Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02
Who 20 Marry, How TO Marry and
when 20 Marry.

v
when 20 Marry.
A Young lady contributor to the
American Register of London, hay
ing recently perused an interesting
work entitled the young Woman's
Guide" is moved to make some very
sensible comments thereupon. In the
work IN question, there was, she says,
one short, very short chapter, headed,
Chow to Behave during Courtship, -
which very sensibly directed the
young lady not to seem as if she ex-
pected the proposal till it came, not to
sit in corners with the gentleman,
and never to allow him to squeeze her
hand till she was engaged to him.
There was another one, still shorter,
devoted to "How to Choose q Hus-
band"-ike the passages in House
keepers Manuals. headed, Chow to
Choose Fish" "How to Choose Nut
ton"-and treating the subject in an
apologetic way, as if marriage were
A SPECIES OF ACCIDENTAL EVIL,
which every well-regulated youn ,
woman should do her best to avoid
but if by chance it came, like tn I,
smallpox or the measles, in spite e
every preventive measure, she was a
put up with it and behave as well as
her unfortunate circumstances ps-
mitted. Such as it was, however, II
gave highly valuable advice, and to
any young lady who is desirous of
wedding the seven cardinal virtues
incarnatc, l can recommend no better
husband than the pattern one set
forth in those judicious pages. Still.
cannot help having a lurking fear
that he would remain a husband on
paper only, and that the manageable
damsels of the present day might seek
far and wide amongst the degenerate
successors of Sir Charles Grandson
and CRlebs, in search of a wife, be-
fore they would find any more such
walking seraphs III swallow-tails. An
angel to cook for you and an angel to
court you are alike, fear, impossible
trOUrdilles.
1t occurred to me, however, that
though the husband described in that
interesting little work was altogether
''too bright and geOd for human ma
ture's daily food" +" still it was Ger.
tainly within the limits of rational
aspiration to improve little on
THE VERY IMPERFECT TYPE
of lord, master, and protector, that
our young ladies are Obliged to love,
honor and obey. .faute de nlieur. The
idols feet of clay win peep out, my
dear child, though with a woman's in
tense desire TO fall down and worship
blindly something, no matter what,
YOU cover them up in cloth of gold
and embroidery, and endeavOr to OBJ,
fuscate your own eyes with the
clouds of the incense you burn before
his Omnipotenceship. It is an ex,
ceedingly difficult thing to look up tC
a man as a demi-god who swears be-
cause his beefsteak is not SGigndRt, OF
because his eggs are hard-boiled, OF
who comes home at 2 am. slightly the
worse for brandy smashes and mint
juleps, or who appears at the opera IL
I rear of some Respondent creature
Il vely with Eau Blonde, Bloom oi
i:oses, and Noir de Circassie, it is diff,
icult, say, to PROSTATE yourself IL
meek and adoring reverence, as the
good books about the duties of wives
saw you should, at the shrine of such
fetish. But what is to be done? You
would not marry a perfect man if you
could; if You came across him you
would run a mile from him-you like
those men best who are sure to make
bad husbands; that is the simple fact
and there is no help for it. Let mt
tell you
SOMETHING IN POINT.
One day ] was perambnlating down I