Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-03-12
FOR THE MoNoNeAL1A MIRROR.
MORE sHINTs."
jBYaGUTTA pERcHA.o

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Mr.. EDl1oR-I was much surprised to
see in the. Mirror Of February san ar
,icle under the caption Of .Hints to
Gutta Percha,n in which The writer takes
/. itfor granted that I am an g old .maid, y
and dFeyen hasntlie iinpudencs g Ea1fefi
4me me to deny the charge. Nowllwill not
!; ,,rnor,ity e Fanny" SO much as to tell her !
am not one, (for tha. would spoil all her
7ifuhl set l would ask her if there is any
prroof Of this in the "Hints to those who
need u them I" and if Ihave not Just as
GOOD reason to suppose that Fanny ls
! gentleman as she has to think me an
.lold maid" Can't one be allowed 70 to
yindica,e the cause Of the down-trodden!
without being suspicioned Of belonging TO
.ha, classa Who, that has any generosl.i
" ofsoul, can read the slurs that are dai:i
" thrown out in the newspapers against
-Gbachelorsn and "old maids" without
/ feeling some sympathy for them and try.
ing TO do something 10 stem the tide o.
tnpiioussess that is hourly rolling in upon
them like mighty surges from the ocean I!
""Fanny" says the, reading Of the
Hints raised her dutch considerably y.
Isn't this strange? They were not insen'
ded for her-notat all. And didn't she
do wrong in getting SO praihy and trying
80 hard to ,"use up'a poor innocent OIL
fender, who hadn't the slightest though,
Of iniuring herl But she did not stop
here. Imagining me to be one Of a class lass
which she seems to regard as tho most
w;retched aud 'lorlorn on earth, and for
which she can have mol one emotion OF
ni,y..she hurls off her artillery with un'
mis,akeable aim aud deadly effect, not g.
rainst g Gutta .Petchaszonly, bu, against
the whole order Of "eatasrapas." 0! II
is dreadful 10 think Of; and il my voice
could reach from Maine 10 California, and
fIYom Oregon to Florida, would not cal
( mon every told maids and bachelor
.fshe did no, mention the litter, but In
sure she means them too) TO u"itc hear
and hand-march,in one solid rhalanx and
nut a stop at once to these defamatory
uroceedings. Why should the only people
who are really free and Independent IN this
a,oa, land of freedom, be everlasting
II ,.amped upon, mocked at, and wto''
sbou. by all the upstarts aud 'Fann'es 9
The globe? have thought for some Tins
,ha, !, would be good notion 10 call al
MD Bachelors aud old Maids Rights
Convention in order 10 lay all The editor
in these United States under an iAtcrdisi
and stop the tongues and pens Of speak
ers and writer's from libelling the state Q
single happiness; and, if this did not SUI
flee, to establish a newspaper TO be en-
tirely devoted to their Interests, in whicl
,hey nigh, portray the "hotro's ! Of ma
,imonial chains, or the faults ol yo"'''
housewives without irut OF being "usr'
uoN for nursing eats instead Of squa'In
bsb;es, or iondliag pups instead Of wai'
ins upon peeyis'', fresfnl wives or chu'l
isS' fsul,.6nAing husbands Nov ! VA,
il 10 be distinctly understood, that ! an
no, opposed to people marrying uhe
thew eet ready, bu, | don't want th's
who have rushed headlons into natrimt
mani nn now suffering III" jus, demc'