The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-06

| How many men are carried away
by the idea of their own consequence
In their influence upon the opposite
sex? Because they happen to have
some personal graces of form and
feature, some social rank Or money,
they straightway think themselves
an Adonis or Ganymede, a sort OF
universal conqueror of female virtue.
These sort of men are always shallow
pated and full of arrogant conceits.
There are men and women, either
single or married, who are as chaste
as Diana, OF as true rs Juno, and yet
talk, sometimes, as wild as a laugh
ing nymph, and it Is these sort of la
dies from whom, although pure but
indiscreet, men sometimes get their
greatest set-backs. Human nature is
always the same in both sexes, but
women as q rule are far above men in
all the attributes Of native virtue,
otherwise universal fire if not an
other universal flood would have in
vo1ved the human Family in its de-
structive results. In early life the
writer knew beautiful woman OF
rare wit and splendid accomplish
ments who was the common subject
of criticism by the young men of the
day, until it occurred TO one of them
that he could say to her that which
would have been indelicate to a
chambernaid, for which he was paid
by having his jaws slapped by her,
in a crowd. Wild and registering as
she was, no man ever afterward dar-
ed insult her, and she finally married
o good citizen and elegant gentleman
and made him loyal wife and be-
came a devoted mother. remember
another strange, erratic but educated
girl, who married the foremost Pres
byterian clergyman of the day, in the
United States. Her father WAS Il
Southern man and a slave e-holder, land
the clergyman Northern man by
birth and education. She could say
and DO things that astonished her
companions and friends of both sexes.
Beautiful, accomplished and daring,
she seemed to be born to command,
and she did it imperiously, but with
out one suspicion Of her spotless vir-
tue. When the Rev. DR.. -A-- called
to consult her father upon the propO-
sition of marriage with her, the old
gentleman asked him if he knew the
girl whose hand he was seeking? ~
have known her from her budding
womanhoodu sand you are satisfied
to take her for your wife," ~ am,
sir" "Ihen she il yours" but ,paus-
hing second, "permit me to tell you,
sir, that II | was going to storm hell
would take her for my first lieuten-
ant. They were married, and she
made u wife that could create sun
shine or storm, and these depended
upon her Involuntary and irrepressl-
BILE humor which she carried out, to
which the eminent Dr.submitted like
a martyr in her bad spells, and loved
like saint in her good ones. Anoth-
er ease of these women which tram.
pied upon, the conventional rules OF
society in her freaks of character is
worthy Of mention as we go along
Mrs. ---,of finest physique, beautiful
face and charming manners, saw hel
husband one day seeking the protec'
ton of his own house, his lawful cas-
tie, pursued by several others witt
weapons in their hands. Selling q
pistol laying near by, she fastened tc
the door and met him with the ques.
ton, 'Why do you fiy?" His imme'
diate response was, "See the odds
against me, and | alone!" Handing
him the pistol which she held in hel
hand. and drawing IN Italian poign'
yard, which she generally carried she
said: II will stand by you to face this
crowd Of enemies;n and she did il
with the courage OFFS Catharine, with.
out her crimes. This woman could
travel from the South to New York
in the days of stage-coaches and
make herself agreeable and interest.
ing, without an insult, but woe be tC
the man who dared presume upon
the weakness of her sex, fer that
glittering steel blade would flash in
his face in second, and he would
find himself before a woman who had
the spirit to defend her honor withou,
the Intervention of1ears. There are
many good ladies Who delight to bt
angels, but when aroused by inten.
tional indignity or insult can soon
prove that Hell hath no fury like Q
wxaman scorned." 49,
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