Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-06-15

Wsers there's one We love 10 meet usi
MANAGING an HEIREss.
Congratulate me- said Harry Vernon to
his friend, Albert Courtney. You can guess
aYOua are engaged to Miss Townsend
0Fes."
al DO, with all ny heart. But"
"But what?'
al an sorry she is an heirsss."
"Sorry that she is an heiressl Well, now,
that is o3dFv
"Not so odd as you may think. But per-
haps l have already said too much 2"
"No. Go on, old fellow. We were chums
at college, have been fast friends ever since,
and it would be queer If couldn't take a little
advice from you, even it was unpleasant"
at is not exactly advice. Hat have you ever
thought, Harry what marrying an heiress re-
ally means p
ITO be sure, / have. It means being the
envy Of all the other fellows; having a splen-
did wedding, with Cots Of tin' in prospectsome
day.
THAT'S Just it. It's the lots Of tin in pros
peeH some day, that does all The mischief"
"How so ?p
aT win tell you. Take two girls, one
brought up as an helress, and one with little
OF no expectations. OF course, ] suppose that
both are equally well-bred aud sensible. The
latterh has Been accustomed to help herself; to
assist In household duties; and to weigh well
tie value Of every cent she spends. Such a
girl when married, is a help to a husband, in
stead OF being a tax on him. She has no alb
surd ideas Of position 10 keep up. If she has
taste, she viii look as well in chintz as others
do IN silks. She viii get Up an entertainment,
and YOU will be astunishec how little it costs.
Her servants win stay vita her for years, be-
cause she is Just to them, and not e~xacting.
Everything 10 her house viii be neat and
orderly, for she viii overlook everything her
self. With such q wife. a man can live on
two-thirds OF what be would otherwise have
to spend; aud from these savings alone be viii
grow comparatively well off in time"
81 know who sat for that picture, olifellow.
But Ann certainly is q treasure. Now fire
away at my Mary"
at is not OF Miss Townsend. individually,
I shall speak, it is Of the class1
"Wsll, 20 ahead, no need OF apologies"
"a girl, brought up with the notion that she
is 70 be rich, must be almost more than mortal
not to imbibe notions o. her own Importance.
She has plenty Of servants about her. She
never learns the value Of money. What are
Injuries 10 others become. through long use,
only necessaries to her. How is It possible
she could escape being selhsh7 The worst OF
10 IL, she is not conscious Of this selfshness,
and when married, if not petted excessively,
thinks herself neglected"
"You don't fattsr."
"Look at the money question also. She is
one Of several children, and though her father
is rich, bis fortune, when divided among them
al, win not be sufficient Of itself 70 keep Der
and hsr husband in the style which she has
Been accustomed to HveR
eBut Der husband viii have some income,
and her fortune, when it comes, viii help that
outs
@There is nothing like figures. Let me put
a case. Suppose the father Is worth a hun
bred Thousand dollars, and has Eve children,
which makes the portion Of each twezty
thousand d~ollsrs.o
every well.o
"Now when a girl, with twenty thousand in
expectancy, marries, she spends, generally, a
thousand a year more than if she had no for
tune in prospect. IL twenty years eiapse be-
fore her portion falls to Der, the whole of il
has been spent before II arrives, and twenty
years is not, in the average, an excessive time
to have to wait. But, in fact, if tie loss Oh
interest is taken into account, the twenty
thoussad viii bare been expended long be-
fore.D
g But you done mean to say that we will
spend a thousand a year more than you and
Anne D
81 dent mean to make any personal appli-
cation Of ny remarks, Harry. That l leave
for yourself"
"H I wasn't the best natured fellow in the
world, I should get angry. But know it's all
nonsense, what you've Been saying. You only
wish to croak a little; you always would
crosk, you know"
ETbs two friends were married about the
same time. Both mcved into the sane block,
paid the sane amount Of rent, and seemed to
start in hfe almost exactly alike. It vas moi
long, however, before Courtney's predictions
began TO be realized. Mrs. Vernon soon found
that she could net do without an extra servant.
Then she rarely went into the kitchen, never
having been taught anything about cooking.
This made Der table cost more than Mrs.
Courtney's. She had 3 false notion, only too
common, that dmdgeTy was not lady-like, and
hence neglected a proper supervision Of her
house. Her unmarried sisters were very gay,
and were constantly giving parties, and she
could Tot but give them, and others, parties
in return AT The end Of the year, when Yer
non cast up his accounts, be found that his
expenses had greatly exceeded bis expecta-
lions. He thought, r~uefullV, Of what Court
ney bad told bin, and resolved to do better
next year. But the next year passed, and
things were even worse. Increased expenses
he'd come, which were unavoidable. He was
a young lawyer, and young LAWYERS are pro-
verbally slow in getting practice and be be-
gan "a look forward 70 the failure with unessi-
ness, for 90 yet be had not prOhted q cent from
his wife being an heirsss, nor was it probable
be Weuld foT many years, for Mr.. Townsend
was still a hearty man, not yet fifty.
Time passed. IN ten years, Courtney bad
laid By quite a little capital, which By judi
cious investments, now began to increase rap
idly. IF he bad wished, be could have spent
twice ss-mueh as be did, and still have lived
within bis ipcone. He and Vernon continued
10 occupy the houses into which they bad
moved on being married. But while that Of
the CourtneVs nov belonged to them, the
VerDons had stil 70 pay rent for theirs, and
often found this no easy matter. The one
house was always tidy and fresh tie other
eaa 2 look Of faded gentiiity. in the one,Ess
comlcrt auu ogHlpve-ncs. in the other, a con-
slant starving to keep up Appearances.
Courtney is still handsome and 20 10 his
wife. Bnt both Vernon and Mary have a isoed
look, which plainly betrays the struggle they
with fortune. OF all poverty, that Of
the people lik the Vernons, is the worst.
What did HarTyms BY msrryicgan heiress ?
such WouId be Life.
The average length Of life in France, before
the revolution Of 1898, was twentv-eieht years:
and at the present Gme it lie thirty-seVen years.
The great Psychologist, Mr.. Flourens, says in
his book or "The Duration Of Human Life
and The Quantity Of Ute IN The Globe"
The natural duration Of the life Of nan is
LAAaaa.M NEaNas VIII OUT way or o
living. our passions, our vexatons, man does
not die, but be kills himself. Whea once toe
and The epiphyses are united, the body
grows no more and it is al about the age Of
That this union is effected. To the
It takes place az eight, in the horse at
Eve, in the lioB 81 four, in the dog at two, in
the cat AZ eighteen, in the rabbit al twelve, etc.
Man being twenty years IN growing, lives Eve
twenty vears-tbat is 10 say one hundred
49, - &c mH~HH - 49,
FIVE times eight years-.hat is % say
forty years the horse il i've years in growing
and be lives five tine five years-thst Is TO say
twenty-five years and 90 On with the others.
BCdon thought thai the duration Of the ex-
Istence Of animals was equal to seven times
The period Of thsir growth. "As the stag" I
be says, "is Eve or Elk years IN growing, It J
lives seven times five or six years-that is 70
say tnTty-hFe or forty years. The man
who does not ale IL sickness, lives everywhere :
eighty or one hundred years.o v
But a third French eaVaut. Mr.. De Lapgsse.
goes another step still farther bv assuring "a y
that, IL we U0ald only live reasonably, we &
should reach 10 an average Of one hundred and
fifty to two hundred years. Mr.. Fl5urens'
statement that a mar sixtg-fge vsars olffs D.,
only an adolescent, is nothing compared with
de Lepasse's theory about what be calls
TIE nstursl lsngta Of life: S
The life Of warm-bi0oded mammiferr 4 {
to an invariabie law the duration Of
their existence appears 10 be equal 70 ten s
the period Of their growing. It is thus 8
with the elephant, the OK, the cat, the dog and 8
he Q~uadmmana. Two mammifera are the 5
only eKception-the horse and the man. And
Il is because they are slave-the one
10 the dire condition Of work, and the other to
bis passions and the necessities Of this social
condition z
We don't object TO Dir. Lspasse's theory.
and w would be happy to Be yet young at j
sixty years Of age, IS Mr. Flourens believes :
We could but most Of us would Be very well =
With what Button allows us-that is
% say, seven times the duration Of their grow
Ing.