Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence.

Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms.

Woman well knows her influence there.

You will see it in her triumphant smiles.
"As soon as a young man advances toward a woman, directly he falls under the influence of this opium, and loses his head.

Long ago I felt ill at ease when I saw a woman too well adorned,--whether a woman of the people with her red neckerchief and her looped skirt, or a woman of our own society in her ball-room dress.