Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-06-30
For The Gn-slfe

foF ths Gazette.
Ma. EDIroR In my article of last
week relative 10 Failures in Business, [
borrowed some sensible statistics relative
TO expenditures, and endeavored to i'm.
press them on the minds Of the young
and gtddy who will, IN the course of ten or
twenty years, become the active portion
OF the community. The weather being
almost too warm 10 Indte an entirely
original article this week, aud being with
al little lazy or a little sick--I don't
know which, purpose iulerlarding this
communication with an occasional extract.
1 must request, however, tina. if any of the
extracts, or remarks Ot mine, should suit
Mrs. FOp, Mrs. Fool, Miss Stomp or Miss
Goose, they need not think | mean them
particularly. So here goes. YOUNG MAN,
Never marry girl who is fond Of being
always IN the street-who is fond of run
ming to night meetings, who has Jew.
eled hand and an empty head-who will
see her mother work and toll while she
lays in bed and reads novels or feigns sick.
ness-who is ashamed TO own her mother
because she dresses plain, never learnt gram
mar, or was accustomed TO the etiquette Of
the drawing room-who is always com
planning that she cannot get money enough
10 dress like Miss So and So, or 90 TO par
ties like Such a one, who wears her shoes
s}ipshOd or has a hole in her stockings and
is to lazy 10 mend it. Should you get such
an one, depend upon it you will have a dir
ty, untldy, miserable home and life of it.
But the kind, affectionate, tidy girl who
helps her mother, is always ready and anx.
ious 10 accommodate mother, father, broth
ers and sisters who is kind to the poor
who dresses neatly and according to her
meaDs who is always cheerful and fond of
accommodating others; il YOU can, get tsuch
treasure aud your home will De paradise.
g. Boys do You hear that"
If you do, reflect and profit by it. 1t
matters but little whether the girl OF your
choice Is rigged up in Gp calico or twenty
five cent giugham, il the hooks and eyes
are together, and the dress at least in
part free from dirt, grease and holes. |
know full we'll that those who have to la.
Dor from morning ill night cannot we'll
avoid soiling dress sometimes or prevent
stray rIDglet from slipping out of the
for being always in that plight; and hence,
If you find girl in such condition more
than once week you'd better ast a sleeps
eye somewhere else, lest instead Of finding
anangel,yOu discover that you have got hold
Of one of the other sort. So much for
this matter.
On the subject Of Behavior in Company,
LEIGH RIcHAoND gives the following ex-
cellent advice to his daughters:
I" Be cheerful and not giggIers. Be Sc
rious, but not dull. Be communicative,
but not forward. Be kind, but not survile.
Beware of silly ihoughtless speeches !; al
though you may forget them, others will
not. Remember Gods eye ls in everv
place, and his ear in every company
Beware Of leVity and familiarity with young
men; modest reserve, without afleclation,
IS the only safe path. Court and encolr-
age serious conversation with those who
are truly serious and conversble; and do
not go into valuable company without en-.
deavonng to improve by the intercourse
permitted TO you. Nothing is more unbe
coming, when one part Of company is en-
gagged in profitable and interesting cOnver.
satlon, than that another part should be
tr'fing, gggling, and talking comparative
nonsense 10 each other"
With Leigh Richmond, dislike these
gigeIers. We have those among us who
fancy they are the big bugs Of creation,
but who giggle and whisper at home, in the
street, in stores, in cake and ice cream
shops, aud who can't even put decent de-
meanor on their ffy.trap mouths when at
church; yet if any one were to raise
whisper that these are not accomplished
ladies' patterns for poor young ladies and
hHad girls who cannot sport their silks and