A YANKEE PREACHER'S THOUGHTS ON WOMEN.
A queer compound is' woman. She is made' up of industry, , boldness, beauty, _ silks, satins, jealousy, love, hatred, horsehair, whalebone, piety, paint, gaiety, gumelastic, bear's greese, ' sympathy, teaw, smiles, affection, and kindness: My friends, how lofty is woman. :No Quitter whether born in a cellar, she can sdm'elitaesf be as lofty as a garret! When she once gdts her back up, oh 1 cats and broomsticks look out for yourselves.' She is as Big ak OlyHlpus, and as savage as a sausage machine, lit her wrath she is as crazy as a bed-bug, as tttfong as a tiger, and as terrible as a tornado. She blazes up as., though she were a tar barrel, and in a moment all is over — and nobody killed. When she comes down from the mountain, whence she was tolling big stones upon the people below, she softens down to a jellyfand becomes as quiescent as a 'goose pond after a tempeßt. The breeches won't fit. Again, how loving is a/woman f Ay ! she is amazingly sticky in her attachments. She will cling to the chosen object of her heart like a 'possum to a gum tree ; and you can't separate her^without snapping strings that no art can mend,' and leaving a portion of her soul upon the upper leather of her affections — and when her fondness is fastened upon a fellow, it stays ' there like glue and molasses in a bushy head of hair. *'
A YANKEE PREACHER'S THOUGHTS ON WOMEN.
Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 154, 30 December 1875, Page 2
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