The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-08-14
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friendly Intimacy viii aoy youpg
mao .i'e faheics. and though .he
rnay hoi be free from iillle s,s
Aed eoodhamoted joking, there !.
10 lblury 70 oher from such intimacy
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enjoy letself after that fashion, and
20 have what she eaIls good lime
with young men. A dozen such
lniimAeies do not stand In her way
when thcrc comes some real adorer
who means 20 marry her. and is
able % do 40. She rides with these
friends, walks with them, and cor.
responds with them. She goes out
70 balls aud picnics with them, aud
afterwards let's herself 10 with a
latch.key, while her papa aad man,
ipa are abed and asleep, with per.
feet security. II there be much 10
be said against the practice, there is
something, also, TO be said for it.
Girls on the continent Of Europe,
on the other hand, do not dream Of
making friendship with any man,
! A cousin with them is as much out
ofthe question as the most perfect
stranger. In strict families girl is
hardly allowed to go out with her
brother, and llave heard ofmothers
who thought it indiscrect that q
father should be seen alone with
his daughter at a thcater. All
friendship between the sexes must,
under such a code, be looked for
ward to as post-nuptial joys. Here
: in England there is a something be.
twixt the two. The intercourse be-
! tween young men and girls is free
enough to enable the latter to fec
how pleasant 1t is to be able to for.
: get for a while conventional res
traints, and to acknowledge how
, Joyous a thing it is to indulge socia
intercourse In which the ample de
light Of equal mind meeting equa
mind IN equal talk is just enhanced
by the unconscious remembrance,
that boys and girls when they NEE
; together may learn to love-. Their
/ is nothing more sweet IN youth thai
v this, nothing more natural, nothini
! more fitting-nothing, indeed, NOR
! essentially necessary ior Gods pur
. poses with his creatures. Neverthe
i less, here with us, that is the restri,
\ ton, and it is seldom that a girl ca
4 allow herself the full flow Of frient
Y ship with a man who is not o.
ia enough to be her father, unless he
her lover as well as her fficnd.-
.. anthony ToUopc. '@'''' "a"
N VIRTUES AND VICES OF pARIsIAN woME
l. A correspondent gives the follow
ing description of women in h
q French capital: rs ~.
Ie Il
o "The women here look best b.
K tween nineteen and twenty. Aft,
a twenty-five they grow tawny an
h shriyeled, and old women in Fran,
'e are often too homely to live-whie
may be the reason they live 50 lon
L They don't become thin and owe
o spiritualizedlike the Americans, n,
y stout and prosaic like the Ehglis
y They wither up and darken, uni
IL they bear a close resemblance I
r. smoked herrings. The fairest !
y the sex are the demi -mondists al
er cocottes, for the reason, no doul
that they are exposed to more tenn
~ tations through their attractivene
r. and vanity. No good looking q
rt can be, kept in any hotel, store
.is shop in Paris for any length Of tim
ID She is always persuaded to. lead Il
"a life Of a lorette rather than earn h
'g bread by honest industry. So mu
,,g il this the case that pretty girls G
DC hardly get q place here; for It,
'' known that they, cant stay in.
of more than q few days. Their yani
Ist is 20 easily excited they !
of singularly sentimental whate,
". their station IA life-that when ssol
'er designing fellow tells them they |,
he beautiful, and gives them d trink
nd their head isfairly turned, and til
a. usefulness as clerks is gone forev
Of r"Homely servants and saleswom
rts and accountants are in demand, d
D.. the demand Is freely met, I jud
ay from the number Of sallow, Gro
ny eyed, wrihkled, ungainly creatu
rta I encountered III the cafes, sh,
W and theaters.@ = Itspeaks III for