Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-12-30
Stlftt Miseflluuq,
fFron the New Orleans Delta. |
JONES IN LOVE,
The Dentist's wife.

Selfeonceit zin its most extravagant
form is one of the numerous faiiings of
our old friend Jones. By some mishap
it was instilled into his, mind from his
earliest, infancy, and has shown itself
oftcntimes within our own knowledge
of him too glaringly. 1t has been the
banes ofzhis social existence, and has
made him countless enemies who would
possibly all have been firm friends. Il
has killed him in the estimation of q
| large circle of female acquaintances,
who think of him only as conccitcd
Jones; and has been the cause of many
severe and nnkind remarks by mothers
Of nlarriageable daughters, who have
listened to Jones as he pictured, in
glowing imagery, the likeness of the
girl be would marry his beau ideal
being so far above the qualifications
of their offspr ny s % leave them not a
shadow of a chance.
This very self-o onceit is the prime;
aud we doubt not the real cause of his
present bachelor existence and will,
unless great reform takes place, leave
him in such a position that even old
maids will pass him by without regret.
We have talked to him by the hour, un-
till our very patience was exhausted in
endeayoring to impress him with the
idea of his extreme wor;hlessness, but
without effect, for, after our lecture is
done, he replies with yawn. pulls up
his shirt collar and adjusts it to nicely
by miniature looking glass in his hat,
lights fresh cigar, and goes putting
away down the street as conceited as
ever. A change has recently taken
place, and Jones is nslove, sor at least
was deeply so up to yesterday, and whe-
ther slight interruption which occurr-
ed will serve to weaken his attachment,
we leave our readers to judge.
We said he was in love and of course
our readers suppose, as all sensible cad
ers would be apt to imagine, that the
object of his affection is some blushing
girl, just budding into womanhood, with
nut-brown curls, and eyes of black, and
figure perfect, or some charming widow,
who, used to the arts and wiles of the
tender passion, has so thrown around
him the silken meshes that he struggles
in vain to free himself from; but such
speculations are far from the mark
Jones is in love, but we blush for him
when we state he is in love with mar
ried lady-a dentists wife.
1t appears that every morning when
Jones, attired in his best, walks with
dignifed slowness from his property in
charge up town, he is obliged to pass by
the window of the residence of certain
dentist, the husband of the lady referr-
ed to above, and it has been while thus
passing for the last month, both eve
ming and morning, that Jones has i'm
agined, with his usual conceit, that the
lady has fallen in love with him. 1t
must be so, reasoned Jones TO himself,
or else why should l fnd her invariably
seated at the window when 1 pass p
She no doubt keeps an exact note of the
time, and places herself there to see me
and giving his mustaehe an extra
twirl, and arranging his beaver to suit
his newly combed hair, Jones marches
past, and imagines she is looking love
at him. ~ ..5 -.-lr-H
Whether the lady was only amused
at the manouverings of our friend
Jones. aad enjoyed the fun at his ex-
pense after he had passed-which is
more than probable; or whether she re-
ally thought him. handsome Young
man whom she could afford to admire
for pastime, we are unable to say; suf-
ice it that she even went so far as to
induce Jones to believe (though he had
become SO blind he could not be con-
sldered fair judge that she, on more