Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-05-29

is better than d merely pretty fsce. Good
eyes are point never 10 be overlooked -
Fine teeth. fllii well proporiioned limbs
--dont cast these hway for the sake Of a
single touch Of ti,a small pox, mouth
something TOO wide, Of dimplcs ra,hor
deeper Oh one side than The other.
II way, ut some time, be matter OF
consideration, whether yon slinlI mnuy n
maid or widow. Al 10 Tile taste I nv.
self will give no opinion--I like both
and there Is advantages and disadynn.s.
ges peculiar TO either. 1f you marry a
widow, | think II should be one whom,
you have known III the life time Or her
husband; because, tbs ab actn al poise----
from the suffering OF the defpnci, you may
form some iotiou OF whit your own will
be. II her husband IL dead before You
know her, You had better be Of htonco
because she knows (the jude) whnt yon
will like, though she never means to do II;
and, depend upon It, II you have only one
inch Of pencliaut, md trust yourself 10
look nt her three times, you arc iickled To
d certainty. ss tn'9
Marrying girls is y nice rnni,er plwsys;
for they are as cautious as crows plumber
ing corn.feld. You may "stalk" for
week., and never get near upperceiyed.---
You hear The caterwauling as ,yon no up
stairs into the drawing room louder than
thunder buI II stops as--if by magic tho
moment a (marringeablc) man puts his ear
TO the key hole. ] don't myself, profess
upon principles. see my objection TO mar
rying widow. II she upbraiJs you at
any time with the virtues Of her former
husband. you only reply that you wish no
had her with him, with oil your soul. II
q woman, however, has more than three
husbands, she poisons them avoid her.
In widow.wiving, il may be a question
whether you should marry tile widow of
an honest man or rnscal. Against iIsa
danger that the last may have learcd H.
tricks, they set the advantage---she will
be more sensible lfron, the contrast) to tho
kindness Of gentlemen and man of
homer ] think you should injury the hon
est mans widow; because with womau,.
habit is always stronger than reason.
| But the greatest point, perhaps, 10 bo
aimed at in marrying, is to know, before
marriage, what IL 10 you have To deal with.
You are sure to know this, fast enough,
afterwards. De sure, therefore, that you
commence the necessary perquisitions bc-
fore you havo made up your mind, and not.
as people do, after. Remember that tliefw
ID no use in watching woman that ycu
love; becauae she can, do anything---do
lwhat slIe will--that will be disagreeabIe
to you. And still less in examining u
woman that loves YOU because. for the
time. she will be quite sure not to DO any
thing that ought TO bs disagreeabe TO you.
have known a hundred perfect tigfe SOS
as playful ~ kittens---quite more obliging
1 than need be--nnder such circumstance.
II Is not a bad wny--maid or woman---
].when You iiila You linye an aversion To-
her II she has any concealed good guaI-
#lities, they are pretty sure TO come out on
slich an occasion.
/. Don't marry any woman under twenty
she is not come TO lier wickedness be-
fore that time. Nor any woman who has
. red nose ut any age; becauae people
make observations as you go along the
street. A "cast oi the eye" AZ the lady
casts it upon You, may pass mustcr~nnder
some circumstances, aud ] have even
known those who thought IL desirabie !;
but absolute sqninting Is monopoly Of
vision which ought not to be tolerated. -
/ Black wood.