The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09
WOMAN; BY A MAN.
Woman is q great thing.


woman is heap prettier than man though
not as active.
Woman cannot hoe, ditch, spade. roll cotton on
The levee, be captain of a steamboat or keep a
ten-pin alley; yet she can sew on buttons and
look sweet to an extent that is positively alarm.
ing. .,..-..
IN the way of mother, now, woman is hard to
beat; and she is not bad when 1t comes TO a wife,
but as for grandfather, or even sn old bachelor
uncle she is utterly worthless. She can't ill the
bill at all. In fact, she don't know how.
IL Is no use to try TO divide woman into two
classes as some fool once did. saying they all
mig 1t be SpsdeE ne qs seVdd t BE
naming them first class and second class like the
steam cars.
MOI Woman is rnsuy. She Is multitudinous
and mulufarious, and she will not be bound within
snch narrow limits She cxclaims aloud for a
-"boundless continent" and sneers cuttingly at
any "pent up Utica" She is expensive he
wants scope-and she'll have il, see if she donti
Among our loving brethren, north of Mason and
Dixon, womanis emancipation has taken fresh
start, and maybe as the pure light of Msssachu-
sets morality and the edifying coruscations of
Yankee intellect shall penetrate into the obfus.
Gated gloom Of our Southern barbarism, etc.,
etc.-wby, our women will take fresh start too.
In which case can only murmur to myself, God
save us
II wanted to ticket them of in convenient lots
"to suit purchasers y (which don't) should 90
at IL something like this:
a.
monds at breakfast and talks loud 10 the waters.
she don't mind glass Of chsmpagne-or two, or
three for the matter of that. She uses the small.
est OF bohnets on the street and the hugest of
trains IN the house. IL old, she paints; IL young
she slangs; but we haven't many in this country.
They chiefly require cold climate to flourish well
The Opera Womsn-rhese are in great abund-
ance here though at present they are out of
season: They are fond OF music-st distance
and of fattery-close at hand. Consequently
they listen attentively-to the conversation, and
are heavy on the bouquet. Their favor;e weapon
is the doube-barrel opera glass. With this they
are very expert, and have known one to bring
down her bird by snap shot clear across the
house. In the main, however, they are gentle
torturers and though il is rather teasing still If
you want to get angry don't look in their eyes or
youI be apt to forget your bad temper.
Then there is the Canal street woman with the
killing chignon and the kid CATERS: the Prytania
street woman in white muslin and blue ribbons:
the small and early with SASH fan, pearls and
pulled hair the Christ Church with large parasol
ana smah prayer book; the bouquet woman who
says pretty lady; /" the boarding hou5e woman
who makes hash; the chdn6res gdrnies woman
who Is generally "black" or TAM: the Indian
woman who wears a hat and sells moccasns the
country woman In plaid shawl and a scoop bon
net the 6eggar woman with baby, and the beer.
saIoon woman with a mug; the market woman.
lhe mllllners apprentice, and the Jew woman
The Jew woman can sell you anything You want
or don't want-at quicker notice and for smaller
price man any other two women Of my acquaint-
anee. They are numerous about the markets
and, IN fact. don't think market would be
market, at least not New Orleans market, unless
It had large assortment of the Jew women on
hand.
Then last Of ALL and sweetest, is the home
woman, mother, sister, sweetheart wife the
woman who is true to you through lite, and. at the
last, whose beauty, whose goodness, whose care
Ano whose tenderness make the past pleasant in
recollection and the future bssful in hops of
heaven and a common immortality.