Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-07-27
Wait /!

and demand glass OF Drandy-anG-Water
Ask yourself if twenty-five cents can
not be better invested in something else
Put it back in your pocket and give it
to the little cripple who sells matches
on the corner. Take our word for it,
you will not be sorry.
Wait, madam-lhink twice before
you decide on that hun ired dollar
shawl \ hundred dollars is great
deal of money; ore dollar isa great deal,
when people once consider the amount
Of goodness it will accomplish, in care
full hands. Your husbands business is
uncertain; there is financial crisis
close at hand. Who knows what that
hundred dollars may be to you yet.
Wait, sir, before you buy that gaudy
amethyst breast-pin you are surveying
so earnestly through the jewelers. plate
glass windows. Keep your money for
another piece of jewelry-a plain gold
wedding ring, made to fit a rosy finger
that you wot of. a shirt, neatly ironed
and stocking darned like lace-work, are
better than gilt brooches and flaming
amethysts You can't afford to marry .?
You mean you can afford not to mar
ry. Wait, and think the matter over.
Wait mother before you speak harsh
ly to the little chubby rogue who has
torr his apron and soiled his white
Marseilles Jacket. He is only child
and "Motber" is the sweetest word in
all the world to him. Needle and thread
and soapsuds will repair ali damages
nor, but if you once teach him to
shrink from his mother and hide away
his childish faults, that damage can not
be repaired
Wait, husband, before you wonder
audibly why your wife don't get along
with family cares aud household duties,
Gas your mother did" She is doing
her best-and no woman can endure
her best to be slighted. Remember
the night she sat up with the little babe
that died; remember the love and care
she bestowed On you when you had
that long fit of illness. Do you think
she is made of cass-iron Wait-wait
in silence and forbearance, and the
light will come back to her eyes, the
old light of the old days.
Wait, vie, before you speak re-
proachfully to your husband when he
comes home late, and weary, and "out
of sorts He has worked for you all
day long; he has wrested, hand to
hand, with Care, and Selishness, and
Greed, and all the demons that follow
in the train of money-making. Let
home be another atmosphere entirely;
let him feel that there is one place in
the world where he can find peace, and
quiet, and perfect love.
Wait, bright young girls, before you
arch your retty eyebrows, and whisper
cold maid' as the quiet figure steals by
with silver in its hair and crews s-feet
round the eyes. 1t is hard enough to
lose lifc's eladness and elasticity-it is
hard enough to see you drifting away,
without adding to the bitter cup one
drop of scorn. You do not know what
she has endured; you never can know
until experience teaches you, SO wait,
before you sneer at the Old Maid.
Wait before you add billiard-room
to your house, and buy the fast horse
that Black and White and all the rest
of "the fellows" covet. Wait, and
think whether you can afford it-wheth-
er your outstanding bills are paid aud
your liabilities fully met, and all the
chances and changes of life duly pro-
vidcd for Wait, and ask yourself how
you would like, ten years from now, to
see your fair wife struggling with pow
erty, your children shabby and want
stricken: and yourself miserable hang
cr-on around groceries and one horse
gambling saloons You think that is
impossible; do you remember what
Aazael said to the seer of old "Is thy
servant a dog that he should do this
thingy'
Wait, merchant, before you tell the
pale-faced boy from the country that
YOU Can do nothing for him" You can
do something for him you can give
him word of encouragement, word
of advice There was time once,
wheu y0u were young, and poor, and
friendless Have you forgotten it al
rcadyY'
Wait blue eyed lassie; wait a while
before you say yes to the dashing
young fellow who says he can't live
without you. Wait until you have as
certained "for sure and for certain as
the children say, that the cigar, and the
wine bottle, and the cardtable are not
to be your rivals in his heart; little
delay won't hurt him, whatever he may
say-just see if it will
And wait my friend in the brown
mustache don't commit yourself to
Laura Matilda, until you are sure that
she will be kind to your old mother and
gentle to your sisters; and true loving
wife to you, instead of Il puppet who
lives on the breath of fashion and ex-
citelnent, and regards the sunny side
of broadway as second only to Elsyium.
As a general thing people are in too
great hurry in this world; we say,
WAIT.
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