Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-17
The Beau with Sisters.
EJinh,,ro Ladies, Io,,rpoI

The man who has sisters has better
opportunity Of selecting a wife than
man who has none, but he is, in nine
cases out of ten, more difficult to
please. In daily contact with mem
bers Of the other sex, who display all
their little foibles before him, he is apt
to Judge his sisters friends by the same
standard he daily judges his sisters
not very logical method Of procedure,
but, think, not an unusual one And
be it remembered, that if the young
mans sisters are paragons of amiabil-
ity and unimpeachable rs to dress, he
can not hel p seeing them occasionally
out of temper with somebody, and in
differently dressed when there are no
strangers in the house. No man is
hero to bis valet de chambre, and no
sister is heroine to her brother. He
is very fond of her-most men are
fond of their sisters-but he can not
help noticing divers little traits of char
acter which he suspects his future
brother-in-law will reap the benefit Of
when the first gloss of the honeymoon
has worn off, and the young couple set
tie down to everyday affairs of married
life. If his sister is a beauty, all the
more is he suspicious of the other sex.
He hears his friends go into raptures
ever the young lady, and be is in no
way displeased that some one related
to himself is a favorite in society; but
he straightway makes up his mind that
women are very deceptive. He
knows all about it; has been behind the
scenes, and has seen the fair performer
studying the droop of q ringlet, the
fall of a skirt. Her art may have
been concealed from the world with
consumate skill, but he has not been
deceived, for the very good reason
that nobody has thought it worth her
while to deceive him. He thinks she
will marry well; he hopes she will; and
he wonders very much whether the
chosen one Of his own heart will, in the
privacy of domestic life, manifest a
taste for pickles and tendency to
suck peppermint lozenges. He hopes
for the best, but secretly he believes the
very worst. "The sex are all alike"
That is what men say, and what they
pretend to think. Some OF them know
better, hope; for how can all women
be alike if all men are not? The fact,
as every one who has studied woman
kind with any attention knows, that
women are not all ahke-not alike in
appearance, not alike in temper, not
alike in tastes. Seldom have we known
woman averse from fattery, but there
are beings of the very superior sex who
will box your ears soundly if you VEN
ture to hint, in the most delicate man
ner possible, that they are not absolute
frlghts. l know woman of snowy ap-
pearance and considerable accomplish
ments who avows openly that at thirty
one she is no longer a young lady. She
is a marvel, and would be perfect if
she had not most abominable tenn
per. Most men have temper of their
own, and they are apt to show it when
there is very little occasion for the dis
play.
Women also have a temper, which is
kept very carefully in check before
company, and given full license to be-
fore brothers, sisters, ct hoe genus on,,,e.
The brother with sisters knows this,
and if he be engaged, trembles when
he thinks perhaps his Dulcinea has a
temper which will be none the colder
for having been nursed long time.
In justification of the hesitation of the
young man with sisters, must remind
the reader thathe is thrown very much