Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-05-24
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Mrs. Ssfsasggins.
( ! drsee to- q Young Lady.
g 4 Manfsto give you alittle advice, Sal
II, .rnydedr," said Mrs seruggins 10 Iaerin.
Eteresting neice, the otherday, .sand ] want
you to pay pirtikilar attention 10 what |
say-y you allays should--to Them as is
your betters. Yonng girls Ike yourself,
Iw ho are jist comm out, and turnin' from
Eschol misses to young wimmln, should be
very kareful how they act, and with who
they assirnilated. .S.The ,boarder with the,
green specs mads very irue obscrsa.
ton the other day, when he said young
folks should look alore they leap. Mis-
fortunately, howsomever, most Of the
young femenines leap frst,and then look
afterwards, which isn't right OF political.
lIl's jist like ejumpin' from the lrien pan in.
to the fire. Talking of fire, ii you We got
much tempeh don't you show il, cause
nothin' frightens the ''lords'' more than an
evolution ofthe feelins. can speak from
what know cause the frst beau ever
had was frightened half TO- death-or, as
MIR. scruggins used to say, into a duck fit,
by my tellin' him one evenin', TO mind his
own business. He never come but once
afterwards to see me, and that was on New
Years day You must make it rule to
believe just half of what young men say,
when they talk about love, and devotion
jary aff1iction, and such things Don't
think of swallerin' it all, as you'll find the
smallest half enough 10 choke you. If a
young fellar comes to see you and begins
to make love rite off, you may be sure he
is not in earnest, for take it, love comes
by degrees, first, like butter when you are
n churningss AS you amt rich you won't
be two bouid with people who want to mar.
you for your moneyiand as you amt pref
i ty, you needn't keep waitin' to carry your
pigs 70 fine market: as they say. Don't
git mad about it-I'm oaly teilin' you the
truth, you know. [The young lady
horc remarked that she didn't know any
thing about it.
ssWell, never mind, my dear, handsome
does But was goin' to tell you what
kind of a man to git for husband. !. Now,
this is subject, as the minister says, re.
yolvin' matter of pulminary Importance.
L III HtS - PleiNO, W SUI 2 yod u
mani don't mean to insnivate that it is
at all likely you will marry feminine,
but what mean is, don't marry one OF
! them wi1ite4fuced, hite-hanaed young
men you meet every day IN company,an
who aint no more able to take the right
kind Of care of you, than is a child four
years old to keep house. Whenyou hear
a person braggin' about not workili'. shun
'em as you would boa.conspiritor.-
Young wimin very often pretend to dispise
workin' men, but ia Ike my word for it,when
they git married to them as are TOO proud
to work, land too poor to live without,they III
think Of their folly with sorrow | tell you.
"When you are in company, don't gig
gle and laugh at every thing, like Miss
docs; it's very dscomfotlable to
them that is talkin' 10 you. When u
young man thinks us how he's said some
thin very smart, and you want to draw
him on5 why, then, laugh jist like you was
dreadfully tickled; there's nothin' fatters
the vanity Of the ''lords" so much as to
make 'em think you are Unused by their
attempts to be witty or facitious. If you
think good deal of any pirtikilar person,
and he is too dull to find it out,b very care.
| full how you show it to the world, for you
may be laughed and sneered at; as one
whose love cannot be .reciprocated. Be-
sides that, the young man may trlfe with
your Affections, which is dreadful to think
on.
"Wheh you git married, you've got a
nice game to play. Your husband will
think, in course. that he is master, and
things must go on jist as he pleases. Al.
| lays let it appear SO, of at least make him
think he is don' so, while it is yourself
that is in fact the mover; or,n pollyticians
say, the wire-worker. When you have
pint to carry, which he disapprobates of,
don't 60 to kickin' up shindv. about it,
and quarrelin', and carrin' on like some
femenines do, but give up,like good wife
orter-and when he is in good humor, or
wants you to give dinner to his friends,
or somethin' OF the kind, jist mention your
wish in quiet kind Of way-like you new
er thought he really ment to disappint you,
and two to one you'll git what you want.
That's the way l used to manage MIR.
Scruggins. who said he had the dutifhllest
wife as ever was-and so | was, too, but
allays had my own way. want to tell
you somethin' about managin' your chill
dren''- ,-.-4.
so, Mrs. scrugginsl'' exclaimed the
young lady.
"Hi! child, don't you expect TO have any
children when you nre married?'--
The dinner bell rung at this interesting
moment, and Mrs. Scruggins went up
stairs to smooth her hair and fix her cap,
preparatory to meeting the boarder with
the green specs at the dinner table.-Re-
uealle.
lFA sick person who had not slept for
many nights, was asked if he did not wish
to have clergyman attend him, and wheth-
er he wished any particular one: He re-
piled eyes, send for Mr.. A." He came.
The sick man requested a serm on. Mr..