The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-11-07
MARRYING an Heiress.


"Congratuiate me-" said Harry We,
non to bis friend. Albert Courtney. "Yo
can guess for what"
You are engaged to Miss Town
send"
Yes"
I" do with all my heart. But"
"But wbat7"
81 am sorry she is an heiress."
Sorry that she is an hciressl We'll
nov. that is odd"
Not SO odd as you may think. Bu
perhaps have already said to nuchl"
mo. Go oD, old fellow We were
cbums at college, have been fast friend
since, and it would be queer if | could o T
take little advice from you, even il i
was unpleasant"
ut is not exactly advice. But have
you ever thought. Harry, what marrying
al beiress really meansl"
ITO be sure have. 1t means being
the envy of all other fellow; having q
splendid ueddiug, with lots of tin in
prospect sone day"
That's just it. It's the 'lots of tin 10
prospect some day that does all the mis-
chief"
How sol"
81 will tell you. Take two girls, ooe
brought up as an heiress, and one with
little or no expectations. or course, /
suppose that both are equally well,bred
aud sensible. The latter has been accus-
toned to help herself, to assist iu house
hold duties, and to weigh we'll the value
Of every cent she spends. She has DO
absurd ideas OF position to keep up. II
she bas taste, she will look as we'll in
ebintz as others do in silk. She will get
up 40 entertainment and you will be as
toDished how little it costs. Her servants
will stay with ber for years, because she
Is just to them and not exactiDg.
Everything iu her house will be neat
and orderly. for she will oversee every
thing herself. With such a wife, a man
can live on two-tbirds OF what be would
have to spend, aud from these
savings alone be will grow comparatively
we'll off in tiGo."
Il know who sat for that picture. old
fellow. But Anne certainly is treasure.
Nov fire away at my Mary"
at is not of Miss Townsend, individu-
ally. | shall speak, it is of the class"
"Well, 60 ahead, no need of apollo
,ies."
"a girl brought up with the notion
bat she is to be rich, must be almost
more than mortal, not to imbibe notions
# her importance. She has plenty OF
ervants about her. She never learns the
'alue of money. What ere Injuries to
'tbers. become through long use. only
,ecessaries to her. How is it possible
be should escape being sel6shl The
vorst of it is. she is not conscious Of this
eli~hness. and when married, If not pet
ed excessively. thinks herself neglected"
"You don't fatter."
"Look at the money question Also
She is one of the several children, and
bough her father is ricb, his fortune.
vhen divided among them all, will not be
efficient of itself to keep ber and ber
u-band in the style which she has been
ccu.tomed to live"
"But her husband will have some in
ONE. and her fortune, when it comes. |
I'LL help that out"
There is nothing like figures. Let
,e put case. Suppose the father is
7orth hundred thousand dollars, and
as FIVE children, which makes the por-
ion Of each twenty thousand"
"Very woll."
mo" when girl, with twenty thou
and 10 expectency. marries, she spends
enerally, a thousand year more than
she had no fortune 10 prospect, if twen-
y years elapse before it arrives. and
Wenty years is not. in average an e1ces-
i've time to have to wait. But, in fact.
the loss on interest is taken into sc-
ou ut the twenty thousand will have been
1pended long before"
"But you don't mean to say that We
i'll spend thousand year more than
ou and Annel
Il don't mean to make any personal
ppicatioD of my remarks, Harry. That
leave for yourself
"If was not the best natured fellow
, the world, should get anarJ. And
uew it's sll nonsense. what you We oeen
aging. You only wish to eroak little;
ou always would eroak.
"Tbe two friends were married about
be sane time. Both moved IN the same
lock, paid the same amount of rent. and
canned to start in life almost exactly a.
ke. Il was not long before Courtbsys
reelection began to be realized. Mrs.
rernon soon found that she could not do
ithout an extra servant. Then she
arely vent into the kitchen, never hav-
Dg been taught anything about cooking.
his made her table cost more than Miss.