The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-05-25
All about q Woman.

there with no friends or acqualntan
ces. The ladies argue that this viii
keep the yourg fellows out of mis
chief
There are about fifty girls engaged
as compositors in Chicago. ATheir eff
iciency and accuracy are bIghly spo
ken of; but, sad to relate, in the ma
jority of cases, they are engaged with
the sole view, and, in nearly all cases
would not be preferred, only that
their work is less expensive.
Three of the wives of men employ.
ed on the City of Boston have con.
soled themselves by remarrying. fr
Patti threw the staff of the Paris
opera into CONSERVATION a few even
ings ago by announcing that she
was sure she had been attacked by
SMALLPOX. Luckily for the music Low
ing world, it turned out to be a false
alarm. As the american Register del
icately phrases it upon the arr
val of the medical staff at the thsater
it was proven that our fair country
womans alarm arose from those dis
agreeable harbingers of spring that
crop out now and again upon the hu-
man form divine, to remind us that
we are but mortais.
Correspondent of the German re
form" paper of New York city, Die
Neae NNtaMng, gives the following
alarming picture of European life
1t is generally supposed in this coun-
try that the Germans are the most
domestic people in the world: "Fam-
lily ties get every day looser with rs.
Men spend their leisure time in pub
lie houses, aud women associate with
women. The consequence is that
men get ruder and rougher, and wo-
men more silly. In the south of
Germany a man scarcely associates
with his his family. The same here
on the Rhine. All the time I have
been here / have been invited out TO
meet women, eating cakes and takirg
snuff. Two of my female friends
have particularly talented husbands,
but they cannot prevail on them to
spend one evening at home. If L
call in the daytime andmeet them by
accident, all very well. Do not i'm
agine this to be domestic happiness
They bear with what they cannot al
ter. But this separation of the sexes
in aff that concerns public life and
culture, is of awful import. If wo-
men had more selfesteem, they would
not stand this treatment" Oh
Among the Cossacks of the Ukraine
leap-year is eternal, When a young
woman feels a tender passion for a
young man, she seeks him at the res
idence of his parents, and addresses
him as follows: The goodness see
written in your countenance is sufi-
Gent assurance to me that you are CT
pabie of ruling nndT blowing q wife,
and excellent qualities encourag-
ing me to hope that you will make a
good husband. 1t is in this belief
that / have taken this resolution to
come, and beg you, with all due hui
mility, to accept me for your spouse.
Shesthen addresses the father and
mo. her, and ~solicits their consent to
the marriage. If she meets with a re
fusal, she declines to leave the house,
and such conduct is usually crowned
with success. The parents of the
young man never put the young
away, if they still persist in
their stay, believing that-by so doing
they would bring down the vengeance
of heaven upon their heads.
"A letter from Washington, in the
Philadelphia Mercury says: "F'or
much of the corruption here and else
where in our land woman's love of
dress, display and admiration, and
of course wealth, Is certainly respon-
sibIe, and even marriage often is, for
this reason, but little better than gen
teel and formalized PROSTITUTION. A
belle of rare powers of fascination,
but no future beyond her person and
her accomplishments, ambition of so-
cial rank and style, sells herself to- a
coarse, awkward, uncultivated man,
with a huge bank account; and, dis
gust following possession of her prize,
she soon courts the worship of more
agreeable, morally INSCRIPTIONS ad-
; fancies that her charms, her
and her social influence exempt
her from scandal, or from its. effects,
and finally abandons herself to a Ii
ccnse of manners and behavior which
should Danish her from decent COM
pany, but, by her too partial. or cred
ulous friends, is kindly interpreted as
only an amiable suavity of disposition
and demeanor, or winked at as the
venia1 ~indiscretion of a lovely and I'M
pulsive nature. There are examples
here of splendid women who have
thrown themselves away in this man
ner and whom one cannot but regard
with pity. With personal and men,
tai qualities fitted to make a congeni-
al, ~appreciative husband happy, his
home a paradise and herself the orna-
ment of any social circle, one of the
most notable to the ladies bere, mis-
taking wealth. for that peace Of mind,
genuine respect and solid felicity
which gold cannot ever buy, mated
onlyasfeW years ago with a governor,
whose immense riches were his chief
and almost bis only recommendation.
1 cannot help thinking she would be a
happier woman if she were the wife Of
a poorer, yet better man-once more
capable of appreciating her for her
rare charms of head and heart, as
well as physical beauty-and yet she
probably would have refused an i'm
pecunious sutton, however otherwise
eligible, and illustrated in the choice
she made of a >brainless millionaire,
the truth of the epigram, that
Maidens like moths, are ofted caught with
glare. 3 2H.T
And Mammon wins his way wheIe seraphs