Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — A Warning to Men. [ARTICLE]

A Warning to Men.

The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes: “I will warn any youth beforehand, who may feel impelled by this advice to wend their way to our cosmopolis, that they must eome armed to the teeth with moral courage, and be prepared to vigorously use the broadsword of resolution against getting spoiled. I have seen many a goodly ship go down to the fathomless depths of remorse which must attend the retrospective thoughts of one who has lived for no object but to be considered an elegant carpetknight, an accomplished beau and an ornament to a society salon. The temptation is great to drift on the current of fashionable frivolity, and to take ho thought except for the pleasures of the moment. But the drifting frequently lands one on the desert of nowhere, with nothing for a rudder to guide one in the future. And there is nothing more despicable, in my estimation, than a worn-out society beau. A woman who has all her life thrown herself before the juggernaut of fashion—who apes Mrs. Skewton in her efforts to be always young and fascinating, bones and wrinkles to the contrary—is a pitiable object, indeed, but not so utterly inexcusable and unpardonable as a man grown gray and dyed in the service of fashionable Mammon. I know of one man who never for a moment entertains the thought that he has left his prime many years behind hint.' He uses the most approved ‘ hairrestoratives,’ assiduously endeavors to make everyone think his teeth were not vouchsafed him from the dentist, dresses in the height of the style, invariably wears a burtsn-hole bouquet, and quite frequently a scarlet tie daintily tied so as only to give a dash of coloring to his tqilet; and this youthful Methuselah may always be fount! among the train of admirers which follows in the wake of a debutante , the younger the better. He always speaks of himself in connection with the fieriest and gayest of the ‘ young bloods,’ and each year picks out the cream of the girls as his future bride, when he shall make up his mind to quit the comforts and delights of bachelor life. He has continued in this senseless round of unvarying idiocy ever since I have known him, and he will probably ‘ trip the light fantastic” and talk his flippant nonsense until death treads on his toes and puts his chilling hand ever his garrulous tongue.”