Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-21

The DUTY OF A WOMAN TO BE A
LADY.-Wildness is a thing which girls
cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing which
cannot be lost and found. No art can re-
store to the grape it's bloom. Familiarity
without love, without confidence, without
regard, is destructive to all that makes
woman exalting and ennobling.
"The world is wide, these things are small
They make me nothing, but they are all"
Nothing? 1t is the first duty Of q wo-
man to be a lady. Good breeding is good
sense. Bad manners in a woman is i'm
morality. Awkwardness may be ineradi-
table. BashfulnesS is constitutional
Ignorance of etiquette is the result of cir
cumstances. All can be condoned, and do
not Danish man OF woman from the amen
tiles of their kind. But self-possessed
unshrinking and aggressive coarseness Of
demeanor may be reckoned as a State pris-
on offense, and certainly merits the mild
form of restraint called imprisonment for
life. 1t is a shame for women to be lectur-
ed on their manners. 1t is bitter shame
that they need it. Women are the umpires
points should be referred. To be a lady is
more than to be a prince. A lady is always
in her right Incidentally worthy Of respect
To lady prince and peasant alike bow
Do not bt restrained. DO not have the
impulses that need restraint. Do not wish
to dance with the prince unsought. Feel
differently Be such that you confer hon
or. Garry yourself SO lofty that men shall
look up to you for reward, not at you in
rebuke. The natural sentiment of man
toward women is reverence. lie loses a
large means of grace when he is obliged to
account her being to be trained into pro-
priety. A mans ideal is not wounded
when woman fails in worldly wisdom
but if in grace, in fact, in sentiment, in
delicacy, in kindness, she is found wanting,
he receives an inward hurt.-Geil Hd7nil-
ton.
Too OFTEN TRUE.-Some men take
too much money out of their business to
eXpend in household expenses and lavish
display, and speedily bring themselves to
the verge Of bankruptcy. One old gentle
man, who had commenced life as a poor
boy, had, by mastering the difficult steps
to final success, gained considerable wealth
as a merchant. When he had arrived at
old age he retired to private life to live in
ease and comfort on his income, leaving a
prosperous business in the hands of his
son.
In three years the young man was bank
rupt. He had failed in business, and was
compelled to take q position as clerk in a
strangers store.
His father was asked why it was that,
in business in which he had succeeded
| so well, his son had failed.
He gave this characteristic answer
s.When | first commenced business my
wife and l lived on porridge. AS my bust
ness increased we had better food and
when could afford it we had chicken
But, you see, Johnnie commenced with
chicken first"
A SPEECH TO THE PoINT-A South
Carolina darby, in a recent speech said:
| S'Mista Chairman, [ can't help cussin,
butterberdam eff things amt mixed, and
de Rippublikin party is gwine to de devil.
Oars Guvnor Moses a-raisin' of bonds
and pothecaryin ov em, and den gitten de
money an putin of it in his pocket. |
don't like dis pothecary biznis,no how land
in specially when it come to money mat
ters. Now, Guvnor Moses heap better
stop pothecaryin dem bonds, an leave 'em
in de safe. whar dey won't do nobody no
harm; an repeats, sab, can't help Gus
sim, butter3erdam eff things amt mixed,
| am de Rlppublikin Marty is owine to de
devil pretty fast enough,'