"Girls, Be Cautious"

November 27, 1858--Girls, beware of transient young men--never suffer the address of strangers: recollect one good, steady farmer's boy or industrious mechanic is worth more than all the floating trash in the world. The allurements of handy-jack, with gold chain about his neck, a walking stick in his paw, some honest tailor's coat on his back, and a brainless, though fancy skull, can never make up the loss of a kind father's home, a good mother's counsel, and the society of brothers and sisters: their affection lasts, while that of such a man is lost at the wane of the honey-moon.

Girls, beware-take heed lest ye should fall into the snare of the fowler: too many have already been taken from a kind fathers home and a good mother's counsel, and made the victims of poverty and crime, brought to shame and disgrace, and then thrown upon their own resources, to live their few remaining days in grief and sorrow, while the brainless skull is making its circuit around the world, bringing to his ignoble will all that may be allured by his deceitful snares, many a fair one the shame of his artful villainy.

Elizabethtown Post

Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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