The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-28
II E r M s.:
MATRIMONIAL MINES.


MINES.
/ Mood Points on Female Prospecting.
/ The other night old Blinkus, seeing
his son getting ready to go TO a bail,
proceeded TO give him some whole
some advice on w omen:
Tom, my boy he said, filling up
his pipe, . l see you are gettin. your
fancy togs for a ball. Now, l don't
object TO balls, or any other kind of
natural amusement; but 1 want to
sive you little advice, Tom look out
for the women you will meet there. A
man who goes around after women is
good deal like prospector hunting
Tor mine. You see woman at Il
ball, aid she's ali Irizz!ed and rugged
up IN silk, and powdered and PAINTED.
where the skin shows itself. These
surface groupings look pretty well,but
if you locate Oh the strength of them,
You'll get fooled every tine. a wo-
man OF that Kind is just like sailed
mine. Don't you take any stock in
her. She won't wash. If you want
to prospect little further, slip up and
take ali assay OF her conversation. All,
my boy! Three per cent. of in:eili-
geEce, twenty-five of fashionable eti-
quette, and the rest frivolity, conceit,
ignorance, and vanity, mixed up in
about equal parts. Drop her right
away. Such rock won't pay to mill.
1t you got patent for the claim, you
would never see dividend come out
of it as long as you lived. The assess
ments to keep the upper works in re-
pair and the lower levels from Gavin
in, would land You in the poor house
on lightning express, aud some fine
morning you'd wake up and find your
claim relocated by somebody else."
The old man shook the ashes cut of
his pipe and continued:
Sometimes yoa'll strike plain girl
in common sort of a dress. She
won't be good looking, may be, and
wont have any airs. The surface IN
dications won't show much, but be-
fore you've prospected long you're
likely to come to some Indications
thatil pay to follow up. Rich string
ers of conversational quartz and spurs
of Intelligence, showing up finely the
deeper you go. Pretty soon you'll
strike a well-dcfiued vein of solid
practical sense. That's the sort of 1,
mine 10 freeze to. Locate it as soon
as possible. and get out your patent
papers, and you'll haye a regular bo-
uanza TO fall back on tor the rest of
your life. Ii you think the good
claims are all taken UP you are mis-
taken. This towns full of 'em. I'm
an old prospector. and I've travelled
around a good deal. If my time was
not taken up with my own mine, I
know where there are lots of prime
locations only waiting for some prac-
;icai miner to come along and develop.
a woman's heart, Tom, is mighty
curious thing. Take it in all its dips,
spurs, angles, rmifications and sinuos-
tiles, and it's more OF a puzzle and
mystery than the whole Comstock
lode. Some fellows try to woik it,
and by pure luck strike il rich right
off, in places where old, experienced
prospectors never supposed there was
anything. Citing a title to the prop
eriy ain't the only thing; it's keeping
up the proper Developments, and see
ing that jumpers don't get in and en-
croach on your claim. Some OF these
domestic mines require All awful
amount Of money for machinery, and
some of 'em run on about nothing.
Whenever you get one of 'em, and find
you can't run it to advantage, the best
thing TO do is to throw up your job as
and shut down the
works. Virginia Chronicle.