Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-16

is added to that inheritauee of English
habits, and is born with the children of
both sexes, this liberty has necessarily de-
generated, Just as you End much across tile
ocean which in England would press from
ground like tender, sweet-tasted aspara-
gus head, but in America has shot up
wildly and luxurialtly into a long, hard
stalk, with multtudinous side shoots and
seeds. The emancipation ofyoung women
in America is as perfect as itwel can be,
they hardly allow their parents the right of
guardianship. They take care of them
selves; they are allowed to receive the Wis
its of young gentlemen, who introduce
other young gentlemen, without consult
ing the parents. Tho young ladies make
appointments with these young gentlemen,
and ask them to call Ia the morning, or to
take tea, even should papa and mamma no {
be at home, or happen to be engaged in
another partof. the house. ~
THE BEGurY OF THE Panty. 5ia.
If there be any especial beaaty, in the
daughters Of a family, she assumes the
mastery so utterly that, SO to speak, every
thing is done in her name. Even though
the official Invitations to balls and parties
are made in the parents name, the daugh-
ter has most certainly selected the candi-
dates. She will also invite any one she
pleases, or may be introduced to, without
asking papa and mamma. When young
people arrange to visit any house in the
evening, they do not say, as in Paris,
"Shall we pay visit to Madame N. to-
night2" but, "Shall we go and call on
Miss A. or Miss BIZ" The good papa, some
rum-bibing member of Congress, or Sena-
tor bothered with political committees, is
not Mt all taken into consideration! On
entering the house the daughter is natur-
ally seen sitting in the centre of the sofa,
and the conversation is exclusively ad-
dressed to her. In many cases the mother
is quite passed over. If she is at all old
aud Wearisome she generally sits with
grandmamma, warming herself at the fire.
It often happens that's stranger may stand
on very intimate terms with the daughters
ere he has been introduced to the mother.
- OF BE4Ux.
The expression is extremely character
istic of the superfciality of the relations
and sympathies between the-two sexes in
America. Eternal beauty is certainly
highly valued in most countries; it is. hui
man weakness, which, however, is not dis
played SO openly among ourselves. In
america on the contrary, ladies do not
hesitate to state that they only estimate
men by their beauty. HWho was your
beau last night2" they ask one another
even the farmers daughters. "You shall
be my beau tomorrow" they say to
young man. "oh, indeed, Mr.. p, you
were last night a perfect beau for me:
you left nothing to DESIRE" they say to the
old gray haired Mr.. p, when they want to
hatter and console him, The English also
employ the word. but more in the con-
sense of "fop." The Ameri-
can ladies select this fop, pomaded and
brushed up by the hairdresser, as their
I'cayalier." They also use very frequent-
" the French words "chaperon" and "cha-
borrowed from the days of
chivalry. Strangely enough, men are
heard much less frequently alluding to
their bellies than girls to their beaux. 1t
seems as if the American ladies had turn
the world topsy-turvy and converted men
into their fair sex. Frequently men are
made love to and cajoled by the women;
and American gentlemen hence have some
thing passive about them, like ladies
among ourselves, and they may often be
seen retiring, exhausted and dropping,
from ladies' society, to sink into silence
and Indifference in the drinking saloons.