New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-19
What Our Young Men Want.

The keen satirist of society's little sins,
vanties and sillnessess-the hearty humor-
ist, whose mirth sets us a laughing in the
midst of depression, and whose unaffected
pathOs moves US to tears when We are least
in the melt nc mood, to wit: William Make
peace Thackeray-never put his pen to
better use than when he wrote these wise
words:
sit is better for you to pass an evening
once or twice week in lady's drawing
room, even though the conversation ia
rather slow, and you know the girls songs
by heart, than in club, tavern or in the
pit of a theatre. All amnsements of yonth
to which women are net limited, are dele
terious in their nature. All men who AVOID
female so,irty have dull perceptions, and
are stupid, or have stupid or gIo 8 tastes,
and revolt against what is pure. Your club
billiard cues all night call female SO
ciety insipid. Beauty has no charms tor
blind man; music does mo- please a
poor beast who does not know one
tune from another; and as true cpl
cure is hardly ever tired of water.
auchovy and brown bread and butter, |
protest l can sit all night talking to well
regulated, kindly woman, about her girl
coming out, or her boy at Elton, and Ike
the evenings entertainment. One of the
great benefits man may derive from wo-
mans society 10 that he is bound to be re-
spectful to them. The habit is of great
good to your moral man. depend upon it.
Our education makes us the most emnently
selfish men in the world. We fight for our
selves, we yawn for ourselves, we light our
pipes and say we won't GO out and prefer
ourselves and our ease; and the greatest
good that comes to man from wOman's &C.
ciety is, that he has to think of somebody
besides himself. o whom he is bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful
hta 20 thn 1naf h ind x.f
spoken as the brilliant novelist could speak
when he dropped his cynicism and tried to
plant truth in some heart which will be
bettered by it. Young men of America to-
day. especially, need just such direct
advice. They are dangerously apt to catch
the spirit of the times, which is to get
ahead, and keep. moving and looking out
for number one, to push holly along with
everybody, and, If they can, over every.
body in the terrible race for riches. Why,
what rough and rude fellows some of them
are! How they 60 stamping about with
their you-can't humbug-ne faces; talking
sternly and staring detiantly, for all the
world as if they were dealing with wild
MAJ. maniacs. who might spring upon and tear
Up in Tuning billiard rooms, down in
steaming and slippery saloons, In the
theatre and club rooms, they swagger and
swear-always surrounded by men-men-
men. Talk to them of women, and they
will hiccup her in dirty dity-of evening
calls, and they will forc.bly denonimate
them bOres-Ot quiet parties, and you will
be interro gated about apron strings and
sugar candy. OF course, these gay and
ring-eyed and offeDsive-smelling chaps grow
intensely selfish. All their roughnesses go
unpublished, and they are sucked in by the
whirlpool OF excess, and die beasily deaths
Every voting man should be frightened if
h<a& end 10 IN fan la
ciety, or unable to secure q comfortable
evening without masculine associates, or
abashed by girls gaze, and struck speech
less by the sound of her voice.
Well, the winter is coming along, with its
seducting encOnragements to sin and Jolly,
its thousand bright temptations. and its
promises of manly sport in dazzling dens
Of all kinds. Alb! how many good resolu-
tions of young men fall and fade Ia the
light of the long winter evenings-the light
which streams from the yawning play
houses, and gaming bells, and mirrored
parlOrs in back streets. all ablaze with the
meretricious glare and glitter of harlotry.
take Mr.. Thackeray's advice to heart seri-
ously. Look about for q nice, gentle, sensi-
BILE girl. Don't 60 to the lustrous ball
room, and pick her out of the smallest foot,
and thinnest waist, and gayest laugh, al.
though she will do you twice as little
harm in an evening as your strong
lunged companions. Have Q sweet
heart by ell means, and learn to love to
be with her, and away from the low
hsunts Of dissipation. If you are blest with
sisters, don't always have to meet some
body down town when they ak you to take
them ont Of On evening, or plead special
epgagemente when they are to have . little
COMPANY at homo. Get . neat, true picture
Of 'the fses yen Ike very much, and carry
II ahent With you. Look ct it now and then,
whepsvsr syon feel yourself getting gruff,
- want 70 b. shasp end ugly spoken, or
ineli,ed p drop iAte : Gin Palsee 70 drown
g 80 e kear * I've q ladies' society.