Year: 1868




10 the Editors of he Louisville Journal. +.


GEstLEMEN.-I received, yesterday
the following note from young man
who is employed dsomewhere down town
at so much per month, to exchange
honiton, hoop skirts, and hosiery fol
the current shinplasters of the realm
Mr.. Geo. w Bricks:


Sin: You have not thought proper
to respond to my sister note, request
ing you to return the document which
she gave you a few evenings since upon
coapulsion. l hereby demand that
you deliver it to me, and unless re-
ceive it by the bearer of this, 1 shall at
once proceed to hold you up to public
scorn through the newspapers of this
'i''' = Respectfully, cnAs. 4. r..


This fiery, untamed youth thus dares
me to keep the document / shall keep
it. And further, I shall anticipate any
revelation he may intend to make, by
revealing the nature of the paper in
question, and by giving a brief history
thereof and Of the manner in which it
fell into my hands. Some will think
this indelicate in me and unjust to the
young lady involved, but as l am actua-
ted by the sole desire to keep the young
man from making fool of both his
sister and himself I really ought not to
be blamed. Every parent, except such
as are so fortunate as never to have
had any children, will agree that the
end sanctifies the means.


You have often encountered girls,
especially if you are worshippers Of
women by trade-who could sit and
talk with you by the hour about love,
courtship, marriage and double-bed-
steads without ainching, but when you
come to take them by the hand, and
pour VOW or two into their delicately
shaped ears, would snatch their hands
away with pout, and an 'oh, don't do
thatp and would the very next moment
break out with complicated attack of
smiles and giggles, and exclaim- with
the sweetest vivacity: 20, Mr. Blank !!
] forgot to tell you-what do you
reckon 1 heard Lille Lotus say about
you only the day before yesterday p
And then, it is an hour and half in a
case of this kind before you can find
out what Lille Lotus actually said or
discover that she actually said dnothi5g,
and this weak invention of the enemy
is resorted to day after day until you
become disguised with such trifing
with your affections, and go off in
search of somebody who will listen to
your declaration without any nonsense,
and say yes or no like man. Precisely
such a girl as I have attempted to de-
scribe is Miss Julia I, that young mans
sister. / never was in love with her
much, but tried to make her think so,
simply as a mark of respect for her
late grandmother, who was particular
friend of mine, and who, when she
died last spring, left her the bulk of
her large property. Miss T., is at least
twenty-five if she is a day; and at her
age ought to know better, but she has
an idea that every young gentleman
who addresses her, or attempts to ad-
dress her, for it never amounts to more
than an attempt-simply desires to
marry her for her property The
idea is a singularly absurd one, bdr I
defy you to beat it out of her head


/ called the other evening to have, if
possible, a serious talk with Miss Julia
on the subject of our future prospects
in life; but found that she had gone to
spend the night with the Misses Jones.
1 went to Mr.. Jonea', only 70 find that
she had gone with the other young