Smyrna times., 1868-05-06
MfSce/Iune e0uS
why Women Don't get ETusbands

No, not if | know myself" said = fno
looking young fellow to another fine lookim@
ielloW at Delmonico's one evening
.v No? and why not?" was his answor
lou nave been very sweet on Miss Julia and
& IL was generally understood that you meant
rs iS IL generally understood that 7, Josenb
nooNwLand, bachelor and bauk clerk. am fnnIP'i
Not exactly that" his friend said lanab.
lhgiy But why not Come!"
l. LSteh 70 me, Peter. |, Joseph Rowland
tI IIacnelor and bank clerk am in recent of two
thousand dollars per year. | have tastes
nave wants, have indulgencies, and have =
nloCner VINO IS poor. As the case stands. I got
TI 7 WIN ~ all OF these very we'll Where should
that know" Guy o''ier glrl
:, v WAhy-but old Pickles is rich?"
bo way be SO; but his money is his own, and
daughter has penny '-"' MS
thing" p" e''' '''' u'ugnter some
"Perh.aps-aa good wardrobe, few tca.spoops
par OF ear rlngS-and then? Why, Peter
my ample income would not pay for Mis- Jnlia'S
clothes Her father does not pronoso 70 on
Gown his children until he dies and when he
uies ne may not be worth penny. Is that
pleasant to look at ?' '1"'
= Not exactly, but you take rather nroct;
cal view Of matrimony.'
les do; and | propose to take it before
IIather than after. Before, it stands: two
1IOmIJ UJSamu year, and al! bills paid after it
House rent, 90 soo {
House expenses, 5000 a
Clothes, &C. Ie"0 c
Theatres, churches and other me- -''0o f
cessaries 1oon L
WV, lotai' $4,000 !
Where then would be?" i
Oh but old Pickles would do sometime.
ana besides you put the figures too high. y
nOw 90 l know that the father will do y
anything? He has never endowed his dangb. s.
ter. lie has brought her up to live at fbe II
rate OF twelve or fifteen thousand dollars a u
year put he has never settled a penny upon =
her' 10 propose to put myself before him Il
rs beggar? Not if know myself! Have 7 q
put the figures too high? Then halve them. u u
md where should | be?'' ~
Mell, 1t may all be so but people do get IL IL
elves, L guess, ehY" D
Not thing-not thing. No lady ex- Is Is
,ects or Intends to do anything but spend Y,
money. NOW, Peter put that in your nine and ~
mGke 1t; and do it before you 90 any further ue
With Miss Foster. No, Peter: women now are Sc
oot 2 worth tinker'S dam-that's what I Ce Ce
Such was, in brief, the conversation that W
appened to hear one evening at Delmonico,s us
IL is quite certain that these crowds of nret. SD
creatures, who swarm our streets. who dis oI
lay their charms SO charmingly, do not intend WI
De nulsances to their husbands when thew 40
et them do not deliberately say to them gy
elves: must be lady, and must spend pa
We OF zen thousand year in doing it; and eL. et1
~ husband must get it for me, for cannot SUI
arm one cent myself" They do not saw this, Tn!
nd DO not intend to be load too heavy to Is; is
Let me illustrate. 1t has been nv misfortune pa
hear such things as this for the last forty
ears: :,
"Oh, these dreadful servants? What can TIl na
do! They do not know how to do thing; 175
icy must be seen to night and day; not cook 7st
lat understands her business" &C.. &c. Good or 80.
anners forbade me to say, what perhaps tE, tin
ay be pardoned for saying here: Ladies'. do ~,
'u know that every man has to see to his in
lsiness day and night; has to watch over his NJ
erks; has to give directions here and there, nra
saln and again; has to spend his whole time anG
lth MS men IN the field, in the workshop, on frs
e ships deck has to work and watch and t;n,
I'd worry, IN order to have his business done l p;n
'operly and promptly l might have asked, 1at 't
ough never did: Ladies, do you know as
Nv to do anythingP Can you make bread /? a0j a0
n you cook piece of beef2 can you cut and O.,
axe your child clothes? do you know whcth, noI
potatoes should be boiled two hours or ei;ff
,enty minutes2 do you know what your meat ''''
lis are per month do you know how much A
eaten, and how much is wasted, in your Bo,
'use Pin fine, do you understand your bust teri
ss? ] have never asked such foolish ques org
,ns' ana l am sure tnat should have been gui
Id, if had, i" that cooking was not their 'Br
lsiness." If had been ill-natured-as am is d
tt might have said Ladies, what is tIen
ur busness?" hev
Most men prefer to look forward, cannot sior
yself see very far into the future, but good min