Smyrna times., 1861-03-21
MISCELLAN EOUS.
The Price of a Heart,

None of us sensible people believe that girl
is gong to agree to marry an old man because
she loves him. When rich old fellow pays
successful court to a girl, or gets successful
court paid him, he is 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 money operation.
Ii that 81, Louis old huncks, Mr.. Shaw, agreed
to marry Effie Carslang, and Efie Carstan g
agreed 10 marry him, then, when Mr.. Shaw
backed out from his contract, she had right
TO come upon him for damages. lie had, to all
lntents and purposes, endowed her with por.
ton OF his goods, and she ought to have them
Nobody supposes that her heart is al all dam
aged, but she has lost her money. But if Effie
CarstaDg had been successful in her suit and
got her hundred thousand dollars, who would
have been safe? We entertain the most pro-
found regard for the sex, but there are women
In the world, we regret to say, WHO would man.
age to secure abundant attention from any
rich gallant old gentleman. and then swear
that those rice and gallant old gentlemen had
promised TO marry them, ii they were sure they
could get hundred thousand dollars, or even
nan That sum by 1t. Suppose you, reader, and
ourselves, were slxty-fve years old, and un-
married, and some sweet little flirt of twenty.
two should attach herself TO US at a Watering
place, and warm up our old hearts with her
smiles, and lean gently upon our arm by MOON
light. aud sing Tor Us, and fatter US. and tell
us we we're yOu"g. Could we stand it Would
not we do anything for her in the world-take
her out to rlde-hll her with straw berries and
cream-buy G loves for her-iake her to con.
certs, and all that sort of thing, and then write
to her after she had returned home Of course
we would, and we should be boobies If we did
not. Suppose some impudent brother should
! appear to us after 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 Carstanged if we didn't do il! But YOU see
how easily the thing could Confound the art.
ful creatures! 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 handsome
man OF family, and are not likely to be, might
get stuck" it Carstang had recovered. Ii
would have furnished an awkward precedent
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
1. Ii man refuses TO marry a woman whom be
has promised 10 marry, and acts meanIv abOu
it, he is fit subject for BROTHERS. fiogging-
!. that's all Nobody pities him, of course, anC
nobody would object 10 seeing him suffer 9
heavy fine; but to undertake to recover The
value OF heart, or lost love, argues such
low view of marriage, and demonstrates so lit
tie damage really done, that the thing becomes
not only ridiculous but offensive. No high
minded woman would touch the meney ofa mai
who had discarded her, with pair Of tongs.-
When woman undertakes to bind up broker
heart with bank notes. and heal her wounde,
affections by topical application of silver, sh
may be in pitiful condition, but there is i'm
mediate danger of her dying. Not bit OF il
: II is generally the very best evidence that sh
is going 10 live good while yet, and want
something to live on.--Spring6eId RepubIi
can.