Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-12-10
Young wpman's Part in Lie.

pure OIL OF unseihSh aftectfonS.
Young Vpman's Part in Life.
There is Something in d pleasant
faced damsel which takes a young mans
eye-whethcr he will or no. 81 1t may
be magnetism, It, may be the symp
| thy of that which is beautiful IN mems
natures for that which is lovely in wo-
mems The women have great power
over the sex called sterner. Particular.
ly SO, if they be young, pretty, and
manageable Young woman do you
know, that it is you. who are. to mould
some mans life? Have you ever thought
of the responsibility that attaches to
you long before you are married.! A
word you may say to q young man
whom you may never marry nor even
see a. second time, will possibly exert
an influence over his whole life that
you don't dream of A smile does won
ders in lighting up the dark corners of
a mans soul-a word in the right place
may electrify his whole being. a wrong
influence will do. more damage in a sim
gle instance than lifetime may cor
rect. know case in point. Ayoung
gentleman making a new years compli-
mentary calls found himself unable to
resist the pleading of a g9ung lady to
take glass of mild wine With her.
He had; abjured liquors, and their
taste had not been on their lips for
months-but that glass she gave him
raised the appetite, and it was too much
for his powers of resistance. lie be-
came drunkard and died wretchedly Y
not long ago. That is one instance
But it is net the only one that could be
adduced. 1t is pot only the offering of
liquors to young men at the hands of
young women that produces frequent
evils, but 1t is the fashionuv.c c;ctrara-
ganee of large majority of the young
women an torR and country that fright
ems young men away from all intention
of matrimony; leads them to look upon
the whole sex with distrust, and drives
them to scenes where they are not bound
hand and foot by the unreasonable de-
mandS of. fcmcnines who would spend
faster than they could make. And the
fact that this tendency shows signs of
increase makes the case worse. The fe-
yer of fashionable dress, the Ignorance
of housewitery accomplishments, the
lack of tho peculiar home virtues that
are calcutcd to make q home lovely
infect the villages now w-a-days as they
do the city. 1t is not necessary, young
woman that you should faunt in gor-
geous apparel, even if your father can
afford to foot the dry goods bill, Nor
is it necessary that you should permit
YOUR mother to drub all day in the
kitchen while you fold your hands in
the parlor. When an earnest, encrgct-
ic, hard working, sensible young fellow,
who is in search of a wife, sees such
performances he fears and hesitates, and
refuses to marry at all, perhaps, and SO
does only half the good he could in the
world-simply because he has no no,
ton of fulfilling the homcly but very
truthful adase which tells Of placing a
mans nose continually upon grind
stone. We commend the subject to the
regards of our women readers. Let
them cultivate the domestic virtues
make themselves true women-know 9
womans rduties-chcrish their hands
less and their intellect more-and theil
lot will be happier aud better.
More than this, they will find that
there are mates in the world for them
and those worth having. Will not mo.
theirs bring the mode of life before theil
daughters in the light in which it ought
to be shown-which is nothing more
than that of common sense. That is
the rarest of virtues; more valuable be
cause there is comparatively little Of il
to be found.