Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-24
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TInerHY TrrcoMBs HINTS TO YOUNG
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TIMOTHY TITC0MB's HINTS To YOUNG
LADIES
Aud now that am upon this subject
] of talk, II will be as well 70 say all have
to say upon it. Its avery common thing
for young women to indulge in hyperbole.
A pretty dress is very apt to be perfectly
splendid :" a ,lisagreeable person Is too Of
ten '.periectly hateful" party in which
the company enjoyed themselves, some
where becomes transmitted into the ''most
delightful thing ever seen." A young
man of respectable parts and manly bear
inc is very often ''such a magnificent fel
low ~ The adjective "perfect," that
stands SO much alone Ms never to have the
privilege Of help from comparatives and
superlatives, is sadly orer-worked, in COM
panv with several others of the intense
and extravagant order. The result is that,
hy the use Of such language as this, your
clAinion becomes valueless. A woman
who deals only in superlatiyes demou-
strates at once the fact that her Judgment
IS subordinate 10 her feelings, aud her
opinions are entirely unreliable. All Ian
, rusce thus loses its power and significance.
The same words are brought into use TO.
describe ribbon in milhner's window,
as are employed in the endeavor to do
Justice TO Thalberg's execution of Beth
eyen's most heavenly symhony. The use
Of byperbole is so common among women
that a woman's criticism is generally with
cut value. Now let me insist upon this
thing. Be more economical in the use of
your tongue. Apply your terms of praise
with percision: use epithets with some de-
gree of judgement and fitness. Dosnot
waste your best aud highest words upon
inferior objects, and find when you have
met with something which is superlatiyely
great and good, that the terms by which
YOU would distinguish it have all been
thrown away upon inferior thiugs-that
You are bankrupt in expression. If
thing is simply good, say so; if splendid,
sav 20. These words all have different
meanings and you may say them all Of
- many different objects, and not use the
word sperfect" once That is 4 very large
word. You will probably be obliged to
s.ere il for application to the Deity, or to
l,ie works, or to that serene rest which re-
mains for those who love HIM. t
Young women are very apt TO imbibs
another bad habit, the use of slang. |
was walking along the street the other
day, when L met an elegantly dressed lady
aud gentleman, upon the sidewalk. My
attention Was the more attracted to them
because they were evidently strangers
4 { snv rate thev suppressed me as being
i. vary refined aud genteel people. As |
came within hearing of their voices-they
were quietly chatting along the way
heard these words from the womaG's lips
. --'.You NAV bet your life ON that !
was disgusted could almost have boxed
her ears remember once being i'll the
company Of a belle-one who had had a
winters reign in Washington. Some kind
If game was in progress, when in- a mo-
useDt of surprise, she exclaimed, "My
gracious - Now you may regard this as
= fnical notion, but tell YOU that woman
fell as fatlyih my esteem as if She had
uttered an oath Let US see how you like
this kind of talk. "
II YOU wish TO be ssNo woman,
YOU have got to ''toe the marx, and be
Hess '.hifalutin." "You may bet your head
on that" YouElnay sing ''sIightually,"
like nightingale, = you may ''spin street
warm at the rate of ten knots an hour, you
may dance as if you were on "a regular
brake down." you may 'turn up your
nose at common folks" and play the piano
mighty fine" but 81 tell yon' you "can't
come to tea "You may be handsome,
but yeu can't come in." Yon might AS
well ''cave in' first as last, and 'absquat-
uIate, for you can't put il. through, 'any
way. you can fix it" If you imagine that
you may 'sgo it while you're young, for
when YOU are old you can't, ''you won't
cum il" ''by long chalk" ''0wn up
now, and ''do the straight thing" and I'll
set YOU down as one of the women we
read Of" If you ''can't come up to the
scratch why, must 'let you slide. But
if you have "sneakin' notion for being
Irregular brick, there is no other way
mot as you knows on,"-'no Stree
hoss~ If young man should ''kind o
shine up TO YOU. and you should ''cotton
to him, and he should hear you say "by
the living lingo or ''my goodness" or al
VOW, or go it Betsey, I'll hold your bon
net" or ''mind your eye" or "hit i'm
again, or ''take me away" or ''dry up,
nvw,7 or ',drsw your sled, H,or ''cut stick,
or ',give him particular fits, he would
pretty certainly ''eyaporate."
INould 10y no means iusinuate that all
Young women use slang as coarse a. this,
but ackuow ledge 10 have heard some of
these phrases from friends whom ] really
esteem. Is not the use of these phrases
aud of phrases like them, whose number
is legion, a vulgar habit! 1t seems so to
me, and can hear them from the Ii ps Of
no pretty woman except with pain and
certain degree Of diminution of my re-
spect for her. The habit certainly de-
tracts from womanly dignity. 1t can be
dropped without the slightest danger Of
going into that extreme precision in the
use Of language which takes out all the
life and freedom from socialintereourse.
EQUAL TAXATION.
We commend the following TO those
men who have been induced TO listen TO
the Democratic cry about equal taxation.
1t is from speech made by Hon. J. A.
Einoba,, NJ WbaeIino Waet V;r0;n;. ~,