Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-10-06

they don't always succeed. They are some
times too willing and spoil the whole affair
in that way. There was old Mrs, Sugar
doodle, who went so far with Will. Snipes
as to tell him that she believed her daugh-
ter Kate was the handsomest and most ae-
complished girl in the county. But it
didn't take, it didn't, for Will. laughed
about it heartily in a tremendous big crowd
one day. 1 pitied the old lad g ignorance,
but | wasn't sorry that she got licked, for
thinking she was smart.
Jm.-Well, Bob, l heartily thank you
for the light you have thrown upon this
subject, and will endeavor to profit by it.
But what is fellow to do who is keeping
bachelors hall like l am, and needs a wife!
Bob.-Well, now you are almost too
hard for me, but l believe | would grin and
bear it, until some good looking industrious,
clever gal would throw sleeps eyes at me,
at church or somewhere else, and then l
would side up to her the very first chance
and pop the question right off, before she
would have time to think whether she
could do any better; and if she said yes,
1 would set the day right away and have
it over as soon as possible. They don't all
fly the track there's lots of them that's
too glad to get on the track to leave in a
hurry. That's my adyice-but you can do
as you please.
JIM believe I'll take your advice fol
the present, and unless some one begins tc
pitch sleeps eyes pretty soon, I'll see you
again on the subject.
Bob Now, Jim, don't be in two much
Of a pucker about getting a wife. l cal
tell you honestly, that they are not all wha
they are cracked up to be. They used t
be worth expenses, but nowadays there
lots of them that won't begin to pay. The
are not brought up to know or practic
economy, nor to attend to any of those d.
nestle concerns, that somebody must Al
tend to. Their kind but foolish Mother
indulge them not only in idleness, but ez
. travagance, and would rather slave then
: selves almost to death, than see the
! daughters cook, or churn, or make biscuit
, or even make up their own beds. No
what sort of a wife will a gal make, wi
has been raised just to do nothing, ar
spend lots of money at that would sui
q WIG 6ulG yOuJ w SOu thAuA1
JIM declare, Bob, you almost p
me out of the notion Of marrying at all,
}" l know there is too much truth 10 VII
= you say. But perhaps l could persuade
y wife (if l had one) that we could neN
:" prosper in the world unless she would
-. tend to the domestic matters, and l thi
" if she loved me she would try to please I
- and not let me have everything to do, g
60 to mill too.
, Bob.-Well, Jim, you can try it if
y, choose, but I'll give you my nose fol
ls blowing horn, if you don't find yours
mistaken. What is bred in the bone is
~ ing to stay there, and if you must and
marry, look out SON good, industric
10 nice gal, that is neither afraid nor ashar
~ to put her hands to anything that need
be done. That's the gal for me.
know if you ever get rich, you and
~ both can take it a little easier than you
-" at the start. But mind what I tell 20,
y. you happen to get bit, you will wish
heartily you had kept Bachelors Hal
your life.
:" JONI believe I'll risk it anyhow.
[ get bit, I'll have the consolation of k
y EJ ing am neither the first, nor will | bt
last that's been bamboozled. Adieu
~on good friend, | hope to see better days