, 1870-06-26
FACTS AMD FASHION.
Lead Us Not into Temptation.
"A woman's Plea for Women.
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21oue, f1dtea WILL uuu50R "1%hA opVa Ae1 o8-
fencelesa head, committed ~ curse to the |
Of her children. and placed rs bar |
betore har At the vary threshold Of heaven,
Wills 1t touches man scarcely ~ crime, often
a benedietion. I shall call it by no pleasing
in these pages, but by tho nAme
which scathes he4 with tongue Of dra--f
shall call it adultery!
Every now and than, snma unfortunate,
weak Woman, caught In the tolls, is held up to
tho public and carefully diasected; III her
inner Lie laid bare and gloated over; all her
past goodness md respectfully treated as
ehsm, and al tho props Of outward defence
pulled away from lito which, 1t ita best, and
with the grace OF God to support it, can only
be weak xnd e11ing; her n1ne made by-word
and repzoach, and published throughout the
land, for everybody to read; even her little
children taught by careful induction the crime
OF their mother, while every avenue to escape
from the consequences Of her ain are ungsn-
erpualy shut out by the good people who dis
pense advice and tracls to sinners, and think
they are chesting heaven.
1t ia a source OF painful speculation to
InoI1Ist why my woman, with happy homo,
or even one that WAS merely h1btation.
should give the world chance to snatch this
happiness from her, and shut its noisy iron
gates upon her, and why, when this woman
hes reached years Of sober maturity, and
pasted safely III the pitfalls Of youth and pas
sion, che should tAu voluntarily in mid-llfs-
I. seems to me Like this: A git's life is
shielnca for her; before abe knows there is
danger, che is married, and believed to be be-
yond il. A young wife is the centre Of 4ttrac-
ton; her husband is loving and attentive
Then there arr children The strange. myste-
rious inner life that comes from Heaven
makes i thousand responses from the sacred
depths Of mothers heart BY and by tho
babe il taken out Of her ARMS It my be b.
death, or it develops into an independent life
by this time. Husbands ao. Ae has found
congenial spilits Away from home, and the
wife nieses the tenderness, the endea1ment
that her Wonan's heart still Graves; This man
also is iinmured iii business all day, and sleeps
like log all night; seems to forget, wiaoa
with his wife, that pettiug and raresses arc the
wine OF = womAn's life. uo Is very willing
tLat hs partner Of his friend should be her cs-
cott, for; you see, he il sure Of her loTe. IL
sic not. his wite7 Then aha is 10 lou
gs5 young and 81, E'y ,oo1 Th'1?n in iss m haf tss
aus'r fasq Without busns i00h t has 0 no scsls
books for her. She has tasted the sweetest
asaughts Of love. and now when she thinkB 1t
il al past, BONE one 0fters her the same en-
chanted cup-ot1ers it with earnest protests
tions OF love- She howe it Ia sin to Listen,
but you and both know that sin Is sweet. By
danying with temptation she falls, You may
call it what you will-iove, deprayity, infatua-
ton. The crime and the sweetness were au-
others, the ain and tho shame are hessl
And there is no woman that Will stand up
| praise the tempter, and hang on hts smiles
/ With delight ha is 10 fascinating. 70 tender,
80 gallant; he was Imprudent and indiscyeet-
| If married man--a shocking, naughty, wicked
adultery!
| And some conside1ate friend writes IL
! anonymous letter to her husband, for fea,
! he should not know that she Was es bad ns he
And, having descended to that depth Of mean
ness which has no beyond, waits until she ol
be roads with rapture IA Full Account OF Do
messie 1nfelicity in the morning papers, and
can forever after be happy in tie proud con
sciousnets Of a duty fulfilled.
Well! for tho good people who walk tht
streets with the scarlet letter branded on theil
hearth, pray God they may never be uncov'
little charity when one defenceless woman il
being torn to pieces by human wolves.
And to those men who publish their bhaEnt
and that OF their children, would ssy thai
"Joseph being righteous man was minded t.
put her away priyily, y but that they are little
taments.
And how women will work to the undofns
OF their own sex let me- here eIempify: 4
lady, every .way accomplished and good, 70
ceives package from her husband in CaGior
nia, and proceeded to open it in tho presanct
Of one Of these female cormoE1nts, who vii
feed on you md fatter you, and rifle your aesl
OF private correspondence when your back Il
turned. The n1Tt article tho pacx1go con
tanned 4, VIZ ntown tt;ss slk df:ss, !! Ct M n,
- beautiful = silk "a ! ever aAv, bu
she just looked 1t it and throw i
down. Then she took out blsck silk, thai
could walk alono, and package of real LICE. mi
little boz, with splendid diamond solitaire i,
it, she Wis delighted with that! There WAS
aud I picked it up and road, When you We.
This think Of darfing Bob.' / told her ahoul
value that more than the ring, and she ssis
paper in her pocket and the next uorninl
nheze do you think found it,"
"whe1s!" sasped her "uditors. ain th
Nov Icou}d hare told ths co.morantthst th
lady received lette1s tuice week, from he
husband with expressions Of love and esteeu
in them, to which that single sentence VA
; cold But Il felt that abe required no apologis
It my hand. Tho shafts Of goeeip glance
aside from her pure Life, with harmless malice
!. said, "Neither do condamn thee; go and 81
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