The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-30
Ladies' READING.
LADIES PETS.

pets. The name IS doubtless suggest
i've enough, yet it Is liable 10 many
Interpretations. A ladys pet may
mean anything. A dog, a bird, a
horse, or a squirrel, might be as easily
understood by the term as man
Yet il Is certain that when We talk of
ladies pets, we mean nothing more
nor less than men. Iiefe IS vast
variety OF ladies pets. Il IS not to be
disputed that there are some ladies
who insist upon making pets of men
worthy q better fate We have moth
ing to do with them. The hapless
man who is forced into being the re-
cipient of the smiles and glances and
signs Of general feminine Partially
is TO be pitied, not despised. Those
who know what lie has 10 endure viii
feel for him. 1t is not as if he could
help himself. He may have achieved
a reputation for doing what he never
even so much as meditated. He may
be good looking, without any desire
that his looks should invite so penal
provision. He may have a becom-
ing address, or waltz neatly, or have
white hand, or small foot, or pros
poets, or money The steady purpose
with W. ID ladies insist upon petting
him Is Dreadful. He unwittingly
provokes his fate wherever he goes.
We do not say that there are many
such men. Yet few who know life
well can have failed to detect their
existance. They are admirable in a
multitude OF points. They have I'M
consciously committed the sin of be-
ing pleasing, and they have to expiate
their error by enduring the petting of
ladies. With these we have nothing
to do. We repeat, that they are to be
pitied, not despised
But the creature upon whom we
very different kind. 1t is obvious
that ladies are not silly enough to
make pets of men who have not one
single merit with which they can re-
commend themselves. Generally,
however, it will take one long time
to discover what this merit is. This
is only natural, considering that most
often this merit happens to be ques-
ton of personal appearance; and
tastes, we all know, are so curiously
prone to differ. The most ordinary
kind of ladies pet is the Individual to
be met out at evening parties. A
quick observer can detect him at a
glance. There he stands, with his
marvelously parted hair, his immacu-
late neektie, which kept him such
dreary while before the looking glass
a simpering smile upon his. lips, the
precursor of food ofssilly.talk when.1
occasion shall demand him to prove
his right to connect himself with his
kind by the exercise of his tongue.
Watch him for few moments after
he has entered; he stands awhile look
ing around him, alternating his
chances into the nearest mirror. Now
he approaches a group of ladies'
There is no difficulty in his address.
There Is sober certainty of being
dellghtedly received which animates
his manner with species of imperti-
nence truly commemorate. By-and-
by you will have some of these ladies |
tapping him with their fans. Wherev-
er he goes he is greeted with parted |
lips disclosing shining teeth-false or
He considers he has a right |
to display that kind of frivolous Off
elousness which, in most men, would |
be resented as a liberty. He resem- I
Dles very bad sort of spoiled child. |
He has generally penetration enough. |
however, to know hi> friends from his |
oes. Some girls he would no more
iare approach than a Channel pilot I
you'd approach the Goodwin Sands.
Ii he strikes upon good sense he is
shipwreeked.-Lond0n Re
''eto.