Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-26
OOURTING.

/ Courting IL a luxury it IL salad, it is i>c
water, it IL the pla spell ov the soul The
man who has never cOurted has lived in
vain; he has been blind man amung
landscapes and water skapesS he has been
def man in the land ov hand organs, and
| by the side ov murmuring cannals Court
ing IL like 2 little springs ov soft water that
steal out from under rock at the fut ov
mountain, and run down the hill, side by
! side, singing and dansing and spattering
each other, edying, frothing and kaskading,
now hiding under the bank, now full ov
shadder, till bimeby tha jine and then tha
| go slow. | am in favor of long courting
| it gives the parties a chance to find out
each uther's trump kards, it is real good lex
ercise, and IL just as innersent as two mer-
inc lambs.
Courting IL like strawberries and cream
wants to be did slow tn git the faver.
have saw folks git acquainted, fall in luv,
git married, settle down, git tew wurk, in
3 weeks from date. This IL Just the wa
sum folks larn a trade-akounts fur the
CRATE number Ov almiter mean mechanics
we hav and the poor jobs that turn out
Perhaps it IL best shud give sum good ad-
wise tew young men who ar about , court
with final view matrimony, as it was.
In the turst place. young man, yu want
tew git yure system awl rite and then find
young woman who IL willing be cour-
ted on the square.
The next thing is to find out how old she
IL, which you can dew bi asking her and
she will sa that she IL 10 years old, and
this you will find won't be far from ont ov
the wa.
The next best thing iz to begin moder-
ate; say onse every mite in the week for
the tust six months, increasing the dose as
the patient seems to require it.
1t is fust rate wa court the girls
mother leetle on the start, for there IL
one thing woman never dispizes, and that
IL, leetle good courting, if it IL done
strickly on the square. After the furst
year yu will begin be well acquainted
and will begin like the dizziness.
There is one thing | alwas advize, and
that is not to swop fotograffs oftener than
onse in too days, less yu forgt haw the
gal looks.
Okashionly yu want ? look sorry and
draw in yure wind as tho pu hav pain this
will set the gal to teasing yu ? find out
what ails yu
As gineral thing | wouldn't brag on
luther gals much when was courtin'. 1t
mite look as tho yu knu much
If yu will court 3 years in this wa, awl
the time on the square, if yu don't sa it IL
a leetle the slickest time in yure life, you
can get measured for hat at mi expense,
and pa for it,
Don't court for muny nor buty, nor rela-
shuns these things are jst about as the
kerosene lie refnin dizziness, liable to get
out ofrepair and bust at eny minute. Court
gal for fun, for the luv you bear her, for
the vartue and Dizziness there IL in her
court her for wife and for a mother; court
her as yu would court farm for the strenth
ov the sile and the perfeceshun ov the title;
court her as tho she want fule and yu a
nuther court her in the kitchen, i'll the
parlor over the wash tub, and at the plan
ner court this wa, young man, and if yu
don't git real good wife, the fault won't
be in the courting.
Young man, yu can rely upon Josh Bill
ings, and if yu kant max these ruls wurk,
Just send for him, and he will show VII how
the thing IL did-it shant cost yu a sent
Josh Billings,