Daily Republican., 1884-01-15
FEMALE CONvERSATION,

| 'ohhsou H0S bdiu VI WIS buu 0uInOI-
ISIS, that they are brought together
from distant quarters by preconcerted
Invitations they come attended by
their admirers, prepared TO laugh and
to applaud they gaze awhile on each
| other, ashamed TO be silent, and afraid
TO speak every man Is discontinued
with himself, grows angry with those
that give him pain, and resolves that
he will contribute nothing to the mer-
riment OF such worthl. ~ COMPANY"
Each blanes the company for that
disappointn ent and WEAKNESS with
each contributed to produce.
The gr.a bulk Of mankind are only
possessed Of ordinary capacities, and the
principal part Of their conversation
consists OF common easy chit-chat.
Consider, then, how many thousand
well meaning, honest, and good mem.
bers OF society must be entirely exclud-
ed from the enjoyment of conversation
If what Is commonly called idle chit
chat is to be entirely prohibited
One has, indeed, right TO expect a
reasonable degree of capacity in ones
companions, and that they should be
capable Of communicating their ideas
80 as to be Understood; indeed, with the
female sex there in but little fear of this;
most OF them have the full enjoyment
and use of the organ of speech rs it il
called; but are they to be frightened out
OF their property and denied the limo.
cent u 'e Of those faculties which nature
has given them by your paraloxical,
straightforward, matter. of fact gentry,
who wish 10 Danish IDLE chit-chat, as
they call it, from all companies, and
reduce conversation 10 syllogisms and
problems, who will deny your major,
dispute your minor, and require mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration Of the truth of
every word you utter
We lcOk upon these analyzers as
spies, enemies to sotial comfort, whose
constant aims is to detect . nd censure
the most tritiiug errors in conversation
amp frishten modest persons from
SPEAKING at all.
When IN the company of such, ones
soul retires to it's inncrmost recesses
such persons will ever and anon be
sounding in your ears that north polar
maxim
Think twice before you speak
once"
Which maxim, however valuable it
may be thought by men in the
way Of business, cannot be admitted |
by women as a general maxim in con
versatiou.
it savors too much Of hypocrisy,
tends to check the utttrance of the |
genuine sentiments Of the heart, and to
deprive the iair sex Of many a delight |
full etfusiUn of imagination.
Cheeriulness Of mind, and deter.
to be pleased at all events, is
the best way to Danish .nnui " and !
promote free conversation ; as Addison |
observes :
A man finds himself pleased he
knows not why, with the cheerfulness
Of his companion 1t Is like sudden
sunshine that awakens secret delight
in the mind without her attending
TO it,"
Although we by no means advocate
t filing conversation in preference to
that of an intellectual kind, yet. where
The one cannot be had, Is it 30 criminal
to indulge in the other
In the most trhing conversation,
will sometimes occur
which may be turned to good account
we have frequently found q subject IN.
;identally started in this manner, most
enliven II company for
hours, and prove far more interesting
han if it had teen premeditated or for
mally commenced
We would have vice dashed wherever
I IL found but If all vanity is vice,
md every vain man is to be dashed,
where is he that shall escape whippng?I
AS for female vanity, women abso-
utely cannot live without it.
A celebrated woman has said
Take every spark Of vanity away
rom us, and we shall no longer dress to
lease our lords and masters, talk to
lease them, or, indeed, do anything to
lease anybody, but tall into an utter
az to what others think OF
~, and into n downright selfshnes4
Which will endanger the well being OF
Dcieiy, and deprive us of most Of the \
leasurcs and all the embellishments OF {
fp"
When YOU meet to enjoy a social
orr, 1t is frequently a matter of in I
Inference whether You talk well or Ill, l(
ever mi nd so you do but talk there k
) such harmony in hearing ten or
Oxen voices keeping up a continual
lgue here occasionally the shrill pipe :,
Miss Rather prevailing; presently =;
blows Mr.. Mellow, rolling uD from u
le lowest notes of his diapason, and J..
! due time come in principal, twelfth, !,
fteenth, etc, now in full chorus, and :. .'
ow dying away to the soft, dulcino "