Litchfield enquirer., 1868-01-09
WHOLE VII [. F NO. aa76

i'd claret tho iaonmond. The bottle of Is, 'o
 Radon tue opera stall, the montb at Ra5S oa Q 1t bnt tbo are qulte within my modest n a".a a. from 1 tbia moment marry, | exile vrnI mxsas
 Hav;ns I,,s easy paradise. , ,g i-,,-1 -''Se' q howevar 'uus exposed his own se1f,sbrou. Is that the wife if 'seks to justify it by sav;na
 for. is not r,o,sl Mnen T. once obtained and na;d complains that altho1eh sbn ' (: ne hrst f sen4ohlng ee4cg ln the wooing days sbe 5otos auotes -.ei .e rr1l rn1arr1age.1 He then adds. '0S'S u me matron Iaow-a-tIavs o,;.o S5l She maiden. She tlirts more tr;pSes nne "altzes more violently. sba JUosuyys , T,ote n tl o9trageously~ sHane # so;5
 hn,,s , e1e other day, speaking of 2 well i-knowr
 seho eSaGy, #ho has not yet ceased to re;o,
 sbn Sne hnows as much slang as "A Sabmen.. , racoa. as sha as much as 8 fish, only it's cnr' ti "ooIi sue gambles like Fox. and Sba.;Ja,
 T9e'ner; she wears Q dress wb;oI, tIa
 aiench 1s police would exclude from tba tan sne "m -Aa0s@e; and it's for jade like tb;s vo,, 1;sh me to give up my crust of bread and md
 Not NIT my shilling whist and my pine
 MoS II | Know it. D. is cynical pbiIoso.
 Pner; put suspect that in some resnects .Afn pr,S SAeIen IS not much overdrawn.
 an1 London Spectator, in commenting
 tb". upun sne aooye paragraph, says too truly
 :uaO iS expresses n rough way a feel
 tug WHICH seems to pervade the whole lit
 e-"Sute ot the subject, sort of disgust
 ana antlpathy for the women of tbe Sov
 which breathes through all sat;r;ca1 ItorSs'
 ture, and which underlies the most ser;o,1s comments on society. k *dtThere .is l oL course, some foundation for charpe so
 9eneIaily brought and so long continued. and lt IS quite as we'll that the women to whom such descriptions apply. should know
 what men really think of them. their ora
 ces and their ways; but the general drift
 or alatfioes like these is to prejudice men
 against marriage. ''as.- r.f AY.l'r~''>s l. The same writer continues: 4 r....s.. 1he eVlls of such satires would not on iy oe endurable, but become good. if only they were true; but our contention is. that
 they are substantially false. that there ney ei was a tune when men might find it easi- er to dlscoVer and marry wives such as they ueslre. There IS, no doubt, in all of our 10 !1lSe clties, a class of women whose main ldea IS show; who neither marry for love nor liking, but plainly for an establish- ment; who are wretched if they have moi maids of their own, and are more extrava- gah5 alter marriage than before; who have all accomplishments and no knowledge. wnose W god IS not even the world, but some 6h1ng lnhnltely lower, Ie monde. There grows apln them hardness of heart. an active seltishness in the pursuit of luxnrv and amusement, which is infinitely worse for their husbands than the "fastness''
 With which they are uniustly accused. What we contend is that these are a, limit. ed class, not half per cent. of the whole.
 'ha5 the great majority of marriageable
 women m England, out of certain circles. are 1ree: of the talnt, are neither fast nor gfeetfy, nor unreasonable; that there are scores of thousands of girls now in Eng lano la unmarried, and unlikely to marry, of the precise kind essayists1 profess to de- slre-girls, lady like, we'll informed. vii ling to accept almost any pecuniary posi- aon not involving the entire extinction of fehnement, and, ready to worship their husbands us ttodn to their hearts content
 Here lies the great mistake of which young men me lar are guilty. when they try to excuse their selfshness by attacking the sex They try to make one-half of one per cent ot the women bear the whole ' pls'lne 1!e o1 thelr own persistence in bache- TOT lie. It IS true that in this country, as n England, that the charge of extraya- gance and folly can in no sense be made With justice against the mass of young wo- men. few who glitter in ball rooms and f'G the opera are open to the charge of friy- olty; but even these are generally wrong ed by those who deny that they have warm hearts, and that they would willingly share smal nal fortunes with men whom they love-
 women are not extravagant by instinct says the Spectatoq. C Let a ma1, fell a wo- man that he has so much, and wants to save out of that, and it will not be her fault II he does not save, but his." It adds, in proof of it's assertion, that the very satir- 1858 allege that the ladies are <'aiways after the curates, who have the most ftmode- rate establishments of any gentlemen in England. Some of our own unmarried clefgymen will acknowledge the force of thls remark ln our own country. # { Ii young men choose the lives of bach elors, with the selfish pleasures which &C., company such lives, let them do it boldly, and without trying to shield themselves by attempting to lay the blame upon the fe- male sex o It IS untrue that they are natu- rally extravagant,, or that they are unwil- ing to live within small incomes. The ma !orlty ot Womenlwho do not get married, in n our own Eastern States, as in England, ! uo not IT, refna1n slngle because they prefer single life, but because the class of Younp men whom they would choose -Amef,' of re. tinement. and culture, are disinelined to marry. We have nothing like the fearful proportion of celibates in this. country which they have in England, but the mum Der IS increasing in the upper circles of so- .cclety year by year. As the demoralizing tendency grows stronger, society will grow weaker and more corrupt The reader will remember that the downfall of Rome was accompanied by. exactly such g. social phe- nofmenon lifi as now exists in England, and is threatened in our own country. Large bounties were offered by the State for mar rlage, and staxesleEied upon bachelors. The reform was undertaken too late. ,,,A An at- tempt was made at Albany few. years ago, to provide" a bounty for working young menEWhen they married Such "a bounty is not, needed, is The evil, has not reached the working classes. ,, The, taint of corrup- tion is just beginning in the metropolis and in other large cities. AN F. Eoe Mdil
 The telegraph does, occasionally make some blunders, almost as queer as stam- .merer. The following, going the rounds, is a- ease in point: lHA merchant who was absent from his home received a telegram informing him of his wife's safe delivery off a