The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-03-15

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nimity. He is as Interchangeable as bass
wood tree, as imperturbable as a mud
turtle. A house might fall down on him
and It wouldn't bring an ejaculation from
him. His wife might run away with
three men at time, and he would control
himself so as to say nothing whatever
about it. Such men as him make do
mestic peace an intolerable burden, and
are altogether too sanity for flesh and
blood wives.
Above every other feature which
adcrrs she tsnn,o >,l.e-aator. delicacy
stands foremost within the province of
taste; not that delicacy which is perpct-
ually in quest of something to be abashed
Of which makes a merit or blush, and
simpers at the false construction lis own
ingenuity has put upon an innocent re-
mark; this spurious kind Of delicacy is
as far removed from good taste as from
feeling and good sense; but that high
minded delicacy which maintains its pure
and undertaking walk alike amongst wo-
men as in the society of men; which
shrinks from no necessary duty, and can
speak, when required, with seriousness
and kindness, of things at which it would
be ashamed indeed to smile or to blush ;
that delicacy which knows how to confer
benefit without wounding the feeling of
another, and which understands also how
and when to receive one; that delicacy
which can give aims without display, apd
advice without assumption, and which
pains not the most humble or susceptible
being in creation. This is the delicacy
which forms so importanta part Of good
taste, that where it does not exist as a
natural instinct, it is taught as the first
principle of good manners, and considered
as the universal passport to good society.
Mrs. Ellis.
One Of the most vulgar errors of the
day, and one which is silly and meaning
less, except a meaning perverted in the
extreme from its intended significance, is
the substitution of gent for gentle
man." The word gentleman recurs
452 times in Shakespeare; gent is not
to be found there atall. With all his wealth
of imagination, the greatdralnatist never
conceived a gent As the thing was be-
yond the sphere of his observation IL
idea transcended the iimiu Of his fancy.
He could not look into the future far
enough to sec "the coming man." and, Il
he could have done so. perhaps he would
have closed his eyes to the saddening
spectacle, instead of serving up the gent
with the Calibans and Touchstones, the
mishappen monsters and the sportive
fools, of his pictured pages. Turning
from the great dramatist who knew no
gent, we look for the word in the stand
ard dictionaries. Not finding it there,
We discover il at last, skulking among the
refugees of the Slang Dictionary, and a
very appropriate placeit has in the haunt
of that not very select society. "Gent'
appears there as ga contraction of gentle
man in more senses than one-a dressy,
snowy, foppish man, with little mind
who vulgarizes the prevailing fashion.
A gentleman and gent are very easily
distinguishable to-day.
Young man, you're wanted-a woman
wants you; don't forget her. No matter
if you are poor, don't wait to be rich, i
you do, ten to one If you are fit to b'
married. Marry while you are young
and struggle up together. But mark
young man, the woman don't want you I
she is to share your affections with cigar
spittoon, or whiskey jug. Neither doe
she want you if you don't take care o.
her and the little aiterthoughts which
are pretty sure to follow. Neither doe
she want you simply because you are
man, the definition Of which Is too apt Il
be-an animal that wears bifurcated gar
ments on his lower limbs, a quarter sec
ton of stove pipe on his head, swears lik'
a pirate, and is given to filthy practices
! generally. She wants you for compan
ion, for helpmate-she wants you Il
have learned to regulate your appetite
and passions; in fact the image of God
not in the likeness of beast. If yo,
are strong in good purpose, firm in re
sistance to evil. pure in thought and ae
ton rs you require her to be, and with
out which inward purity neither Of yo'
are fit to be husband and wife; If yo'
love virtue and abhor vice, II you ar
gentlemanly, forbearing and kind. an'
not loud-talking, exacting and brutal
man, that woman wants you; that mod
est, fair, cheerful. rightspoken womaI
we mean, who fills your idea of maidel
and wife. II is she that wants you
marry her when you like, whether ricl
or poor; well trust you both on the abov'
Conditions. without any further security
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