Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-08

Peck's SIM.

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d An exchange has the following Il,
which may seom al right, but i !,
/ get some yonrg fellows back bro
yet:
o IAN Illinois justice has decided Il,
n courting is q public necessity, and mn
: not DO Interrupted; therefore If d your
. man wanted to kiss girl he might b,
her father ont of the room first i'll
i liked"
The publication of the above ite,
may cause some smart young man to d
something he ilIregret. The lam,
slckly-looking father Of a girl may com
into the parlor some night and find til
warm-haired youth on the sofa wit
the girl, and when the old man speak
it being time to stop such nonsense
the young man, with the above judicia
decision in his mind, will tell his pros
pectlve tather-in-law to wipe off hi
vest and 60 to bed. The old man vii
then spit on his hands and grasp til,
warm haired young man by She count,
seat and tie him mp ma double bow
Knot, and pin scarf on him, and throw
him out on the path to the gate. and
then he will turn and slap the girl
across where the dress is pleated, and
she Will 60 up stairs with her hand on
her heart, as it were, and the old man
VIII jump up and say, "Whoopw The
young men of this country have got gall
enough about visiting girls in the eve
ming at their homes, without filing
their heads with any such ideas in re-
gard to their legal rights. There are
very few fathers who would quietly
submit to being told to 90 away by o
young man with striped neck.tie and
pants too short at the bottom. These
sparkers are looked upon by parents
generally as q nuisance, and often they
are right. Nine-tenths of the sparkling
is done by boys who haven't got their
growth, and they look SO green that it
islaugbable for old folks to look at them.
They haven't generally, got q second
shirt, and they are no more qualified TO
get married than steer is to preach
Yet marrying is about the first thing
they think Of. A green boy without a
dollar, present or prospective, sparkling
a girl regularly and talking about mar
rying, isa spectacle for gods and men. |
He should be reasoned with, and if he
will not quit it until he is able to sup-
port wife, and to know who he loves
and the difference between love and I
passion, he should be quarantincd or
put IN a convent erected on purpose for
such cases. Nine -tenths of the un,,ap-
py marriages are the result of green.
human calves being allowed to run at
arge in the society pasture without any
yokes on them. They marry and have
children before they do moustaches;
hey are fathers of twins before they
ire proprietors Of two pairs ofpants, and
he little girls they marry are old wo-
men before they are twenty years old.
occasionally one Of these gosling mar
iages turn out all right, butit is a clear
ase Of luck. Ifthere was o law against
oung galoots sparkling and marrying
efore they have all their teeth cut. we
uppose the little cusses would evade it
some way, but there ought to be q
eminent against it. 1t is time enough
'r these bantams to think of finding q
ullet when they have raised money
nough by their own work to bny q
undle of laths to build hen house. a
ut they see girl who looks cunning. i
I'D they are afraid there is not going to +
girls enough to 60 around, and then
ley begin to geti their work real spry:
I'd before they are aware of the sane )
ty OF the marriage relation they are u
-
tched for life, and before they own a y
OK stove or q bedstead they have to 10
t mp in thenight and 60 after the doc II
r, SO frightened that they run them
ives out Of breath and abuse the doc.
: because he does not run too; and ~
len the doctor gets there he a. ~
DIS that there is not enough lin VI
in the house to wrap up a doll /"
by. 1t IS at about this time that a ~
nng man begins to realize that he has
IN q colossal fool, and as he flies or
'und to heat water, and bring in the y,
n tub, and goes whooping after his ed
ther or her mother, he turns pale bl
und the gills, his hair turns red in a tb
gle night, and he calls high heaven to
ness that if he lives till morning.
lch he has doubts about, he will turn to
: new leaf and never get married lea
in until he is older. And in the to