Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-09-10
Eggs-actly.


the other day Said he, II know that if
was conducting a public journal, l coul,
select and write articles that would be In
teres.ing and amusing to majority if no
all the readers. I'd have love yarns 70
the girls-as love is the subject in whicl
they take the most interest, and for tn
older women who have lived through tn,
Gatherings Of love affairs, would have lee
lures to cross husbands, and pieces on wo
mems rights in which | would show foril
that they, the women, were awfully abused
by not being allowed the same privileges
that the men have, in conducting the affairs
of ourinstitutions. would show 10 them
conclusively that the men have no more
right to buy and sell, and to conduct the
affairs necessary to the maintenance III do
nestle life, than they have; and further
more that if they could have all.;he man.
agement in their own hands, with how
much less trouble and expense everything
would be conducted For men from the
age of thirty to fifty, | would have vas,
variety of miscellaneous reading matter,
a part of which woald be death and de-
struction to hoops and crinolines, low-neck-
ed dresses and high heeied shoes; fast
Young should have something rich, rare
and racy, in the way of condensed reports
of dog fights. horse races, foot races, roos
ter fights, and pugilistic exercises gener
ally, with an occasional advertisement o
how a fortune could be made BY enclosing
one dollar to the address Of some New
York sharper. Pardon us for DEPRESSING
while we relate what friend told us he
got for dollar that he enclosed to ia al
dress that promised fortune in an iaereli-
bic short space of time, provided the IN
structions were lived up to, to the letter.
An advertisement appeared in a New FORK
paper. stating that any one enclosing one
uOIlIr W tIl1 SuoSCliDcI, NOuIOI ltCci'c "
return mail, postage paid, full instructions
by which from twenty to fifty dollars had
been made by those in the business, and
on so small a capital that TIE poorest could
by industry and economy, become irde-
pendent in few months. Accordingly he
received. In few days afterwards, the fol
lowing valuable instructions:
"Mind your OWN business. Be indus
trious, and economical, and success j
yours
p. s.-The way that "from twenty Il
fifty dollars per day IS made, IS by selling
the above printed instructions 10 such fool.
and blockheads as you are" (This wa.
told us confdentially. and for fear our in.
formant will hear that We told it, ask thc
reader 10 keep shady on til, subject)
For die little folks who are JUS, learning
to read, | would have the alb abs and DIAL
dabs. and little doll-baby stories 10 make
them laugh, and funny pictures Of origin
al design and domestic manufacture, whicl
would be an inducement for incorIi2iblc
old daddies to subscribe and pay for the
paper, or the little ones account. Old mel
who have lived scores of years, and arr
now near the sunset of life should hav'
something to cheer them on the way
Historical sketches of the many trials anC
fluctuations endured by the early settler
of the Great West--narrow escapes of be
ing devoured by wolves and other wilt
animals that roamed the forest in the day
that ''tried mems souls;;" in fact ] woul
have paper that could no, fail 70 please al
the lawyer would. find something 70 in
terest and please him; the doctor, tn
preacher, the merchant, the mechanic, I'll
gentleman, the Ioafer, all should lind some
thing instructive and amusing"
Well, it is easier thinking what one woul
do, than to do it. One can imagine grea
many things that would be beneficial, in
structing and pleasing to everybody, if CIV
erybody was Of the same mind. No tw
men entertain the same views on the sam
subjects. hence the impossibiIity of on
man pleasing everybody. No editor ca
please all his readers in everything, and
is well that it is SO. No man is perfect, an
but few think they are. There are a fe'
persons in the world who think they hno'
enough for all practical purposes, and VIII;
they don't know it is all toi-dc-rol for an
one to try to learn. Experience is goo
teacher. and some of our neighbors, a
we'll as ourself, may profit by it.
NNice Fresh Oysters were among IL
delicacies served up at Gambrel's Rslroa
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