Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-25

GONG HOME WITH THE GIRLs.-The
into society may be said to
Jake place after boyhood has passed
away, yet the multitude take the init
alive before their boards arc presenta-
BILE, remarks the Springfield Republic
an, in a series Of sketches on the trials
Of young America at the present day 4
1t is great trial, either to = tender
or tough age, for an over-grown boy
to 60 to q door, knowing that there
are dozen girls inside, and to knock
or ring with absolute certainty that in
two minutes oil their eyes will be upon
is, We repeat, . severe test Of
To 60 before these girls and
make satisfactory tour Of the room
without stepping on their toes, and then
to sit down and dispose of ones hands
without putting them in ones pocket,
it is an achievement which few boys
can boast of. If aboy can go as far
as to measure off ten yards of tape with
one of these girls, and cut it short at
each end, he may stand chance Of
spending a pleasant evening, but let
him not Aatter himself that all the tri-
ais Of the evening are over. There
comes, at last, the breaking up. The
dear gi.ls don their hoods, and put on
their shawls, and look so saucy and
mischievous, and impossible, as If they
didn't wish any one to see them home.
Then GENES the pinch, and the boy
that has the most pluck makes up to
the prettiest girl-his heart in his
mouth, and crooking his elbow, stam-
mers the words, ''Shall I see you
home % She touches her fingers to
his arm, and they walk home, about q
foo; apart, feeling as awkward IS q
couple Of goslings. As soon as she is
safe inside her own door, he struts
home, and has really been and gone
and done it. Sleep comes to him at last,
with dreams of Caroline and calico,
and he awakes in the morning and finds
the door of life open to him, and the
pigs squealing for breakfast.
LADIES MARRYING STRANGERS
How common it is for worthy ladies,
widows and single girls, to marry
strangers, upon very slight acquain-
lance! The man may be base william,
and he may have q wife, but if he has
money, is man Of good address and
wears fine clothes, those accomplish
ments will pass him, while honest men
well raised, and of known integrity,
will be spurned. In this country the
basest Williams living are admitted into
good society, if they have money and
dress we'll.
However pale, dreary and toilsome,
q single life may be, unhappy married
life is ten times worse. And these hasty
marriages with strangers, alone for
their wealth, real or imaginary, are ev-
er after full of innumerable regrets
they are a torment from which there is
no escape but death
Girls, our advice to you is, never
barter away a lifelong of happiness
for gold or fine clothes. When these
are the only ties that bind two hearts
together, the union cannot be otherwise
but unhappy. Avoid all such men, and
such ties, as you would famine or pest
ilence-death and ruin! MARRY for
love and work for riches" is an old and
safe maxim. Never marry for riches
and afterwards work for love. This
you will find is up hill business.
A NEWSPAPER ED1roR.-A newspa-
per editor must, like poet, be born to
his calling, as in majority Of instan-
ces, no amount of training will fit a
person for such post, unless no has a
natural taste and aptitude for that de-
scription of literary labor; for although
many persons are able to write 'lead-
ers' or ''literary articles" for a news
paper, few can be entrusted with its ed
itorial control, few can scent out the H.
bel which turks in almost every COM
munication, few can distinguish to re-
port, indeed to place the speaker in
stead Of informing the nation, and to
detect the letter written for private in
terests instead Of public ends; still
fewer who can tell at q glance the kind
Of literary or political material which
will promote the circulation of the jour-
nal-in fact good EDITORS great diff
Guilty is not as to what he should put in,
but what he should keep ont Of his
columns. Successful editors have not
been great authors, but men of good
common sense, and their good common
sense has taught them to write but little
themselves, but to read, judge, select,
dictate, alter and combine the writings
of others.-Chdnaber's Journal.
How TO LIVE Tw1cE.-Do you wish
to know how to live tvice in this
world? There is proverb which says:
cit is to live twice, when you can
enjoy the recollection of your former
life"
Now, if We live every day SO that we
can enjoy the recollection of it, that is
to live t,cice. Cannot our young friends
remember how happy they feel at night,
when they can look back upon all the
hours of the day, spent in the cheerful
performance Of duty? Every effort to
help and comfort your mother, to
please your brother or sister, to crafty
the desires of your associates, to re.
lievc the SORROWS Of the poor and afiict-
cd, and to send the bread Of life to the
perishing-oh, how a recollection Of
them makes us live twice! And how
little it costs to do these things which
VIC can delight to remember! Will not