Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-09
ADVICE TO A YOUNC MAN BIZ 2. J.
BIRDETTn

On. yes unQer6tan0 All tndt, my son
/ have heard much of that before.
You mourn and grieve over the lack of
true wOmanhood anon the girls of your
acquaintance. Mere butterflies of fash
ion, hear you say, who can rattle tho
keys of a piano, dance like FAIRIES, chat
ter nonsense and society nothings by
tho hour, and for their lives cannot
bake loaf of bread, roast a turkey, do
days washing or iron q shirt. You
say you demand the noblest type of use
full womanhood for your wife, and you
want to know whore you can find the
wife you want? We'll, will tell you my
dear boy. If that is the sort of a
woman You want, marry Nora Multi
gan, your laundress' daughter. She
wears cOwhids shoes, is euiitless Of cor
sets, never had sick day in her life,
takes in washing, goes out house clean
ing and cooks for family of seven chill
dren, her mother and three section men
who board with her. l don't think she
would marry you, because Con ksgan,
the track walker is her style Of a man.
She is the useful sort Of q woman you
seem to want. but / don't think she'd
look at.you twice. Let usl examine into
your qualifications as model husband
after your own matrimonial ideals, my
boy. Can you shoulder q barrel OF
flour and carry it down the cellar2 Ny
dear boy, quarter sack of meal would
get away with those chalky fingers and
slender arms of yours. Can you saw
and split ten cords Of hickory wood in
the fail. 30 as to have ready fuel all
winter? Tenacious, those Is inches of
coat padded out over IL inches of shoul-
ders wouldn't help you . cents worth.
Do you know, my son-look me in the
sye-dO you know how TO measure IL
cords Of wood, after the man had piled
it in irregular he tps, and tells you it
is all thersy Do you know how to puy
potatoes, and how to put them away
for winter3 DO you know how 70 pick
the apples over after Christmas. Do
you know how to watch tho shoeing of
your horse. if you drive one, and can
you tell timothy from prairie hay when
Won are buying 1t? Can you spade up
half an acre Of ground for q kitchen
gardenf Do you know what will take
the limy taste out of the new oistsrn
and can you patch the leak in the kitch-
en- roof? What would you do if a hoop
fell of the Hour barrel! Suppose the
chimney gets choked up? II tho front
door binds at tho top? What if a NOR
tise lock CESS out of order? If an extra
shelf is needed in the pantry? Or two
or three little houses for tho hens with
broods Of chicks? Can you bring home
pane of glass and wad of putty and
repair damages in the sitting room
window? Can you hang some cheap
paper on the kitchen? Do you know
how to fix a pump when it chokes!
Can You make two or three boxes for
she shade trees you planted on the . de-
walk, if you know how to plant them.
Can You Go anything about the house
that Con ks2an can? My dear boy, you
soc why Nora Mulligan will not have
any of you. She wants q higher type
of true manhood. You expect to hire
men to do all the mans work about the
house. but yOu want your wife 10 do
every thing that q woman can do. Be-
Hsvs me, my dear son, nine-teaths of
the girls who play the piano and sing 50
charminGly' whom you in your limited
knowledge set down az mere butterflies
of fashion," are better fitted for wives
than you are for husband. The girls
know more about these things than you
do. If you want TO marry first class
cook and experienced housekeeper, do
your cou.ung in an inteliig1nce Office.
But IL you want wife, marry the girl
you love, with 'dimpled hands and a
face like the sunshine, and her love viii
teach her all these things, my boy long
before you have learned one-half OF
your own Observation-Disclosures Hdsskeys