Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-05-11
IScKLLANR0US
FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
"CONSTANCY" OF HIGH POINT.
BY ERATO.

"cOnstancy'' is a young gentleman @ t. t1 emp "a
ferences given" &c. In the first place, the ladies
doubt his ever having been in the army as no good
soldier would even be temporarily from duty now,
when nrloughs are not granted. "Deslres to mar
ry r' Shame! shame could that not have been
known without his publishing it to the world Does
he imagine there is a lady south ofNason's and Dlxon's
line who would respond to that nonSensical, insult
ing Matrimonial % If he does, he is egregiously
mistaken. There is not a lady in the south who
would marry him, if they knew him to be "Constan-
CIV" itself. They look upon him as a low bred man,
who has no respect for himself, or any one else. In
stead of getting a wife by advertising for one ne has
gained the i'll will of the ladies generally.
"Bcst references" will be of little use; the ladies
have only to refer to SMATRIMoNIAL." That pic
lures to their minds a = Teller" suffering with that
dreadful disease called "big head''-a man destitute
of sense and every thing that constitutes a gentle
man. "Constancy' had best keep a close watch, or
before he is aware of it he will be solemnly engaged
to some " intelligent gentleman, instead of " lady"
The ladies are heartily tired of "Matrimonials ;"
knowing they emanate from minds entirely devoid
of no~bleness-goodness, manlineSs and truth. What
do those things (my vocabulary fails to furnish an
epithet sufficiently mean) think of, when they pub
lish those Matrimonials Do they imagine, because
so many of our best young men lie among the slain
that the ladies will marry any body, rather than be
"old maids ~ They are again mistaken They
will remain in single blessedness, until their jetty
locks are white as the driven snow-their teeth gone
and their robust forms bent with the weight of
years, before they will marry a sef-conceited fool
and such they imagine are all those fellows who are
advertising for wives. The ladies will not go to the
newspapers to select husbands, but choose them from
among our noble soldiery. There will no doubt be
scores of old maids" not from lack of opportu-
mites to marry, however, but from the fact that there
are not enough of soldiers. And they will all, every
one, be " old maids" rather than marry any body
else. Many ladies prefer to remain single, because
they cannot trust the gentlemen they are so tickle!
We scarcely see a paper these days that does not
contain one or more of those offensive Matrimonials
/ see a new one from Raleigh. Wonder if he is not
some olo, ugly, sour, green, gray-headed, knock
kneed, Grabbed, Ignorant, drunken g fe1ler," who
knows there is no one in the created world who would
marry him after they should get one glimpse of the
scamp! | imagine he is. | know the ladies are eve
ry one provoked at the editors for honoring those
"wife seekers enough to publish their articles. q
don't mean you, friend German, as you have only in
serted one but I hope you will not publish anoth-
er) move that we send'those fellows spoken of,atc
Japan, give them plenty of work to do, with nothing
to eat save those " Matrimonials" cut from the news
papers.