The weekly Placer herald., 1854-03-25

malady that has been frequently known
to terminate most seriously, to as strong
an animal as the horse. When, however,
it takes favorable turn it leads the
patient to aspire to something worthy of
a man, and although he may not be in the
least fitted for the positions for which he
clamors, yet out of regard to his feelings
it is called sgotism. Sometimes, like
small pox it breaks out upon the surface,
and the symptoms are plainly discernable
in carefully cultivated soap-locks, mus
taches and foppish clothes.
In this stage of the disease the animal
becomes quite dangerous to the unwary
sisters, and will follow and inportune
them with the tenacity of blood hound
upon warm trail. The chief danger in
tolerating the creature consists in the pro-
pensty it has for lieing, and should the
sister permit it to come too near, it would
certainly spread some report in regard
to its conquests, that would be injurious
to character. Let the sisters pay no at
tention to it, and it will die in short
time of the disease. Give it the go-by,
when it makes advances, for this is worse
on it, than cold water to mad-dog.-
to make husband-they are not capable
of appreclating your true worth my Sis
ters-they always turn out TurveydrOps.
need not warn the brethren against it,
for to them the animal is well known and
obtains no quarter. And having thus des-
cribed it to the ladies', have the author-
ty of Miss Land0n for saying, that
''He the light and vain one, for him there
never wakes,
That love for which womans heart will
beat until it breaks"
And | will therefore pass to the third
subdivision, or, uanity feminine.
Aud now by way of preface to this part
of my discourse, | wish to assure the sis
ters, that have constantly had their well
fare, temporal and eternal present to my
mind. You have always been in my eye,
my dears, not my carnal eye, but my
myself to you directly before, it is not
because did not consider you of sutfi-
cient importance to merit that atten-
ton, but because, the ruder SEX
your worser halves, are so much more
wicked than you, that found it necessary
to rake them down at once. Neverthe-
less you are not quite perfection, although
no doubt as near as You can come to its
in the absence Of steel yards. So now
wipe your hses and blow your little noses
and don't breathe upon the glasses and
you shall see what you shall see.
Vanity Is an accusation often laid at
your doors, and truth conpels me to say
that in some rare instances, not without
justice. That this is true is probably a
great blessing to some of you, for if you
were conscious of your utter insignificance
| fear you would hang yourself or perish
in the attempt
have Bible authority for saying that
those "who walk with stretched forth
necks aud wanton eyes, walking and
mincing as they 90, and making rinkling
with their feet" shall have hard time
Of it, yea for them the time is coming
when, "seven women will take hold of
one man." and that you know, my dears,
will be horrible state of society.
Now there is at least twenty men to one
woman, and of course, you are much
sought after and outrageously fattered, -
you have the game all in your own hands.
During this "good time it behooves you
to be upon your guard and make hay
while the sun shines. Do not allow this
good fortune to addle your liltle heads -
Your vanity, leads you TO mistake men.
If a man f1atters and submits to all your
whims of Indifference and succumhs to
every indignity that you choose to nf1ct,
you construe 1t into so many proofs Of his
superior love for you, and therein you fall
into one Of those errors that has been
fatal to the happines of many of your
sex, and will doubtless be to many more
in spite of all my preaching. Therein
you confound subserviency with affection.
You know little of the hearts of men, if
you are ignorant that the man who loves
a woman as he ought, and whose views
are disinterested, will no more forget
what is due to himself, than what is due
to his sweet heart.
No man will sink into the slave of
woman, unless he intends to make slave
of her in return-mind that. Its your
fortune hunters alone, that become the
willing victims Of caprice, and submit to
every species Of modification that the
ingenuity Of wayward vanity can invent,
in the hope that this degrading vassalage
may be at length repaid, not by the pos
session of the fair one, but her money -
Nothing very consolng about that is there?
Solomon tells us that ''whoso fndeth a
wife, findeth good thing" but verify
say unto you she who findeth good hus-
band, fndeth a sure thing, g,-whilst he lives