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A Little Plain Talk

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
October
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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ed by no high and pnnobling sentiment - if you hnve no principio, and sneer at virtue and religión, you oannot be a genlenaan. Your manners may be fasciua,ing, l)ut tliese ire tlie glitter of the scrjent. Your clothes may be of tbe riohest, but tlicy only serve to liidc the raeal Theie is no restraint upon you but aw and public opimnn. You hunt for prey under a spceious garb, and decoy wit li a tjing tonque. Your face weara smile, bilt your heart is fnll of rottemieai most foul. Yen can't givt out tlie riug uf tlie true retal. I'ts of no use. A silly uioilirr thinks slie can mnko inoro than.wuinen out of lier dfttightór, She toils n t lio kitchep, and tbcy aiuiper and drawl noiiseiise in the parlor. Khs rises with tlio sun to get therr breakiat, wliile tlicy rccid tlio last novel n bed. - ■ Slie toils ovor the washtub, while they drum on tho piano. T!ie earnings of the farm nre quaniered, to put clotheu otx their backs, and to put thom through m fasbioiiable sclioal They aro reared ia idleness and bucomo acconiplishcd babies, utterly j'iorant of all tliat wom:inly knöwledge so creditable to tle sex, untít for anything bnt to dress finely, talk nonSi'nse, and marry simpletons like theinHelvcs. It's of no use, motlier, your silly dream will never be reaüzod. A young man - a smooth facod stripling - with little breeding and less sense, riporis fast, and boiievcs liimsolf au exceedingly niee man. He chews tobáceo, swoai's genteelly, coaxos embryo imperials with bear's grease, plays cards, and stays witt the '' Komen " aoross the gate by moonlight. At concerts, he eats peanu's, and nianifusts his ill breeding by ill-limed stamping and slang phrases. He stares at every lady he mects, pul! up his shirt-collar, and sneers at the begruned laborer uu he p-isses hitn in the strect. It's no use, young sir, you can never be a man.

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Old News
Michigan Argus