Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-11-15

lHeso temptations. Az tue ClOhe vi MoA-
spent life they can conscientiously look back
ON career in which no reasonable oppor-
tunily was neglected, and say that they have
not broken many hearts, or been siniully
and distracIingly particular. And there is
the further consideration TO be remembered
in the case of plain girls, that fortune and
rank are nearly MS valuable articlesas beauty,
and lead to IL fair number of matrimonial
alliances The system Of Providence is full
of kindly Compensatlous, and II is n proof
Of the universal benevolence we sec about
us that so many hcresses should be plain.
Plain girls have a right to be chcered and
cOmforied by the thought. II teaches them
the Happy lesson that beauty, as compared
with settled income, is n.deep and value
less; and that what man looks for in the
companion of his life not so much bright
cheek or blue eye, as substantial and
useful amount of this worlds wealth.
Plain girls again expect less, and are pre-
pared 10 accept less, in lover. Everybody
knows the sort of useful, admirable, prac-
tloal man who sets himself 10 marry PLAIN
gul. lie is not man Of great rank, great
promise, or great expectations. Had it been
otherwise, he might possibly have flown at
higher game, and set his heart on marrying
female loYeliness rather than hOmely eX-
cellence. Ills choice, if it is nothing else,
is an index of conlented and modest dis
position. lie is moi vain enough to compete
in the great race Tor beauties. What he
| IL. q. tIn will ha ntuthpf Of
his children, who will order his servants
duly, and keep his household bills and
whose good sense will teach her 10 recognize
the sterling qualities of her husband, and
not object 10 his dining daily in his slippers
This is the sort Of a partner that plain girls
may nationally hope TO secure, and who
can say that they ought not TO be cheerful
and happy in their lolY For character of
this undcnlable sobriety there IS indeed a
positive advantage in plain girl as wife.
II should never he forgotten that the man
who marries plain girl never need be ieal-
Gus. He is in the Arcadlan and fortunate
condition of a lover who has no rivals. A
sensible unambitious nature will recognize
in this solid benefit. Plain girls rarely
turn into lrislty mgtrons, and this TACT rem
ders them peculiarly adapted tobe the wives
of dull and steady medocrily.
Lest it should be supposed that the above
calculation Of what plain girls may do leaves
some of their power and success still unac-
counted for, il is quite right and proper TO
add that the story Of PLAN girls, if it were
carefully written, would contain many In
stances, not merely OF moderate good for
tune, but of splcndidand exceptional triumph.
Like primd donnds, opera dancers, and love
ly milliners, plain girls have been known to
make extraordinary hits, and to awaken IL
lustrious passions. Somebody ought to take
UP the subject in book, and tell us how
they did il. This is the age of Golden
Treasures. We have Golden Treasures OF
English poets, of French poets, OF great
lawyers, of famous battles, Of notable beau
ties, of English heroes, oil successful mer
chants, and OF almost every sort OF charac
Ter and celebrity that can be concelYec'
What is wanted is Golden Treasury con
tainiug the narrative of the most successful
plain girls. The book might be called the
Book oil Ugliness and we see no reason
why, to give reality to the story, the por
/ traits Of some of the most remarkable Nigh
not be appended. OF course, il ever such {
5 volume is compiled, it will be proved to dc
monstralion thai plain girls have before nov
/ arrived at great matrimonial honor and re
+ nown.
There IS, for example, the sort OF plan
girlawho nurses her hero (perhaps in IN
- Crimea) through dangerous attack OF Ill
. ness, and marres him afterwards. Ther
1 is the class of those who have been slmpl.
4 married from q sense of duty. There is til
/. class that distinguishes itself by prolus
c kindness TO poor cottagers, and by readln
Il the Bible to blind old women; an Occupation
a which, as we know, from the most ordinar
n works of fiction, leads directly 10 the promp
Ii est and speediest attachments on the part
v the Young men who happen to drop III cal
II ually at the time The catalogue OF such
Nc perhaps long and famous, Yet, allowin
Of for all these, allowing for everything eli
of that can be adduced in their favor, we cal
lie not help returning to the position that plal
IN girls have all uphill battle to fight, n
I'd doubt it ought not TO be so. Cynics tell
st that six months after man is married
as makes yery little difference TO Inn wheth
lie his wife's nose is Roman, aquiline, or !
in troussc; and this may be so. The uniorl
ng nate thing is that most men persist in MARI
is. ing for the sake of the illusion OF the I'll
,er six months, and under the influence OF I
,re ontn-n -nuniial nnd not the ostnuptial sen
ments; and as the first six months VIII
ale nlain Girl are conlessedly inferior in attrt
en- linn the inference is clear that they do
ee- effect attract less Plainncss or loyelln'
,x, apart, very large number oil womanKi
he have no reason to expect any very hap
lty chance in married life; and il marriage
lev to be sci before all women ms the one lde
in n number OF feminine lives will always tt
icy out to have been failures,
ble- 1t may he said that it is hopeless to
he temnt on this point to alter the sentime
Tres of the female sex, or indeed the gene
IDS. verdiel of society. We do not quite see
in belplessness. A considerable amount OF
,ith matrimonial ideas of young women
ldy- p,relv the result OF their education, ant
With the atmosphere Ill which they were brou
j at up; and, by giving new direction to
old early training, it might not be allogethe
pro- ouixotical to believe that We should alte
nine that il ihe result Of the training. AT
liam rate II has become essential for the wei
wed, of women that they should as far as poss
9, TO be tnught that they have career opei
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