The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-04
sOMETHIHG ABOUT wOnES.
The Art Instrumentation.

THE AADDENIEa UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN,
There is certain like kind OF affec.
tation very common among pretty
women; and this is the affectatlon OF
not knowing that they are pretty, and
not recognizing the effect of their beau
ty on men. Take woman with be.
wildering eyes, say, of mRddening
size and shape, and fringed with long
lashes that distract you to look at; the
creature knows that her eyes are be-
wildering, as we'll as she knows that
fire burns and that Ice melts; she
knows the effect of that trick she has
with them-the sudden uplifting of the
heavy lid, and the swift, full gaze that
she gives right into mans eyes. She
has practIced II often in the glass, and
knows to u mathematical nicely the
exact hight to which the lid must be
raised, and the exact fxity of the gaze.
She knows the whole meaning OF the
look, and The stirring of mems blood
that it creates; butif you speak to her
of the effect OF her trick, she puts on an
air of EXTREMIST Innocence. and pro.
tests her entire ignorance as to any
thing her eyes may say or mean, and If
you press her hard she Will look at you
in the same way for your own benefit,
and deny at the very moment of of
fence. Various other tricks has she
with those bewildering eyes of hers
each moro perilous than the other to
mems peace; and all unsparingly em-
pIoyed, no matter what the result. For
this is the woman who tlirts to extreme
limits, then suddenly draws up and
says she meant nothing. Step by step
she has led you on, with looks and
smiles, and pretty doubtful phrases al
ways susceptible of two meanings, the
one for the ear by mere word, the other
for the heart by the Accomplishments
of look and manner which are intangi-
BILE; step by step she has drawn you
deeper and deeper tntn the maze where
she has gone before as your decoy;
when she has you safe, she raises her
eyes for tho last time, complains that
you have mistaken her cruelty. and
that she has meant nothing more than
any one else might mean; and what
can she do to repair her mistake? Love
your marry you? No; she is engaged
TO your rival, who counts his thou
sands to your hundreds; and what pity
that you had not seen this all along,
and that you had so misunderstood her!
Besides what Is there about her that
you or any one should love? or all
the many affectations OF women, this
atfectation of their own harmlessness
whe nbeautiful, and of their innocence
OF design, when they practice their arts
for the discontinue OF men, is the most
dangerous and most disastrous. But
what can one say to them !? The very
fact that they are dangerous disarms a
mans anger and blinds his perception
until too late. That men love though
they suffer, is the woman's triumph,
guilt, and conformation; and SO long
as the trick succeeds il will be
practiced. Another atfectstion of
the same family is the extreme
friendliness and familiarity which some
women adopt in their manners towards
men. Young girls affect an almost
maternal tone to boys of their own age,
or a year or two older; and they, too,
when their elders demonstrate, declare
they mean nothing, and how hard 1t is
that they may not be natural. This form
of affectation, once begun, continues
throughout life, being too convenient
to be lightly discarded; and youthful
matrons not long out of their teens as
sumo a tone and way that would about
befit middle age counselling giddY
youth, and that might by chance be
dangerous even then II the Indian
summer" was specially bright and