Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-21
Mistell antous.
MATRIMONY AS A PURSUIT.
[From the Daily Pensylvanian.l

[From the Daily Pensylvanian.l
Even as Mistress Sarah Battle took de-
light in whist, and invested that social
pastin,e with a gravity appertaning to one
OF lite's most serious avocations, and dig.
nifty more commanding than that of any
one Of the learned professions--so doth
the but methodicd Il Mistress Matchmon>
ger take an earnes and unfagging inter-
est in the subject of matrimony. and lose
no opportunity of persuading men, and
even women-singularly gratuitous as this
last act of charity may seem-of the press
ent advantage and ultimate necessity for
entering into the married state.
"You see, my DEAR" she is wont to OBJ
serve to the school girl of fourteen sum
mers, whom she has cause to suspect Of
recreative giddiness, and want of per
feet proprety" in the street--'you see my
dear, that you should be ever mindful of
your department; never forget yourself
SO far as TO commit the smallest indiscre-
ton, for you have no notion Of what may
come of tor what may be lost by it. Uns
der all circumstances, think of the future,
and compare yourself as you would like
10 be, with what you may be. Be watchs
ful that you may never lose chance !;
you can never know whose eye is upon
you" 1t is proper TO observe here, in or
der toprevent contradiction in the char
acter Of Mrs. Matchmonger, and to pro
serve that uniformity of purpose which
is as much part of her nature as her
head is part of her person,-that by
whose eyes she meant "the eye Of what
man. and not The Eye to whichreligious
preceptors refer as forever regarding the
ways of men and women, as well as of all
the children of men.
GAS you cannot know this fact, my
dear, DO careful Of opportunities. don't
forget the widow of the Russian Min
lister, recall the story of her walk from
school on certain day, and emulate the
+ department of the lovely and accomplish
! ed Miss Williams"
Thus does this widow OF three and q
half husbands present faction being
not yet in tomb bodily, only spiritually
Nembalmed, as it were, IN the grander in
telect of his wife-commence at the foun-
sdations Of society to build up universal
sand elduring monuments in honor of Hy-
mcn, the only hero she ever worshipped,
and the only myth she ever pursued
But our philanthropic friend. Mrs.
sMatchmonger, docs not confine her labor
<ot love to the rising generation she looks
<aoroad, and taking q comprehensive view
'ot the generation which may be said to
+stand still for a while, waiting for some
thing to turn up" as well as fthe gener-
istlon which is passing away, she gives ad-
4rlce gratis to all whom it may concern on
the Importance of instan taneous matri-
mony, without so much reference 10 tho
permancncy of that happy condition, as
sto the necessity of renewing it at every
pccaSion like heavy note, which it is
impossible to liquilate once and forever,
Put which must be renewed, with slight
ke6Stements in the principal, whenever it
'palls due.
q The good dame takes kind ofmatern-
t Understanding no direct right to that
interesting sentiment of the female heart
y virtue Of her three and half lords
y the welfare ofvery young gentleman
slender means and of prospects feehly
immering in the distance Of an uucer-