Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-04-28

eStrava9ant. Because she is extrava-
giant, il does not follow that she is
heartless. Extravaganza may be the
result OF unwise training, ignorance of
the value of money, social ineXperience,
unlimited income. Show and gayety
may exist with heroic traits. Even
that which is called coquetry and flirt-
ing is often but the development of
mental brilliancy. social tact and the
amiable desire to please. She who wins
all hearts is often capable of an intense
and lifelong devotion. have in mind
young girl, exceedingly fair. accom-
plshed, graceful. witty, at once ad-
mired and beloved-but a little willful
withal, yet always gentle and gracious.
Ii high has ruled. hers scared aloft I'M
rivaled. Paniers rose. and she wore
Ossa on Pelion piled. Women scolded,
and the more venerable, even among
her male admirers. suggested that she
would be ridiculed ON the street. She
received their circumstances with I'M
varying sweetness, and Immediately put
French roof on the hat. and added
new puff on the panier. | do not men-
ton this admiringly. wish the. little
mink had had more sense or better
taste. But cannot deny that present
IL. when trouble came, when her whole
fortune was swept away, she went to
the front rs suaye and smiling as ii it
were but putting another feather to her
cap. she never adjusted silken fold
mere deity or more calmly than she
set about self-support. and nothing in
her days of ease and wealth became her
like the dignity, the determination. the
self-respect and the simple grace of her
poverty.
What girl viii do for necessity will
she not do for love? If she will doom
herself To disagreeable or uninteresting
toll rather than be dependent on rela-
tives. will she not accept the cares of
housekeeping for the joys of home
making All! believe me
:" The fault. dear Bgutus is not in the girls
But in yourselves. that you are underlinvs."
You are not noble enough. not manly
enough to make the girls satisfied with
You. They want boarding house life
because you are too selfish, stupid, sor-
did TO be of yourselves interesting.
Nine out of ten. ninetv-nine out of a
hundred girls wonld like nothing better
than home and husband. They love
beauty and refinement. but their hearts
are not set on pomp. With husband
who loved them, who male them CON-
Portable. who commanded .heir admira-
tion as well rs won their love. they
would receive and render an undying
happiness. They are quite willing to
begin az the foot of the ladder, but they
,yanf II IN la i.SIn,. and NO, m, ..,,
interrupted fiat"
Ii is the extravaganza of girls that
stands in the way OF marriage, but ale
che Young men verify guiltless? As
between boarding and housekeeping.
the comfort viii come chiefly to the
man. the care TO the woman. In her
boarding house she has freedom and
good clothes, against which there is no
law. In his narrow home. at the foot
Of the ladder. TO which he has as Yet. it
seems, yainly invited her, she will have
trouble, and toll, and calico; and worse
still the calico becomes quickly tumbled
and soiled. What will her husband
give in exchange? A Young mans idea
of love in cottage admits COW tea
table. bright silver, tidy rooms. and
smiling wife. in dainty white dress,
with rosebud in her hair. But love
will not stay in a cottage unless the
silver be rubbed. The snow-whi,e
bread has 10 be baked, and coal stove
is deadly foe TO white dresses. the
simple gown cannot be "done up" at
the laundry short of two dollars. or at
home without AT least half davis work.
During the late discussion of the
tariff ON tobacco. customer asked
tobacconist if the expected increase of
the tax had materially diminished the
trade. mo. sir" said the grocer.
philosopher without knowing it. -men
use tobacco. If il was women if would
be different, but men will have it."
When Lucy condescends from her
home of ease. if not of atiluence, will |