The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-17
LOVE AND NIATRTMONY.

OF 1t, and are lamed for life. and others hav
a smooth. lovely fall. which feels so goo,
that they keep falling Ia farther and fartbe
| TIL they get married then they begin 10 faI
out.
Love is catching, like the measles or chick
en- pox. and usually tackles you under IN,
! nth lib. 1t first makes itself known by a
! sort Of hankering, and your heart futter.
\ like June bug for its mate, after which
! you keep on hsnkering more and more, and
you finally top off with little more barker
When fellow gets in love be commences to
look sick, aad feels kind of loose generally
he has weakness for Lavender kids, and his
beans don't tagree with him. He writes bar
reis OF verses, all about "hearenly eyes and
gentle sighs," and his beer hath no Longer
| nourlshment for him. He mopes sadly
! around the house a changed being. and if
relief does not come speedily he soon be-
comes, alas an emaciated skeleton.
l have heard it said thai a man can love
but once, but this is mistake Some men
are falling in love continually. aud their
life seems filed with swarIns of Cuped's pit
ialis, which lure them on with sweet affec-
tlon's honeyed sBares. OF this class the
Elder Mormon. Brigham Young, is shining
example. All! how touching it must be to
Mr.. Young, TO feel the sweet buds of new
born affection springing modestIy into life,
which buds Brigham never allows to go to
seed, but lets 'em sprout in rapid succession.
Love but once indeed 1t is true | have
outlived but one wife. bnt | hope to be called
upon to outilve the present Mrs. Skinner
though ! must say that at present she dis
plays an anatomy so fearfuly robust, that.
as l gaze upon her waloping the children,
or abusing the ueighbors from The back
doorstep. my hopes are crushed. Still, in
ease she should die, who shall say that nv
love for third wife would not be as pure
and guileless as when courted my first love,
Iabltha Ripley, and tie sweet Consciousness
OF her money in the bank thrilled through
my sensitive frame? Let such one speak
now, or forever after put jaw tackle on bis
peace.
The second step on the road to matrirnony
is counting Provided the old folks are will
ing land they generally are). the lovers get
together and court with zeal that is most
commendabie. They go on the principle,
II 1t 10 worth doing at all. it is worth doing
well, so they rally around each other seven
nights in week, and feel bad because there
amt eight. Ii the fellow tries to tear him
self away about one a. H., tue girl clings
convulsively to him, and next day writes
him a tear stained note, saying: Dear
Claude, shall die if you don't come and see
me during your dinner hour, for know you
are mad, or you wouldn't have gone home
SO early last night"
But courting is pretty sick thing, after
all, and there seems to be a constant demand
for it in the market. Like everything else.
hough, it is Influenced great deal By gold,
only ID courtlng you generally ask pa, and
III gold you ask more than par.
Counting was invented many years ago,
by one a. Dam, who immediately got it
patented. and his children have done
paying business at it ever since. 1t is car
ried on most successfully in the other room. !
and the old folks are expected to retire early, |
which they do by pckiUg their heads into |
the room and saying: How'd Go, John 2 |
Quite spell of weather, amt it Huldy, |
when you go to bed don't forget to put the /
milk pail out, and be sure and lock the cat |
n the woodshed, for last night she was tram
poosing over the whole house"
But cOurting in the country and courting !
n the city are two different things. In the |
country the girl passes for just what she is, |
md doesn't put on any French airs, and the |
elbow, though be may have rough hands |
md red face, is honest, and his clothes. if |
hey don't fit him like fashion plate, are
generally paid for. Iu the city they court
Mostly through a magnifying glass Of double /
distilled powder. The young man is got up
or the occasion, perfectly regardless of his
reditors, and the young woman looks, o, so
harming, In her Older sisters jeweiry, aud
Ter mothers embroidered handkerchief. He
links he is counting the incest thing out,
nc she believes that her young man is just
bout right. She don't know ;hat he gets
even dollars week, and rooms in an attic
With four others, and he would laugh in your
ace if you told him hat her mother did fine
ewing to pay her music teacher.
Well, well. let 'em court. It's their best
old, and the longer they keep it up the
lore happiness they can look back to.
tho would think, looking at my wife as she
the slop pail around my head,
hat there was time when she cooly sat
pom my knee, smoOthed my hair and called
le cher own precious Mosey. SO lie was %
Excuse me if betray emotion. ! often
i've way to my feelings, but l never give
way anything elsa.
The next step is getting engaged. When
couple becomes engaged they spurn all the
antics Of this world, and associate with
le heads of families. They don't indulge
] anything heavier than sewing circle, or
ossibly select reading from cooker book.
he young lady puts on a very austere look,
nd has great compassion for all her ac-
uain tances who amt got any beau; but
ill she feels that life is real, life is earnest.
nd it won't do for her to show any weak ness.
e thinks how surely he must have pned
way and died if she didn't turn up Just as
le did, and she indulges in horrible reflec-
ons as to what must have been her fate
he had never been born.
You can generally tell when seeing
'uple together about how they stand. IF
ley walk arm in arm, looking unutterable
liugs into each others eyes, and with a
rrt of partnership air, they are engaged.
If the man looks Indifferent. and the wo-
ian clings eagerly to him and watches him
alously, they have been married about six
eeks.. 6
If the man walks along scowling furi- t
1sly. and dragging his wife about three t
ct behind him, they have been married /
ON four to eight years. II
ftar hat vrY, DON'T eco y1,.1eb Of fbe,s r.. +.