Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-11
HUNTING FOR AN IDEAL,

"No girl will ever have u chance to
marry me for my money. I'll take
good care of that When l wed there
shall be nothing but the most disinter-
ested affection thrown into the scales
no ideas of grand home and car
riages and opera-boxes and fashionable
parties and rich dresses and diamonds,
and all that sort of thing" And Char
ley Marshall tossed his half-finished ci-
gar out of the window, and added, with
emphasis: "No! the girl | make wife
will have to love me for myself alone
take me without the slightest idea of
future ease; be content with the antici-
patton of love in cottage and the
prospect of having to prove a help
meet in fact as well as in name"
"That is. cook, sweep, wash dishes,
scrub the floors, and all other drudg-
ery," added Fred Tryan, with pecul-
iarly expressive whistle.
Certainly. That just what mean. :"
"And you expect to find such a girl
in this betlounced, bediamoned age,
Charley?n
"Why notP''
Il thought they had all died out with
our grandmothers. Matrimony nova
days is a very different thing from a
century or two ago. The homespun
age has given place to one of satin
work and frivolty. It's mighty haz-
arlous undertaking to marry. Women
are daily driving poor fellows to bank
ruptcy and the dogs; and the salary that
a few years since would have been am
pie for household expenses wouldn't
now pay the rent
"You are cynical, Fred"
"A trifle, perhaps; but that doesn't
alter the facts of the case. 1t is differ
ent with you who have plenty-are one
of the 'bloated bondholders.' How |
wish l was! But what in the name of
common sense would do getting mar
ried with only a couple of thousands a
yearP'
do well enough if you marry the
right kind of woman, and train her
properly in the beginning
"As howPn with dubious smile.
AS intend to do. | have told you
that no one shall marry me for money.
The girl shall consider me poor-loOk
upon her future in that Highland after
the ceremony shall take her to plain
country home and test her well before
revealing that her lot is to be other
wise"
"What if she rebelsp"
"No danger of that. With my fore
thought shall not be likely to be de-
ceived."
"But if, after your chrysalis puts on
the gorgeous garments of the butterfly,
what if she should spread her wings
and revel in the surrounding splendorP
In other words, what if the uplifting
from poverty TO riches should make her
giddy and wildP The change from a
country girl to a city belle is very great,
and has turned the head of many an
one.n
"Granted; but shall guard against
such thing"
Educate her up!" laughed Fred.
"Well, wish you success. But where
do you expect to find such a paragon of
lOyeliness Qor with your aesthetic tastes
you would never marry any but a
beautiful woman) and good sense and
pronounced character? Certainly not
in the city?''
81 can scarcely indorse such sweep
ing denunciation. Yet intend to look
about in the country 81
Among the green valleys and for
ests primevarl / wonder how 'Pris-
ella the meek and loving, would have
stood such an exaltationP and whether
Miles would have believed in your
theOryg" And Fred laughed heartily
as he thought Of the stern Puritan Cap
tain and his quaint idea of courtship-
his
Steady, straightforward and strong, with ire
sistike logic:
Orthodox, fashing conviction right into the
hearts Of the heather.
"You can make merry as much as
you please" answered his friend; "but
this IS no idle whim of mine. have
reflected upon il long, perfected my
plan, and intend TO carry it out to the
very letter"
- Bon voyage, then, and l hope you
viii not meet with shipwreck. But
promise me one thing"
% II II is within reason"
That you will train your rustic di-
Yinig 70 love cigars, so that may come
and see you sometimes, sit with my legs
under your mahogany, have good old
fashioned smoke, and gaze upon the de-
licioqs wonder Of the nineteenth CEN
turygs
A" You win be welcome at any time"
lone thing morei Have II one Of