Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-08-25

The following maxims 10 marry by, ad-
dressed to single gentlemen, are copied from
very Old number Of Blackwood, printed SO
long ago that old Kit North 2 must have
becn something Of a beauat the time he wrote
them
Now in making marriage, as in making
love. and indeed in making most other things
the beginning It is that is The difficulty
But the French proverb about beginnings--
"Cest le premier pas qui coute, goes more
literally to the arrangoment Of marriage; as
our English well illustrates the condition Of
love- The first step over the rest easy"
Because in the marrying affair, it is particu-
arly the " FIRST step that costs ''-as 10
your cost you win End if that step happens
70 70 the wrong way And most men. when
they 20 about the business Of wedlock. owing
to some strange delusion, begin the affair at
the wrong end. They take fancy to the
white arms, tsometimes only to tho kid gloyes)
or to the neat ankles Of a peculiar school
Girl; and conclude from these premises, that
she is just the very woman Of the world %
scod houseful Of servants and to bring up
dozen childron This is a convenient de-
duction but not always a safe one,
White arms and neat ankles, bring me. nat
uralIy, at once 70 the very important cousid-
Grafton Of beauty. For don't suppose be-
rause caution you against all day-dishabilles,
hat I want to fix you With worthy creature
Whom il win make YOU extremely III every
lime you look at For the style Of attraction,
please yourselves. my friends. / should say .
/ handsome fgure--if you don't get both ad.
yaniagos-is better than merely pretty face,
Good eyes are a point never to bo overlooked.
Fine teeth, full. well proportional limbs
don't cast these away for the sake Of single /
touch Of the small poz amouth something too /
wide, or dimples rather deeper on one side
than The other.
Il may, at some timo, be a matter Of consid-
Grafton, whether you shall marry maid or /
widow. AS to the taste. myself viii give
no opinion-T like both; and there are adj
yantagcs and disadvantages peculiar to either
If you marry a widow. think it should be
cne whom you have known in the life time Of
her husband; because, from the suffering Of
the defunct, you may form some notion Of what
your own will be. If her husband i dead
before You know her, you had better be off at
once because she knows (ihe iade) what you
will ike, though she never means to do it;
and, depend upon it. if you have only one inch
cf penchant, and trust yourself to look at her
hrec times, you are ticklod toa certainty.
Marrying girls is sanice matter always; for
they are as cautious as crows plundering
corn field. You may "stalk for week.
and never get near unproseiyed- You hear
the caterVauling as you go up stairs into the
drawing-room louder than thunder3 but It
stops as-if by magic. the moment a (marri-
|ageable) man puts his ear to the key hole. 1 II
don't myself. profess upon principles, see
any objection to marrying widow. If she
upbraids you at any time with the virtues Of
her former husband, you only reply that you
wish be had her with him, with an your soul
If a woman, however, has more than threa
husbands, She poisons them; avoid her
In widow-wiying, It may be a question
whether You should marry the widow Of an
honest man OF q rascal. Against the danger
that the last may have learned i'll tricks, they
set the advantage viii be more sensible
(from the contrast to the kindness Of gen.
tloman and a man Of honor. think you "
should marry the honest mans widow; Be- v
cause with woman, habit is always stronger
han reason y
butthc greatest point perhaps, 10 boaimcd u
u In marrying, Is 70 know before marriage.
what it is you have to deal with. You are b
sure to know this fast enough, afterwards. $
Be sure therefore, that you commence tbe me-
sessary pcrquisitions before you have made !,
up your mind, and not as people DO, after. 3
Remember that there is no use in watching a "
woman that you dove; because she cant do .
what she will--that win be as
lgreeable to You. And still less in exnmin-
ng a woman that loves you because for the
ime, she win be quite sure not to do anything
hat ought 70 be disagreeable 70 you. Ihavo !
Inown hundred perfect sigrasses as playful
IS Rittens--quite more obliging ihau'naea be-
under such circumstances hisnot bad
or womnn--when yon find you {
iave an aversion to her, If she has any con-
,ealed good qualities they are pretty sure 40 !
,ome out On such an occasion.
Don't marry any woman under twenty n
he not come 10 her wickednenH before that y
Iimo. Nor any woman who Las rad nose A. q
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