American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-06-06
denominations.
Response tcssBetsey ean'' and
aBeIIa.ts ~

wen, am III a stew! Because /
Betsey Jeans article, | am
pitched into by the dear @ creatures on
all sides. will endeavor to get out of |
the scrape by talking to Bella little.
My dear, you are very wide of the mark
when you suppose l am happy Beno-
dict" III some men are foolish enough.
to get married, you should not give the
impression TO all Butler county that |
am matrimonial fool You want to be
sarcastic, Your ,oittering language has
an old maidish bitterness, which makes
one think
e.f ut Is better to have loved and lost
Than uaver to have ioved at alt cd
Z fou say that gentlemen marry for gold
as well as ladies'. l know it; aud there
fore | say that marriage is a matter of
"dollars and cents" You think such
marriage 'the exception not the rule"
Perhaps you have found true heart. If
you have, love it, cherish it as Jewel
beyond price. But, being woman, you
cannot; their hearts are too fekle.lz " Is. .iu
Lonk around you on the many who
profess themselves disciples of Cupid,
aud whatdoes their .leye amount to2 Dust
and ashes; a vague outline Of the phantom
called love; the mere nothingness of a
dream 1t is really your opinion that
'ladies would prize a gentleman for his
worth Indeed l did not give them
credit for SO much common sense. But
gentlemen W uld also hold such ladies in
high esteem, il.--they could find them
But where are they to be found? La
dies and gentlemen fx the standard of
their love in proportion to the 'few
thousands" (which are to be thrown into
the marriage contract.
We read in novels of men and maidens
who gradually sink to the grave, because
hey are crossed in love. do we ever
see it in reality? No. Sensible people
like you and | would say, "Go in peace
thou sinner" 1t is we'll for authors to
write such stuff, for they have many be-
levers, especially among the ladies, who
think that love is an essential element of
their being. 1t should be; but alas for
woman's love, which never goes beyond
shat dear bonnet, "or''that lovely shawl"
You say you are "heither marriagable
daughter, a managing mamma, nor an
old maid" What are you then? Per-
haps school girl. IF so don't wonder
at your noble defense of love, for school
girls imagine themselves love personifed
and are fall of elopcments, and romancei
thereby making themselves very ridicu--
| lous. will close hu r>-os,i''e, - 'oS' 10
annihilate me the next time, with yoLr
biting sarcasm. A
. And pow, Betscy, you and | will have
a little talk over matters in general, and
love ip particular s" "aa
You say getting married sis the law;
it. is coutagiour; and it is fashionable;
and there is nothing like being fashiona-
ble." What does that signify? The
great bugbear Of society is Fashion, -
You might as well be out of the world
as out of fashion," Because it is fash
iona5lc, is that any reason why man
should clog bis steps with wife
know you would not commit matrimonial
suicide. Perhaps yonr ideal has not
come yet Or perhaps you can say
.'Why don't the menEproposo, mamma,
Why don the men proposei' g. ..t
My dear Betsey, you acknowledge a
great deal, when yon suppose some "bon-
ME we lassie has walked and talked with
me, listened to, and received my batteries
and attentions with bushes, and then
ienoceaHy said No, sir" BY that you
admit an undeniable truth. the fcklenoss
of a woman's heart. These telapters lure
a man on to make him think re is the
chosen one, and then cast him off that
they may boast of one more conquest" ="
And such is modern love, which resorts
to base artifces to hide mercenary heart
Young ladies take delight in ',jilting'
the men, but when the demon attendants
of the paths of old maidenhood howl in
their ears, when their old lovers shun
them as they would contagion, then they
parade before the public the constancy
of woman's love, when everybody knows,
or ought to, that woman always sells
herself to the man who gives the highest
price.
All, Betsey, unless you have the ''few
thousand" which insures marriage am
afraid you and | are destined to be maid
and bachelor. Perhaps you are COM
fortably settled iue that locality. Who
knows =? Never mind; we may test love,
sometime. One Of US may have gold, and
that will settle the thing. You say "if
there was true love among the .ancients,
there is true love now" Bah! let us
see. Two beings come together, and
plunge into matrimonial infelicity. he
delights in her beauty, but soon tires;
aba witches info his Golfers and soon