The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-12-07

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I bayo eAksn Hocoasacn, asray leisure, 70
etudv life and habits Of the femAle pop
rlatiena q the New World, and 40 it will
doubtless interest you % learn something Of
these. will furnish you with s0neleE the
resuIw OF my Obsefvations. 1880 81
Il seems TO b laid down - . fixed princi-
ME in ethics Aad practice, in this country,
that woman has Nothing 70 Do, unless she
nav happen BY the strioteet necessity 10 be
driven 10 do something. The public Of the
city of New York, ct least, have Teen care
fully instructed TO this belief The able
editors Of the Evening Ananias and the
Morning Whirligig have taught the pupils
az the daiiy press that Womar's Rights are
: humbug, and that the chief end of female
life Il to be ornamental in the parlor and
proli6c in the nursery. The Rev. DIR. Hell
sotrope, whose influence is very extensive
in the town, has hurled some very sharp
texts at all who venture to claim for her
loftief career than she pursued among the
half-civilized Hebrews Of ancient times -
The faithful and exemplary mothers who
inhahit the regions adjacent to Madison
square have, as your correspondent is given
TO know, promulgated the following as the
two great commands whereon hang all the
social law, and considerable portion Of
whatever profits may be found therein, viz. !:
"Thou shalt love good establishment
with all thy heart, and with all thy SOU, and
with ali thy mind. This is the FIRST and great
commandment, and the second is like unto
it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor just as
much as is consistent with thine entire indo-
lence and thy profitable selfshness.'
The dear young creatures themselves
frown with great indignation on such Of
their sisters as venture to tear aside the
wells which disguise the little or great III
EQUITIES which trouble the city, and which
may b traced 70 their origin in female idle.
nees
And very properly do editors and preach.
ere and mothers thus teach and preach and
parctice.
Why, o Able Ben Hassan, should wo-
man do anything, when it is we'll known
that physical, mental or moral exertion will
not materially increase her chances OF being
veil mArriedf For to be well married is un-
doubleday here, as in Turkey, the final OBJ
ject of female life Il it not written in { he
greatest Of Books Chapter of Girls)-"A
husband lie to woman as wheels to char.
iot2'
In this connection may say that ! have
been somewhat observant of the customs Of
family Of young ladies, who live in good
style in well-built street in the upper part
OF the city, and select them to be described
to you as representative women. They have
good clothes, good looks, good manners,
and Nothing to DO They have learned sun
dry accomplishments, not exactly because
accomplishments are goodly as develop
ment of their finer tastse, but because they
are attractive to that portion OF the mascu-
line community who may be turned for
want of better phrase-the Universal Au
gustus They have learned some French,
not because that language is sparkling and
delightful, bat because the Uniyeral Angus
tus think it pleasant to utter commonplaces
in that tongue. They have studied music,
not because it is the expression OF all that is
harmonious in the outer and inner worlds,
but because the Universal Augustus is &C.
customed to declare himself greatly moved
by the concord Of sweet sounds. When
they were at school they were taught some
thing Of science, but this not being especial
~ reilsHeu Dy Tue CHNeTsli hupuNuS Hao
lapse1 into forgctfulness. They are all in
society now--four of them--as pretty as the
gazeles of Afghanistan; and they are pre-
pared traps, gins and pitfalls for the Univer-
sal Augustus. For this laudable purpose
they have Nothing to Do, except to look well
At a somewhat uncertain hour in the morn
ing they array themselves in pretty morning
dresses. Presently they deck themselves in
more gorgeous array, and 60 promenading IN
Broadway and the avenue For dinner
they add little more ornament to their
pretty little bodies. In the evening their
prettiness reaches its elimination Soon as
the evening shades prevail, Univerasl Au-
gustus calls and walks bindfod among the
traps, gins and pitfalls. There is, of course,
Nothing to DO except to entertain HIM, and
as he is an amiable young man. he is easily
charmed Some little songs are sung, some
little scandal retailed, and some very little
jokes cracked, and he goes home to dream
of the pretty ways of the Universal Fanny;
and rs human virtue is much the same here
as it is in Oriental climes, | presume that
some day all this will end in matrimony.
remember that one evening, at the man
sion Of the Universal Fanny, a certain young
man, whose name was not Augustus, and
who had a somewhat solemn and seedy APP.
pearance, addressed the young ladies in
nearly the following language will write
out his remarks as recollect them in order
to give you q specimen of the style in which
some abstract young men are In the habit
of talking in New York society, just as If
society would pay some attention to their
tedious moralizing H. said
20 Universal Fanny, (for | address you
collectively with q prophetic eye, see that
you will be married some day to the univer-
sal Augustus II he should chance to be
rich, you will, doubtless, continue to do
nothing with the greatest assidnity; ifhe
should happen to be struggling with stout
heart to conquer fortune, and make your
home happy as far as money can, will you
be help meet, (that is help both-ends-
meet,) cheering him on in the good work,
busy as a bee in the little house, or will you
be ornamental for a time, and, then, as your
beauty fades, mere clog upon his yalorous
exertions? Do men marry wives only as
they would buy pictures, or do they choose
them for companions, friends, CO. workers
in the field of daily endeavor, and honest
ambition. Anything, might say, in regard
to the miseries caused by lazy spendthriit
wives, would (alas y be very commonplace
nngallant and unworthy of what
is sometimes curiously called polite litera-
ture,' isnt see my friend, the Universal
Augustus, slowly sailing around in the
whlrlp pool Of your facinations. He tells me,
good fellow, Of your pretty ways, your kind
know he is building in
the clouds Of the future neat little castle,
he, with you, will live as simply |
ani happily as Cock Robin. lpray he may
have good time; but why, in the name of |
Dugald stewart on the Law of Habit, should |
you suddenly change your fashion of having
Nothing to Do. and become a dear, little
thrifty creature2 tremble to think of the
iiscord that may rack that castellated birds
hest cloud-built in the future; how he may |
ret pale and feverish; how you will ow
o be a mere thorn in his side, and how he
will groan when he comes to smoke quiet
,igar in my bachelor lodgings.
Furthermore, the. Universal Augustus
nay be man Of fine taste. He may have
IN ardent admiration for fine thoughts, no.
de utterances, whether in arto poetry or
cience He may be pleased to converse of
omethine more enduring than the nice