Smyrna times., 1855-01-03

the point at issue. | say it was the common.
est, evey-dayest thing imaginable. Take an
other instance.
You remember Tom. No-oh, yes, you must
remember Tom. Well, he married an ankle
A fact, upon my word. foot an ankle-thc
latter principally. He saw it, followed it about
danced with it and, in fine, was so pleased
with it, that nothing would serve but he must
make it his own. He could see nothing else;
he wanted nothing else; he cared for nothing
else he thought not Of aught else. 1t served
him for head and heart, for waist and sholders,
for eyes, nose, and mouth, for soul and body.
He wrote proper allowable lovers sonnet.
which would pass muster in any collection OF
amatory efusions-on it and to it, commen-
cling " Oh ankle" He cautiously approached
it, made himself agreeable to it, wooed it, won
| it, and bore it off in triumph to his home-if
home it could be called, for poor Tom was
woctully disappointed. He had concluded that
every thing must be comprised in, or, at least,
conjoined with such an ankle. Alas he was
deceived! There was nothing but ankle-no
warm heart, no sympathy, no intelligence. He
has now wife. He has what he married, and
that was an ankle. He has crate, and good
fire in it; fender. a poker, tOngs' shovel, u
hearth-rug, and loungng-chair; but he has
no freSide. He has no real no complete home.
over: he has a house of his own, and an ankle
and family.
Ia like manner we have known young man
) marry an eye Charles Wilson was smtten by
a hand; and the lady to whom it belonged kind
y and literally gave it to him. 1t was all she
had to give him, tor heart she had none.
One young friend of ours married a nose, an
other lip, and third allied himself toan eye
, brow. The nose made very good wife, but
E this was purely accidental.
What George Bateson married, we may per-
, hapse, be excused for not being able to make
out, since George does not seem to know him
self exactly. Questioned very closely on the
2 subject, George will say" Eh! Well, you
know there a smoothing about Jane that
Ell you see we cant very we'll tell what it was
> "a sort of ndscribable kind of, eh you know
v what | mean-!' Curiously enough, what
: ever this was which George welded, it made
a him, on the whole. fair enough sort of wife.
Some young men marry dimples, some ears !;
one | know married a beauty spot made OF
court plaster, while a second cousin of my
st wlfe's married an expresson-I believe an
Y amable expression.
II 1t is difficult, in the absence of any accurate
statistics on the subject, to say, decidedly which
= feature is most frequently sought in marriage.
ii The contest, however, certainly lies between
lr the eyes and the hair The mouth, too, is oc-
~ casionally married the chin not so often.
~ Poor partners these you will own; but what
: will you say to Will Carson, who actually mar
= rled blue rlbbon-neither more nor less? 1t
os was employed to bind upsome bonny brown hair.
s. VIII liked IT, and. scprning all those antiquated
NJ saws which tell US that i" Like blood, like good
J. and like ages, make the happiest marriages. -
~ and the counsel OF friend who advised him to
I'll seek more suitable match, he clung honorably
as and firmly to the humble object of his affection
I'd and married his bunch of blue ribbons.
ht Only the other day, very sensible young
i, fellow Of my acquaintance fell over head ana
)" cara in love with braid-brGid, believe
H. young ladies style that mass of hair that, de-
at scending from the forehead, forms a sort o
is mouse's nest over the ear. He was so far gone
- in his intatuation, that he became engaged t
. this braid but the Eugenie mode ofhair-dressine
ls coming in Just then, the charm was dissolved
"a and the match was happily broken off, and there
lie is no present appearance of lis being renewed
av What do young men marry! Why, they
marry all these and many other bits and scrap
:" of n wife, instead of the true thing. Some
SIX more sagaiocus than the ordinary run, are no
m, content with an eye or a lip, but marry set o
,y teeth, head of hair, and a neat foot and ankle
~ all at once. Some marry fortune, and as Pro
. vidence sends a female with it, they wed he
too. Some marry a silk dress, and others
ii' pretty bonnet and yet others pair of gloves
Id One youth was SO fond of cards, that meeting
u ue with a girl whose mother was good hand a
~ whist, he married the lass, and SO may be sal
"a IA to have married his mother-in-law.
lu' So young men marry, and so they settle
&C. and such as the marriage is such is the after
pa life; and then, after wedding such features,
possessions, attributes, or what not of females
eu they are surprised to find that, though married
&c, they have no WiUeS. He that would have
" - ,0ife must marry a UOmGn. If he can NEE
op' with one of equal social position, like educa
ny ton, similar disposition, kindred sympathies an
nc habits congenal to his own, let him marry
"" on But let him beware of wedding an instep, c
ue marrying bust, however fair, or a neck, how
= ever swanlike, or a voice, however melodious.
8" Young ladies do also make some queer match
S,Sy es and unite themselves to whiskers and impe
IN -. rials, TO waistcoats and breastpins; but 1t
VI unnecessary to enter into details; and, besides
uh much may be said in extenuation of their folly
no' and this much at least that, commonly, they d
.es not as young men do, 60 forth, csurtlng and
me me court, but rather wait to be sought for; an
ere having, generally, so much narrower a circle
Veu choose from than the sterner sex, they may b
ius u' the more readily excused when perhaps the
" best choice does not equal their best imagining
in pnt fara ,hev welI And fare thee well con
nv o"' '"iS tiie! "eA'' anu S eVO - -
ny teous reader ''' =
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e. REMARKABLE FAcT.-The report Of the Me-
ed York Prison Association states that of 100
he complaints examined, and nearly 1000 person
spoken to in our city prisons during six monti
ruth only one was recognised who had, up to; b
the arrest, abstained entirely from intoxcatin
him drink. Will not those people who think sligh
ate, ly of temperance efforts make note cfthis
7 as And will they point out cheaper or more G
GIN fective way of arresting crime and misery!