The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-13
Give Him the "Mitten.n

Seventeen years ago there was fair girl so
pure, 80 lovely, SO refined, that she stan rises
~ my lnlud almost akin ~ Tie angels. Sne
was wood aud ultimately won by baud
s0lne young man OF considerable wealth.
lie sporled line team, delighted in hunting
aud Kept u tue pack OF hounds. He neither
played cards, drank wine, nor used tobacco
de lived On his money, The interest OF which
alone would have supported a family hand
bomeiy. / never saw the fair bride again un-
Ill lew days ago. Seventeen years had
passed away, and with them her beauty and
her yonth; her husbands fortune aud his life,
during the latter part OF which they lived la
log cabin ON The banks OF the Ohio river,
near Bennerhassets Island; a whole faulty
IN one sugtr room, sutsstIug on water TAT
bacon aud corn bread. fne husband had no
business capacity. lie was a gentleman oi
education, OF refinement, OF noble Impulses !:
but when his money Was gone he could gel
no employment, simply because he dad not
know wv To do anything. For while he
doundered about, nrst trying one thing aud
tn-u another, bat failure" was written on
them all He, however, finally obtained sit
ustion: the labor was great, the compensation
small; IL was that or starvation; in his heroic
Efforts to discharge his aaty aceepiably, he
og-rsorked himself aud died, leaving his
widow aud ak girls in utter restitution. In
seventeen years the sweet aud joyous aud
bsauti ul glri had become broken hearted
care-wora, poverty widow, with a
hon.eful OF helpless ehiidrenl
Young woman! Ii rich young man asks
you u marry him, aud has NO occupation, or
traie or calling by which he could make a
living, II he were thrown on his own resourc-
e., you may give him your respect, but 'gise
him the Initlen."
Whatever may be young mans qualities,
u 10 Is load OF going 10 the theatre, refuse"
him.
Ii q young man shows by his conversation
that he 10 admirer OF last horses, and Is
pretty well acquainted with the qualities and
slime" OF the best racing nags Of the coun-
t-y, when he asks your land, give him The
mit'eu" Only.
Ii yon,ever hear young man speak Of his
iatner aud mother dlsrespecuully, contemp-
tuousy, do not encourage his attentions; he
will do the same OF you. aud in many ways
VIII make your heart ache before you die.
IL you ever III ow young man who likes to
stand around iavern-Ioors, at the street-cof-
nsrs, aud about groceries" cut your hand OIL
rather than place it in his; he is worth only
the -mit:en.v
II your sutton can tell you a great deal
alb 'ut cards; seems familiar with q multi
tude Of tricks" which can be performed with
the same. and Is himself an adept ia such
things. let him not "win' your heart, for he
will 'lose it' 10 a year, and leave you brok-
en- one Ia its place.
IL you know OF . mice young man" who
certainly will have a laIse estate, who Is of a
"highly respectable family" who seems to be
al home as 10 the usages. customs and pro-
prielies 81 good society, aud yet who is indif-
ferent about attending church on the Sabbath
day. VINO speaks disparagingly OF clergymen,
talks about religion in a pztronziDg way, as
"a very good thing In its place. particularly
Tor old women, weak young girls aud chit
dren. never marry him should he ask you
Sub man c al never warm a woman's heart:
will never Irvine around II the tendrils of a
true aft elton, for he Is innately cold, unsym-
pa'hzing aud selfish, aud should sickness and
trouble come to you, he will leave you to
bear them all alone.
Likeness. the having no occupation will al
ways and inevitably eDgender moral and phys
icai disease; and these traits will be more or
less perpetuated in the children born to such ::
the brunt of these calamites has to be borne
BY the mother, and In the bearing up against
them how many noble hearted woman has
sorrowed. aud grieved. and toied herself into
premature grave may never be known, but
the number cannot be expressed In few fig
ures. Therefore. my sunny faced daughter. If
you do not want to grow old before your time
to live lie of toll aud ald sorrow, aud then
prematnrelv die. give not your hand, but only
.'the mitten' 10 young man, however well
born or rich. who has not legitimate calling
ny which he could make living ifhe were
BY Soma for'ui'y left penniless.-[ Hairs Jour
nal IF Health