New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-04

| Harriet Beecher Stowe in the Christian Union.
Now we have charity for fast girls. WI
| have often found them generous and warm
| hearted, and are fully ready to believe tha
| their disregard of ConventioIalities is otter
| the boldness of innocence.
| We have said tn lr Americans had
| their faults. The 80 of conventional
! limits of propriety between the sexes is one
of them. The young French girl is kept
secluded and never suffered to see gentle.
men unmatched. In America, from early
childhood little girls and boys grow up to-
gether, and, on the whole, it is best they
should. But, in order that this liberty
should produce good effects, parents and
guardians should necessarily teach certain
limits of propriety. There are certain
places, times and modes of intercourse that
are proper places, times and modes. There
are certain other places, times and modes
that are improper, and it ought to be part
Of tie early training of every girl to teach
her this.
Every approach on the part of young
girl to any personal familiarity with q
young man, sHch as she might innOcently
take with another girl exposes her to mis-
construction which it was the duty of her
mother to prevent by timely warning.
favOrite author has said that such per
sonal advances, on the part of women, were
"immoralities of manner" even where the
intention was most innocent.
So girls take care-respect yourselves
respect your sex, and do not give the enemy
cause to speak reproachfully
Listen, all of you, to what man. says.
1t is out Of some old fashianed Fathers
Legacy, or some such antiquated book; he
says "A fine woman has power over us
which she very little dreams, but a little
to near acquaintance often dissolyes the
illusion, and converts the angel into very
ordinary girl"
We are rather alarmed for the Christian
humility of our young men when we see in
how undisguised manner they are cOurted
and hattered by the female worldo Is it FOE
their good, think you, GIRLS to teach these
lords of creation such lessons Of Selt-imo
portance? When nice girl Giings 10 the
arm of man who smokes a cigar 10 her
face, declaring that she dOtas on the SMELL
does he respect her for that? isjt the thing
to follow Alexis around like 4 favorite
spaniel, only too delighted to inhaIe the
perfume Of His cigar? Is it the fhing that
Alexis should sit smoking in 4 circle of adj
miring fair ones, who all toe evidently turn
to him as the sunflower to the sum- Alexis
is secretly weary of all this anG is thinking
of the ideal woman that he shall look up to
and not down upon; the woman whose ace
quaintaDce is liberal eduCationo whose APP
probation is a prize and whose dissent is an
excitement. Some day he will tell her how
tiresome he found your 800 evident flat
tcres.
Let a mother tell you. girls, thae mothers,
when they send boys into the great world
and its temptations hope much for them
from the influence good women.
Did yOn ever think OF this, when you tell
young men that you dotG Oh smoking; when
you urge wine upon them at parties Some
mother, some sister, may wish that you
would lead her son or brother to noblero
purer conceptions of life Ought not some
than merely the desire to fasteh tbeir ad,
miration on yourself-to please them at any
and every hazard Be sure that young
man who is pleased through his lower
nature, because you encouraged his indo-
lent and selfindulgent habits and take
part with his least elevated impulses, will |
think of you by and by only as part of
something unworthy, which his better self
will seek TO Outgrow.