The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-12-21

In olden times, says Frenchman, who
with the usual assurance of his country
men, pretends to know something about
women female beauty was so fascinating
that it was certain means Of securing
husband. Nowadays, he adds, men re-
feet upon the subject, and it is seldom
that a girl is married for her personal
attractions, whatever they may be; so
she runs a great risk Of always keeping
her honorable title Of maid, if her parents
are not rich enough to pay handsome
sum to some gallant or other 10 change it
into that of wife
1t is an accident, or in fact sort Of
prodigy, when man marrles woman
solely for her beauty, quality which
has singularly fallen in value in our mer-
cenary days. Fit ever should take
rse,i might be well to adopt the Persian
mode of reducing the number, Of old
maids Til, ~v.Y:,5tel i'll selling the beau
tiful girls to those who were willing to
buy them, and giving the amount to the
ugly so that the handsomest endowed
the ugliest; the second in beauty, the Sc
cond in ugliness, et'eterd.
But this plan would be, we fear, inap-
plicable in our days for there would be
but few bidders for the beautiful women,
and the ugly, if the money was to go
with them, would be the only ones to find
takers. Seriously, continues our French
man, who, it must be borne in mind Is
speaking Of France and not of the Unit
ed States, marriage is tending to disap-
pear from our social habits. The uum-
Der of old maids, especially Of the mid
die class, is increasing daily.
A laborer or mechanic has no difficult
ty in getting married, for his wife takes
> her share of work. In such case
matrimony is a joint stock association.
The working man spends less when mar
ried than single. His clothes being made
: and kept in repair at home, and the more
; wholesome and lessexpensiye nouIishment
more than compensates for any additional
expense of having another person to pro-
Q vide for This, we need not say allude:
10 France, and may be more or less true
as wo hope it is, in our own country.
1 Among the rich, especially where the
= woman brings handsome dowry, marri
e age Is also possible: but in the middle
y class, how can it be nowadays? All th'
$ young girls are brought up in the same
E way. Each one is 80 exclusively adapt
e ed for the great prizes that there arr
) none sutibe for the inferior ones. Wha
s are now called the necessaries are iaI
e more than what We're formerly considered
e the Injuries of life. All kinds Of equal
e ty have been tried at various times bu
& one only has been retained, and that th'
|, most dangerous and most fatal of all
g, the equality of expense.
a Every girl is brought up with the ide
!. that she will draw in the lottery of mar
p riage first prize. 1t is imagined tina
l. style and accomplishments will make u
IS for want of fortune. Itis mistake
1t they will only make it more necessary, i
is fact absolutely indispensable.
E. Marriage is the greatest luxury ma
le can indulge in. When We reflect that a
as the women of the middle class arc nowa
A. days brought up to shine in society, tha
ID there are no longer any marked distlnC
s. tions as far as expense is concerned, an
as that the the standard of necessary livin
ne is fixed according to that Of the richest,
D., man must be indeed greatly in love if b
T. does not hesitate boiore the 'mOuntain {
velvet, silk, and jewlery that he mu
of consume all his days in accomplishing,
Sc order that his wife may be properly dres
Il ed"
ed For men of this class woman is no:
at companion, to take a share in proportiC
at to her strength of the common cares al
hs labors of life, but an idol that he mu
10. pass his days in aiorning for the admir-
m tion of others. A poor man who marrl
ne such a woman without dowry would
in capable of buying horse which had
ief be fed upon topazes and emeralds instei
hs of oats. So it is now rare to find hu
, a band of the kind, and soon it will be il
nat possible. This is what they are comil
IN to in France, according to very go'
mt authority
il Let our country women take th!sw
les ing, fresh from Paris, together with I
q other fashions they are so fond of gettil
ere from the same quarter, and thus usi
nos the one as an antidote to the excess
E. the other, avoid throwing away t
lif. chances of marriage.-Hapsi's Bd'W.