Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28

S~omethins to Think. About the Last
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with a neighbor, an i'd friend, or bust
ness associate, who, perhaps, said a
sharp, unkind, err untimely word, who
resented San injury that was never
meant" should resolve to, make New
Years day a time of reconciliation.
Go and call. Say d kind word. Take
TO Yourselves as much of the RESPONSE
bilitv as truth will allow, and show
hearty good win, and determine to be
on your guard againstt such#sunpleas-
antness" in future. 40 wsf = 81
Young gentlemen, who have been
hanging around young persons OF the
other sex, taking up their time, occu-
pying their attention, keeping others
out of the way, meaning nothing, but
doing them a great wrong and cruelty,
should resolve to discontinuethis mean
ness and selishness, and leave them to
themselves or to- henestzand apractieal
men. Attac CHI yourself topa dog, 9ouna
gentlemen. or a cane, or a~@breastpfn,
or to an Ulster coat, wonderful in its
~elongations, so as to do the least pessi-
BILE harm. These ladies are for some
thing higher than your amusement.
Ladies, who have SO distributed smiles
and notices that two or more ssmenf'
are kept in SUSPENSE, while they CRAFTY
their feminine vanity, extend their
fame, Or prudently wait to see which
is the richer IN esse or in posse, resolve
to take all but one Off the track Be
simple, pure, true, womanly. A man
who is worth even yourFslightest smile
is of toe much value to be playedAwith
like a bauble at Tiffany's. You may
do him serious mischief, and the danger
is the greater the more open, honest,
and forcible his nature.
Boys, who have been fighting nature
and trying to like the taste of tobacco
smoke. who hide the thing from their
mothers, and are preparing for them
selves a needless item Of expense and
trouble thu ough ife-resolve to dropit
at once and forever. You do not need
best. There are some evils. Why in
crease artiticially the number of your
wants? Throw away that cigarette,
and kiss your mother, or any one else
whom it is proper for you to kiss, with
a clean mouth and a sweet breath.
Men, who hold women's hands in
yours before the clergymen; who VOW
ed to love, cherish and protect them, to
keep them in sickness and in health /;
who spend your evenings and your
earnings, in good part, in corner grog-
geries and clubs-more or less reputa-
ble-who come home at late hours, with
gruff words and repellant looks to wife
and children--resolve to go back to the
old times of love and hope and fond en-
dearment, and never again to leave
these dear hearts hungry for the words
of affection and confidence, such as you
used to speak.
Gentlemen, whose "debts of honorn
are paid, whose luxuries cost a fortune,
whose entertainments are the "talk of
the town." but whose domestics find it
hard to get their wages, whose grocers
and whose tailors have to wait (and
who are demoralized by piling on the
c~ompensating overcharge), even whose
doctors are STAYED of like the diseases
they combat-resolve to pay your bills.
Because these debtors can not dun you
is it fair, or manly, or honorable, to
compel them to resort to small shifts to
keep up their own credit, andhold their
Own ground?
Girls, whose ~precocious talk and
thoughts are of dress, of beaux, of
impressions" to be made, of style, of
friends nirtations, who are women in
manners while children in understand
ing and in years-resOlve to drop the
suicidal folly and to substitute for such
~employments good and solid books,
pure and useful requirements, and the
acquisitions that betit you as young
American women, and fit you for the
duties of life. The manners of a bal
let dancer and the form of a milliner's
lay-fgure are q poor capital with which
to begin life in an honest mans home.
Business men who are trading on
eleven times your real capital, who in
every furry in the market are trembling
on the verge of suspension, who must
misrepresent, overstate, and resort to
innumerable shifts to keep going-re-
solve to drop the fraud. Get on solid
ground. Take in sail. Be real;' and
if your trade be less let it be safe, hon
orable and reliable Blowing com
mercial bubbles that vanish in the air
is child's play-in every thing but
harmlesSneSS. Il 3ThEETE
Dear ladies, who are running races
with each other, in rivalry, az. to ;dress,
ornaments, furniture, and show gen.
orally; whose eutlayszembarrassgyourg
hard-worked huisbahds, oftensafraid to
tell you thesobera facts of theirs posi-
ton; whose homes lose in comfort what,
they gain in display; whose ehilirenll
are trained by the "help,n sandarekke
to take unconscious revenge some day
by breaking your heartsTesolve to
stop all this, ts Spe helpsmeetto your
husbands, to4ivszats home, stodo MOTIF
ers' duties, and to lessen the temptation
to your poorer sisters to saerifee every
thing at the shrine of dress and fashion
which you erect and decorate.
Young notwithstanding to drinkhp to
the point of high excitement, trades
men, students, lawyers, doctors, mer-11
chants, known already as "enioying g.
glass;" suspected by some, tempted BY
some, your weakness traded ON BY
some' desplsed secretly by some who
know you, yet sh ow no sign in their
bearing toward aYous-rasnkses Ia sd,,,sI