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refused to admit such absurdities into
your paper, for am in the'habh Of OBJ
serving and trying to profit By the ex.
cellent rules Of condnct often found in
the Gazette; but have no idea of rig
ging myself up in loop pesticoats and
long waists and tippets at a party to-
please any old bachelor in creation
such a person ought to think himself
fortunate that he is permitted to warm
his old blood" in "the society Of the
young and the gay"-hc " encourage
social parties 9' Yes, he encourages
them so far as to drink wine at the ex-
pence ofthe married, who. get no other
reward for their liberality than illnatur.
ed remarks and inisinuations upon the
dress oftheir daughters and their friends
If the Bachelor confined himself to
the press and mad" no ramarks, but
through its medium, it would be well, but
how are the morals Of the young" cor
rupted more than by those insinuations
Of old Bachelors !? Who sir is more of
/" proving libertine" that we meet with
in our parties than the old Bachelor who
boasts so much Of" delicacy and feeling''
and at the same time is employing him
self at such places IN "looking round out
ofcuriosity to observe the style of dress"
and see how much of the ladies necks
he can discover.


. After filing up column in one paper,
against nakedness, we find the Bachelor
" emboldened" in the next, to rail against
dress, as if he would have ladies neither
naked nor clothed, because by going
naked they might get consumption,
and by dressing, they might spend too
much money; and who is this that COM
plains so much of the extravaganza Of
ladies dresses? Why, forsooth it is an
old Bachelor, and we must dress in such
a manner as to please a set of beings who
if angels could have won them would
have been married long ago.


1t is matter of astonishment to many
that old Bachelor can year after year
have the face to stalk about in parties
pceping down young ladies necks and
enjoying all the good things that the
house can afford, and still afford not the
least prospect to hope that the civilities
which they receive will ever be returned
but that they should in their clubs and in
the press abuse the hand that feeds
them" IS too much.


AN OLD MAID.