New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-06

IWepublish this morning arejoinder to Lohn-
GERS answer to Miss Daisy's complaint against
that uninteresting' and useless BET Of starers--
acquainted with Miss Daisy, and can assure
Lounger that she does not belong to what We
would term the strong minded class of Blue
Stockings-on the contrary, at the same time,
that she possesses highly cultivated mind and
refined taste she is one of the most amiable
and modest and pretty creatures that 1t has been
our GOOD fortune to have met. We were sur
prised to see our bachelor Editor, contrary to
ali rules Of knightly etiquette, overlooking the
truths set forth by Daisy and ungallantly siding
with the a6ominable drabs. Beware, Lounger,
and you, bachelor aspirant. to office and mat
remony, lest you offend the bright-eyed beauty.
Ed. CREs.]
An Answer to Lounger's Defence.
MEssRs. EpIToRs-Your, or rather my, criti-
cal correspondent, Lounger, has completely I'M
settled my domestic and literary plans; causing
me to lay by an article which l had just COM
menced, and dress which had nearly finished
has drawn me from my lofty, royal we, down to
plain egotistical 1 and has deprived certain
delinquents of my own sex of the benefit Of the
animadversions which had prepared to launch
against them. Not that there is anything in
his so called defence, which really needs an an.
| swer but the accusation Of strong -mindedness
| is not to be passed over in silence, for if my
| identity with the slandered authoress should
ever become known, my matrimonial prospects
would be blasted for life. What sane man would
hazard his domestic happiness by wedding a
/ strong minded woman creature who can take
care Of herself; who forms opinions of her own
who reads something besides the newspapers; who
never faints, shippers, giggles, nor makes fool
Of herself; whose range of conversational topics
is not limited to dress, beaux and sickly senti
ment and, awful to relate, who perhaps would
like to dabble her fairy fingers in the politica
pie; an unloveable anomaly;a monster!
| No, l cannot permit such an insnuation tt
pass unnoticed l deny the charge / know
too well what is becoming in woman; that
intellectual and physical feebleness constitute
her greatest charms; that mind enough to wor
ship, without understanding, her lord and mas
ter is all that she requires; that she should
4 hide her knowledge, if she has any, and thai
mental cultivation is almost certain precursor
of single blessedness.
As for the inexpressibles, not for worlds would
l don the distressing garments !; l wonder how
the men can endure them.
hope have convinced you that ammo
strong, but bewitchingly weak-minded; veal
enough to feel pleasure in exciting the admira
ton Of the steamer sex; to be affected by kill
ing moustaches to dread the criticisms o
loungers in general, and to feel an intense in
terest in this particular lounger; although
upon careful reperusal Of his letter, / am al
most convinced that he is married man in
deed, the very wearer of the drab inexpressi
bles. He takes the cap with such an air o
authority that have no doubt it fits; and thel
his defence, being not argument, but recrimina
ton, is unmistakably martial
Touching female delinquencies. in the omnibu
and bonnet line, have nothing to say, excep
that my opinion comedies with that Of my un
known correspondent, and that all those thing
are quite foreign to the subject.
And now, having had, like true woman, til
last, if not the best, of the argument, tax
my leave Of logic and Lounger. DAISY.