Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-15
GET M IA RED,
sNoBs AND MARRIAGE.

walks through this life with a sympathy
for his companions on the same Journey
al any rate, every man who has been jost-
ling with the world for some three or four
lustres-must make no end of melancholy
reflections upon the fate of those victims
/ whom society, that is, Snobbishness, is
immolating every day. With love and
simplicity and natural kindness, Snob-
bishness is perpetually at war. People
dare not be happy for fear of Snobs PEG
pie dare not love for fear of Sno5s. Peo-
pie pire away lonely under the tyranny
of Snobs. Honest, kindly hearts dry up
and die. Gallant. generous lads. bloom
ing,with harty youth, swell into bIoated old
bacbelorhoods and burst and tumble over.
Tender girls wither into shrunken de-
cay, and perish solitary, from whom
Snobbishness has cut off the common
claim to happiness and affection With
which nature endowed us all. My heart
grows sad as | see the laundering tyrant's
handwork. AS | behold it, swell with
cheap rage, and glow with fury against
the Snobs. Come down, I say, thou
skulking dizziness. Come down thy stupid
bully, and give up thy brutal ghost! And
arm myself with sword and spear, and
taking leave of my family. go forth to do
battle with that hideous ogre and giant
that brutal despot in Snob Castle, who
holds so many gentle hearts in torlures
| thrall.
When Punch is king. declare, there
shall be no such things as old maids and
old bache iors. The Reverend Mr.. Nautilus
shall be burned lily, instead of Guy
Fawkes, Those who don't marry shall
go into the workhouse. 1t shall be a sin
for the poorest not to have pretty girl
to love him.
The above reflections came to mind
after taking walk with an old comrade,
Jack Spriggot by, name. who IS just pass
ing into the 'statesof old bache lorhood, af
ter the manly and blooming. youth in
which remember him. Jack was one of
the handsomest fellows in England when
we entered together in the Highland
Bluffs; but quilted the Cuttykilt's early
and lost sigh. OF him for many years.
All! how changed he is from hose days!
He wears waistIIand now, and has be-
gun to dye his whiskers. His checks,
which were red, are now notified
his eyes, once so bright and steadtast, are
l the color OF peeled ployers eggs.
Are you married, Jack?'' said |, re
memhering how consumedly in love he
was with his cousin Lefty Lovelace, wher
the Cuttykilts were quartered at. Strath>
bungo, some twenty years ago. ..
"Married! No." said he. Mot money
enough. Hard enough to- keep myself
much more family, on five hundred a
year. Come to Dinkinson's- there's some
of the best Hadeira in London there, my
boy!" So we went and talked over ole
times. The bill for dinner and wine
consumed wasprodigious, and the quaint
: ty of brandy and water that Jack took
showed what regular boozer he was.
"A guinea or Two guineas! What the
devil do care what 1 spend for my din
ncr?" says he. -1
Sand Lefty LoVelace," says I. .
Jacks countenance fell. However, be
burst into loud laugh presently. Lefty
:, Lovelace!" says he. a"She's Lefty Love
lace still; but CAD. such a wizend ole
: woman! She's as thin as a thread paper
yourememher what figure she had;
her nose has got red and her teeth blue
, She's always i'll, always quarrelling will
the rest ofthe family; always psalm sing
> ing, and always taking pills. God. hac
a rare. escape there. Push round the grog
Old boy" .s..-... e..... .. -..-.... re.
Suraightway memory went back to tn,
days when Lefty was the loveliest Q
} blooming young creatures; when to hea
her sing was to make the heart jump int,
your throat; when TO see her dance, wa
: better than Moniesseu or Noblet, (the
were the ballet queens of those days;
when Jack used to wear locket of he
hair, with little gold chain round hi
! neck, and exhilerated with toddy. afte
, a sederunt of the Cuttykilt mess, used t
pull out his token, and kiss it, and how
about it, to the great amusement Of tn
: bottle ,nosed old Major and the rest of tn
table. .s.a .-..
3 "My father and hers couldn't put thei
= noses together Jack said. s'The Gen
eral would't come down with more tina
= six thousand. My Governor said
> shouldnt be done under eight. Lovelac
told, him to 40 and be, hanged; and so W
parted company, They said she was i
decline. Cannon! She's forty, aud a
> tough and as sour as this bit of lemo
peek Don't put much into your punch
Snob, my boy. No man can't stan
punch. after wine.", .s y.aa...s, --..
IL "And what are your pursuits, Jack!
d says l.. .ra. - ,e....l .g..s ...,-e
, "Sold out. when the Governor die
Mother lives at Bath. Go down 'her
e' once year fora week. Shilling whis
: Four sisters--all unmarried except ii
as youngest7-awful work. Scotland in A,
ng gust. Italy in winter: cursed 9rheum,
:. tism. Come to London in March, al