Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-06-25
The eit Of Affecta.ion.

There ls q certain like kind Of afectation
very common among pretty women; and this
Is the atfectation of not knowing that they
arc pretty, and not recognizing The effect of
their beauty on men. Take a woman with be.
wllderlng eyes, say, ola maddcning size and
shape, and fringed with long lashcs that dis
tract you to look at; the creature knows that
her eyes are bcwildering, as we'll as she knows
that fire burns and that ice melt 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 a
mans eyes. She has practiced it often in the
glass, and knows to q mathematical nicely
the exact height to which a lid must be raised,
and the exact fixity of the gaze. She knows
the whole meaning of the look, and stirring
of mems blood that it creates; but if YOU
speak to her of the effect of her trick. she
puts on an air of the EXTREMIST innocence,
and protests 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 her own benefit and deny at the
very moment of offence. Various other tricks
has she with those bewildering eyes of hers
each more perilous than Che other to mems
peace; and all unsparingly employed, no mat
ter what the result. For this is the woman
who firts to her extreme limits, then sudden
ly draws up and says she meant nothing.
Step by step she has led you on, with looks
and smiles, and pretty phrases susceptible of
two meanings, the one for the ear by the mere
word, the other for the heart by the occom-
%pllshments of looks and manner which are
intangible: step by step she has drawn you
deeper and deeper into the maze where she
has gone before as your decay; 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 you I? marry
you? No; she is engaged to your rival, who
counts his thousands; and what a pity that
you had not seen this all along, and that you
should have so misunderstood her? Besides,
what is there about her that you or any one
should lover OF all the many affectations
of women, this atfcctation of their own heart
~lcssncss when beautiful, and Of their inno-
ocnco of design when they practice their arts
for the discomforture o men, is tho most dan.
gerous and the most disastrous.
But what can one say to thcm7 The very
fact that thoy arc dangerous disnrms a mans
anger and blinds his perception until too late.
That men love though they suffer is woman's
triumph, guilt, and condemnation and SO
long as the trick succeeds It will be practioed.
Another affectation Of the same family is tho
extreme friendliness apd familiarity which
some women adopt in their manners toward
men. Young girls affect an almost maternal
tono to boys of their. own ago, one year or SO
older and they, too, when their elders remon-
strate, declare thoy mean nothing, and how
hard it is they may not be natural. This
form of afectation, once begun, continues
throughout life, being too convenient to be
lightly discarded; and youthful matrons not
long out Of their teens assume a tone and way
that would about boft middle ago counsel
ling giddy youth, and that might by chance
BIO dangerous even then if tho "Indian Sum-
mer' was specially bright and warm.
PAsuUNoE OF JoD.-Evcrybody il in the
habit ov Dragging on Job and Job did
have considerable ~pashuncc, but did he ever
keep a districk skulo for s dollars q month
and board around or run a kountrco noosopa.
per?
Did he over reap lodged oats down hill on
a hot day, and have all his gallus buttons bust
oph at once.
Did ho ever have tho jumping toothaohc
and be made tend tho babe while his wife
was over to Parkinoss to a tcasquall2
Did no ever got up in the mornin' auful
lri, and tuff it 8 miles before breakfast to
get q drink, and find that tho man kept n
temperance house?
Did no over undertake to milk q kicking
hoffcr, with a bushy tail, in fly time, and
n a lot?
Did he ever sot onto a litter Of kittens in
tho old ro~cking.chair, with his summer pan.
taloons on
Ifhc could du all these things, and praise
tho Lord at tho same time, all I hayo tassa.y
IL, "Bully for Job"
rJosA BiVings.