The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-05-18
answers to Correspondents

| The following are some answers to Cor.
respondents i'll the last number Of Saturday
| Night:
AELE.-The brides outfit is always pro.
! vidcd by her owl, relatives.
l.. I.-Ifyou are not good Mt letter writ.
Ing, don't ''pr0pose'' by that means.-
TherS are many suitors who can talk love
quite cr6ditably, yet break down when it
comes to the stationery business. Pen, ink,
| and paper are to their feelings what glass
and becs.waX are to elcctricity-non. con.
| luctors, The heart, unfortunately, has no
brains, and, what is still worse, is apt when
violently excited to obiuscate the head
| Hence, even men Of talent and genius some.
tunes write to their innmo,utas in a strain
which vibratcs between the insane and the
idiotic. Occasionally they arc knocked off
| their intellectual pelestals, and made the
laughing-stocll of society, by temperance
Of their rhapsodies imprint. Plain, matter.
of.fact men of sense generally write the
most effective love letters. They avoid cir.
cumlocution, and tell their stories in sim.
pie, eacncst language land that is the way
to win a woman worth winning. If you can
| initiate the good sense and simplicity of the
latter class, it would be safe for You to pro,
pose in writing; otherwise, TO it by speech.
| l.. K.-The women of heather Rome,
took much better care of their systems than
the Christian ladies of this knowing era take
| e b,, IbA, & hot
gave their lungs and limbs full play. Their
muscles were Systematically developed and
educated, and they were inhibited by law
from all usages and practises likely to i'm.
pair their health or their constitutions
| Hence their sons were the hardest race OF
men that the world had ever scen-hence
| for seven, hundred years Rome triumphed
| over all her enemies. We talk Of the Ro.
man Fathers, but it was to the habits of the
| Roman Mothers. and the yigor engendercd
by those habits, that the Republic and the
| Empire, primarily, owed their greatness.-
Even yet the figures of the Italian woman
show the inherited effect ofthe old training.
| Where else in the world are such magnf
cent female busts to be found as in Italy?
LETrIcE H.-Ihe gentleman $ conduct is
incxcusable. After inviting you toa dance,
he certainly ought to have kept the engage.
mcnt.
CLARA lit seems TO Us that you must
be,rather deficient inwhat is called women 5
. wit" if you could not say something to
I those who told you that the gentlemen re.
lerred to Gloves you to Distraction" and
that he has said 50 in speech and in writing,
which they could report to him aud which
would encourage hint o address you. When
your friend told you that the gentleman had
said the reason he never told his love to
you was because he felt certain that it
"could not be recipracated," you ought to
have baen able to make o reply that, with.
ont in any way compromising your maiden.
ly delicacy, would have given him courage
You to manage the affair in some such way
rs we have indicated.
| AUNT IupY.-Your "soclal circle" is
decidedly on tie wrong track when it 'favors
austcrity of department, and frowns upon
that spirit of fun which makes light of .he
solemn affairs of ile." Such a rule of &C.
ton is fit only for convocation Of owls
Fun is q fine thing. Ii tends to make a
man generous, humane, social and good
II smooths the rough places of life; makes
the disposition fresh and rosy, and mellow
ag the sunshine on Summer landscape
3oattcrs cheerfulness and contentment wher.
ever it goes gives the general world a round
Jolly countenance, and makes manking one
Of the best families eXtant. We vote tog
tul-chcery, genial, graceful fun; and the
more of it we can have at proper time and
place, the better.
FRED H.-The fact that the young lady
: now says she does not want to marry any
body is no evidence that she will always
continue of the same mind You are botl
so young that you can very well afford to
wait a few years, so give her chance tC
: change her views. DO not worry her toe
much with your addresses, else she may
give you flat refusal.
W. C.--If you love The young lady, ant
wish to know whether she reciprocates you
, attachment, the best way " the world t.
lind il out Is tQ inform her Of the state Y