Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-10

instant 1 am sitting as a High Court Of APP
pea1s OH an important social question. 1t
seems that from the great difficulty the mas
culne human frame finds in dancing till :
A NJ. and then appearing at business bright
and fresh at A. NJ, many of the young fell
lows have been declining to appear at some
entertainments given, and there is left but a
slender list Of youths that can be drawn Oh
with any certainty. This disloyalty it appears
has excited the wrath of the entertainers, whose
promises of punishment may all be summed
up in the infected phrase "Well they'll see. .
When any number of lovely women get
together and adopt that motto it is about time
for the prudent man to look about him.
have been sitting on this case, or rather on
one side of it for some time past. The one
side is that of the men. AS for the other side,
that of the ladies, with that proverbial sense
of justice which prevails in the female
mind, they have already tried, sentenced and
appeal is only to know if there is anything
more they can do to them. l find on page "a
of the brief of the male appellants in the case,
the whole gist of their cause stated in the plain
tive testimony of the chief deDOnent in the
words and figures following to-wit: cit is no
use talking, we want to do it but we just can't.
No man can attend to business and sit up all
night, and no man ought to promise to give
his attention to another mans business and
then come to it, as we have to, after being up
at a dancing party all night. We are sorry
enough about it, but we can't help it. Girls
are different, they don't have anything to do
6av IF thoyr had thn1r OF
like we do
The court recognizes this as an important
case, the decision of which should be careful
ly and thoroughly prepared, seeing that when
it is handed down it may be fraught with
danger to the court itself. AS the court has
fixed on the 1st of June next to leave town for
the summer, it Will on that day hand down its
decision.
The tipstaff will now adj ourn the court for
the winter term.
[ take it that the griefs of children are just
as great i'll proportion to their ability to bear
them, as are those of us older people. l pre-
sumo when the ambition, OF business, or love
castles of men and women fall to wreck and
dust, we suffer no more than the little ones do
WHol tnOil UloCh uouStS anu Joys, anu uOllS
tumble to pieces. This provision of grief is as
universal as it is curious. Somehow it looks
as if nothing of real good can come to us that
has not walked over hot plOugh-shares. When
our youngest girl went off to boarding school
not long ago it was a tragedy. The school
was an unknown country full of terrors, be-
cause she had never seen it. What was this
improvement to be gained OF that prize to be
won there, compared to the childish happiness
of staying at home ! Even her mother could
not reassure her. I could not help watching
it all with feeling of what children we
are after all and how we magnify our little
sorrows! How we all rise against going out
into the unknown and how we make a TRACE
dy of it with our cries and terrors 1t is so
hard for us to understand that this life is a
progress through Eternity and that when we
leave earth it is to enter a new school and
Ell stay on earth in ignorance than go forward
and learn. How tremblingly and uncertainty
we step out into the dark, hinching from the
dark shadows of superstition, and shuddering
at our own creation of what is to come. And
as l look at it all l cannot help realizing what
pitifully little children we are, and how
much we need the hand of the Father every
day and every hour.
@. Dayzy.