The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

now the young man OF tns
uresept who els himself twice man
Ssl,en dangling at the size Of a woman
twice his age, and whose insipid alteration
is soothing to their hungry vanity, and
stimulating to their vapid fancies.
As TO where they can be seen they
are to be sen everywhere where 1t IS
bubble -behind the scenes At the theatre,
where they Invite tie players home to
supper ami regret tie misaprlied tssients
/ that have ru,ted WITH themselves III pri-
vate life, aI,d t. K still as if Chalotte
Cushman's playing in her own gray halr
ought to give them the freedom OF the
| boards sometimes they are seen on the
exchange; sometimes ut the race-course,
( betting not always gloves the ia
/ vorite. They are conn isseurs Of PIE
lures and OF wines; and they always have
reform or two on hand, which gives
them excuse for any amount of visiting
and weak hirtation-reforms generally
if the kind that allows much converse
/ ton which, if not indecent is prurlent,
and which renders them, by the latitude
Of their remarks, and by the relish with
which they accept and roll over every
! high seasoned scandal like a sweet morsel
under their tongues, as unfortunate COM
panions as the young man or woman OF
their acquaintance could encounter, and
demoraliziu1 to every community they
enter, like old and over-ripe fruit with a
worm at heart, corrupting all the fresh
vonng fruit beside it. Never is this in
huence of theirs more injurious than
when used upon the young wives and
mothers xho look with wonder and
pleasure on their beauty, be it artificial
or lie it well preserved, and listen to the
calculations and declarations that teach
mistlust Of husbands end neglect OF
families, that invite to idle reading and
hurtful eniovments, and disturb them
with vague and restless longings for the
things that are not.
Some times these advanced sirens play
the role of the unappreciated wife, some
times that of her whose life has been 8
grand mistake, and they spend then
days attitudinzing and posturing IN the
character of a victim to enduring mar
tyrdom they might have been Corinnes
crowned at the Capitol, but for the bru
tai husband whose whole soul was wrap
ped in veal outlets fried in Olive-oil
their aspirations have been crushed, then
desires suppressed, their genius has gone
to babies, their lives are wrecks; and
J they quote poetry, and travel, and &C
through devotional seasons, and are hor
ror struck with the Undiscovered de
pravity of the world, and they warn the
particular young man of the moment IL
: such a ravishing way that he hastens tC
tempt that depravity for himself.
But after all, assuming every other
role though they may, the only one in
f which they really succeed is that of the
: silly wife Accomplished in nothing,
, they profess little of every thing-a
) little art, little literature, a little virtue,
little love-yet their sole possessions are
: the miserable affectations and vani-
: ties to crafty which they seek a publicity
: of admiration, enjoy it perhaps a short
: while, to receive in the end a publicity
| of contempt. And when we see them
| whirling by, or meet them in the galleries,
with their false bloom, the disgusting
crepe of their borrowed hair, the yelling
and softening aces, the futtering fea
: theirs and ribbons, the paint and powder
and falseness and fashion, we turn tC
some sweet and simple grandmother
} no older by a day-whose silver locks
| are white with luster out of heaven
| and whose hand is clasped by the loving
babies whose mothers were once her owl
l babies, and we thank heaven shat {
model for age to take pattern by yet re
l mains in a world that has not learned tt
: shudder at fast old wonien.-Harper!
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