The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-12-25
An Open a.etter, to Any Giri
Who Claims it,

They tell mo you are what the
world calls flirt that MI the little
attractions which nature has given
You have been subordinated to base
uses, and you have openly boosted OF
the conquestsyou have made through
the power of coquctry. Pause, |
beg of you; it is not yet too late :
you connot know whittier this ten
1ency is leading yon, or you would
never have entered the path. There
are many reasons why you should
pause. The fact that you are so de
basing your womanhood proves
conclusively that you could never
have known the power of u passion
that has many times made angels OF
demons. Oh f! you blush 1t is well
it gives hope for the future. lit tells
that you are not dead to rHRn AMI
shame. Shall | toll ycd NJ M are
on the brink of terrible dam :
Does not your own heart tell YOU
that some time, as there enters into
the heart of every man aud womtn,
sooner or later, love stronger than
death and true as truth, 50 it mus,
come to You, aud i'll your soul OF
souls you must feel that the only
man worthy the admiration and love
of any woman is one that would moi
for an instant triile with the a.fec
tons of another Do you thiul
that the true man whom you coult
honor as husband would care /,
take to his embrace u wife whose lip
had been sullied by careless ant
promiscuous contact with any VIII,
had Glanced to be the plaything o
the hour You may plead, in ex
tenuation of your fault, that yol
were engaged to these whose caresse.
you permitted, but in the severa
instances referred to, discovered be
fore it was too late that you In.
mistaken II passing fancy for life
long affection. 1t is no excuse a
all. Indeed, it proves you weake
than before. You have no right {,
promise yourself in marriage to
man whom You are not sure You ca,
love until death These are not {,
be made matters of hasto-and whei
you so far forget your womanly dig
nifty as to snap at any chance bai
that may be offered, to find out late
that you are mistaken, you must no
wonder that your name is bandioC
carelessly about among your mascu
line acquaintances, and tho bette
kind of men begin to shun you.
There is n difference, my youn.
friend, between prudishness anC
womanly self respect, and you vii
always find that any man, high o
low, pure in thought or through,
debased, will not forget tho defer
ence due to n true woman. Yol
ought to know instinctively tha
familiarity is no evidence of mani,
regard, and the proffered caress too
often springs from Il motive 30 bas,
that l need not name it. Guart
yourself, then, that. when the tim,
does come in which you can trul,
say to any man that he is more I,
you than all else, you will have II,
reluctance tn lay before him the his
tory of your past life, unspotted b,
the breath of suspicion, untarnishet
by practices not open to the world
and, when the time does come, II
you would have true sympathy an'
happiness in the future, give eacl
other your confidence regarding tin
past let there be no sealed pages
no forgotten details, whose ghostl
presence will haunt you ever, after
and, if discovered, east shadow tC
tween you and him who has trustee
Won.