The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1881-07-29

married" L never see Jane but l
says, It's an awful solemn thing
to be an old maid.n
Well, Sally, my dear, | am glad,
monstrous glad, that you're going
to git married, but | want you to
be sure and begin right, aud keep
right.
Don't have too fine a we,ldin'.
Let your weddin' be equal TO your
means. A dwarf may imagine he
is a giant, and try to make other
people think SO too, but he can't do
it; Tor no matter how grandly he
struts about, everybody will know
that he is only poor little dwarf
aud he will be the only one that is
fooled after all. The other birds
knew the jackdaw, though he was
dressed in the peacock's feathers.
le are poor and the fellow you are
going TO marry is not rich, and
every body knows it; so you need
not try to make people think you're
better OIL than you are by having a
fine weddin', for yon can't do it.
They'll come and eat your fine FIX
ins, and drink your wine, and laugh
and joke and be mighty polite; but
they'll be laugbin' in their sleeves
at you all the time, and as soon as
your back isturned they'll call you
Il fool for tryin' to foehthem by
goin' beyond your means a fixin up
q fine weddiu'. j
When Bill Skies and Ann Jones
got married | was there. Bill is
a carpenter, and Ann the darter of
u poor farmer but from the way
they was rugged out, from the fine
lixlns they had on the table, you
would have thought he was u fur
rim prince, Nand she was the tavorite
darter of John jacob Stewart or A..
L. Vanderbilt. People all laughed
at 'enl, aud called EN- fools; aud
the poor foolish critters had to
scrimp mighty hard to pay for it
all, and are no happier, and no
more respected than il they had
been quietly married at church,
and gone quietly home, and used
the money that they spent on the
fine weddin' in startin' to house
keepin'.
rve knowed lots and cords of
people who had moro friends on
their weddin' day than they ever
had again; they wore better clothes
aud had better things to eat then
than they ever did afterwards and
they was happier gu that day than
they ever was in all their lives
again. But some people seem to
think they wouldn't be married
unless they had big weddin'.
They begin life by overdoin' the
thing, aud, ten to one, they'll keep
on in the same foolish way, until
they lose their friends, their credit,
their character and everything else
but poverty, and want, and a house
full of children. Begin right, my
dear, and keep right, and you'll be
sure to end right. No doubt about
that--none in the world.
know that your friend and
schoolmate, Fanny Frey, had a
grand time when she got married.
She had fine dress, all puckered
up in the newest fashion; and she
was ablaze with gold, and Jewels,
and diamonds, and other fine things;
aud she had her weddin' supper
cooked in the city, and the table
fairly groaned beneath the ponder
Gus weight of good things. Oh,
twas a grand affair. But her father
is q millyoner and can afford to-
give her all the fine things she
wants. But you can't afford it,
aud your pa can't afford 1t !; and if
you attempt to have slch fine
weddin' as Fanny had you'll suffer
for it; mark my words, somewhere
along the line Of your married life,
you'll suffer for it. The money
spent in tryiI to equal Fanny will
60 q long ways toward givin' you
q start in life. Take my advice my
dear, and don't try to get ahead OF
your means at the start, time
enough for that by and by.
There's old Uncle Eli. When he
married, him and Aunt Betsy was
both mighty poor, bat they knowed
it and acted like sensible folks.
They knowed that poor folks could
not do like rich folks and hold out
at it very long, so they didn't try ;
but they started at the foot Of the
ladder and worked their way up.
They didn't have a big weddin' aud
spend all they had in making a
fine show; but they was quietly
married, and went home aud went
to work. Uncle Eli was a good
blacksmith and he worked early
and late, aud Aunt Betsy was 0
mighty workin' woman, too; she'd
card and spin all day, and till as
lafa at nj ghf az aha cOuld henr the