The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-08-30
Prospect.

Old Salt reluctantly condescends
to reply to the article by Sans Souci
in last weeks issue, but as she has
maliciously arraigned him and sci
herself up as target, he thinks il
justice to himself as well as a good
deal to her to fire at her few shots
1t is wonderful how far a woman's
egotism and susceptibility to fiattery
will lead herl Mother Eve, yield
ing to the beguiling flattery of the
serpent, gave way in her weakness
to his silvery pleadings and plunged
the whole human race into misery
and sin.
ain an evil hour, forthreaching her hand
To the fruit, she plueked. she eat,
Earth felt the wound, and nature from her
seal
Signing, thro' all her works gave signs
Of woe, that all was lostr'
And a proneness to its baneful in
fuence has been handed down TO
the daughters of the present gener-
alton. Sans Souci, highly impreg
mated with it and yielding to a su-
perabundance of innate egotism and
self conceit, voraciously gulped down
the doubtful compliment of the
Wales correspondent, "a" and
comes again. She seems to think
two to one isn't fair play. We ask
Mutual Friend to modestly retire
that we may have an open field and
fair fight. Then lay on, McDuff.
She says she has been "do9 bitten, "
but that "Richard is himself again
Better go slow; faint too late for
hydrophobia yet. To a cautious,
sensible woman mum" would have
been the word, but inspired with a
fresh supply Of big | and little you,
she rushes into the field and filings
out her bits of sarcasm, while her
modesty and good judgment lay in
the back ground quite to her dis
credit. She says we cannot have a
peaceful correspondence from this
place. We have had none other
from here excepting when some
self opinionated individual has soar
ed above his or her sphere and at
tempted to misrepresent or place in
false attitude the good moral PEG
pie of our village. She says that
our men assemble on the hill daily
to drink, chaw and discuss or cuss. -
She still further says that we in our
reply did not refute this, which
might be construed into an &C
acknowledgement of the statement. As
she has challenged a refutation, we
boldly assert that she has entirely
lnisrepresented us. Our village
compares in morality and sobriety
with any in the county, and as little
profanity is INDUCED in as ever we
knew of in any village of the same
size. These are facts. The citi
zens all will endorse us. We have
the "papes" on it. So Sans Souci
had better let the men and the es-
tablishment on the hill drop. Learn
more of scraps" and what and
where a woman's place is.
How mutable all sublunary things.
A few weeks back she wouldn't
marry king; now she signs over a
"dearth of beaux." Why this thus
ness? Are the young bloods OF
Prospect wanting in appreciation
that she has to 'import her beaux?'
or are her charms so bedazzling
that the "home fellows" stand in
awe of her, while the imported thor
oughbreds dance to her. merry
smiles. IT'S a pity that SIGH is the
case, but "howsomever It's true
We like the idea of imported stock
we are entirely gone back on
home institutions. However, we
would advise her to emigrate to a
place where beaux are plentiful, as
it is little expensive to import
them, and then again they don't i'm
port worth a cent every time we
want them. And there is a male
famine! whillikinsi
Help us, Cassius, or we sink.
Seven women swung on to one
mans coat tail, and still the cry for
more. God save the women Our
esteemed citizen II. G. McLaurine
and his good lady returned from a
protracted visit to Arkansas a few
days ago. He was very sick for a
few days after his return, but has
recovered. Our venerable old friend
and citizen Willis Whitfield was
very sick last Friday with a chill,
but is convalescent now, Judge
Cary Gilbert and lady took the
train last Friday to be gone a few
days to his farm in Alabama.
Aug. 9th. OLD SALT.