Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-10-03


do not, tell low much things cost do
not depart from delicacy and good
sense under the impression that such
departure is high breeding. The men,
beers of our society which is really the
best must be sought for in their houses,
through letters of introduction or the
presentation of friends,-not in the
columns of cheap and mavkish pa
pors, not in the flaring costumes and
pinchbeck company of noisy balls.
THE BEST PEOPLE ;,.
in the town live quietly aud serenely,
and, when they give entertainments,
are not nervOusly anxious that they
should be noticed beforehand, fulsome-
" described afterward. Their wealth,
If they have it, does not sit SO uneasily
on them as to make them DESTROYS of e.
timating hospitality by dollars and
cents, or of converting pleasant com.
panionship into what is 30 Extensively
paraded as fashionable gossip.
We hear deal of nonsense about
MoDlsH MAMMAs
bent upon marrying their daughters to
advantage. It is natural and proper
enough that mothers should have So
licitude on that subject, and it is GER
tainly feminine for them to exercise
some management. The only question
is, what is meant by g marrying to ad.
vantage" If that phrase be employed
for the securing of merely rich hus-
band, it is false and pernicious. II, on
the other hand, it signifies the selec
ton # q sensible, kind-hearted, sym.
pathetic partner, in comfortable cir
cumstances, it is just what every moth
er ought to do. 1t cannot be denied
that, in this age and country, we are q
tride too material, and set too much
store by very large income.
The average New York mother, pos
sessed of grown-up daughters, is too
much incliued to arrange matches be-
tween them and men who are to be
counted simply by what they own. She
sees, from numerous instances around
her, the sad results of these mere
monetary alliances, aud yet she ap-
pears to think the marriages she is in.
strumental in making will prove happy
exceptions. She learns nothing by the
experiences of others, and very little
by her own.
HERE II AN INSTANCE
that painfully proves the truth of this
assertion: About 40 years ago, a young
man came to this city. without educs-
ton, money, or friendship sole
capital being rugged constitution,
large energy, and hopeful organiza-
ton. He was not long in obtaining a
situation as porter in shipping house
in South street; and he showed 80
much industry, and intelligence, and
general capacity, that, before twelve
months had passed, he was promoted.
In ten years, he had an interest in the
Arm in twenty, he was at the head of
al fortune. Meanwhile, he had mar
ried q young woman greatly his superb
or in position and culture, who would
not have affected him naturally had
she not been so poor that she was fore
ed to teach for livelihood. She had
suffered much from Indulgence, and the
consequence was, that she regarded
want of money and wretchedness as
cause and effect. After her marriage,
her circumstances were afiluent, even
luxurious; and yet when her two
daughters, near the same age, had ar
rived ut maturity, she was never will
ing that any man, however deserving
should be the sutton Of either, unless
he were rich. The girls were comely,
amlable, quite agreeable, and might
have been the wives of worthy and
clever gentlemen in independent posi-
lions, but for the opposition of their
mother. =. w..
AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Mrs. - declared she would, never
consent receiving as u son-in- law any
candidate for tho poor house, and
averring that he who aspired to such
position must possess property valued
ut half n million.
Just before the war,
AYoUNa FRENCHMAN.
came here with letters of introduction,
claiming to be the son of wealthy
wine dealer in Bordeaux. Among
other houses which he visited was that
OF tue now retired South street mer-
chant. He paid court to the elder
daughter 1--WE will call her ELEM u.s.
sumed to be violently in love with her;
and, in less than six months they were
married: The bridegroom was anxious
10 lake MS bride to France, that his
father might see what charming women
America contained.
They went abroad a gay party see-
ing them off, and Diminishing them to
happy honeymoon. The bride, after
reaching Europe, very frequently wrote
to her father for money though he had
Literally supplied her on setting out J;
always giving some special reason why
she was i'll need. She had been we'd
died. little more than twclvemontl,,
when the whole truth came out in her
letters written home.
Her husband was nm adventurer; he
had lived in Bordeaux, but his father
wa" not a rich wine-merchant; nor, in
deed, did he know who his father was.
His letters of introduction had been
forged, and, in truth, forgery was his
only nrOfesainn. Lnxinu aaunral fianaa