The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-06-18
A sad Truth.
The Soutasrn cuuiua.Or says:

able girl in twenty can make reSlly good
cup Of coffee. A fact so serious as this
should Immediately engage the attention OF
all marriageable girls. ShouId'nti,!
The above paragraph contains "a digestive
fact" as Mrs. Purtihgton would say. 1t is
matter Of serious consideration, that Ameri-
can girls no longer seek to accomplish them
selves in such manner as 10 make their
homes attractive. The time was when good
sensible girls could not only make a good
cup of coffee, but they could bake batch OF
bread, and were not too nice to mend.a rent
in their brothers. garments or sew buttons on
shirt. Now, the most serious occupation
of model young lady is to learn to dress IN
the mode, spin street yarns, and look out for
rich, foolish husbands. Unfortunately, rich
husbands are not laying around loose, and
many IRE necessarily disappointed. The fact
is, not one young man in hundred can afford
to marry walking dry-goods exhibition
The moral effect of this is bad. Young
men, knowing they cannot support an ex-
pensive wife, learn to spend their even
ings in dissipation. They are driven for
recreation to improper places, when they
hope to take wife and build up pleasant
home for themselves, g.. :.
A few days since we came across an arti
Gle, in Massachusetts paper, headed, "who
ii hau oh in, tho fru1
It struck US that the editor Of that paper had
been thinking in the. right direction. Here
is the first paragraph of that article: '
"More than four-sevenths Of the marriages
in Massachusetts are among the foreign born.
Why is it! For among the most simple OF
reasons: the foreign born can afford to get
married, and the native born cannot, and this
must be go long as our extravagnt modes OF
life continue. In social life there never was
people tending to deeper and more des,
tructive social corruption--and that is most
evident from the records Of the courts and
: the columns Of all the misrepresentation
Americans. Our fathers used to tell of the
profigacy of Paris; their children tell of the
mysteries of New York4-a city not far be.
e hind any in Europe. And, making proper
allowances for size, how far is New York
t ahead of our other cities and towns! Once
. was time when wife was "help meet;'
: now in thousand of cases, you can change
the "meet' to "eat," and make it read more
e truthfuly."
Now, this holds good in Ohio as wei
+ as il does in Massachusetts. 1t is the case
a II over the country. 1t is sometimes hare
matter to speak the truth, especially when i
brings The blush to your cheeks; but there il
no one who mixes up with the people in the
t highways of society but is fully aware tina
, every day it Is becoming more ticklisl
thing to venture on matrimony; not only tina
helpmate may not be found, but the long
; ing for extravagant pleasures INDUCED in by
, females, drive too many of them to be worse
things than slattern and neglectful wives.
But let US have the balance of this article
3 1t will do our people good to read it. Moth
t ers and daughters, take heed, for you are
$ bringing all this trouble on your own heads
"We boast Of our system Of education; we
3 have female high schools, female colleges
9 female medical schools, and female heavens
y Our Girls are refined, learned and wise; they
can sing, dance, play pianos, paint, tall
II 4 L., o 3 kloNf .
q write poetry, and love like Venuses. The,
J. are ready to be colrted at ten years, can be
g taken from school and married at fifteen, ant
Is divorced at twenty. They make splendit
10 bridal tours, can coguette and frt at thu
70 watering places, and shine like angels a
winter parties. But Heaven be kind to thu
u poor wretch that marries in the fashionable
'e circles. What are they at washing floors
g Oh, we forgot: NOBODY has bare floors now
v how vulgar that would be! What are the
j. at making bread and boiling beef! Why
how thoughtess we are--to be sure the
in wilt board, or have servants. What are the
n at mending old clothes! But there we ar
Mt again; the fashions change SO often that nc
ut body has old clothes. but the rag me
in and the paper makers now! What ar
to they at washing babies faces and pir
ming up their trowsers! And here is OIL
n. intolerable stupidity once more; chi
nd dren having is left to the Irish! VIII,
in lady thinks of having children about her nov
:" or if she is so unfortunate, don't she pl
NJ them to wet nurses to begin with. and boar
on ing schools aitefwards We repeat-we ha,
i'd come to point where, young men hesita
ay and grow old before they can decide wheth
Ily they can marry, and afterward keep clear.
bankruptcy and crime. What is the cons
- quence! There are more persons living
IN sir gle life-sr, there more leading vrtuo
life? 1t is time for mothers to know tn
led the extravaganza they encourage is destru
Tor tive of the virtue Of their childyen; that 1
AN the foolish expenditures making to rush the
The daughters to matrinrony, are, instead of a
hat swering that end, tending to destroy the
stitution of marriage altogether"
the ------ss.ssss--
'ne ora poor '1rishman, who applied for
ms license to sell ardent spirits, being questio
t.r ed as to, his moral fitness for the trust, !