Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-04
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HINTS FOR THE GIRLS.

Inc American hegtSteT pIlHLS VIC Vie"o VI
a correspondence lady-as to whom girl:
ought not to marry. The list is 50 long thai
we fear no men will be left for those who fol
low her advice. Her catalogue is formida
BILE; whether it is just, we leave to the readers
Judgment from the few specimen extracts:
Don't marry any man over forty. He bris
ties with habits as English young ladies dc
with angles.
Don't marry the livel ly man.
Don't marry man who stops your mouth
with compliments, makes desperate love tc
you the first time he sees you, and talks about
kissing. That man thinks women are fools
but he is mistaken.
Don't marry man who tells wonderful sto
ries of which he is always the hero, and IN
which he always distinguishes himself by ex
traordinary wit, or sagacity, or courage, OF
presence Of mind-these qualities not being
us rule, conspicuous in him.
Don't marry man who has great many
sisters Such man is always spoiled besides
which it is not pleasant to be engaged to man
who knows all about your false hair, and how
much your dress cost yard. No woman can
ever be an ideal divinity to man who has
whole squadron of sisters.
Don't marry man who says every woman
ought to know how to cook.
Don't marry man who wears an eyeglass,
or tight boots with high heels, who curls his
hair or his mustaches who puts scent in his
whiskers or bleaches his eyelids, who lisps.
who has his 6nger-nails long and pointed,
carefully cut in an almond shape, who wears
four-buttoned gloves, takes six and three. quar-
ters, and tells you so; who, if he be dark, wears
a red cravat if he be fair a sky-blue one
there is no surer indication of a mans charac'
ter than his necktie; always look at that
frst-who has enamelled visiting card and
brilliant monogram, and who always wears
rosebud in his button.hole.
Don't marry a man who keeps bulldogs.
He is sure to be like them.
Don't marry a man who gets up early.
Nothing makes a person so insutferably con-
ceited.
Don't marry man whom nobody ever
says any evil of. Be sure that he is poor
creature.
Don't marry a man who doesn't smoke,
and who prides himself upon it.
Don't marry O man who has great adml-
ration for DR.. Johnson. He is sure to be q
bear,
Don't marry man who invents things.
Invention is the offspring Of necessity.
Don't marry n good-natured man. Good
nature is to man what the gilt leaf naughty
boys sometimes adorn a sparrow with, is to
that unhappy bird, All the other sparrows
get round him and peck at him,
Don't marry the "worthy young man"
The worthy young man is the pet of old ladies
and the salvation of wall.Aowers. He comes
to an evening party in thick boots and frock
coat. is overwhelmed with confusion, and
sticks in the doorway for an hour, where eve-
rybody tumbes over him. Finally, having
summoned up courage to ask you to dance,
and you having foolishly been good-natured
enough to consent, he either treads on your
toes at every lunge, or lands you neatly on the
back of your head before the eyes of some
triumphant rival, He tetches you coffee
ice, which you abhor, when you have asked
for vanilla one, and upsets it over your new
ball dress from Worth's. He comes to see
YOU the next afternoon, to renew his apollo
gles, ana spills MS cup VI va o'oi youi oo1"
and carpet. He treads on the paws of your
leverette, and sits down in the lap Of the per-
son behind him. He has the most intense
fear of the ordeal of leavetaking, and sits
five mortal hours in your drawing-room from
sheer timidity. He models his opinions on
yours, and, like the love.smitten baronet in
Middlemarch, says eyes, precisely" to every
word you u..er, till you long to say that the
earth goes round the moon, or that potatoes
grow on cherry trees, to oblige him to dissent
from you. He is awfully good, and meek,
and humble, so you pity him too much to
make fun of him, but don't let pity carry you
too far. How you would blush for his gauch-
cries, and be ready to sink into the earth at