The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-29

honest dollar, than Of the bread that can be
made Of sack of flour. The Well to do farm
or sends his daughters away to Female Semi
nary. The more hopeless, they dire sent and
If they cannot, and will not learn anything,
they are sent still further away to learn man
ners.
We suppose there is choice of ignoram-
uses an elegant one being tlie most prefera-
ble She leafrs not algebra she hates the
horrible stuff Sic joins funeral band to
bury geometry at the end Of Che Session. As
for grammar she knows that Johns hand
trembles.' She is said to be brilliant on the
piano. But she has made proficiency in
another direction !; she has learned all the
large notions of the most wealthy she has
heard IN glowing words, of the charms Of
fashionable society. She returns to her COM
Portable and happy home, to be pleased with
nothing. Her brothers who have toled to
have an elegant sister 90 net Suit her improvS-
ed tastes. She apologies for their manners.
Her old father and mother are not up to the
highest style of art, and they have no more
peace. She is languishing under the fever for
brilliant society. As she cannot change her
home and family, what is left but to marry {?
But wealthy neif are few, IN comparison
With the demand. If they have obtained
honest wealth, they are advanced in life, and
probably already married What can be
dones Well; nothing better than clerk
with a small salary.
The parents think, however, that after all
this outlay she ought to do better. But she
cannot abide home, and she concludes to
take the man, not because she proposes to
help him in honest ton, to commence and be
a partner in both attainments and joys-no
but to help her into that society for Which she
thirsts. And SO when they begin, they board
at place beyond their means, for society.
II they keep house. they rent and furnish one
beyond their income, all for society. She
keeps servant or two, because it is neces-
sary for society. They give parties, and the
poor husband is driven to borrow, all for So
ciety. They go to the marble church, and he
pays 800 for 4 bew--more than one tenth of
his whole income--for society, and he must
contribute UP to the average of the hundred
dollar people, for the sake of society.
Married life may become daily martyrdom,
all for having an elegant wife, who loves So
ciety. She has no taste for reading and is
raying if she is not talking, dashing, or being
admired by society. And what is Che end /?
What can young man do who falls in love
and marries this kind of d woman? She can
come down to his means, and Be Happy in his
society /; help him because she loves him en-
courage him, and be happy in expectation
from his industry mud integrity. Or he can
steal, to keep up appearances /; or run away
and leave her, or live on his father-in-law or,
if he cannot do any of these, he had better
get his life insured for sec, 900, and die at his
earliest opportunity. Here is where sorrow
and sliauie and fraud begin and it will not
end until a man with salary of 81, 600 can
marry the daughter of a rich father, or of a
poor one, and whether poor or rich can live
within his salarys--Ffom TIE Presbyterian.