The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-02
a. HEAD WRITES ABOUT wOM.s.
HOTEL DE VEAL, PARIS (KY.),
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opposite sects who has ever seen 'em, az don't
like 'em, more or less! That man don't flop bis
wings that can trooly say so. | don't hesitate to
express my private opinion publicly in their favor
Why, if it hadn't been for women, never should
have had rag to my back or q dollar into ny
pocket! My good mother was q woman and
Arsmnts is another. They were both particular
friends Of mine. Gas have often informed the
public, Arsmints is a step-Wife of Dine.)
In order to trace up the origin and history Of
woman, we shall have to lcOk back, although
woman was once turned into pillow of salt FOR
looking back Her name WAS Lots wife. The
first woman was Mrs. Adam, who vas made out Of
a rib, and women have been rib bone ever since.
(GOsk.) There have been lots OF spsrerbs from
that day TO this. Mrs. Adam ia to blame for
laIge family Of children, one half Of whom. thank
the good Lord, have been giruls. She "raissd
Cain" soon as she got Atle, and they In time
raised Ned" There is little snake story Goa.
nected with Mrs. Adam, the full particulars of
which can be found elsewhere; for sail by all
respectable booksellers, and which is bound TO
sell.
Mrs. Adam lived happily with her husband, in
Eden, for long length of period, but finally she
and her other hdLf we're wholly turned out ON &C.
count of eating the best winter apples. At first
she didn't care fig for dress, bat she couldn't
long resist the temptation to go to Stewards"
and Madame DemoTest's, " from which time dress
was fashionable until the intradnetian and prn-
QuclOn OF the :" BLACK CroOk," Wnen Ewes OriRtnal
style was adopted ss near as possible. am not
writing this as Z" take Off on Mrs. Adam, for
o. .. .Ae Pstind of which write" Eve had nothing
TO take oil She was an eVe-sngehc creature.
But let us tedUe Mrs. Adam, and look at the
women who have come after her, although they
are not behind her 10 any sense. Take Joan d. Arc
tlke Florence Nightingale, take Annie Dickinson
if you want her; ldon't! Then there is " Mary
queen of Scots" and Sal Ammonia, Charlotte
Corday and Charlotte Cushman; Charlotte Russo
and Charlat-dn! Also, " Black ant ann Mad
anne Destael, and Mrs. Beecher's Toe; and Queen
Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey. James Buchanan, L1-
cretia BoTgis aud Mrs. Cunningham. The two
latter were in favor Of women's rights, and we're
very nojed women. But let US lCok at the women
of our own time, and see what they have done pro
bono p1tblicO.
There's Mrs. P, of New York, who wore $780,.
600 worth of diamonds at the opening Of an opera
house, the other evening; and Madame e., who
wore $4,000 worth on the same occasion. Amt
hey women of l1Orth? Then there are others
who are not worth as much, as the following item
from a newspaper in moral Boston shows:
"Quilp saw amHiHeT's placard in Gotham which
reads Ike an ungrsmmatical advertisement Of
different sort Of shop Cheap women stays
heTe!'n
These paragraph, however, find on careful
inspection TO refer 70 portion Of a lady's ward
robe, a matter that have never looked into :
There are women who havn't the diamonds
but are jewels ia themselves A woman should
be Ike an opal, man like diamond. An opal
it has one by its ever changing colors. It's deli
cate pinks and greys, and roses and lilacs, aud
pearl tnts, are only 50 many expressions of the
spirit within, and the charm would be lost utterly
lost, if it baZed forth. IL would then be incl.
lectual, instead Of intelligent, and fanciful aud
spiritual, and caprciOus, and versatile, and new,
always new now seeming so delicate as to be
dimmed by breath, and anon giving glimpses,
but still yelled gmpses, OF fire as strong that
which burns in the adamantne diamonds heart.n
~ : N these ma
dangers had passed, and loved her because
wanted to-" She is a woman, take her for all
in all | meier shall look upon her like again. In
fact, there isn't another woman in the wide wide
world just edzacty like her. She kisses me when
] come home at night, and she kisses me and Dor.
rows all my money when | leave home in the
morning.
= tbs sweet to know there is an eye that marks
c nil G and grows blig liter when We csmen
And then how nice it is to have some pretty
little hand TO place your dressing gown and slip
pers, and turn out your coffee and handle a
broomsiick properly. Anybody that thinks
Areminta can't handle q brOom-stick ought to
see her VIXEN she gets q notion that am the dirt
to be "cleaned out.n IL strikes me abe under
stands il / can't even kiss the serving maid bat
hat she will get Jealous, aud she makes lasting
Impression upon me for little thing like that.
There is one kind Of house furnishing wares ia my
hOuse that WOuld like 10 see rear ont, and them
is family jars. They not the thing 10 preserve
domestic happiness ia.
love And then to have a pretty woman love
you in return! o, It's the dawn of new and
beautiful existence aoHery path in Elysian
fields soothing syrup, TO which Mrs. Win
Slows Is nothing ia comparison as nice Ii
makes one feel as If he owned corner lots in
Wall street, expected legacy. slept in fairy
land, dined at "Delmonico's," and had a lot OF
little cupids without clothes on tickling the soes
OF bis feet with feathers from the birds of Par.
sdise!
Woman Ia . .poal ,vitbon4 ,-;,os. N r,or.l 81
physical blessing personal pronoun. As
& Ich. she should be kindly treated, slightly In.
dulged, and never diyulged.
- III that lays his hand moon a woman, in the
way Of knsntss is wretch whom tvere Base nAery
cali GOV aTd.n
And generally, the man that does so, gets the
worst Of it. Verdict Of the jury, Served him
right
There is as much difference in women, however.
as there is in anybody. Some are like roses I'm
TO blush unseen" Others are never seen to
blush
Some love nobody but themselves most, and
some love not wisely but well"
Some OF them are patterns Of goodness, while
others are merely good patterns!
Many women are great thinkers, writer's and ar.
5steS ; snd many OF them drdl1 well and paint
wei! One dretC me Once-t towards her! aud |
got painted before she let me go kissed her,
but the paint did not agree with my pallet! She
changed color!
Although women are said to be Gods arst
pest gut 10 man, the selecuOn Tor Wlfe Is some.
thing Ike a " fret best gift LOTTERY When
you 60 counting, go " Washn' day" or bAkin'
day." or durn' house ceanin'!" If she don't
send word she's mot in, - but receives you a. she
IS, without seeming mortified or embarrassed at
her personal appearance before you, depend on it
that woman will make good wife. detest TO
hear a woman say she "never works." or she
don't like Homework or she " don't know how
10 do anything to her, or one VINO il constant
y spOlogisng about her dress, or her cake or her
puddiDgs, when she knows that they all are very
good.
But with all their faults love them still /" and
he stiiler they are, the more love them don't |
snow how We could do without them, or how !
'hildren could eitherl They are dear creatures, |
,specisly to their husbands. They ara trea. |
lures which man should never wish TO bury to
leep.
Woman's the star that should light 10 fame,
To hfpuiness wealth, and an enviabie same
From Harm she's with virtues rae,
AID many husband fishes she had stay there
AN Of which is respectfully submitted" by
dollars aud senssD |
p. SIT ] have said anything in the going |
hat an sorry for, ! an willing TO be forgiven.
=. p. Sit will be useless for " the sex" to |
eek revenge upon me, as l wear q wig.
A. II.