Year: 1873

The vanity of mankind is something outrage
Gus. To be sure, it has been considerably ticked
of late, and there never could have been a time
when women were more ready to take the initia-
tive in matters of love- making and courtship. |
scarcely wonder that men have come to believe
that they will but have to write, 81 came / saw,
conquered at the end of any little affair of the
heart in which they figure though, mind you,
they are sometimes mistaken, for we are not all
alike, by any means. But what do marvel at
is, that, judging by their looks and manner, men
never can believe that lady has any proper and
single motive in going anywhere or looking at
anything that always behind all her actions
turks the hope of seeing or being seen by him.


Now, to a lady who deserves the name man
in the abstract is of very little Importance. The
men with whom she may happen to be acquaint-
ed take higher or lower places in her estimation.
She may dress for them, and think of them, and
even fall in love with one of them, as we all
know. But, just man walking in the street,
standing on a corner, sitting in a church pew, at
q concert, at the opera-what can he matter to
her? She does not know whether he is even a
respectable person. She cannot possibly wish to
attract his observation or form his acquaintance.
He is merely one of long procession in the same
sort Of clothes. She does not give him a second
thought. Yet, let her enter picture gallery, or
take walk for the good Of her health and she
will if she has the ordinary power of observation,
see plainly enough before long that some one
man among all those men cannot belive that she
desired to see any picture save that which he
made of himself; that the silks draped in the
window were not so much the object of her ad
miration as his moustache and that the motive
for her walk was glimpse of himselfin the latest
fashion-plate attitude on the steps of a hotel.


1t is not that they look at her-no woman ever
felt much offended by surreptitious glance of
admiration-but they so plainly think that she
would like to know it, that she does know it,
and that she in return is looking at them with
delight and admiration.


1t is the sort of thing TO make womans blood
boil, yet she has no means of defence. She can
not face about and say:


Gentlemen, my motive in being here is to be
found in this music, these pictures, this fresh air.
| don't want to see you; would not have your
acquaintance if could. You are offensive"


She must look at nothing, and make the best
of her way home.


suppose women who are not ladies have been
the cause of all this-women who carry on what
is called, in vulgar parlance, "firtations' with
strangers But men should discriminate, and
should understand that there are ladies still in
the world, and that women may have a taste for
music, art, the shop windows, or pedestrian ex
ercise that there is not always man, aud an
unknown man, at the bottom of it, whenever
they 60 anywhere. Nay, even if she should sit
near parlor window, with work or book to-
ward the closing hours of the afternoon, perhaps
it might be as well for Messrs. Jones, Smith and
Robinson not to make so sure that she sits there
for the purpose of seeing them pass by or at least
it might be we'll for them net 10 show their opin-
ion so plainly until they are sure.-Mary Kyle
Dallas, in NJ y. Ledger.