The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-11
Social Mad Dogs.

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BY this name we cali the slandering
goodies. below described. and which
description We endorse word for word:
Mrs. General Gaines said one wen
mo not long since that the Lord had
never repented making women, if he
did he kept it to himse but there
was an instance when he did repent
making man. | don't wonder, if be
sees the crowd that is running around
this world. | see 50 many of these
masculine Miss Nancys, beings With
the habiliments of man, bat possessed
Of all the worst attributes pertaining
TO a cossiping, mischievious woma =
men who take their knitting as it We're,
cross their masculine legs and then
proceed to tear every one 10 blts-men
who sit in the offices Of hotels and
make remarks on every lady therein.
or sit in front under the awnings and
pass vulgar criticisms on every passing
woman. forgetting that their mother
and sisters are of that sex and some
one else MAY be doing the same toward
them. Men despise those of their own
sex who belong to this class.
A gentleman speaking to me, not
lone since. of one these masculine
VAMPIRES. said, .'So-and SO is a clever
fellow enough, but 1t IS not pleasant to
be with him his sole delight Is IN
talking of some one. There are men
whose chief aim IN lite seems to be to
stand in bar-rOOmS, and on street cor
ners, and break down the reputation
H., =, 800 ~, -, 49,
bv out-spoken words, but by a shrug,
a wink or in~sinuation when her name
is mentioned. They have said moth
inc. but it would have been kinder to
have stabbed her to the heart and laid
her to rest under the daisies than to
give her a wound, the scar of which
she will carry as long as Il lives. 1t
IS the suggeStiNenesS OF the thing
that makes the can-can immoral or
mischievOuS: if it were anced i'll the
short skirts Of the ballet girls no one
would see any harm. but the long
dress. suggestively raised, is what does
the mischief and that is the differ
ence between al OutsTOken word and
an inSinuatlOn-ln one case a plain
statement is made. in the other a great
deal is left to the imagination, and on
the yividneSS of that the hOnol and
| reputation Oh Il NOIlldll. innocent or
guilty, is left dependant. | know so
many cases where innocent people
nave been morally murdered by a care
less word or lest the hand that shot
the arrow forgot it. perhaps. as 500
as sent. but the heart thai it struck
never got oNer the wound. Son. etime,
it has been not a moral but al actual
murder. | know a case III this CITY,
and many OF you, my goSSiperS. Will
remember it also, when a few wears
ago a young girl of well-knovn family
died from a broken heart caused by a
s~candalous story started by a mascu
line vampire IN a Of drunken
Boosting. 1t was seized on bv male
and female magples. and nothing
could stop it. and the girl died. and
her murderer deserved hanging far
more than one who shoots YOU down
in the streets. The sad part is that
the world likes to believe the worst 1t
takes great delight in peoples affairs.
1t likes social scandals, and the divorce
column is the first and best read in the
newspaper. It is deeply interested in
any crime where a woman is con
cerned. and it grows idiotic over a
breach OF promise. The honor of a
respectable woman is no sooner at
tackled than the whole world bends 10
listen. Calumny and SANDER stick
like a bur. and though YOU may think
YOU have brushed it all off some OF il
is sure to remain.
Women are cruel and relentless to-
ward each other | don't know why
1t should be SO, yet it is a fact that a
woman looks for a blow from her SIS
ter m and she is nor often dis
appointed ii she gets in trouble but a
man gossip IS beneath the contempt Of
any one. | know some. and they get
a vide berth from me. | would sOoner
take the hand Of a convicted thief or
murderer than touch that Of one of
those male leperS. or meet him on any
social equality, when | know it. The
man who ear willfully and for vanton
pleasure traduce the sex of his mother
ought TO be ostracioed There ought
to be an island on which all these pro
fessional character-killers and gossips.
male and female, could be placed. and
let them ply their trade among them
selves, and, like the Kilkenny cats.
Kill each other off, IN the language of
Chapman Freeman the last night of
Congress when he insisted on hav-
ing the post-route bill read through.
Tor the sake of humanity If some
tirst-clasS funerals could be gotten up.
a procession would gladly be formed
to see the corpses properly inferred.