Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-28
The Poor Girls.

The Poor Girls.
For young lady to be pretty proud, anc
poor, in a city like this, is too often fatal te
her virtue; and if she fall in her daily strug
gle to keep up Appearances, victim to hel
vanity, the sin must be measured by the
force of the temptation that induced it
Knowing that she can buy beautiful dress
or pay weeks board by yielding to a tran.
STORY pleasure, the temptations from with
out and within overcome the protests Of
conscience and the fears of future the fai.
one falls into the frail one, and the blighted
flower no longer an ornament of creation, is
thenceforth an object of pity, sad enough to
make heavens angels weep, Will the
heartless multitude of earth-stained sinners,
particularly of her own sex, cast stones al
the poor prostitute" and treat her as one
past all hope of redemption.
We do not say that society is altogether
wrong IN its treatment of what are termed
abandoned females" 1t is necessary that
line should be drawn although it may Of
ten be merely fcticous one) between vir-
tuous and vicious women; and we never
could understand why the same social dis
tlnctlon should not apply also to the strong
er sex. But that every frail one should be
at once inexorably abandoned" as an out
cast even beyond the pale of salvation, is
applying to the weaker vessel sternness
otJustice neither sanctioned by christianity
nor approved by the kindlier instincts of
humanity. Suppose every man who has
transgressed the civil and moral laws touch
ing intercourse with sexes, where to be
socially separated as goat from the sheep
AS sinner from the saints, and publicly
and privately avoided, and branded as an
"abandoned' man! And are the sins of the
weaker vessel. in the midst Of greater temp
tations to be punished more rigorouslya A
new bonnet, or new dress, or loaf of
bread, may be the price of woman's vir-
tue. Hunger, vanity, the love of the beau
tiful, and even the love of her own offspring
may lead woman to sell herself into shame
and degradation.
But man is never so Strengthened in his
condition-never so tempted in his virtue.
II he wants bread he knows how to earn it, if
he wants clothing he knows where to get it.
The pangs of starvation, and the cries of
furnishing babes never drove him to prosti-
tuition. Then let him deal little more
gently and humanely with the weaker half
of creation, and not set up his stony judge
ment of eternal condemnation indiscrimi-
nately against that miserable class of women
whose private SORROWS swell the deepest
notes Of humane woe in all our large cities,
but who were not hopelessly condemned
even by the sinless Son of God himself.
[Neao York Mirror.
evil TO HIM WHO Evils THINKs."-
Never entertain suspicious of your neigh
bors; ii you can't clearly account for all
their actions, give them the benefit Of the
doubt. IfMiss Stubs did marry old DR..
Pillgiver, who is thirty years her senior,
don't insinuate that she married for money,
because he is rich, and she but mechanics
daughter. If the dry goods clerk across the
street sports gold chain, resplendent vest:
and the latest style of pants, on three
hundred year, do not pity his tailor, or
hint that his employer would do well to keep
a sharp look out. Keep an easy conscience;
" there are more things in heaven and earth
than are dreamed of in your philosophy"
If you step on piece Of banana peel, and
slip and dislocate your ANGLE in front of a
doctors office, don't entertain an idea that
the M. D. put it there in hopes that some
body would break his limbs and give him a
job. Suspicion haunts the guilty mind"
Therefore, be We not over-suspicious. The
mikman sells the grocer tactical fluid,
twenty-five percent, of which is pump
water, and gets sugar sanded proportion
ateIy; you use both in your coffee, made of
burnt rye, and sip it complacently as you
are calculating how you can shave some
Verify, this is an age of humbug! You
grind the carpenter down in his contract,
and he builds you house that tumbles
about your ears in the first gale of wind,
hen you are indignant al the dishonesty Of
80 wad some power the giftie gle US.
To see ourselves as ithers u.s."
So sang the poet; but if it were SO, what
should we doa The sight to man would be
ntolerable, and, filled with loathing: null
itude would fee for ever from the haunts of
nan. IT'S best as it is. Keep clear con-
'cience.-Brooklym Eagle.
The THEORY OF CHANcEs.-It is singular
low even chance, as well as everything
Else, is subject to the fixed, Interchangeable
avs of nature. Thus the average number
# births. or deaths, in State or city, is
learly the same one year with another.
rhe number of great men who die in a
yiven term of years, usually corresponds
closely with the number of those who died
n the previous corresponding term of years.
rhe comparative number Of houses burned,
II ships lost at sea each year, in ordinary
Eases, can be so nearly calculated, that In
urance companies are able to estimate with
accuracy the chances of gain or
oss, and TO place their policies at such
ate as almost invariably TO insure hand
ONE profit to the company. A few figures
n relation to the receipts Of the dead letter
'hce, in Washington: afford an apt illustra- |
ion of the irrevocableness Of the laws of
nance. In the first quarter of 1852 the
lumber of dead letters containing money,
Ehich were opened, was 1901, the amount
f their contents being $l0.238. The
lumber of letters was at that period on the
Increase, and increased so gradually, that
y knowing the number for one quarter,
ny person familiar with the subject could
stimate very approximately the number
vhich would be received and opened in the
ext quarter. In the second quarter Of the
ear there were opened 1886 moneyed
etters, containing $l1,176; in the third
uarter, there were 1881 letters, with $780,
So; and the fourth quarter showed a total
t 1912 letters, containing $11.713. In the
rst quarter of the present year, the amount
,ken from dead letters, in Washington,
"a ch sd fha Suun If <1A Anf In the snconi