The union Democrat., 1870-06-25
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TRAINING roR OLD MAIDS.


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Ten years ago, the single ladies OF this
County and in case tae married never lacked
for male attendants. To-day, there is an
absolute want of beaux for the budding aud
blooming Misses Of Tuolumne. The "Bucks''
of ''6o" are getting too old. 1t is sad, butit
Is true. Whisky, politics, hard work, tough
beef, hot weather and prolonged celibasy
have silvered our locks, fnrrowed our cheeks,
and loosenef our teeshs Behind our backs,
these girls call us 'sOld Jinks." To them
the settlement Of the State dates with Noah E
Flood. We have forgotten, how old man
of 35 used to seem when We were sixteen.
VIZ ARroLD, You n'srun thus 81 from
age! O.
Too many Of our California born and bred
boys seek no manner of respectable female
society. We hardly blame them. The girls
are jealously guarded by their parents.
Scarcely anything here Of the I,ale persua-
sion is in the parental estimation good enough
for our daughters either morally, mentally OF
financially. You may not visit young lady
without calling on the entire family. You
may not pay three visits in three consecutive
weeks without mourning either scandal or a
reported matrimonial engagement. You may
cot be seen walking out with girl in re.
tired place after dark without starting the
condemnstory clack-mill of every married
old maid in town. For these and other rea.
sons your girls are growing up in social dun.
geons.
7Reg are being trained for old maids.
You fear TO trust them. When will they
be fit to be trusted? Are they always to
walk by your strength or their own? Sup.
pose that you die. who then will temper the
wind to the lamb which you persist in keep.
ing shorn?
Our "old Long Islands sea girt shore" oul
native isle, it was allo wable to meet the girls
by moonlight on vine covered porch ana YER
andah; to 60 home with them from church
to mako the route home as long as possible
by lane and field and retired street; to carry
them behind fast horses and snug buggie,
miles away under the twinkling stars to tbs
foaming surf. Sometimes it was the mos
natural and easy thing in the world to find
ones arm around complet set of elastic fe
male ribs; to find ones cheek testing the su
perior velvety smoothness and softness Of an.
other cheek; to find ones lips iointing anoth.
er pair of lips like unto the jointing of two
lengths of stovepipe.
All this, in a sober, virtuous, super-moral
land like ours, where single rnen revel in i'm
maculateness; where the eyes and thoughts
of married men never stray from the tele
scope which over points directly toward the
cunnubial bed and board. all this. would be
awful and improper. Not so with us. The
girls kept company with the boys. They
were walked with and talked with. They
were even kissed and clasped. They liked
it. There were limits, and they were kept.
Mothers recollected that they bad been girls.
fathers that they had been boys. 1t was vot-
ed, better to grant the girls some practical
and varied knowledge of male companion
ship; to give them an opportunity of finding
out what they might and might not like in
men. even at the expense of some risk, than
to educate them in the idea that young men
were wild beasts and young women their
prey and that destruction and seduction must
speedily ensue when they were left alone to-
gether.
Tell man by word or action. that you
trust him and in him you plant trust and
honor. Tell young man that he is vile or
dangerous and yours are the apostolic hands
confirming him still farther in evil. Words
alone do not speak. Words have weak
tongues compared to action and example.
You are training your girls for old maids
The great, perfect, wealthy, educated, ideal
man that you have chalked out for your i'm
INJURED daughter will never come. IF he did
80 chances to l that ever her married her.
She would be altogether too tame and green
and simple and mono-sylabic and insipid for
his taste. You kept her too much under COW
er. She isn't seasoned. Shs's full now of
trundle-bed sap. You are criminal. You
have wronged her. You deprived her of ex-
perience. That constitutes nine-tenths Of
real education. She will confront you at the
Judgment.
These remarks apply in spots to the entire
County. You are learning your girls to pad
die their own canoe thus:
Mother may 60 out to swim,
Yes, my darling daughter,
Hang your clothes on hickory limb,
But don't go near the Dater
The editor of the Marietta Register is get
ting into hot water on the woman suffrage
queetion. and proceeds to define his position
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