Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-03
Advice 70 n Young Man.

l now come 10 grave question your
conduct amongst women. In the drawing
rooms where you are going, take for your
principle not to waste yourself 10 co4uet-
~. One Of the most successful men OF the
last century was accustomed never to &C.
CGpy himself with more than one person
durIng the same evening, aud always to
attach himself TO those who appeared ne
elected. That mao, my dear child, was the
ster-spirit Of bis age. Most young men
thus waste their precious foriuue,-ihe
{ rn ous-hslf Of social life. Al they please
by Themselves, they hare very litlls to do
to attach others 70 their interests, bat this
-prirgtime is rapid. Learn TO employ Il
we'll. Cultivate Influential women. Irfu-
eliiai women are elderly women; they
wall teach you the alliances, the secrets OF
al! fImIlIes, and the shortest roads tosuc-
cess. They will be yours heartily. Pro.
tect!on Is their Last love- they will serve
you mayellously; they will talk about
you aad make You desirable
F4ee from young women ! The
woman Of fifty years of age will do
everything for you, the woman OF twenty
nothing; the one will demand all your life,
the other only moments attention. Joke
and be agreeable with young girls if you
Will they are incapable Of a serious
thought my friend; they are egotislicsI,
Hli!er without real friendship; they only
love themselves; they will sacrifice you to
the first success. Besides they all demand
devotion, and your situation requires it to.
wards yourseIf,-two irrecOnctlRble pre-
tensions. None Of them will enter into
Your InteresIs-they will think of ihem-
selves, not Of you; they will iDjure you
more by their vanity than they will serve
you by their attachment; they will deyour
your time without scruple, will cause you
to spend your fortune, will destroy you
with the bes, grace In the world. If you
complain, the most foolish among them
Will prove TO you that her glove is worth
tue whole worid,-that nothing is more
glorious than to serve her. You know not
with what peFidious art they will convert
passing taste Into love which com.
mencss on earth and should continue in
heaven. The day when they will quit
you they will tell you that the dictum Il
love no longer justiies their abandoning
you, just as that Il love excuses their pas
siOn-that love is Involuntary. Absurd
Believe me true love is eternal, inf lutte, al.
ways true to itself, it is Cquable, pure,
without violent demonstration; il may be
seen IN gray hairs always young in heREt.
None OF these things are to be found in a
worldly woman. She will iaterest you in
her grlefs, she will appear the geutlest and
least exciting of women, but when il be-
come necessary she will domineer over you
slowly, and make you do her wishes. You
will want to be diplomatist-to go and
come-to study men, interests, and couu
tries. No, you must remain at Paris with
her she will tie you to her apron, and the
more devotion you show, the more migrate
tul she will be. You wilt sink some day,
but che will float over you. The least in
triguiug woman has infinite stratagems;
the most imoeeile triumphs by the little
suspicion she ezcites; the least dangerous
would be the one who would love you
without knowing why would quit you
without motive, and resume you from van.
ity. bofh will destroy you IN the present
and futurn-De Bai=ac.