Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-03
FOR THE ENQUIRER. TO WE, US < co.

Have not come to your senses yet eh? Still on the same old tune, my boys are the finest ;" Mir. Candle, you are not fit to live in decent place! You ought to live among the heathenish creatures that think they must make slaves of all females. I'll let you know yet though that your girls are to be thought more of.
 Now if you can't teach your beautifM boys to behave more like christian children, I'll exert my abilities and do it for you. They are the toughest and unmannerly creatures and so are all boys.
 Mrs. D. told me to-day of her boys at Apen,a boarding school. They are such distressed mor. tals that they are not allowed anything half so decent as the girls. Our Willie is in Broad way Dry Goods Store," to be sure, but hat of that? Isn't he the greatest villain? And lou | he scrape your pocket daily to indulge himself at Tayloris And our Fred, didn't he tell of hay ing to take home three fellows who were quite beyond recollection from the cotillion party not long ago..
 l say, Mir. Candle, you don't know anything about it. You don't know at all, when you say boys are better than girls. Boys better than girls indeed! Ugh! That is just like you. Yes, should like to see the better part. Not in &C., tions, I'm sure. Don't talk to me, Mir. Candle, about the spirit of boys, their daring exploits and all such nonsense. I tell you, girls are the best There are your girls staying at home all day, never out in the evening, always ready to serve you and make things cheerful and then all the thanks they get is, the boys are the finest. They shan't stand it (the dear creatures) indeed, they shan't! will take their part. They're al ways imposed upon by the boys, only they are too independent to take it. You say, it is owing to your boys being improperly interested while young, and that your younger ones will not be so. Can you not mention 20 just within your thoughts now, that have been taught to walk in the most unblemished paths of virtue and who have taken the steps willingly to where the Fa- ther gives his last command and the Mother her last gentle advice? And then, do you not re- member those same youths shirkng from their thoughts every word of parental instruction and learning new and dssolute habits until at last by their wild career they break mothers heart or bring fathers "gray hairs in sorrow to the grave"
 Now for the other side, Girls Are there not 20 to your 20 boys that have in the same fami- same wisely chosen steps, and is there not a maj ority of IS that hand still loved and kept the lovely paths of childhood straight before them. Yes, and why were there two prodigals. Was it not one with manly garb that induced the turning steps? And how many of the Is kept their sinking husbands from falling when the load of care oppressed their weary minds 1? How many times their devoted faithfulness kept them true to their miserable debauchee and (when he should have been ready to protect them) could have killed them in his disgusting degredaton Think of this and compare it with the former picture. Can you raise as large majority of males with the same principles r. No, you cannot. Now, what is woman? And what is man? And, are not men and women but natural boys and girls? J. H. w. l Kem, l96l