New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-15

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San Francisco Chronicle, makes indignant
complaint Of the unreasonableness of men
in asking women to marry. She saws:
| am pestered with offers. Now, like
| men; like gentlemen's society better than
, that Of my own sex. l like them because
their association is to me pleasing and profit
! able. I want information and knowledge
! of the world. and ali the wisdom can &C.
| quire, and all this can better derive from
personal association, and masculine associ-
alton at that, than from all the books or the
women in the world. Not that I'm going to
put myself up as a thorough bluestOcking
angular, shrunken, sharp featured, with
cred, specialized and strong minded. My
blood circulates pretty lively, and am not
averse to the feel Of coat sleeve or the
sweep of mustache to 6l up the pauses in
the conversation. But moderation, judg-
Because champagne is exhilarating that is
no reason why any should drink themselves
into any sort Of a gutter.
Now, never offered to marry man. l
never had the presumption to say to gen
tleman: ''If you will be my exclusive COM
panion for life, will support you; will be
u mother to your children. As to congenial-
ity. why, I've only seen You in company
dress. but you please me in that, and III
cacies and complications our natures will
come into perfect sympathy and censan-
guinity with each other" But men will
make such propositions after a six weeks
acquaintance, when in reality they know no
more OF the woman whe9a they ask to marry
them than they do of the man in the moon
There are men who will propose marriage
thirds Of the time in the wilds Of the CONT
nent. They seem to imagine that the
honor Of their name and alliance would
be sufficient compensation for life
spent two-thirds in the condition of
-widowdood or Of one entirely
subject to the privations OF the back
woods. There are others, confirmed
invalids. who. because we are pleasing to
them. cleo: US to the station Of their nurses
for life. Others are poor as poverty. vet
not for moment do they hesitate to offer us
shares in their like poverty. So they GO. None
of these gentlemen in the matter Of associa-
ton are unpleasing. All are possessed of |
qualities which render association with |
them agreeable. But the law Of to-day |
seems to be that the moment single lady |
sees in a man something to admire. and al
lows him to become aware Of such admira-
ton, that moment his lordship must imagine
that she is head over heels in love with him
1t is then that he either demands or i'm
Fortunes a return Of his passion: it is then
that he becomes furiOusly jealous of all
her other male associates. whom she may
have Known and esteemed for years: and.
70 be sure. il she doesn't comply
with his demand or importunity-if
the doesn't teign an affection which she may
lot teel-his lordship goes into spasms
either of despair or rage. He threatens
either suicide or revenge (Mr. Editor. I've
got trunk full of just such desperate let
ers. and I'm half inclined to publish one
occasionally, without signature. OF course,
ust in order that some of their lordships,
= no daily carry their heads very high on
Montgomery street, may see how their in
anity looks in print / ask again: Why
nay not a lady enjoy cOngenial masculine
based on propriety, which might
rove mutually profitable. without being
ontinually peetered to marry! Marry!
marry. marry That's man 5 eternal cry
Marry and settle down" Settle down into
hOuse-''two-story back" perhaps-settle
own into a kitchen, cook stove. wash
nb. cradle and 90 keep settling. set
hing. settling into . weary, worn. faded
-oman-On whom the male impertuner,
tter five or ten years Of his exclusive
may look and congratulate
imseif on having accomplished a Success
VI ruin. You men are deluded on this
ubject of matrimony. YoI meet woman
ttractive to you, and forthwith you con-
Jude that the beau and end-all Of her ex-
tence here is place in your own private
age, where she is to sing for your own ex-
lusive benefit. You conclude because she
outwardly pleasant in your company
lat all is serene and quiet within. You S
ave Yet to learn that the best specimens of Z
OmanhOOd among you are fast cutting
ose from this old-fashioned idea that mar {
age is the sole end and aim of her life