Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-20
For the Spirit of the Age.

For the spirit OF the Age.
Mr.. EDITOR We were not much s%urpris-
to find in the Age, a cutting criticism, bv
'Geemes," on our pennings to the Chords"
some time ago. Well, we asked their moies-
to partake freely of such as met their
case. SO it seems that Mr.. "Geemes' has
appropriated a considerable share to himself.
Really, we think he has been a little bit
selfish. We must conclude he has been hit.
from his energetic manner of casting back
firebrands. We hope he is not seriously in
jured, but sufficiently so to insure his agree
ableness, when he gets quiet.
So friend "Geemes," you men are "dunn-
ed" are you, by our "nice merchants" for
bills ofreat ''frenchiied" goods mere triRes.
those goods are, too? Sometimes you are
dunned, with a perseverance, too, that is not
very pleasant to you. But pray who encour-
ages US to make bills? Why do we indulge
in those precious little "nothings" that YOU
fuss about being dunned for Why every
husband of you. Don't you tell wife that
she looks just like an angel, and that she is
a perfect pink in that 'little love of bonnet?"
To be sure you do, knowing too, that she
looks a little ''frenchifed."
Now, if you don't want to be dunned, 90
pay up your bills (guess there are more bills
than one) like a man, and then tell wife you
shall do all the shopping yourself in future 4:
then we suppose, you need scarcely take
across a by.way, if you happened to see that
mice merchant" coming for they never dun
you for ".frenchJfed" brandies, acines, cigars,
&C.. DO THEY? Oh you are safe, if you can
keep wife at home, sure!
"Feigned cheerfulness is deception" is it?
But "wife and daughter practice it," So
they do, and sometimes through necessity
too for instance, when husband or brothers
bring their merry wild companions to dinner,
when the family knew nothing of their COM
ing. Wife is sick and tired, but every thing
must be elegant, no matter if her head does
ache, and her heart too she must seem to
be delighted. And we possess a wonderful
power of metamorphosis, "Geemes" says.
Ladies, are you not glad he let US know it'll
With electric speed we can change the ''scOo0I-
ing thunder-storm-face" for the winsome
smiles ofsummer'se eve, and the "bitter TRADE"
for soft lisplng words, as we meet our zeal
lers." Perhaps our new friend has been a
caller when that duckisb husband has been
thunder struck In the back yard" If
so, we guess he blessed his stars that woman
possessed this strange power of rapid trans,
formation, as his devoted head was thereby
saved.
1.-The catalogue of their vices is as long,
tho perhaps, not so dark as the lords."-
Amid this class of evils, "snuf-dippings are
more destructive to health and 6edutg than
the drinking of piaetop whiskey." What Of
rye-whiskey? Wewonderif brother "Geemes''
stops at "pine-top" whiskey? 1t is doubt.
less a mild, heahhfuL drink, and would be an
excellent substitute in case of a prohibitory
law! Pine top-whiskey Dipping snuff is
a practice pernicious and unpleasant; but
real old fashioned whiskey, such as men use
in these MOUNTAINS, such as makes mer
brutes, breaks hearts and drives the burn
ing tears to eyes once unused to weep, sucl
as fills the earth with bitter heart-sorrows
such whiskey, less destructive than snuff
What absurdityi It's folly talking Of it.
We don't feel especially bound to "lecturc'
the ladies, because our friend Geemes say
so. They usually have verbal lectures enough
But should a fancy take us and that ARA
I of womanly evils exposed, doubtless our abb
critic will take the pen in their defence, an
use as up again. He ought to. In th
! mean time, may he never be dunned b
Merchants" tailors or Sh0emakerS,
Bon soir, Monsieur Geemes.
ELFRIDA WEST.
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