foreigner. In his early youth
for instance, he had been cruelty deprived of his
q by his parents, and though he tried to replace
them IN after llfe they were no more natural than
glass eye, but stared at you as il were in
ghasty manner cut OF the conversation, and
paped you by their horrid intrusions Not &C
quanted with these refnements of our Ian
guage, foreigners did not understand What lib
bits errors were, and doubtless thought it was
from envy that we conspired to slight the poor
fellow.
mention Mr. Tihbts, because he was hand.
some, clever, honest, and brave. and in almost
all respects our superior; and yet laboured under
disadvantages of manner which untitled him for
certain society. 1t is not Tibbits the man, it is
not Tibbits the citizen, of whom would wish to
speak lightly; his morals. his reading his cou.
rage, his generosity, his talents are undoub.ed
It is the social Tibbits Of whom speak an, as
L do not 60 to balls, because do not dance or
meetings OF the Political Economy Club or other
learned associations, because taste and edu.
cation have not fitted me for the pursuits for
which other persons are adapted, so Tibbits'
sphere is not in drawing rooms, where the h.
and other points of etiquette, are vigorously main
tanned.
say thus much because enc or two people
have taken some remarks of mine in i'll part, and
limited that | am Tory in disguise and an
arr arlstocrat that should be hung up to lamp post
Not so, dear Bob,-there ia nothing like the
truth, about whomsoever it may be. mean no
more disfespeet towards any fellow man by say
ing that he is not what is called in society we'll
bred, than by stating that he is not tall or short
or that he cannot dance, or that he does not know
Hebrew, or whatever the case may be- I moan
that If man works with piokaxe or shovel all
day, his hAnds will be harder than those of lady
of fashion, and that his opinion of Madame Son
tags singing or the last new novel; will not pro-
badly be of much value. And though own nv
conviction that there are some animals which
frisk advantageously in ladies' drawing rooms,
whilst others pull stoutly at the plough,
90 not most certainly mean to reject upon
horse for not being a lap-dog, or see that he has
any cause to be ashamed that he is other than
horse.
And, in word, and as you are what is called
a gentleman yourself, l hope that Mrs Bob
Brown, whoever she may be, is not only by ma.
ture' but by education, gentlewoman. No man
ought ever to be called upon to blush for his
wife. | see good men rush into marriage with
ladies' OF WHOM they are afterwards ashamed
and IN the same manner charming women linked
to partners, whose vulgarity they try to screen
POOR Mrs. Botibol, what a constant hypo-
crlsy your life is, and how you insist upon
informing everybody that Botibol is the best of
men Poor Jack Jinkins ! what female is that
you brought back from Bagnigge Wells to intro
auce 70 London society AandsaMea vtteesy 1AYa
cheap fnery.
If you marry, dear Bob, hope Mrs. Robert
b. will be lady not very much above or below
your own station.
| would sooner that you should promote your
wife than she should advance you. And though
every man can point you out instances whore
his friends have been married to ladies of supe-
rior rank, who have accepted their new posi-.
ton with perfect grace and made their husbands
entirely happy; as there arc examples of maid
servants decorating ooronets. and sempstresses
presiding worthily over Baronial Halls yet I
hope Mrs. Robert Brown will not come out of
palace or kitchen but out of house some
thing like yours. out Of family like yours, with
asnug jonture something like that modest portion
which dare say you will inherit.
remember when Arthur Rowdy twho need
not tell you beloaga to the firm of Stumpy, Row
dy u Co., of Lombard Street, Bankers, married
Lady Cleopatra !; what grand match it was