Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-18
Broken Hearts and Bapk.Notes.

Broken Hearts and Bank-NOtes,
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican OBJ
serves:
None of us sensible people believe that a
girl is going to agree to marry an old man
because she loves him. When a rich old
fellow pays successful court to o girl, or gets
successful court paid to him, he is q fool if
he does not very thoroughly understand that
he purchases her; that were it not for his
money she would not look at him. 1t is
purely a money operation. If thatSt. Louis
old hunks, Mr.. Shaw, agreed to marry Eff
fe Carstang, and Efle Carstang agreed to
marry him, then, when Mr.. Shaw backed out
from his contract, she had a right to come
upon him for damages. He had, to all in-
tents and purposes, endowed her with a por-
ton of his goods, and she ought to have
them. Nobody supposes that her heart is at
all damaged, but she has lost her money.
But if Ehie had been successful in her suit
and got her 100000, who would have been
safe 2 ..
We entertain the most profound regard for
the sex, but there are women in the world,
we regret to say, who would manage to Sc
cure abundant attentions from any rich gall
liant old gentleman and swear that those
rich and gallant old gentleman had promised
to marry them, if they we're sure they could
geta 100000, or even half that sum by ii.
Suppose you, reader, and ourselves, were six
ty.hve yearsold, "ifa day" (very improbable,
Of course,) and unmarried, utterly immposi-
BILE, Of course, and some sweet little flirt of
twenty-five should attach herself to us at a
watering place, and warm up our old hearts
by Der smiles, and lean gently upon our arm
by moonlight and sing for us, and flatter us,
and tell us we were young. Could we stand
it2 .r az NJ
Wouldn't we do any thing for her in the
world-take her out to ride-fll her with
Strawberries and cream-buy gloves for her
take her to concerts, and all that sort of
thing, and then write to her after she re-
turned home OF course we would, and we
would be boobies if we didn't. Suppose
some impudent brother should appear to us
after a while, and desire to know why the
deuce we didn't come to the scratch, and
make the woman our wife and heiress, and
threaten that we should be banged or hanged
or CarstaDged if we didn't do It.
What do you say to that 1t isn't pretty,
is it2 But you see how easily the thing
could be done. Confound the artful crea-
turesl We are glad, on the whole, that
Miss Carstang did not succeed in getting
her money. We are safe, Of course but you
reader, who possibly may not be a handsome
man of family, and are not likely to be,
1t would have furnished an awkward prece-
dent. ,
AS for those suits for breaches Of promise
among the young folks, where love is really
supposed to exist, they are always in bad
taste. If a man refuses to marry a woman
whom he has promised to marry, and acts
meanly about it, he is a fit subject for a
brotherly flogging-that's all. Nobody pities
him of course, and nobody would object to
seeming him suffer a heavy fine; but to un-
dertake to recover the value of a heart, or a
lost love, argues such a low view o fmarriage,
and demonstrates SO little damage really
done, that the thing becomes not only ridicu-
lOus but offensive. .
No high-minded woman would touch
the money of a man who had discarded her,
with a pair of tongs. When a woman under
takes to bind up a broken heart with bank
notes, and heal wounded affections by top
ical application of silver, she may be in a
pitiful condition, but there is no immediate
of her dying. Not a bit of it. 1t is
generally the very best evidence that she is
going TO live a good while yet, and wants
something to live on.