The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-23

the luxury is too expensive for me.
So / am going to marry a girl who
knows something of real life-a true,
good, patient, enduring, self-denying,
sweet, darling little body, who is not
ashamed to earn her living with her
needle. And 1 can tell You what,
Dolly, only wish you were more like
Harriet Parker; there would be forty
chances in favor of your marrying a
man of sense where you have one now.
Don't you know that new society has
been formed among the young men, and
that some OF the very best catches
among them have signed a pledge not
to marry any girl who is not willing to
commence matrimonial life with two
rooms and kitchen, and who doesn't
know how to bake, cook and sew, and
to wash and iron in the bargain? am
the president"
"Preposterousm exclaimed Lizzie.
"You'll cry some other word when
you get on the old maids list, and see
your place filled in the home of some
man that is a man by q woman who
was not ashamed of useful employment
when she was girl. 1 can tell you
what, my dainty little sister, there's a
reform at work, and men worth having
are beginning TO choose between no
marriage and marriage with girls of
| palmer notions and more useful accom-
plishments than are possessed 10y the
butterflies who lounge on sofas all day,
knitting zephyr or reading novels. So
make up your mind for reform or old
maidism. And now, as in all probable
/ ity you understand that I am quite i'm
earnest about marrying Harriet Parker,
| hope you will reconsider your hasty
resolution about not speaking to your
sister-in-law. The loss, let me tell you,
| will be all on your own side"
Brother Tom understood his own DO
sition entirely. He was not a man to
stoop below himself i'm marrying. He
could not unite himself with one who
was Ignorant and unrefined-against
that his generously cultivated soul
would have revolted. But he wanted a
real, not an artificial wOman-one who
could take her place beside him, as he
had said, on the lowest round Of for
tunes ladder, and keep step with him
upward. Such one he had found in
Harriet Parker, and he was independent
enough to make her his wife.
Lizzie was not long in discovering, af-
ter Brother Tom actually got married,
and commenced housekeeping in two
rooms with his cheerful, earnest-minded
WIFE, tnaL ner new sister had about her
something that insensibly won the love,
commanded the respect, and almost ex-
torted the admiration of all who were so
fortunate as to make her acquaintance.
Marriage, they say, makes or mars a
man." the brother overheard Lizzie
once saying, in an undertone, to a lady
friend. "But it will not mar the for
tunes of Brother Tom. He's got Just
the wife to keep him along in the world,
and one that will grace any position to
which they may arise"
My own sentiments exactly, petty"
spoke out Brother Tom. ''She's Jewel,
and worth thousand of your paste and
tinsel women. Didn't tell you so I?
But you couldn't believe me. Now, if
you'll go and apprentice yourself to a
dress or a milliner, or learn
to do any useful work-useful, not SIM
ply ornamental, mean-I will recon-
mend you to the new president of the
society told you about. l had to re-
sign when / got married. He's a splen-
did specimen, and will make husband
worthy of queen"