Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-01-05
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you're coming into possession of an angel?
Yes, bu; angels cost money. Did it ever
occur to you what an expensive article your
fashionable young wife was likely to prove
Bless your unsophisticatcd soul you've no
more idea of it than you have of the price of
onions, or the market value of wash.tub.-
You'll find out one day, however, to your
grief
Two or three stout Irish girls to wait on
her--a French maid to arrange her hair fif-
ty dollar silks and camel'shair shawls to
make her female friends enyous, and half-a-
dozen bonnets per annnm-whitc kid gloves
and silver card cascs--otto of roses and bo-
quet holders-why, you deluded young man,
She throw money out with iicr hinged and
lily-whitc Gugers faster, by the bushcl, than
you can sicvc it in with a spade You
don't believe it? Let us make a rough es-
Innate, then, of what she will cost in full
promenade costume
Bonnet Ga love of thing, the sweetest
white chip, and such n bargain) fifteen dol
lars. India shawl (of course you won't be
such brute as to expect your wife to wear
common cashmere or brochc, just like the
butchers better half) only seyentyivc, the
cheapest thing i'll New York J! Dress, an
eleven hounced silk, forty-ive dollars, inclu-
ding the trimmings and the poorly paid labor
of the hollow checked dressma6cr; Falcnci-
euncs collar and sleeves, twenty five; cur
ming little hceled gaitcr-boots, three gloves
Que Etruscan bracelet, fifty (you expect your
wife to go dressed like other women, dou't
you and every body hasnn Estruscan brace
lcD; brooch and earrings in Italian cameo,
thirty; cnamclcd watch and chain, seventy
five; card case, twenty duck of
Chntilly veil ten; embroidered hcndkcr-
chief, eight; lace parasol lined with lavcn-
der silk, ten; crnoinc, three and other
belongings" lacccdged and Sumptuously
decorated, about ten, as near MS body can
venture to guess Now all this is an exceed
ingIy moderate asscssmcut-thcre are pruba-
bly, rs many who exceed it as fall short of it,
good Mr.. Brown? Well, your angel, in the
simple matter of plpmagc for this one occa-
sion costs you not tar from four hundred dol
lars! Yes, you may open your eyes and twirl
your moustachcs in that incrcduous sort of
way; do you suppose we don't know all about
it? Yes, aud when the bills come in,
you will remember our words of warning
You nc doing remarkable foolish thing when
you marry one OF these camelia- japonica di-
whites, whitc-haudcd, helpless, and know
ing just about as much of real, every. day
life as canary bird might be expected to un-
derstand. If We were Il man, we should us
soon think of marrying trail hot. house plant
as one of these delicate sprigs of the ornamcn-
tai Give us the apple blossom type of wo-
n!an-sunny, cheerful, and useful something
equal to every emergency, from washing.duy
to Fifth Avenue sOiree-something that
understands the handling of broom, and
Knows what the kitchen-poker is made for
and can calculate to niccty the amount of
minccmcat requisite III a model pie, besides
liking bit of fun us well us the next woman,
and possessing a pretty weakness tor lively
books and spicy newspapers. That's the ar
tlclc Tor our money. y wife who would Sc
lcct gingham instead OF silk, when she went
shopping, and frcshen up her old bonnet with
bunch of satin violetS and new ribbon, in
stead of paying an eXtravagant price for the
latest Partisan foolclics, not because she
hadn't woman's natural pcnchant for such
things, but because she wanted to save money
because her little head was full of schemes
some day to contribute something toward re-
leasing her husband from the bondage and
drul;,cry of desk or counter. DO you sup
pose the value of such wife can be counted in
gold pieces Let your satinrubc doll sweep
contomptuously past her on Broadway Mr.
nrown-timc will prove which is the better
Instrument
Only, before you purchase the useless, jew
clcd toy, think twice about it. Ask yourself
soberlyaud reasonably. "WMt is the prcey'
and Can | afford 2" or it may be the
dearest bargain you ever made in your life
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