Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-04-03
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mony. 1t is from an article b
: Grant Thornburn, in the last numbe
of the Home Journal:-
l "There is nothing TO be gained i
: dangling for a twelye-month after
. sensible woman, talking unmeanin
stuf-words without wisdom. Te
] her your wish, like man, and no
, like a blubbering school-boy. Sh
t will never trif1e with your affections
and if there are three grains Of com
! mon sense in your muckie carcass
she will be your own before a montl
has passed. See the history of Re
becca, in Genesis, 24lb chapter, 57tl
verse: When Abrahafn's seryan
had concluded the preliminary con.
tract with Mrs. Laban, on the par
of her daughter, to become the wife
of Isaac, the old man was anxiou:
to get home, to show his young mas,
ter the bonny lass he had brought
him; the mother wished him to re-
main few days, to recruit himself
and his camels. He persisting, il
was finally referred to the daughter.
'We will call the damsel, and enquire
at her MOUTH said the MOTHER
When Rebecca appeared, her mother
asked, wilt thou go with this manr
Rebecca replied, d will go.'
There was noble girl for you
No tear starting from her black eyes;
no whining, no simpering make be-
lieve, nor mock-modesfy; but what
her heart wished, her lips uttered.-
Like an honest maiden, she replied,
Il will CO. Now, young ladies, go
thou and do likewise. When the
man whom you prefer before all 9TH
ers in the world, says, will you go
with mer answer Il will co.
By-the.bye, ladies, when you wish
to read true, simple and unsophis.
tica.ed love-story, just read over the
twenty.fourth chapter of Genesis"
MAY NOT WOMEN PRoPosEi-Wil-
lis is breaking ground 10 the Home
Journal in favor Of the propriety of
women proposing, and he says that
he cannot conceive why a Queen is
the only woman who can propose,
under the present arbitrary reguIa-
tions Of society. He introduces a
very clever correspondent, Eva Gray,
who says that women naturally de-
sire TO be married because they are
born to love and still more because
maternity is one Of their strongest
passions, yet most Of the girls are in
differently or wrongly mated, be-
cause they do not show a prefer
ence when they should, and when
they really feelit, and have finally
married Indifferent men when, had
they been more frank, they might
have allied themselves nobly and
worthily. She says:
81 am much inclined to think that
the fear superior women have, of
seeming immodest in showing pref
erence for such men as they really
do admire, has a tendency 10 drive
many men from them, to the lighter
sort Of women. | do not mean
she should offer herself, but when
she sees one whom she admires, she
should eUince plainly that she is pleas
ed with his company and conver-
sation, and not think it anything
immodest, as there is really not
But if she treats him as she does in
different men, and as Indifferent wo-
men treat him, very likely there will !
be a serious mistake. Many men
are proud, aud will not sue for even a
woman they love o0tt
ALMOST MARRIED.-At Huron,
Erie county, on the Sd, there was
curious attempt at marriage. 1t ap-
pears that relations of intimate |
had existed between DIR. |
R and Miss B for some two |
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