St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1878-11-02
The Story Of Some Girls.
philadelphia Times.

S1lrlS, IL las long Oeeu suSpeeIeO
by deep-thinking people, are some
what too numerous-probably IN
great many more ways than one.
Whether there is anything in the
American climate, or whether it is
the reckless freedom of the Ameri-
can constitution, or whether it is
something else the philosophers
have never even limited, but it must
be apparent to any one who reads
the newspapers that the supply of
girls is considerably in excess of the
demand So completely is this the
case that one man never has any
trouble in going about the country
marrying a girl here and another
there, and still another somewhere
else, until unthinking people would
suppose there would be no girls left
after four or five daring kind of men
like this had made their rounds
But that doesn't seem to thin them
out, and in spite of the fact that a
man in New York had dozen or so
wives revolving around him at once
the other day, there are still any
number of girls on hand all over
the country. in assorted sizes, va
rieties and ages.
This truthful story, however, is
about some particular girls that Mr..
Erastus Bailey, Of somewhere out in
Michigan, had on hand. There
were six of Mr.. Bailey's girls, all
daughters and ali willing to be
married, as the old gentleman was
willing they should be. He had put
them on the matrimonial market in
one sweet bunch, utter regardless
of expense In the way of curl papers,
store frizzes, hooks-and-eyes and
hair pins; they were displayed be-
fore young men and .middle-aged
men, and all kinds of men on all
kinds of occasions, but none of Mr..
Bailey's six daughters fshed for q
husband with any kind of luck; not
one Of them made a catch. Other
mems daughters went off like hot
cakes, it seemed to Bailey, although
neither he nor his girls could see
reasons why men should be SO mis-
erably stupid. Bailey's girls were
everywhere, and yet no man ever
went where they were; they were
offered free of cost to anybody who
would take them off the old man s
hands. but nobody seemed to want
cheap girls with red hair and pug
noses. 1t will probably never be
found out how the idea came to
strike Mr., Bailey, but he finally re-
solved to withdraw his girls from
the market, and give notice that not
one of them would listen to any
kinp of an offer of marriage. Only
philosophers will know why he set
tied upon such remarkable course
rs this, bnt he was himself philoso-
pher. MIR. Bailey consulted with his
six red-headed girls and then went
down town and told everybody that
he had put a stop to all fooling
around his daughters; that he had
locked them up, and would stay at
home with club to keep the boys
off if less determined measures fail
ed. The effect was immediate and
tremendous. In two days some of
the boys began to watch when the
old man left the house, and then
they slid in to see his pug-nosed
daughters; but they always Slid out
. fewominntes before pa came home.
When Mr.. Bailey was told of these
things he put a paddock on the gate,
and the, boys jumped over the fence,
rather liking the romance of the
thing. In two weeks one of the girls
lowered herself from second-story
window, ran off with one of the
boys and got married. Old Mr.
Bailey tore around in dreadful.
way before tie pnbie, put some iron
bars across tue lwlndows to prevent
the escape of any more girls, and
congratulated himself on his cute
ness In another ten days the Sec
ond girl got off in some manner ut
terly inexplieable and came back
with a husband, and third settled
herself for better or worse with a