The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-11-15
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Interesting to Bachelors,
The Style of Men the Women
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OA4correspondent Of the Cleveland
Leader discourses at length on the
subject indicated in the above head
We quote:
All men, unless there are some who
have no self-respect, desire to be at
tractive to women, and use various
means to accomplish it. One swing
ing a cane, wears fancy neck-ties
fbuys ths style Of hat, whether
$ble or nDt, ,spptsShis feet into thin,
jfhiny, tight bopts, md fsncies, Ia Ia
Willis, that hs4is Sinnin Z hesrts.A
Another talks largely about bust.
ness, his plans, his speculations, hi,
travels and his common sense, think.
ing that after he has impressed wo-
men with sense Of his greatness and
their littleness, that half the victory
is won.
Another raises his hat about foot
from his head on windy days, and
bows his body about three feel
tsoward the earth; srushes to pick up q
handkerchief as if the fair owner was
drowning and he was about 70 save
her; never speaks of anY,n1atter bu,
what he supposes will please her, and
he almost Invariably sppposes wrong
ly; puts compliment here and there;
ignores the fact that these are vital in.
terests to both as regards society, city
and country, and talks of the last
concert, theater, opera and marriage.
Neither Sex ever mentions babies
1t is questionable 70 speak Of them,
questionable to have them, unfash-
ionable to be seen showing any inter
est in them; and, by and by, the
whole thing is becoming so unfash-
ionable we shall not have any Amer
lean children, except few born in
the extreme country, or in back al
leys, who did not learn the fashion
in time. Nearly the whole popula,
ton win Be Dutch and Irish. Y
&Another Rorks hard al the week,
boards 10 aIeheap place that he may
save five or eight dollars, spends two
for concert, three for O ride, and
three more for supper, using that
dollar he took from his employers 8
drawer so as to have a surplus in
case of an emergency, paying all this
for a girl, who, accustomed to it for
a half dozen years from a half-dozen
sources, never expresses or feels any
gratitude. He keeps his pockets full
Of coniectioneries to be generous,
and this young lady and .that say,
"Is9tit lfuhte ride with Smith ?''
but never say, Wouldn't it be fun to
get Smith for a husband?" They
say, rather, 81 don't believe he will
support wife very well; he spends
too much" There, issmucha seuti;:
mental talk and sentimental Affection,
aud really much pure love, but yUung
women, for the most part, have, and
rightly too, a "bread- and butter"
side of the question, and are always
asking, Can he support me ?"
Some men, in the above way, and
some in higher and better, are doing
..hese things NTH lone aim, viz the
admiration of SOCIETY," which is to
say the admiration of women. That
women like some of these things
is not for moment disputed. They
like neatly kept neck, a well comb
ed head, a good fitting boot. They
like to have man-talk just enough
about himself to show that he has
some sense and some business pow
er. They like hat raised slightly,
and a bow IS though men honored
tlie-sex because they had mothers or
sisters or wives. 9hey ike to have
a man occasionally give them an in
expensive ride. or take them to a
concert or supper, if they, by so
doing, are not going beyond their
means; but they never respect him
for doing that. Indeed, they think
men really foolish, lacking sense and
judgment, in spending SO, much up,
on them when It should be saved fof
a family in the future, The head OF
which every man living expects some
time to be. They like a man who
talks to them as though they were in
tellgent human beings, or as though
he desired to make them such, who
dntroduees science, orlart ortratel
What If they are not conversant with
such matetrs, you cannot afford to
dwarf your mind to make it compan-
ionable with theirs.
An erroneous idea has crept into
society, that it-net- polite to speak
upon any subject with which the 9TH
er is not familiar. 1t may be thus be
tween men and men, and women and
women, but never between the sexes.
Every man of observation knows that
ttRomen-are ike children in-this- re.
spect; glad to learn, proud 10 be
made the recipients Of knowledge,
proud that sensible, educated men
take time and pains. to talk with
them sensibly. Men might fear that
women would feel a sense of shame
at their ignorance on the contrary.
they pacify themselves by saying.
1--WE are women, and, therefore, not
expected to know such things" l
was at a tea table where an educated
young man happened to mention Cic-
ero. The hostess, a lovely woman
annexcellent housek2per, epre'
bidh Z 18th red Rrace at She neAest
III 0he& inquired 'fWhoT ss though
I the hame was strange to her. He,
with manly kindness, in way that
never intimated that she was ignor-
ant, spoke of the great orator and
Of the exciting times ia which be
htedE and acted, and xkns oHe1lH
history was made q delightful topic
of conversation 9Iq MOO
/ saw the same young man talking
with a famous belle. BY tact he
drew their remarks upon mineralogy
He told her of his cabinet, and ms
knowledge of the science, and she
Who had heretofore talked brfli1n'
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