Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-02-01

Mr. Editor Through your kindness
propose correcting the erroneous impressions a
certain female individual, styling herself
Lena" has been recently disseminating
through your columns.
AS a preliminary remark, ] will say that
society has through every age, in every com
munity and country of The globe, adapted it,
| self to the manners and customs of the people,
and there is no apparent reason why this gem
eral principle should exert no influence over
The social requirements of the citizens of Rock
| vile.
will begin by attacking my fair opponent
in what is generally considered the sensitive
portion of the female organiZaiion--her age.
She, no doubt, thinks her identity effeciually
concealed when she places her age at 80 low
| figure as sixteen, but she can never convince
| anybody that there is so much bile aud i'll
feeling lodged in female Of such tender
| years.
Her description Of Rockville society is as
gloomy as that of the celebrated ''Hals of Eb-
lis where men with their right hands pressed
upon their hearts, and demoniacal fire
| cleaning from their eyes, rush to and fro,
passing each other with no sign Of recognition
than that Of deadly hate. The description OF
| the "Hals Of Eblis'' is a fancy piece, so also,
| J presume, is hers, though piece not many OF
the ROckvillans will fancy.
! Can the fair aulhoress say with a clear con-
/ science, that she has ever contributed augbt
towards rendering the society Of Rock vile
more agreeable even according to her peculiar
| deas OF agreeableness
| The donation parties given TO our ministers,
as every one knows who had the pleasure Of
attending them, were most enjoyable affairs
aud passed away rapidly in prayer and other
sacred amusements She compares them for
stupidity TO IN adorer OF hers who only opens
| his mouth to yawn, and ! am sure all who
| have taken the trouble 10 read her illusions
\ sympathiZe with her adorer, if he also is not
Il fancy piece Whether she is in the habit OF
sitting on tombstone and singing "Under
the Daisies, a" am not informed bui If she il,
The ghosts are, no doubt, highly edited by a
composition so evidently intended for the in
habtans Of the tomb.
Are private entertainments Of such rare oc-
curreBce as TO perform all the miracles she has
enumerated The Mite Society Of the Metho-
dist church meets once in every month, and
it would be difficult 10 find a more sociable or
agreeable. company than is generally assembled.
The exercises are both instructive and enter
tanning, not only this, but they are met to-
gether in good cause, proving the falsity Of
the charges chromosomes and sel6shDess urged
by the fair damsel
The charge which she brings against Rock
vile Of drinking no champagne, is. in my
! opinion, another instance Of the good taste OF
the RockviIians; they generally drink their
"wbiskey straight aud their water afterward.
would have her TO understand, when she
brings her accusations, that Rockville is not
gregarions, that good society is never gregari-
Gus, Even her simile Of the herd does not
hold true, for in the vast herds Of buffalo that
range the extensive plains Of the West. there
are certain old patriarchs who are excluded
from the social pleasures peculiar 10 buffalo.
No, we should be thankful that our town is
free from The dissipation Of the cities. for a
life Of gayety and dissipation, like the noxious
exhalaiions Of the deadly Upas tree, first rem.
ders its victims unconscious OF their danger
and then leads them surely on TO destruction.
VALENTINE.
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