Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-15
INTELLIGENCE



TPsris Corrsspou lent New York Post
Charivari has prepared a certain
catechism for the use of persons desir-
Gus of taking the degree of Baccalau-
reste IN matrimoDy. The examination
Is conducted as follows: The future
bridegroom is first questioned, sepa-
rately:
FraBliner. am about to interro-
gate YOU on your special aptitude for
marriage. You appear already arrived
at a certain age?"
The BridegroOnl-eleL.-I am forty
eight years old.
s'And the fiancee?"
ssShe is seventeen.
ssTbirty years difference. Well, that
is not in the programme. 1t is your
lookout. Why are you going to
marry?"
"Monsieur, i do not we'll know my
self. But / am all alone, a bachelor.
lam rather bored. My position Obliges
me to maintain a certain rank in the
world. [ must keep house. In short,
one must wind up and settle down at
some time"
s.The future is in the hands of none.
IL Won leave children You expose them
to the chance Of becoming orphans be-
fore they are fairly launched IN their
careers.
.s.Ah yes-the children. But am in
hopes not to have many"
'sDO YOU love your wife, and are you
beloved by herr"
''She is a young person very well
brought up, and belonging to an ex-
cellent family. Her dot Is most advan-
tageous, and she has, moreover, expec-
tatiOns. There is nothing to prevent
my being very happy with her my
self am IN a good business.
Il see that you unite all the aptitude
desirable for your new condition. /
accord YOU the cOnlugal diploma, with
the privileges thereto attached.
Examination Of Bride-elect. You
come, MademOiselle, as an aspirant for
the baccalaureate of marriageY
Bride eleck Eyes, sir"
"You feel yourself possessed of the
qualities necessary IN wife and moth
er of a family2"
Eyes, SIR.
81 congratulate you. What in for
mer times was duty, has to-day be-
come an evidence of herOism. Then
YOU have the courage to bring up your
children ?"
eyes. sir: my mother has told me
that If had any, she will find me an
excellent nurse from Normandy"
ssAh, very good You will then have
a little more leisure TO attend to the
affairs of your house.
II do not understand housekeeping,
but my mother will choose for me a
L \ II, Il L.
'"That is a question of expense
merely, do not insist upon it2 But
when your children are old enough to
. be educated?"
eff it Is a boy, he will be put to
school; if girl, she will enter a pen
sion.
'.Wlthout doubt you have much sf-
lection for your husband?"
81 know nothing about 1t yet, but
nv father assures me that / shall love
him very much. Beside, shall have
nothing else to do.
s'And why are you going to nsrry?"
because / am not married.
''That is one reason. Have you any
others?"
ssPardon, monsieur, I am very anx-
ions 70 be married, IN order to have
reception day, to see my friends, to go
out alone, to go to the theater and to
balls"
SIT is not necessary to be married to
90 to theateTs ana to balls"
Il cannot always 60 when / want to,
and at the theater there are often pieces
that my parents will not allow me
to see.
''But with these ideas / do not see
how you can be either a good house
keeper or mother of family" o.. 81.
"Of course / cannot pass all my
youth In bringing up children and fill
ing the cupboard with linen, while my
husband is at his business or his club.
/ must try to amuse myself little"
''Well, have Just been talking with
your future husband, and 1 find that
Won two have absolutely the same
ideas. am delighted with such evil
dences of congeniality. / think you
are made for each other, and will un-
derstand one another admirably. Here
is your diploma. Yon are evidently ii
young person, much too reasonable to
annoy your family by making mar
riage discriminatory. s
CONE To THE WEsT.-The resources.
of the West are so incalculable vast,
the chances for capital so endless, and
the opportunities for industry so varied
and abundant, that any such idea as
necessary stsgnaiion Is utterly prepOs-
ferrous. It behoves every business man
every working man, and every other
man, to study his own individual rela-
tiOnship to things as they now are, and
come without delay to such a conclu-
sion as will best subserve his own inter-
ests. Idle capital or idle hands, empty
purses, or hungry stOmaches, are follies
which have no right to exist IN the
West.
In having been stated in Detroit |
paper that large numbers of young men |
in that city were out of employment. a
gentleman Just across the Canada line /
writes that he viii employ one hundred
of them in cutting wood at five shillings
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