The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-12-15
A Letter to the Ladies.

the knickerbocker, the truth and force
Of which will be Acknowledged by all
our ladies, should they read it. After
a short Introductory, the writer says:
"This brings me to the criticism I
wished to make; you are too crcdulous.
You will pin your faith to the veriest
shadow; and not all the world, not even
your own bitter experience, can shake
it. How often you grant a man his
most preposterous assumptionsI IF he
says he is wise, or witty, you will believe
him. although his fcll0ws say he is a
blockhead He lays his soft hands on
yours, and prates of uprightnoss and
purity, and you smile upon and trust
him. although half the world knows
that he is q worthless prohigato A gen
tleman said in my hearing the other
day, You call that man a gentleman2'
i'm speaking Of your sex. GLOW we do
humbug theml" and to his own dis
grace, and to the injury Of trusting
woman, L know that he spoke the truth.
"a few months ago the London jour
nallsts we're laughing about the exploits
of a worthless vagabond, calling him
self Count Puifemupskihi or some such
name. IL appeared that he lived by
making love to the wealthy ladies, and
then robbing them "When / get
through with one, 1 take another" was
his cool confession He found women
enough to swallow his story-"a Polish
noble in exile, and so they pityingly
received him to their hearts and their
purses. 1t seems incredible that a wo-
man should believe all stranger choos-
os to say of himself, and give him her
faith and her honor upon the strength
of his unattestcd declarations; yet cases
of this kind are Of constant occurrence.
! You remember the boast of Aaron Burr,
and do you know, too, how true he made
Lie? Parton has told us the secret he
was an adept in Hattery. "Ho always
Aattered a woman in those things upon
which he knew she valued herself and
the pure and the good fell before him.
" You play the fool one hour, and she
will ever after" is more true than com
Iplimentary Men think you ioUe to be
Aattored, and your own conduct justi-
fes the belief. You turn with a haugh-
ty, injured air from one who would de.
fend you in all which you ought to val
ue, as valiantly as ever knight of old,
but he has too much straightforward
honesty to pay you a single unmeritcd
compliment, or to praise your foibles;
you turn from such a one, to smile and
blush at hollow, vapid adulation.
"Tathcr and brother tell you that that
gentleman whose society pleoses you so
much, is not worthy of your confidence;
he plays the "iniured innocence" dodge;
your wom0n's sympathies are aroused;
you declare the world mercless and
misjudging; you fancy your insight, be-
cause more kind, is therefore more true;
and your bosoms glow in generous vim
dication Of unappreciatod worth. And
the willy words of one whom you have
resolved to trust, outweigh the warn
ings of friends, clear.iudging and in
torestod only in your welfare. All, ladies',
were there none but you to grant awards,
I fear unpretendiug merit would often
go begging, while he who should blow
the loudest trumpet, would win the most
applause.
"From Eve down to the latest case Of
scandal women have allowed themselves
to be duped, and still refuse to be
taught by bitter and oft.ropeated oXper-
ience. st. Paul says expressly that Ad-
am was not deceived; and probably it is
no poetical fancy which supposes that
he gallantly plunged overheard, re-
solved to share the fate of his dearer,
though weaker self
"Now, I would not have you suspi-
cious or prudish; furthest possible from
it. I would have you believe that the
world is full of true hearted, trustwor
thy men. But they are oftencst those
who tell the rough, ragged truth in
plain English; who detest the Surface
and quietly and unpretcntiously weigh
your true worth If they find you emp
| ty, gilded toys, they will scorn you; but
If they see in you unaffected delicacy,
combined with artloss candor, a pure,
trustful lcoDlan heart, they yield you a
whole-souled reverence, which any wo-
man might be proud to win.
off you will be true to yourselves
and to your own better instincts, true
men will love you with nobler love
than such sham sentiment as would lead
them to humor and pet you, while they
neither trust nor respect you Sister,
be worthy Of it,, and those whom for
fagos you have called lords will rev.
erently look up to you asguiding,spirits,
and will guard you to the dead as a ho-
! ly trust.
"FinalIy, in forming your estimate
of man, be assured that the candid
opinion of one of his own sex is worth
more than the Judgment of two women.
Men are often poor judges Of women,
but they know men better than you
do"
ENGAGINd MANNERS. There are a
thousand pretty engaging little ways,
which every person may put on, without