The Columbus journal., 1882-08-16
Advice to q Young Man.

IN, yes, / understand all tnat, nv
son. l have heard much Of that before.
You mourn and grieve over the lack of
true wOmanhoOd among the girls Of
your acquaintance. Mere butterflies of
fashion, you say, who can rattle the
keys of a grand piano, dance like fairies,
chatter nonsense and society nOthin~s
by the hour, and for their lives cannot
bake a loaf of bread. roast a turkey. do
a days washing or make a shirt. You
say you demand the noblest type of use
full womanhood in your wife, and you
want to know where you can find the
wife you want. Well, l will tell YOU.
my dear boy. If that is the sort of q
woman you want. marry Nora Mull;gan.
your laundress' daughter. She wears
cOwhide shoes, is guiltless of corsets.
lever had a sick day in her life. takes
in washing, goes out housekeeping and
cooks for a family of seven children. her
mother and three section men who
board with her: l don't think she
would marry you, because Con Regain.
the track-walker, is her stvle
of a man. She is the useful sort of a
woman you appear to want, but l don't
think she'd look at you twice. Let us
just examine into your qualifications as
a model husband after your own matri-
monial ideals, my boy. Can you shoulder
a barrel of flour and carry it down the
cellar? my dear boy, a 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 fall. so as to have ready
fuel all winter? Telemachus. those
twenty-three inches of coat padded out
over sixteen inches of shoulders
wouldn't help you a cents worth? Do
you know, my son-look me in the eye
do you know how to MEASURE ten
cords of wood, after the man has piled
it in five irregular heaps and tells you
it is all there? Do you know how to
Luy potatoes, and how to put them
away for the winter? Do you know
how to pick up the apples after Christ
mas9 Do you know how to watch the
shoeing of you own horse, if you
drive one. and can you tell timothy
from prairie hay when you are buying
it? Can you spade up half an acre of
ground for a kitchen garden? Do you
know what will take the limy taste out
of the new c~istern, and can you patch
the little leak in the kitchen roof What
would you do if a hoop fell off the flour
barrel? Suppose the chimney gets
choked up? If the front door binds at
the top? What if a mOrtise lock gets
out of order? If an extra shelf is want
ed in the pantry? Or two or three lit
tie houses for the hens with broods of
chicks? Can you bring home a pane of
glass and a wad of putty and repair
damages in the sitting-roOm window?
Can you hang some cheap paper on the
kitchen? Can you fix the front gate so
that it will not sag? Can you help the
man carry the big kitchen stove out to
the summer kitchen? Do you know
how to fix a pump when it chokes?
Can you make two or three tree-boXes
for the shade trees you planted on the
sidewalk, if you knew how to
plant them? Can you do anything
about the house that Con Regain camp
My dear boy, you see why Nora Multi
gan will have lone of you. she wants q
higher type of true manhood. You en-
pect to hire men to do all the mans
work about the house, but you want
your wife to do everything that any
woman can do. Believe me, nv dear
son, nine-tenths of the girls who play
the piano and sing so charmingly, whom
YOU in your limited knowledge set down
as mere butterflies of fashion," are
better fitted for wives than you are for
a husband. The girls know more about
these things than you do. If you want
to marry a first-class cook and expert
enced housekeeper, do your counting in
the intelligence office. But if you want
a wife. marry the girl you love, with
dimpled hands and a face like the sun
light, and her love will teach her all
these things, my boy, long before you
have learned one half of your own les
son.-Bur[in1tOn HaUEeUe.