Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-09-20

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over and over again, not to have any thing
to say to such boys, and expressly told him
and all the children, TO speak to no boys
nor girls, whose fathers ant merchants
like their'n, or lawyers, or doctors, or min
listers. and they know it, well too.
"WelI, well, wife, I'll settle It" replied
Mr. Belden, soothingly and good humoredy,
! for he had just made good bargain with
country customer. Edward, come here
to me"
The culprit came forward and placed
himself by his father, who had taken chair
near the fire, conscious that reproof or adj
vice comes clothed with more dignity from
one seated than standing.
Edward, you are now in your fifteenth
year." said the parent gravely. an two or
three years more you will enter college, and
you should now learn to choose your ASSOC
ciates."
"Children, listen to your father" COM
manded Mrs Belden, seeing the, turn her
husbands remarks were likely to take
she speaks to you as well as to Edward
"In the first place. my son, you must re-
member that your parents are respectable
that is, move in the first circles, and are
not mechanics. Now, in America, where
there is no nobility or titles to say what is
or what is not respectable" why zoe must
have certain rules by which we can tell
who are so and who are not so. Now the
only way, you who are boy, can tell what
boys are respectable" and what are not,
is by knowing what. profession their pa,
rents are OF. Now, mechanic of no kind
is respectable; they all belong to the lower
Glass;
i Here his younger daughter interrupted.
isn't mlllners and mantaumakers respect
able, par"
emo, my child, they are female me-
chanics and are therefore not respectable. :"
swell then, | spoke to Mrs Mller's lit
tie girl Jane, and walked most home from
school with her to-day Oh, I'm so sorry!''
The penitent criminal after receiving se-
we're reproof from. hef mother retreated be-
hind chair, and the father continued.
''Ihe question Is,my son, when you wish
to select your companions at school, or at
college, first to learn whether their fathers
are rich! for rich men cannot, of course be
mechanics The next place, whether they
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tiers, for, in these four professions are in
cluded all American gentlemen, except SEN
ators. state officers, and stch like, who are
respectable by their offices. With no 9TH
err families should you associate, for YOU
should at all times endeavor to keep up the
dignity of your family, Now, my son, You
may sit down to your dinner"
Here the merchant concluded, with an
emphatic "ahem,'' and was about to turn
his chair to take his.sea at the table, when
one of the younger boys hesitatingly in
CURED eff matchmaker wath rethpecta-
| ble?''
sWhy so, my chiId3" rejoined the self
compliment parent.
Goth. if 'ta'nt, no thpectable people
ought to thpeak to you"sSs. ~ -
i Come to your dinner children, and you
you little lisping chit, shall wait for your
forwardness," exclaimed the now Justly
provoked mother, (for, Mr. Belden, reader,
was unfortunately the son of watchma-
kerD Edward laughed in his sleeve; Mr.
Belden carved the joint in silence, and in
silence Mrs Belden helped round the veg
Z etable. During the recess of that very
afternoon, the aristocratic scion, Edward
Belden, played at catch and toss with that
young democrat, Bill Webster. This brief
family scene is not introduced as effecting
materially the general interest of our tale,
but to disclose state Of manners and a
mode ofihinking, by no means uncommon
in New England, presenting a strange an
omaly in the society of American niateriel
that hereafter may afford materials for a