Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-16
with a most camplacent smile .

with most camplacent smile
' believe it," said Minnie, for the men
are in the habit of doing such things, just as
much as we poor feminines do, who get all the
blame for il mean spending a considerable
portion of their time admiring their own dear
faces and figures at the glass-and yet they
deny it most 6ercely. Oh, well, we girls that
have brothers and bachelor cousins, know
thing or two" about their weaker moments.
Well, we won't complain, no matter how Of
ten, or how long time they are before the
mirrors they do of US, because we know
that it is all for our sakes they do it, and
Minnie laughed in her own merry way, as she
thought of the poicertW influence We women
folks possess over the hearts of men. Well,
all this time we have left our hero standing be-
fore the mirror, but, according to Hulda's the
ory, he has not had any serious objections TO
it.
j." 1t is astonishing must say" he proceeds
to remark after he was satisfied with the in
spection, +" but then he was rich, AYE there's
the rub /" yes he has gold plenty, and shining
in his Golfers, and will in all probability soon
shuttle off this mortal coil " leaving bis fair
young wife an abundance of the "wherewthal''
to entrap another. and younger husband with;
quite a customary habit nowadays and l am
poor and will probably never be any better off
as have no talent for making money. Well.
money often works wonders in the matrimoni-
al lire for girls will, if possible, martry, not
for the love of man, but for the love of money
Girls" forsooth we all cried out simulta-
neously, wonder if men, the generality of
ia itya bof fba oh ref
in matrimonial alliances and every other good
thing, and we girls must bear the blame in that
as we'll as in everything else. Well, " its ever
since the world began, and always been the
way" and there is nothing left for us to 81,
but suffer and endure. Another DEPRESSION
pardon it."
Yes, their hearts :" be goes OF to say, the
old rascal j; F" are more frequently moved by
the eloquent chink of "a dollar or two," than
by the eloquent language of love. have
poem in my possession, entitled the Power of
Gold. which would like to send to Isabel, for
her careful pcrusal, if it were not for the fact
that the principal character in the poem or
rather the one in connection with the gold,
was the author of the most mischief; was of
the masculine gender, and that wouldn't do at
all, at all. l guess / will leave her in her
happiness as one too false to- love. All me
here is copy of Il poen,-we all turn poets |
when in love-which l addressed to her, and !
with which she expressed herself highly de- |
lighted, and said she would cherish it as one
of her choicest treasures but which I after
wards saw occupying Tery prominent place
among the kindIings in the parlot-grrte, but |
thought at the time, she had dropped it acci-
dentally, and that some other member of the |
family had appropriated it to that use, not be-
ing capable of appreciating its beauty and
valne. | wondered she didn't discover it, for |
[ recognized it soon as set my c5es on it, for
it was written on pink paper, with blue ink /: