The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-08-20

| "ller mother uleu wien she was very
young
"Wherc was she educated ~
"At the fashionable boarding-school o
Madame Fincsse, and can assure yol
no expense has been spared in her edu
cation"
Il dare say not: these new-ianglet
establishments for the manufacture o
man-traps, don't usually spare expense
How old is your intended wife ~
"Just nineteen"
"Whcrc has she lived since she lief
school for suppose she was Finished,
as they style it, some years since"
"She has resided lately at the Aston
House, under the protection of relative
who boards there"
"Thcn she cannot know much about
housekeeping"
81 dare say not" replied Charles, with
a slight feeling Of vexaton, "but all that
knowledge will come by practice, uncle. y
"lf her time had been divided between
a boarding-school and hotel, where is
she TO learn anything about il ?"
"Oh, women seem to have an intul-
tive knowledge Of such things"
"You are mistaken, boy said the old
man, "f a girl has been brought up in a
good home, and sees a regular system OF
housekeeping constantly pursued, she
will become unconsclously familiar with
its details, even though she may not then
put such knowledge in practices the con-
sequence will be that when she is the
mistress of house, her memory will as
sst her iudgmcnt-a quality, by the way,
not too common in girls of nineteen. But
how is a poor thing who has seen moth
ing but the Skimble-Skdmbie of a school
household or the cock-work regularity of
a great hotel, to know any of the machl-
merry by which the comfort OF home is
obtained and secured -
sob, | am not afraid to trust to Laura
replied Charles with animation, "shc is
young, good-tempered, and, | believe,
loves me so | have every security for
the future. When there's 4 will there's
always way"
True, true, Charles, and | only hope
your wife may have the will TO find the
right way what is her fortune ~
"Reports vary respecting the amount
some say eighty, others, one hundred
thousand dollars"
"Don't yOu hno'c anything about t!'
81 know that her fortune is very con-
siderable, especially for a poor devil like
me, who can barely clear two thousand a
year by business answered CHARLES
with some irritation.
"Whcn your father married, Charles,
he was master of only three hundred dol
lars in the world"
THAT may be, and the consequence
was that my fathers son has been obliged
to work like dog all his life"
"The very best thing that could have
happened to you, my dear boy"
"IIow do you make that out! For
my part, see nothing very desirable i'll
poverty
"Nor do I, Charles poverty is GER
tainly an evil, but it is an evil to which
you have never been exposed compe-
tencc was the reward of your fathers in
dustrv, and he was thus enabled to bestow
good education and good habits upon
his son. The limited range of your own
experience will convince you of the dan
ger of great riches. Who are the per-
sons in our great city most notorious for
vice and folly? Who are the horse jock
les, the gamblers, the rowdies, and the
fools of high life Why, they are the
sons of our rich men, and how can we
expect better things from those who from
their very childhood are pampcred in
idlcness and luxury | know you will
tell me there are exceptions to this swee-
ping censure, and this | am willing to
allow, for there are some minds which
even the influence of wealth cannot in
lure but how few are they, compared
with the number of those who are ruined
in their very infancy by the possession OF
riches. Depend upon it, Charles, that
learning, industry and virtue form the
best inheritance which any man can de.
rive from his ancestors
at is pity the world would not think
so, uncle"
$50 it is, boy ; but the fact is sucl
that have stated, whatever the majority
of people may think. You have no
now to learn that the wise and good are
always in the minority in this world
But tell me one thing, my dear boy; j
Miss Tarlcton was poor and irlendless
instead of being rich and fashionable
would you have fallen in love with herr
"Why ves-certainly-l don't know
=" stammercd Charles, coniusedly
shut that is supposiag so improbable
case that cannot determine"
Suppose she were suddenly to be dc
/ prived Of her fortune" said the pcrscvel