Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-08-06
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4 . ''aS FOrthe Eadies.

Mrs. DENIsoN, who has recently become
the editress of "The Ladies' Enterprise
at Boston. (noticed in our last,) is seldom
mealy mouthed, when she treats Of foibles
in society, particularly those pertaining to
her own sex. The following, being the
leader, in her paper of the lst instant, is
sample of the way she handles one subject,
which we fear is quite too common, for the
good OF society, and the happiness of fami'
lies.-Ex.
An INNOCENT FLIRTAr1oN.-Why not as
we'll say an. innocent theft, or harmless
murder9 1t is not everybody who under.
stands what the words mean. Some very
silly young girls, just out of boarding school,
consider it sort of compliment to be called
Airts. They blush and simper, and pretend
to have Just as many beaux as they can
find fresh fools to angle for them, little aware
what desperate habits are forming their
charmed circles around them, beyond which
in few years it will be out of their power
to move. One can bear 70 be cheated by
cloth merchant or grocer, althoug Oh the
transaction merits unlimited contempt; but
to be deceived by the lips and the eyes, the
smiles and the speech of young hearts that
God designed should be free from intention.
al guilt, if any of His creation, makes
wounds that even time cannot heal Heaven
knows how many heart.hardened men walk
the earth, soured and unhappy, finding false
hood every where-looking crookedly upon
all creations Of harmony, and seeing distor.
ton in everything, because their natures
have been warped by some cruel deception.
Like the melted iron, glowing and rich, they
might have been shaped to forms of endur-
ing beauty-but the heavy hammer Of de
ceit came down, fattened and twisted, and
left them cold, black, shapeless masses.
The victim of a Airt, in proportion to his
siugleness of nature, his wholesome and
imp picit faith in his kind, his generous, un-
warped sense Of justice, and the breadth
and depth of his love, oftentimes becomes
the more morose, unyielding, woman-hating
man. And many such do marry from pru.
Dental motives, after the fatal change, and
lead their partners most unhappy lives.
But young school girls-fnished, accom-.
plished women, are not the only flirts.-
Shame that we must say it, and to their
absolute and eternal disgrace be it spoken,
some married women are Rirts. Not even
the sacredness of the vows which their hus.
bands confide in them, nor the opinion Of
the world, will deter them from this most
satanic love of vanity and misrule. Not
even the babes whose doves eyes rebuke
them at every glance, and whose innocence
is Il continual prayer for their unworthy
mothers, can wake them to realization of
the exceedingly steep precipice upoh whose
brink they stand swaying to their fall.
And what shall we say of such? That
they are murderers, striking virtue, bleeding,
to the earth. That they are suicides, strang.
ling the spiritual within them. That they
are thieves stealing trust and confidence
from the hearts that shelter them with hon.
est love- They are counterleits, passing
for genuine the smiles they lavish upon their
husbands. That they are liars bartering
their truth and their honesty for williams
favor-that they combine in short variety
of every sin and every rank deflement un.
der heaven.
Such women sometimes excuse them
selves, by saying that their husbands are
not true to them in thought, word and deed,
and therefore their own dereliclions. What
shall the eagle, if mated with the vulture,
stoon IN nrey on parbaue?