Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
JUYIUs HENRI BROWNE.

L don't know. You're so constantly lift
ing your nat to passing women that only
no-ice when it is on your head.
Nonsense You're always exaggerating.
But you must have noticed the Young lacy
who just drove by. She's IN the carriage just
turning The corner"
q believe I did, Jack. She had on a bon
net trimmed with pink tIimmines, did, she?
Or were they green?"
Don't you know the difference between
pink and green? You must be color,bhnd."
Perhaps 1 am"
You're stone blind if you saw nothing
but her bonnet. Didn's you see the face un-
der it:o
"Really ] can't cay, jack"
Cans say? ThasS al afFectation. She
is very striking in appearance. she is con
sidered very pretty, and she IS certainly dis
tinguishei boxing"
THAT may be. Women, whether young
or old. pretty or plain, don't impress me
much.
90 should think not Bob, il you paid no
attention to that girl Yet you're always
talking about Beauty and Art. And when
You see beautiful woman you don't know
1t"
Why 50 warm, Jaol,? If you bad only
intima'ed that you were interested in the
young lady, Ia have sworn she was lovely
without looking a5 her"
I'm not warm bat really fine women
are not 50 common, even in New York, that
they should attract no attention when tt eY
go by in all their glosy. Miss }Iumford is
remarkable in every way. She's pretty
she's clever; she's elegant, and she has
fortune il her own right"
"Ab, I see. JACK. Way dime you men
ton hsr last aud c-owning vir5ue frst ? Any
woman with forsuas IN her own right must,
L am persuaded, be charming, even irresisti-
BILE.
You need not ridicuIa money; It's ne
cessity not luxury, in NsglYork. You're
laughing in your sleeve at rue. because you
think me Observation-Disclosures
Who knows the advantage Of money
more than II who an, ut IS, q bankers
clerk, with only twenty-five hundred dollars
a year,"
You ought to marry rich girl. That is
what l intend to DO. II I can. Il IS just as
easy to marry a rich girl rs poor one and
it pays bstter, certainly"
Are you warranted By your Experience in
saying SO, Jack :"
Now, don't be sarcastic at my expense,
Bob. Ia no humb1g 1 don't pretend that
[ care for love in q garset I'm not 3D.
bemian. bsiieva in love IL sumptuous
mansion, with big income to support love
on"
You're a regular \ w Yorker. You can't
conceive Of sympathy or contentment indie
pendent Of a big bank account. Why marry
at al You have four or five thousand year
from your Investments. You lead Ieisurely
life, and have nobody dependent on you. Be.
tween your club and society in wioter, and
Europe il sumner, you ssem to get On COM
fortably enough.
/ may seem to !; bit DONE. Four or five
Thousand a year is really palay. You've no
idea how I have TO pinch. I need thirty
thousand at least. oaat make tive no
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my vile. I don't mind telling you, Bob
you're friend Of nine-.hat I've made some
experiments looking toward matrimoay."
1Iattar-of-money you ought to call it,
Jack; oughtn'5 your
" Perhaps bIatr;mony and matter-of-
money should be synonymous With a bachelor
on halt-pay, so TO speal-. There's 10 objec-
ton, to my mind. in man Of position,
breeding and social accomp iishments-a true
gentleman, in shors-wi.h very little means,
mating with nice giel Of very ample
means
Don. be too modest, jack. in painting
your own picture"
''Modesty is Ike amia5iIity. good thing
for women but it isn't desirable Tor men.
1t hurts them in the struggle for existence"
You don't appear to nave suffered from it
up to date"
Nor 90 iceend to. Bob. Audscity always
wins, particularly with women. It is often
better than brains and energy"
''Why haven't you succeeded bst5er then,
Jack You haven't got your rich wlte yet,
and you admit that you are nos wholly inno-
cent of EFFORT in thas direction"
VERY true. I've often thought Of that my
self. I must lack something; but it isn't
boidness."
'Or selt.appreciation,"
''No; certainly not that? Can it be pos
sible that ] don't understand women after all
my experiences 81
1T isn't possible. The dullest man IN
derstandz the deepest woman, or thinks he
does; which amounts TO The same thing, in
his own concei5. No man IS SO sure 30 be de-
esived by women as he who IS confident that
he knows all about them. Nevertheless, If I
wanted to secure a rich wife, faDcy-mere
vanity d5abtlesz-that I should know how to
manage better than some mea-better than
Jack Hudson, for example,
Give me the benefit of your wisdom. I'm
interested in the subject, you know"
+" In the first place, I wouldn't talk about
it. To get the reputation Of fortune. hunter
is very likely to hinder man from becoming
a fortune-fnder. I should recommend ex-
aetly the opposite course"
"Expound, old boy"
"If I were in your line, Jack, IA pretend
chat I was totally Indifferent to money-es-
pecially in connection with wife. Indeed,
I'd 90 further. After had picked out my
heiress, I'd be very attentive and gallant to
her, under the spiritual brother assumption,
claiming the while to be so adverse TO matri-
mony, personally and on principle, that moth.
ing under the sun could tempt me into it.
by Jupiter I can't see how you would
get rich vile by pretending that you
wouldn't have wife Of any kind, whatever
the circumstances"
Hear me out, Jack Gradually, by
almost imperceptible degrees, I should
change my manner and deport
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