A Rule That Works Both Ways.
That must be a false rule requiring virtue, cleanliness, and good temper and conduct in women, while men may go on to any length almost, and society wink at their faults. Whatever degrades a woman, also degrades a man. Take some of the vices and habits of the day: A man smokes a filthy cigar or carries about half an ounce of filthy tobacco in his cheek, and yet expects his wife to preserve a clean mouth and a sweet breath. Again, a young man starts out to spend the evening with his adored Evelina. Should he find her not at home, but in the neighboring saloon, however genteel it might be, that would be his last visit. In his estimation she would have sunk below his level, and yet that same young man himself is a daily visitor to the same saloon, and engages in all its bacchanalian revelry, indulging his swinish appetite without thought of impropriety or harm.—Sel.