The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-08-21
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST g, 1867: r. =......@
The Social -EVil--ItS Cure.

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The Social -Evil--Its Cure. ;
The Cincinnati Times, IN com
menting upon this topic, which is
now attracting SO much attention,
says: .. .,-......-,.. .r-....-, ..--.'
The current literary: and social
diversions Of women in, the first
circles. are only calculated to- rem
der; them sEattractive- children"
though too many men are found
who do not respect in them the
purity. Of childhood. = 1t is because
Of the weakness which such q life
tnficts upon them that they be
come as nothing" in the hands of
a certain class Of attractive men,
whose chief delight. is to play with
them, for such stakes as are easily
swept from the board by those
who are restrained neither by con:
science, by fear, or by policy: =,
= There is a. acclasssof idle women,
both single and those who have
little respect for their marital re-
1ations, who imagine themselves
So potent over the weakness of
men that they can make eonqdests
at ftherpleasure. " They glory in
such conquests, and are just vain
enough to suppose they have made
a conquest; when in fact, those
whom. they thougRtst to have. CON
91ered have. only been. playing
with these attractive children" -;
Most men know how to deal With
:coqueftes, and too often the man
isfound Who pays them dearly for
their pains. Napoleon~the Great
said that statesmen should not be;
among literary or seien-,
tifc men, nor wives: among CO.
,eaettes: = Men generally, know
how to steer clear fnthese daz-
zlingz edamsels, The sex, should
repudiate, them as thoroughly, as
they should repudiate the CORES
ponding class Of. the masculine
gender, who aim at conquests with
far baser motives. "
= .,Sf you marry a woman. said.
the Roman Consul to his 500, slet'
IT be one, Who has seen enough Ito
the setting Of a meal
of victuals,; taste enough to dress
herself pride enough to- wash be-
fore breakfast, and sense; enough.
to hold, her. tongue when she has
nothing to -sayz'sga>.
: The great nesd Of the times is
for a.system of morals applied as:
zigidly to man as to woman. There
Should Sc no letting down Of the
virtue required of woman, but man
should be lifted to it's level. Be-;
sides this, ,1the2code ofnferals pre-,
sesribed' for woman is not, half
broad enough. Female. morals, as,
.pepularIy understood, are all IN
in one werd-chastity. No,
system,ef practical duty as :to, the
utilities !of1Re, the preservation Of
health, etc, etc., to the scandal Of
the. insipid morahsts, who have
been the. Instructors Of mankind,
is.taught. =
That is all-good, sofar as. it goes;
but the neglect of the solid duties
OF life occasions more violation of
the virtue So earnestly insisted
upon than all other, causes com
bined. The; truly dutiful woman
who has good health is. :indepen-
dent enough to preserve herself
Not 50 with the agenteel," who
have been brought UP perfect
.stran gers to practical duty, and
hot qualified to employ their time
n any beneficial manner: As said
'ofthe Devil, that Of all the men
he Efshed for he liked, the .idler
best, because he DIT the bare hook
SOFT may be said of the idle wo-
man in a still more emphatic sense.
While our male moralists hold
woman to such. strict chastity,
and cast her off unless she be
above suspicion, why do not our
female moralists exact the same
fealty to virtue from man ? 1t is
not necessary for him to be above
suspicion, not by a considerable.
There is no prospect Of mans re-
laxing his views-as to woman, and
we see no other mode Of selfde-
fence for woman than to act on
the principle of sauce for the
goose shall be sauce also for the
gander. Under the present social
regime the women are all the time
cherishing the serpents that sting
them to death.
esAlas when evil men are strong,
No life is good, no pleasure long,
wEIder. will Won have a drink of