Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-18

nine species beyond calculation As society organized
very natural that should be No young lady Of any
pretensions genty purchase husband under i've
hundred scudi However beautiful or virtuous may b.,
useless for her think of getting married without we'd
ding portion Of five hundred scud An Indifferent husband
may be obtained for three hundred but be is always bad
| bargain even that. Any who would marry girl
without the tin would be considered simpleton Such
that simpeions rare, but Italian
seldom simple to marry without satisfactory equivalent
for the loss of time making tho contract and the sacrifice
Of evening at home perhaps week. To love wo
with any idea Of marrying her that
she may be all bis fancy painted her. she may lovely yea
divine but if she be deficient in scud the case is hopeless
side very romantic related to me the other day
by Forentine lady. Two sisters were left with marriage
portion each Of six hundred scud Il all they had to d.
pend upon besides their industry. One had lover
gentleman Of high standing, who miracle of devotion
be inpatient tragic, and intense. Love was his in
passioned soul not with others, part of its exist
ence, but the WHOLE the very febreath Of his heart Wd,
he the Of having his hopes of happiness eaz
ed, another LADY, with larger marriage portion, bid for bm
He Immediately knocked himself down her and said TO
the other, Desrest, can't marry you. love you With
unabated ardor, but MARI ge is Of the question am
offered by another lady and Of course, loving
you do, and having my interests heart you will be gait
fed learn that have accepted The oer and intend be
married Immediately"
The young lady in great despair may be supposed
Her lover married. and there an end to all her hes
Some time after her sister received the addresses Of gee
man. who equally intense and devoted in his love- AT
length, inpatient have the nupia knot tied. he his
lawyer to demand what Of funds she bad Sxhun
dred scudi was the That do said he; he
called upon the young lady and said Dearest you
las k,tT
scad It is too small altogether-much belowwhat
gentleman Of my standing in society has right expect
She ePt of course and declared that impossible
without him. Her sister, observing her unhappy condon
observed to her :" Since the only man loved can
love Is married. and since impossible that again
be happy, give you my portion. is better one of us
should be married than neither" The ardent lover
informed ofths. It not quite enough yet; but naamuch
as she pretty and seemed have just appreciation of
his merits, ne would marry her; and the marriage coarac,
was accordingly duly signed and carried into effect The
single sister is old maid, and lives upon the sean
earnings of her needle Many other Of similar kind
have been related to me- showing very curious state of
things in social life. Now since rarely happens thai an
Italian lady marry the object of her affections and nce
is equally impossible for gentleman continue loving
where there n lack of scud there be intermediate
class of beings receive the oupourngs of the heart Ladies
must love something, dear souls they love their lapdogs
have beautiful girls of eighteen hug and kiss and fonde
these abomnable little brutes till it made perfectly nervous
But this nothing to the displays of affection made by the
other Sitting in cafe sometimes three
bearded men kiss another while half dozen engag
ed in kissing their lap dogs. know gentleman who amuses
himself BY placing small dog his plate and tying
swallow its head and another who had fight the other day
in consequence Of having okngy observed acquant
ance that his dog was ugly specimen There apdogs
Of all grades in Florence Those of the nobility out
in handsome carriages attended by fooen take the fresh
air the Casinos in the ordinary ranks of life are at
tended BY eIquisiies the public promenades who hold
them by small silk silver chain Ladi& are infatuated
about their dogs and 60 distance without ,he They
em to be the source Of pdeI might say the great point
honor-wh both sexes touch spdos in the way Of
Jest and you ruined man oil other insults may be for
given, bat this is an objectionable offence.