The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-28
QUESTIONS Ann 3ANisVFiERs.
Interesting and Instructive Informa.
tion.sCnrIons GIImpses OF Mind and

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Interesting and Instructive InforTna.
ft0n.sCurlOus GllmpSes of Mind and
Morals. 1saa'i7s & gari9 tsH III
From the correspo column Of
Noah's Times and Messenger of this
week we clip the following questions
and answers
9uEsTIoN-Abont five months since ]
became engaged to worthy gentlemen
Ia wtdower with two children. But
as the time draws near for our union,
my judgment is all iagafnst it. I have
told the gentleman this: that / hnd
rather my husband should not have
been another's husband, and that the
tather OF my children should not have
other children not mine. But he only
smiles at what he calls an over-refne-
ment ofIteehpg; and my aunt, who is
my ,guardaini thinks i ought not to
break my promise to him, since moth
ing has altered from the time 1 became
engaged to him-not even nv feelings.
Tor they We're the same (onlyl In a less
degreel at the time. u am very jsunde-
ueciaeG ana very unhappy What
ought to do2 My. father was a wild
over when my mother married him,
ana do not think she was altogether
happy The relatives of nv. father's
hrSt wtte annoyed us in many ways,
and my halfbrother WINS taken into
my fathers confidence in business and
other matters to the exclusion of my
mother. should not like anything oI
that kind md thinking il ALLOW iay
by day has quite unsettled me. Do
mine.' - lafs iiE Ut - =
ANswER.-If you sincerely love the
gentleman and are convinced that he
loves you with sincerity, the two chill,
NNI \
your union. As general rule, then are
the parties who viii become the victims
tif any victims there should bel to a
second marriage on the part of their
father. The first wife and her children
are commonly forgotten, when the sec
ond wife and her children occupy a
mans man attention, Just as present events
ished events of the past. The instance
70 the contrary which you allude to is
one of those rarities we witness in per-
maps one case out. of. a thousand. not
ottner. If you do not like the children
OF yourintended, or II you fear they will
make you unhappy, insist upon a writ
ten marriage contract in advance, onl-
'Dracing all the points of discord.
< r, QuESTIoN.-"l need a little advice. "A,
rallroad agent has made me a present
OF money because / had influenced the
shipping ofgoods on'his road. NIy'em-
ployers are not pleased, and want me
to give them a statement OF all money
FeScIyeu from the railroad agents. de-
cline to do so, because they who ordered
the goods were only charged the regular
rate of freight, and they could not be
shipped for any less, Give mo yonr
views, and whether am right or
wrong2" -
8 ANSWER.-You have not done right.
and yet you can hardly be said to have
~
duty, before accepting the first gratuity,
TO obtain the permission of your eIil3
plOyers; for they had ai,right to infer
that you would, If thus tempted, use
your influence to send freight byiany
road of the agents ofwhich You receiv-
ed the largest doMceur without much
regard to the convenience or interest of
their customers. It is your duty, now
either to make a clean breast of it and
supply the desired statement, or else re-
sign. Your course might be considered
damaging to the business character of
the firm that employs you, and of
course, therefore, that firm can properly
take cognizance of it. -
QUEsTIoN.-s.I am fortv-eiUht Years
old and enjoy good health. 1 drink
whtskey moderately, conrse) and
smoke. have n boy eight years old.
who has delicate frame, but seems to
De very WE'LL He sleeps with me (lhay-
4lS EecenIly 1OSG ono OF the best of
wives Now, please inform me if you
think my boys health will be Injured
by suchn course. ~ III
ANswER.-If you are quite healthy.
you are not likely at your age to iniure
the child by sleeping with it. IF you
We're older i(say beyond sixtyl and the
child younger (say four or fiyel there
might be danger, because, after sixty
years of age, the human frame con-
sumes more vitality than it manufnc-
lures, and will readily absorb it from
any person having an excess of vitality
coming In contact with it. AS 1t is Won
are probably on about an even balance.
and your system is not sufficiently in
want, or sufficiently exactfng in its.
want Of vitality, to rob of vigor the one
1t embraces. NJ > }If7i5l =
I QUEsuoN.1In your last Sundays
paper, In answer to u correspondent In
qufring for remedy for dnndruff, you
recommend borax and camphor 10 be
dissolved in boiling water. inform me
how much boiling water would be ne
cessary for the quantity of borax and
camphor you speak of.
ANSWERING meant to say dissolve
together in "a quart ofboiling water one
ounce of finely-powdered borax and
half an ounce of finely-powdered cam
phor, DC. esats 80