Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-15
COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY MORN ENG. DECEMBER 5 1866

made O long engagement. Her sisters jeer
at her, and her brothers jeer at her; worse,
the servant offers her sympathy. How
ever Lucy is firm. She will wait for Char
lie, though it were q hundred years. He
comes every night. The other young Ia
dies of the family meet him. He is in the
way. He is always in the parlor. There
is no privacy in the house.. They can
not feel at liberty with their company,
for be is always looking on. b How
ever, they are married, have children ;
christenings succeed weddings; deaths fol-
low births; a new generation is sprouting
up-and poor Lucy, seeing the marks OF
progress all around her, feels old and de-
serted, though she is still haunted by her
S.Y, @. Nobody teases her now she. is
severely let alone. The meekest of virgins
can endure it no longer; she informs the S'
Y. G.. that he has worn out all the chairs in
the house, and her mother can't afford to
buy new ones for him. He considers the
remark an insult; quarrels, leaves, vowing
never to return. But the force of habit
brings him ba k next night when he sees
mamma, who arranges that he will become
Benedict in month from date-or after
seven years of courtship. Months of court
ship may be very sweet, butyears of linked
sweetness long drawn out become like stale
sausages, nauseous-and should be ABOLISH
ed by the Board of Health. ''
The One-Month Courier, in these fast
days, when there Is no time for tagging or
wasting on preliminaries, is the beau ideal OF
courters. In courtship, as in everything
else, there is only so much happiness
Long cOurtships are like weak tea, too
much diluted to be agreeable; while short
courtships are the highly condensed sip OF
pleasure-litte in quantity, it is true, but
what there is of them is the double distilled
essence. The o. NJ. G. is generally an eX-
perienced man, who has his time 80 well
employed that he has none to spare for
dawdling. He looks on cOurtship as the
Introduction to marriage, and never thinks
of courting woman with whom he would
not be united. Being we'll acquainte
with his cOurtee before he pays her atten-
JiOns, all the silly dilly dallyings of less
straightforward men are by him avoided
As everything he saws means something,
he finds no difficulty in coming to the point
of rejection or acceptance. Neither the
courtee or her mamma are the least startled
when he makes an offer after the short term
of one months attention, any more than
they would be surprised to hear that IA loco
motive travelled as far in an hour as i wa
gon in a day. r... .. .... .......
Strange, though the mothers are unani-
mously in favor of 0. NJ. g., the daughters
do not like such hasty wooug. They hes.
itate and deliberate; they have not had
time necessary to try their little feminine
experiments, and they are as likely to re-
sent over-hasty as Over-tardy wooing. In
the meantime, the o. NJ. G. is off to another
market. His motto is, "Quick sales and
sure returns" He does not know that. in
every woman's disposition, as in n chicken
| pie, there is s. much venom, and that Ma
ture provides courtship as the hole through
which the noXious vapors are to escape
| Ignorant of this great fact, the o. NJ. q
enjoys the crudities and acerbities which
should have been removed in reasonabl,
term of courtship, and the first year of hi
married life is apt to be stormy one. Blu
then, in affairs matrimonial, as in Othe
matters, wisdom comes by experience, alit
few are competent to act wisely till they
| have buried "their secondhand some no
even then.-Ne.o York Sunday Mercury.