The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-08
modern s0elety.


An ably conducted and good literary
journal, In well written article on the
management of children by parents,
makes, in conclusion, the following
sensible and well-timed remarks: We
must say that we never could untler-
stand why, in modern society, parents
should, on certain occasions, be looked
upon as intruders on the society of their
daughters. Why, to state the case more
plainly, when gentlemen pay evening
visits, the presence of mamma should
pc considered by her daughters as an
interruption TO the enjoyment of their
friends society, or as a polite attention
TO, be dispensed with. 10 our old4fash-
toned notions 1t seems that II there be
any time orEplace when the mothers
support and countenance ought to be
given to her child, it would be when
Visitors of the other sex are with her
But our odeHni young ladies boast of
having changed all that. One would
suppose there were conversations that
the mother must not hear; whispers
that either the listener or utterer must
be ashamed of, that they can only be
carried onin semi mi-darkened rooms, and
in the absence of those ewhose presence
would have been a restraint, II not an
absolute Introduction to such inter-
I HO 10PGA Lu6 uOLlOu Guab BQIb grad
uallytncreaSing usage Is framed on any
idea Incompatible with perfect purity
OF hopor. But we cannot help pointing
out TO parents that they ahdfcate one OF
their most important duties when thew
allow their daug ghters to Withdraw from.
their society, and thus deprive them-
selves Of, the protection which that so-
c1ety alone can give. The danger which
attends asuch a course is. manifest
enough. We would not run Into the
extremes of French society, in which a
young man Is never allowed solitary
tete-G-tet6 with la young GIRL even
thougn nbetrothed to her. q We areproud
In the belief that our American maidens
do not require watching. But. on the
other hand and lastly, we cannot look
with any degree of satisfaCtio on such
astate of society as sanctions the ha.
bttpal ntetcourse of the sexes, either at
home or abroad Without that proper
guardianship which all WalE.reRulatetll
minds will not only seek but feel in a
wrong position when deprived of It,
we have nothing o,say to The men who
proht, by the 6eprehenAtb fashion. 1t ia
not altogether their fanlE, and the teue
remedy is in the hands of the mothers
who allow themselves to be sent m
stairs when their daughters evening
visitors arrive: a proper sense Of
respect for their own, chr aractars and
dismissed. L The men will NOT esteem
them or their amiabIe danghtsrs the
less and II they do, they are better away
altogether. ss - E5.!s "a .v7sii. j .liSi
TIE Petersburg [Ya.l Iaaez has been
puzzled, by the various reports in its
exchanges Of the cotton crop, bnt amer
careful examination and comparison OF
them all, concludes that This II. about
correct sat one time there was affair
prdmlseof an average, yield, but owing
to the drouth, the rains, the heat, the
frost the army worm, the navy W6rn,,
the eommissary worm, thequaItermas-
Ter worm the treshets; the cholera, and
the Ffeedments Bureau, the aggregate
cannot Poa9iblS e1eeed 54z bales dis
tr1bnted as follows: Aiabama, SO; Arr
kansas; 4231z; Florida, s. Georgia, SIX:
Eonistanas 74sS; Mississippi. g; South
Carolina q; ;Tennesseeyz7 40; Tekass97.
We exclude North Carolina, because
the journals Of that State are Silent.
but in the other States our accohnt viii.