Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-16
.CoRREsPeNDENcE OF THE pHoRSsx.


You have some excellent rules in the
Phoenix, respecting things which every
girl should know. Seems to me you edi-
tors or your correspondents are very par
tial to the girls and women, for it is al
ways the women who must be neat, and
industrious, and smiling, aud smart, and
agreeable, and intelligent, and circuspect,
and good nurses, and patient, and the
girls must know how to sew, and Knit,
and mend. and sweep, and do the agreea-
Bile generally, besides making good bread,
or they wont get married or. if they shod
happen to get caught at the matrimonial
/ (h) altar they will not be able to retain
the love and respect Of their husbands,
unless they are good cooks and able to
cater to a fastidious appetite AS look
at society in this region, Lam constrained
to think that the boys and -yonpg me.r
need advice and rules for the regulation
of their conduct vastly more than the girls.
| don't believe there is a girl in Windharn
County, who is of sufficient age, but knows
how to make beds, dress her hair, to sew
and knit, and wash dishes, to keep her
room in order, and to work sewing-ma-
chine, if she has one to work. IF you do
: not believe it, just send some Of the girls
0 one who are not able to buy. land they'll
: soon make you pair of pants, and all Of
0 your boys suit Of clothes, gratis.
Now while the girls are performing these
$ household duties, where are the boys !? and
what what are they doing Are they
,, making themselves useful, and tightening
u the cares of their parent ? Do they even
IS keep the wood box filed, and the water
pail replenished? Do they spend any Of
d their leisure time, unless compelled to, in
N useful reading, and in fitting themselves
d to be intelligent, respectable young men,
ie and suitable husbands for those nice girls
d. that ought ought to max such good breads
s. or, are they spending their time in the
y streets, using slang phrases and learning
ne things they better never know? # is
high time to ask-where are the boys in
1d these days and nights? Do their parents
ed know that they often lounging in some
nd shop or bar-room, sitting on counters, bar
. rels or ccnehes, as the case may te, list
w. ening to obscene songs Or ribald jokes
'se talking about dad and the old woman
ng making desperate efforts to turn thei
ace ace throta into smokepipe, and opening thcl
al lips to let the horrii oath, which on
ar might expect to proceed from such al
the unclean aperture We read in the infalli
sue BILE Book that because of swearing I'll
mo land mourneth. Have we not had mour
but ,;na and lame,tat;on and uoo ono,,
must we now call down the wrat
ler, of the Almighty upon our land b
ana our blasphemies We must lay the ak
T. to the root of the tree if we woulb reforl
'''h socity. 1t will not do much good to he
iere off few p-knots and trim off some
'ok- the superauous branches One profan
70 whiskey-drinking young man does mo
lcea to undermineand ruin the fonuda
an ions Of society than dozen girls, dress,
ma ont in all the fashions that ever haunt
gam the dreams of Partisan milliner. Al
!, for one girl who makes Ounce Of hers
had IA by following foolish fashions, there a
.he two if not more boys that smoke. dri
'.Ne and swear, Who among them, is going
inss represent our town in the Legislature
ores .'' years hence? Who is goiugto be Q
aefe' Governor then ? Who our Presider
All, boys take heed to your ways or y
iile' can never fill any of these statious hon
hite- IL