The Portland daily press., 1865-07-29
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1t was not in human nature that there
should not be few moist eyes, and poutine
lips; and there was general regret that there
were not more prizes, but the Judges DEGREES
were universally approved. ~ II
There you have the pictured Its very pref
ty;-the whole thing shines and sparkles with
jewels and fine words; but the repulsive gross
ness OF the idea cannot be covered or conceal
ed. Think of it'll The ffairest daughters of
aristocratic England exhibited like; prize. cat
| tie in the market-dressed out to show their
points, and paraded before the gaze of all the
roues and fast men Of London-set to to be
Did for by all who can afford it, as Circassian
women are in Constantinople, and as beauti-
ful quadroon girls used to be, but thank God,
are no longer, in New Orleanslo And grave
g,ay-bearded men, with wives and daughter
Of their own, gave the affair the sanction OF
their years and high position. 1t would GER
tainiy seem as though class who are capable
Of devising and carrying out such an offence
against every sentiment of propriety and re-
iinement as this exhibition Of prize beauties
should be careful how they accuse Of coarse
ness the people of what they deem less favor
ed countries. .83Aa "a 3
But have not quite done with
this subject A writer in your paper of
Thursday, (perhaps the editor p in comment
ing upon the recent. trial of Miss Harris in
Washington, takes occasion to inveigh against
the heartlessness, fivolity, and extravaganza of
the women Of our day. Now it is not of the
Last use to lecture women on these points,
such things women are just what men make
hem, and they always will be. What good
ioes it do for men in their superior wisdom t.
ecture girls for frisolity, SO long as they'show
~ such things as this English exhibition tina!
. fivolity is what they admire? So long as ex
iravagance, and ~shallowness and vanity, i.
Jnly coupled with beauty, carry OFF the prize.
md the admiration, to preach up modesty,
economy and the quieter feminine virtues l.
merely waste Of breath. A few sensible men
nay possibly be found who really prefer those
lumdrum qualities, but SO far as women are
concerned the sensible men are but feeble
minority, Men must correct the coarsenessof
their own taste before the girls who seek to
,lease them will be wholly refined. AS for the
TX thousand French bachelors who are going
aeroically to remain single on account Of fem
mime extravaganza, their case is hard but hope
4ess. While cigars. fancy drinks, fast-trotting
horses, billiards, and other necessaries of life
remain SO dear, they cannot hope to indulge
in the idle luxuries of domestic life !!
The writer ofthe article alluded to, blunder;
as-pardon me for saying it--nen usually do
when they undertake to moralize about wo,
men. BE says the principle settled by the
Washington jury is that,
IF man jilts woman, she has the natu-
raj right to grow crazy and blow out his brains !;
while, II woman jilts a man, he has no other
resource than to become moody and blow out
his own"
Wen-H he likes that way of getting rid of
his brains, probably no one win object; but in
point of fact the only question settled by the
Washington jury is that an insane woman Is
not responsible for her actions. That it was
the cruel treatment of her lover which drove
her mad has nothingto do with the Question
Of her guilt or innocence. 1t was because
she cas mad in the opinion of the jury
that she was acquitted, not on the ground
Of her sex, and these advocates for
the Hequalizing of the sexes, ? must find anoth-
er text. z Is lss fs..st.,sf,ra .r5.s,
Even admitting that they are right in their
interpretation Of this verdict, it is difficult to
see any cause of alarm on their part. In, the
social balance wherein is weighed the relative
guilt of man and woman, the advantage is all
on the side of the former. When another
Washington jury acquitted Daniel E., Siekles
on tar less evidence of insanity than appeared
IN the case of Miss Harris, men applauded the
verdict. The social law of accountability
pears lightly on the guilty man; it brushes the
eTTlng woman. Caesars wife must be not on
ly innocent but unsupported; but as for Caesar,
who thinks Of ninding his little peccadtlloes ?
"Men have hearts p pathetically exclairns the
writer in the Press. 1t is gratifying to know
it. Is the case of Burroughs, who courted
poor Mary Harris for six years, and then left
her in poverty sickness and loneliness, and
married another admit dig for mercenary
reasons to be taken as an illustration?
The main question, however is not of feek
ing but of morals; and / come back Mr.. Edit
or, to the point before laid down. In the path
of social elevation women follow, they never
lead 1t is not in the nature of things. When
men lift themselves up out of the coarseness,
Ine snailowness, the selfishness which mark
snelr iVes' women also viii rise above the sell
n'i'lesS ana u1volity of theirs. Not till then.
~ 9 ALADY.
vs. Inc Boston Post thinks the Atlantic tel
egraph is not likely to prove priceless t,le
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