The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-21
For the Sunday CrescenLl
TO GRACE AND MARY.

whew! oh. ye gods and little fishes" what
hornets nest I've raised about my ears withou
intendingit Nay, with the best of intentions dit
pen my article to the young ladies, and am
living demonstration of the saying:
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice,
Take each mans censure, bat reserve thy jadg
ment"
Nov, my good friends (nay venture 80 70 csl
youD do not think thar yol have made out you,
case, with all your finding fault with me and
clubbing my poor address to the young ladies
unchivarous," etc. Yop do not refute nv
statement, nor do you find good excuses for the
general ignorance Of the ladies', the young es.
pecislly, in regard TO sterling English literature
You content yourselves with finding fault with
me and with my poor friend, who is furious Of
the hard names you call him, and nothing has
saved me from dire vengeance at his hands but
the fact that only be and are cognizant of his
identity with the horrid, crusty old pest, the
animal, implumis bipes," etc. As 1t is, fear he
will be more confirmed misogynist than ever.
though you are in the wrong about his being az
cold bachelor" he is a widower who has had
the good luck to bury bad wife.
| really was at loss, last Sunday morning.
upon reading Grace's letter in the CRESCENT, to
q csstigstion; but when picked up the Times
end saw Msry's onslaught, was like the French.
msn Of notable memory. al must put a step 10
this" cred, "let me get last Sundays CREs.
CENT and see what terrible high treason I've
beer guilty Of )" and out rushed for q copy Of
it, astonishing the clerk in the Office very much
by such a demand when there were later papers
TO be had and really can't see that ! was much
out IN what said.
Grace accuses me Of lifting the veil which
covers the sanctuary of domestic conversation
and advises me to go out by myself next time, in.
stead of gong with that horrid pest" She is
much mistaken II she thinks never 60 out by my.
self, assure her. but it isn't to gauge the depths
of ladies' reading. / go for amusement ana re-
recreation and don't often care to test the mental
ability of pretty butterflies that utter round me or
those occasions but deny in toto the soft i'm
pescbmenl about unveiling; did not trench upon
domestieity. We made our rounds where the ladies
are expressly gotten up to shine, and have their
lamps trimmed and burning. ss a rule that we did
not find many lamps very bright was onr loss, not
our fault.
In making up my list, did not entirely abjure
prose writer's find, though did give the pre-
ference 70 poetry from the fact that girls are
more apt TO take 20 that style Of reading. knew
that 10 mention johnson, Buckle, Cousins, Berke-
ly, Bacon, ETC., would be to brighten past recall
the pretty birds, and therefore chose such writer's
would prove most attractive and left 1t to their
influence to lead on to yet more solid reading.
But so far from eschewing Moore, am an ardent
sdmirer OF his works and think that he Ia without
parallel in depicting love and Grace can be no
more devotee st passions shrine than is her
humble servant Claire" Yet / cannot say
should exactly choose Don Juan or Moore's love
poems for the reading of my young daughters,
were so best as TO have any; and though ] do
cot doubt the female capabiity Of discriminating
between " gems and glass, ," more especially il ia
articles o. bnolterie there Is but little need OF
tie opportunity being given to the young.
Nov, Gear ladies', with all your defense of the
young ladies, prompted by your fey-te i,t ssre
alone suppose. do you NOT thint n wouId be bet
Ter 10 fairly look the truth "a the face and call
their attention to the fact o. their ignorance and
in gentle manner advocate their striving 10 cuI-
fivate taste for readip,y of a nature that would
improve and strengthen their minds and make
them more fitted toI their duties at home as wives
and notherH, and in society IS its ornaments? I
can OILY say IN conclusion that though bow with
all due humility to your censure, as courtesy 10
your sex demands, cannot cry peccGui, for [ do
not think have sinned in my lecture to the young
ladies', and feel grated to find that have succeed
cd IN soaring up TWO least well acquainted with
classic lore as 10 relieve them from my censure
fou Will permit me lone word more" a. minis.
tiers always say when they intend fifty; its this
am more than astonished at the penetration You
displayed N discovering my sex. for / really
thought had masked to some purpose but find
like the SIS under the lions skin, nv voice be.
trsyed me. Your humble servant and friend.
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