Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-02-12
NO.6.

cline IN the matrlm0nlat market.
There is multitude of young mechanics
whose wages are moderate, clerks whose sails
ries are small, lawyers whose briefs are toe
brief, and physicians who do not feel pulses
enough to fill purse. any of whom by strict
economy could support wife, but tlwho will,
if there is not speedy change, be wholly un-
able to enter the market. They are doomed
to celibacy, or to worse. Start not, fair reaS
der, if a friend asks you how many Of those
gay young men whom you see at an evening
party, SO genteel, sopolite, have learned that
a concubine is less expensive than q vife.--
You will be shocked when yon know how
many there are, and who they are, Andit
is the fault of their mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts. They have carried folly and extraya-
gance in dress and living to SO high apisch
that poor young man of any pride Of char
acter is afraid to marry No man wishes to
see his wife living in humber style than his
afianced, or seem to want from. the husband
what the father supplied. Rather, he desires
that his chosen at least appear better off mar
ried than single; but how can he while
young ladies dress as they now do? OF this
he is hopeless, and his moral character be
not we'll established, the syren can in such
cases too often successfully tempt him TO his
undoiug; and cause him to entangle himself
in some immoral alliance that ruins him fors
ever.
But peradventure he runs the risk and
marries. The extravagant tastes that have
been assiduously cultivated by the father and
mother of the young wife, are brought to
maturity under the fostering care Of the In.
dulgent husband. But it saps his mord
strength to do it. The ordinary sources Of
money fail to supply his needs-patient toll
does not suffice, and grand speculations must
be adventured. The show Of prosperity is
necessary to the bold speculator, and money
is spent by husband and wife without stint.
Fortune does not smile upon the adveuturef,s
and often in these cases, a despeperate game
is played, in which moral character is staked
against the chance Of gain, and is lost. Hew'
many forgeries and defalcations can be ira:
ced precisely to this source. How many
husbands curse the day they ever began to
indulge the extravagant tastes of theirwiyes.
How many wives, when failure, poverty and
degradation come, would gladly have fore
gone their folly could they have predicted
the end. Let US hope that the evil has reach
ed its height, and that society will soouSbe
restored to its senses by the misfortunes and
crimes that attend its madness. ~ = ~
This is no triAing subject to the mothers
of this generation. 1t is with them to shape
the tastes and habits of their daughters
The husband often succeeds in acqniringa q
competency, which the father fails to TetainS
The wife may add to prosperity which the
daughters exhaust before the oldest gets ont
of her teens, or strikes some other vein Tor,
gold than the paternal pocket: Look to it,
ye mothers, that you teach other andw
arts than those Of show and dress. Look to,
it, or there may be such decline in the de-
mand for walking millinery-blocks, that.a,
few years hence you will see only aibevyofs
fading spinsters, where you had hopedto
see your grandchildren at play; you wonders
ing meanwhile, if the matrimonial market
will ever rise so high as that they may jet
become merchautable articles. - ssEs
A MODEL "DUN.'-We heard in Mobile
that an account not long ago, was placed in
the hands of a collector, nthat city against
merchant who was generally understood to
be hard case. 1t was agreed that the col,
lector should reserve for his service large
per cent, in the event of success in getting
the money. Off he goes to the store Of the
debtor, but scouldn't come it. He goes
the second, third and fourth days, with no
better luck. Nothing dauuted, he went the
fifth day, and still not getting the MONEY, ne
politely informed old Yardstick that he be-
lieved he would s,cait until a customer came
in and bought son,ething' So saying be
seated himself by cozy FIRE, dreH;a news.
paper, and in short smade himself at home:
In an hour or two a-customer came in and
made purchase. 1t did not amount Go
quite enough to pay the collectors bill, but
-ppder pretence of borrowing the balance
the merchant went out, and soon returned
with the sum due !-Aontgonsery ( (AtD
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