The Democratic advocate., 1874-05-30

"s"'see ~ Ot"hty, tnc "oriu says anu
say too, serve, them right Woe to the
successful Nobody has any pity on their
misfortunes. The pining spinsters left out
in the cold feel tremor Of delight run
through their unannexed hearts as the
distant sounds of conjugal squabbling are.
waited to their ears.
Do not remember to this day the
scarcely disguised pleasure of whole
school Of girls, when detested school
mate, who had carried of the chief prize
for good conduct--a magni6cently bound
volume of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
accidentally upset large bottle Of ink
over it FIVE minutes afterwards? And
when young lady carries off the reward
Of merit according to Miss Edgeworth)
in the shape of the Prince Charmant, with
hotel in The Champs Elysees, or man
sion in May Fair, do we not throng around
her and congratulate her, and send her
cheap presents, and eat lobster salad at her
wedding breakfast, and wish her all sorts
Of happiness, aud hate her cordially, and
smirk amongst ourselves when the Prince
Charmant's relatives turn her the cold
shoulder, or when the Prince Charmaut
himself appears at Biarritz in the trium-
phal procession Of Madame dc Marquise
Blanc de Perle, having first deposited his
six months bride safely in some exceed
ingly dull country house, where she can
spend her time making smoking-caps for
him, and meditating on his perfections and
the sweets Of matrimony, If she likes Is
she not married. What right has she to
complain? Has she not climbed the
creased pole? IL may be disagreeable
enough and perilous enough, now she is
up there; but she must put good face on
the matter, and look as if her uncomforta-
bic perch were the soNest of love-uests.
"Let us make believe VIC arc horses or
lions, or kings and queens, and grown-up
people," the children say; well, life is one
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your own tone Of voice. or laugh your own
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c0mp'eAioh nature gave you, or retain
your own na'ora' MANNERS or do anything
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