The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-05-26
aiht. to Martisa Men and Bachelors,
BY LAURIE TODD.

We return to our friend Snyder. After his
iatners death, he went largely into the ship
ping line, and prospered. AT the age of for
weight he resolved that, as he had no part
ler In his office, he would have one at his
table. He married handsome youhg woti-
an, whose parents were poor but respectable
He was old enough to have been her father.
he had very small portion Of the milk of
human kindness; SO they lived ten yeatsiti
splendid misery, when he died, leaving his
wIle and son seven years old to wind up the
Affairs OF his large establishment. Being
thus in the power Of strangers, the task Of
closing concern Of such magnitude, was
far beyond her capabilities She was cheat
ed by some and robbed by others. Finally
the balance left vas not sufficient for the
support Of the widow and her son. knew
many who were merchant princes fifty
pears ago whose families were ruined in a
similar way.
II you expect to be merchant, (being
now only clerk with five hundred dollars
year. get married. Choose partner who is
willing to live according to your income,
one whose mother has taught her to work,
wash, mend stockings, make pies and cake,
and knows how to put an apple in dump
ling. Let her be handsome, and one you
can love above all others in the world. You
will then want no other companion. You
then will live happier and cheaper than you
now do, paying board, washing, and mend
ing, besides every now and then you have
piece lost. Your washer-woman is poor and
can't make good the loss you sustain.
AS you now live perhaps you don't save
fifty out of the five hundred dollars per an
mum. You leave your office at seven or
eight o'clock in the evening, and stroll up
Broadway, when you fall in with one or
two companions. You step in at Niblo's,
and call for three glasses of ice-cream, Ghfee
shillings,) } another companion then joins you,
you call for cigar, and four are handed Zone
shilling). Here then are four shillings gone
for what most people call nonsense. Only
think, four loayes of bread blown away in
tobacco smohe. These four loaves would
supply the table with bread for yourself, wife
and child from Monday morning until Satur-
day night. You say you wish to marry, but
can't support a wife. Get such one as
have described; she will more than support
herself. You now pay more for cigars than
it cost me to keep my wife fifty years ago.
Your income is five hundred, while my in
come was only three hundred dollars. My
expenses after marriage were less than they
were before; besides, the prattle Of her little
Yankee tongue and the light of her counte-
nance were to me, worth hundred dollars a
month. But we return to Niblo's.
The cigars being lit, you adjourn to the
street and where shall we go?' is the ques-
tion. TO the theatre, say all. There you
pay fifty or seventy-fve cents for admission.
The play over the porter and oyster house
come next in rotation. Half boozy you stag
er on your way to your boarding house or t
sleep in the store. In the morning you art
aroused; having slept only three hours you
get up with head ache and all the torments
Of person not blessed. Verify the way Of
the transgressor is hard.
l During sojourn of fifty-seven years in
New York, Ihaye trod the streets at every
hour Of the day and night, in search of doc.
tors and nurses; and | have seen at day
break, between Liberty street and the Park
as many as six guardians of the night make
a peaceable entry into store by means of the
key, while the master is playing whist with
his neighbor in -- Place. and his clerks
playing funny tricks in an adjoining stree
with money purloined from the till the day
previous. Thus, the candle being lit at bott
ends will sooner bring the concern to close
In choosing wife let her be of family
not vain Of their family or connections, bu
remarkable for their simplicity of manner
and integrity Of life. Never fix your eye,
on celebrated beauty. She is apt to be TOT
proud of her pretty face, and afraid of soil
: ing her delicate hands. The woman wh,
I washes her own silver spoons; China cup
d and platters, and performs other light worl
!, is always the most healthy, the most happ
f and the most contented; for thus her mind i
occupied, and she gains the appreciation o
. her husband and her own conscience. TIL
0 woman who leaves her family four or fiv
t hours every day, running from shop to shor
: and making calls, is always unhappy, fo
J, conscience says, you have sown the wind
y and you shall reap the whirlwind."
!. Beauty is very desirable in the choice of
wife. You will be proud of your handsom
wife when you introduce her 10 friend; bu
by all means find out, if you can, whetht
: she is vain Of her beauty. II you find she
6 washing her already pretty face with milk {
d roses and patent cosmetics-that if she
J. daily pouring Cologne water and Macassar o
/, her already glossy hair-if this is the case
IS is rather an alarming symptom. A handsom
il woman never looks SO pretty as when 81
It don't know it. l dare say, Messrs. Editor
d some Of the young lassies among your reat
y ers will laugh at an old man near four-scor
J. talking about pretty faces; but you may jus
n tell them that was once as young as any {
d them, and that in the pleasures of memory
A, live my life over again; and though no
II and then look through spectacles, yet wou
rather gaze an hour on handsome pictur
than to squint at homespun piece Of wol
l. fora minute.
Good nature is another necessary virtue
wife. This, though, is not SO very essentia
. as a man must be consummate blockhee
indeed If he can't lead (not drive) womG
d by fair words. A good manager is anotb
!. Indispensable qualification. After marriag
)" If woman does not pride herself on h
knowledge of family affairs and laying o.
s- money to the best advantage, let her be ev
l. SO sweet tempered, gracefully made, Or ell
a gantly accomplished, she is no wife for
a man Of business. When people are harnes
% ed in the yoke matrimonial, they must dra
!. together. 1t is a mans duty to give to h
i wife; and it is the wife's duty to use it wi
I the most scrupulous economy. Though
= never tire in discussing this most pleasing