The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-30

! where dog, cat, dandy, an actress
and "a poet, may be tanned to exist il
unity and peace. She cannot under
stand that no man of mind or brains
| could survive such an atmosphere OF
compauiouship, and that ir he tried for
1 ever so short "A time his lite would be-
/ come as burden to him.
I In fact. the susceptible woman has
/ not particle Of jealousy, and therefore
cannot get into her head the fact that
/ without jealousy there is no real alice
/ tion. She must be allowed the credit ol
I being anna BILE, and anliHble in win
/ ming, spontaneous manner, Which arises
1 from "A thoroughly honest nature. She
! retains longer than artiul or scheminR
\ women the mindgraces which are SO
attractive to thoughtful persons. Her
motives OF action are never mean, and
will, even when cut up, bear INSPECTION.
I She is dangerous TO fllrt with, unless 10
n man who makes flirting an artistic
| pursuit, and who has no hesitation in
deliberately beating and bruising his
partner in the game when her
| sex gives him an advantage
over her. She is dangerous TO n
sincere man, simply because if he
sees far enough he can see that there is
Il possibility of winning pure and
| emotional soul from mere ef1iuence
of susceptibility which is bestowed al
| most tindiscrimiuately to a simple undi-
Nlutu anu tACtpklO4dl uutllA anu AhC
chances against realizing this poSSibili-
ty are so slight that the pursuit is be-
yond measure disheartening. When
he thinks the fortress is won, and the
flag pulled down, he finds another
hoiSted and the guns shouted 10 receive
his next approach. II is better for hun
to admire than love the susceptible
girl; hut if he is TOOL he can accept
her friendship, and be put in the Happy
Family cage 10 which we before al
iuded. Susceptible women, IL they can
be caught and broken IN by Kindness
make the best wives and mothers; but
unless cured before marriage they are
never healthy afterwards. A married
susceptible woman who brings to her
husbands house the frienus OF her
youth without consulting his views, is
IN a bad way for him and for herself.
The susceptible girl possesses consid-
erable artistic and often literary in
stincIs. She is generally fond OF paint
ing or addicted TO music. Those Orna-
ments oil life serve TO aid her in round
ing and sofIening the crudeness OF the
mental pictures with which she so
constantly entertaius herself. Her love
for an art, indeed, may extend 10 its
professors. The power of ringing
tenor voice over the susceptible woman,
or the fascination exercised by the per-
formances of n superior pianist, tell
ing actress, or a melancholy, handsome,
and poetic preacher, is something won
derful. THIS il is which constitutes her
weakness; the want of Il capacity for
measuring the relative value of the
men and women with whom she is
brought in contact, and the habit of at
tribuUing to them everything that she
would desire them to have in order TO
perfect her own momentary ideal. The
susceptible woman is one OF the best
aud most genuine of creatures, and no
81 Rnr
hHps the unlucky adventurer who has
attempted her conversion. 1t is impos-
sible not 10 pity, 10 respect, and to ad-
mire her, Tor the sutierings she pro.
vokes, for the sympathetic instincts
which entails those troubles, and for the
unhInchIng tirmness with which she
continues 10 torture herself periodically.
She may, indeed, come all right in the
end ii experience gives her sufficiently
strong doses Of Irienus to create u
wholesome disbelief in them; aud il she
finds man who has courage, perse-
vcrance, and regard for her strong
enough to eunble hun to undertake
successfully the tnsk of turning the
drift OF her wandering and capriCiOus
affections in his own direction.
Her faults lean To virtues side, and
have nothing OF the organized hypo-
crisy OF 81 flIrt. And yet IA hirt may
prove much less difficult to tame. The
Will tIJby AHc Sell
marty TdOm of quArrelling wi so keen
II relish that in nine cases out of ten
she makes, after a short acquaintance,
au opportunity for indulgIng in this
sIimulHIive entertainment. She likes
the sensation OF being desolate and be-
reaved Tor just such an interval as will
bring on gentle hHnkering for
novel intimacy. Those who will not
sIudiously reckon up her peculiariIies
are certain to tire of them. Her COM
pensative qualities must be placed TO
her credit, audth sum is often so COM
plicaIe and disIracting that it bewiIders,
ihwarts, veXes, and finally disgusts
any one who ventures upon its solu
ton. Love now a-days, IL there is
such thing, must be critical, and the
women who are unmarried by men
who do not love them, with views
which extend beyond mercenRTy or
passionate motives, generally become
the wives of soJs, of nonentitIes, or of
fools. The susceptible woman lOsesin-
liuitely more than she gains by her
emotional dissipAtiOns. They can no
IL ore be followed for any length OF
time with impunity than drinking can
be carried to excess without degruda-
ton Regulated affections are as ne
cessnry as regulated morals, and when
II mind has been spent aud frittered for
years on a number of objects, there
must be II period when it will not re-
spund to any feeling, and will remain
iuert and ColOrleSs, without aim or
hope, having satiAted itself on The
most uuwhUIesUme diet which the
world could prepare for it.