The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-07-17
Cam n Woman keep n Secret

Cam 81 Woman keep n secrets
"WOMAN can't keep secret is a
favorite saying among those who think
they know but as / have opportunities
for knowing something about this mat
ter, mean to do something at least to-
wards setting the world right. My dear
gentlemen friends, the delusion is On the
other side, and all comes, as the popular
saying about women always do, from
mistaking for revelation what simply
conjecture. Because woman bnzzrs
and futters around yon, and talks on
sorts of subjects. and takes you one side,
and with an air Of most profound conf
dencr, tells Won ahou: >"u'e matter v"u
would never have thought Of mentioning,
YOU go about supposiug She has """n'-
muned with YOU Of ali that was in h"
heart You blind bat. she las done all
that, depend upon it, only to max" YOU
the binder. I he mos, trnaciou. and nj
tcrly secrctiye of all secrrtkreprrF i a
woman. Give her secret worth keep
ing, OF one she wishes, either to your
sake OR her own, 10 keep and all the
powers of earth and air cannot WRIST ii
from her. Leave 1t in her own hands pn-
tirely, and the trial will never conle--tor
no living creature will then suslrct size
hes it.
Ofall the men know full half GO
through the world parading, by face and
act, the very secrn. they are tondly sup
posing is hidden in the deepest rtcesses
ot the heart When a man has secret
it looks out his eyes, it sits upon hia
lips, and, by strong compression, must
be held there it dances before him when
he walks, and, ifhe sleeps, it breaks from
him in unconscious CALCULATIONS. He
goes so wide oft in his conversation that
one may constantly cry warm, warm"
knowing that the place to look for it is
at the point most distant, Now, if he has
a female friend of ordinary feminine wit,
she knows at first sight that he has such
secret, and either of set purpose, or in
stiuctively and unconsciously, she will
set to work to guess it and, whether she
means it or not, she aciN guess it. She
can't help it. He will be forever holding
it up before her eyes, and sternly crying
hands off," He will talk round and
round it until she knows the exact size of
the circle of which it is the centre. She
cannot help knowing it is hidden in the
very word he aoiN not speak. After be
has :autalized her with it until she knows
it as she knows his face, very likely 1t
will seem to her not worth the trouble Of
hiding. 1t lisa mark of her penetration
to have discovered, and she knows how
you will relish hearing 'all about it,
and she will whisper it in your ear at the
first opportunity.
Swallow the nice bit and wip your
lips. then shake your head and propond
that original saying, "a woman cannot
keep secret" one half the world will
echo it if it were both new and wise.
can't, forsooth Give her one worth keep
ing, and see. Let me tell yeu; sit down
some evening with woman whose heart
is ready to break with sorrowful story
she would as soon die as let you guess.
You hare done it, no doubt, many time
without knowing it, and, until the day
of your death you never will know it,
She will meet you with her l,ghtest, mer-
rieslaugh she will walk straig ght up to
her SECRET; she win put her foot upon it
under your very nose she will flirt it in
YOUR face she will dance and Autter a.
round it as a moth around candle ;
she will chatter away about a
thousand things you are astonished that
she should dare TO mention; she will,
with the greatest apparent ditiidence,
confde to- you what you suppose she would
only mention to her bosom friend, and
she will swear you to eternal secresy
about some matter which, undoubtedly.
you will hear her committing in the same
way to every friend she meets for week
to come, and be sure she is ''laughing in
her sleeve at you" when You sighing'y
murmur, "Ah, woman can never keep
a secret!'
Historical instances are abundant in
which women have suffered imprison-
ment, tortures, death, rather than reveal
the secret which would involve another
in their own disaster. Remember our
War. Did the Southern and frontier
women prove then that they could Or
could not keep a secret! II you have a
wife, and do not confide your secrets to
her, be sure she will find them out. But
tell her, fearlessly and confdingly, all
your heart. and il, by word or sign' sbe
bstrays you, 60 at once to Chicago and
get a divorce. You have wife not
worth keeping.-EMiLy L. BissELL, IN
Packavd's MoatAiy. tor July.
The capture Of the filbuster expedition in
New York cannot otherwise than have an
| almost fatal effect upon the cause of the Gu
ban patriots. From the first it has beer
evident, that their principal reliance rested
| upon help from the United States, and sc
this end all the means they could raise has
been contributed. The extent Of the capt ure
| - kbot