The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-31
A Rrtef Lecture.

The New York Weekly 4ttas, of the 9Th
ult., delivers itself of very racy letter.
Here it is:
OUR YoUNG LADIEs.-the femininity-the
Young and attractive femininity of this me-
fropolis-havinq an eye to matrimony, and
the matter OF money which may accompany
it, have been of late years making fools OF
themselves And their indulgence in the
folly to which this article will allude has
received a new impetus by the ecIdt which
attended the Oviedo Bartlett wedding Of
that world known event we have hothlhg
to say. 1t has had its time OF comment, ana
proved to be an oasis in the sahara OF hum
drum life to the reportorial fraternity--an
oasis which revived their dropping genius
and reused to scratch of activity the
otherwise efFete pen editorial of the Herald.
Those young ladies who pride themselves
ON style" and who would rather shave
off their eye-lashes with an oyster-knite
than be out of the fashion, who regard their
"dear papas' pockets as gold mines, and
their "dear mammas affection for them as
a mining implement those young ladies
who are extremely romantic, and have an
especial fondness for husbands OF the Count
of Monte Cristo calibre, are the class we de-
sire to lecture-now that the lecture season
has commenced.
contracting marriage with men of their own
country. A lot of Creoles and Spaniards
and Cubans, visit our seaboard cities each
wear, who represent themselves to he men
of rank, the inheritors, or will-be-inheritors,
of the vast estates belonging to their mill
ionaire parents. They stop at the best no.
tel, cut an awful dash, make an extensive
display of wealth upon the rattle-two-pen-
nies-and-a-key principle, and IN all respects
conduct themselves in the high-presSure,
valye-tied-down style so characteristic OF
yOmng men of blood and bank accounts.
Our Northern girls take to these fellows
like kittens to the hot hearth bricks in a
country kitchen. Their alteration for these
copper-coloured, curly haired bucks is i'm
measurable. They smile invitingly upon
the thin-shanked exotics, languish for them,
encourage them, marry them, and 10! the
neutrality-suspicious. and divorce, and
oftentimes beggary and poverty.
What must be the - feelinks of brilliant
dashing beautiful belle, who, after marriage
with these fellows, finds, when he has taken
her to dear, q" delightful Cuba, and intro
duced her to his family that her father-in-
law has woody head and her mother-in-
law a burnt amber complexion, and the
amiable style of grin which made so ex-
preSsive the features of Barnums babOon
Imagine the brides 4" feelinks, too, when
alas too late-she finds the hidalgo of hel
choice to be alas as poor as Jobs OFF OK
scarcely able to pay his passage. She mar
riod him for the sake of" style, for wealth
for title he married her to get her dowry
and save his financial department from :
total collapse.
Now and then, during a temporary scare
ity of Cubans and SpaniardS, Fifth ave
nue. belle or a Flora McFlimsy of MadSoI
Square, who is anXiously looking for posi-
ton and something to wear, attempts to Sc
cure those ultimations by union with
French or German Count, the chief charm
of whose conversation is his method o
breaking the English language into small
fragments, and peppering them with choic
extracts from his own, which he understOo,
no better. Here, too, comes the inevitable
disappointment. The Count is MS likely Il
be French cheUdlier d jn|Ysfrie or dilap
idated barber, as anything else.
Let our ambitious mammas teach thei
daughters to look within their own Ian
for husbands teach them that as gen
eral rule, soap bubbles are hollow, howeve
they may glitter in the sunshine. Let theI
learn that there is no style like that of com
fort, nothing so elegant as happiness. lie
the daughters of our wealthy ones MARI
men, honest-hearted, upright, brave mer
and know that misery and disappointment
inevitably attend unions with the effeminat
and effete-skinned patterns of humanity tbs
come to us like birds of passage from thos
regions below, denominated as Cuba.