Daily Republican., 1882-06-08
Advice 10 q Young Man.
BY +. ]. BURDETTE, IN THE BURLING-
TON HAWKEYE.

| TON HAwKEYE.
"Oh, yes, I understand all that, my
son. ! have heard much Of that before
You mourn and grieve oyer the lack OF
true woman.hood among the girls oil
your acquaintance. Mere butterflies
Of fashion, you say, who can rattle rhe
keys of a grand piano, dance like fai
ries, chatter nonsense society and
nothing by the hour, and for their lives
cannot bake a loaf of bread roast a
turkey, do days washing or make a
shirt. You say you demand the noblest
type Of useful womanhood for your
wife, and you want TO know where you
can find the wife you want? We'll, |
tell you, my dear boy. If that is the
sort of woman you want, marry Nora
Mulligan, your laundress' daughter.
She wears cowhide shoes, is guiltless of
corsets, never had q SICK day in her
life, takes in washing, goes out house.
cleaning and cooks for q family of
seven children, her mother and three
section men who board with her. 1
don't think she would marry you, be-
cause Con Regan the track walker, is
Ter style of "a man.
She is the useful sort of woman you
appear to want, but don't think she'd
look at you twice. Let US examine
into your qualifications as model
husband, afGer your own matrimonial
ideas, my boy. Can you shouiSer q
barrel of flour and carry it down the
cellar ? My dear boy, d quarter sack
of meal would get away with those
chalky fingers and slender arms of
yours. Can you saw and split ten
cords of wood la the fall, 80 as to have
ready fuel for tho winter? Telema-
chus, those tweuty.three inches of
coat padded out over sixteen inches of
shoulder, wouldn't help you worth a
cent. Do you know, my son-look me
fair in the eye--do you know how 70
measure ten cords of wood, after the
man had piled it in an irregular heap
and tells you it is. all there? DO you
know how to buy potatoes and put
them away for winter? Do you know
how to pick over apples after Christ.
mas Do you know how to watch The
shoeing of your horse, If yon drive one,
and can you tell timothy from prairie
hay when you are buying it?
Gan 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 cistern, and can you patch
the little leak in the kitchen roof? What
would you do ii a hoopfellottt1ourthebar
rel? Suppose The chimney gets choked?
If the front door binds at the top9 What
if a mortise lock gets out of order?lf an
extra shelf was needed in the pantry?
Or two or three little houses tor the
hens with broods of chickens? Can you
hang some cheap paper on the kitchen?
Can you fix the front gate so it will not
sag? Can you help the laan to carry the
kitchen stove out into the summer
kitchen? Do you know how to fix a
pump when it chokes? Can you make
twoor three boxes for the trens you
you planted on the sidewalk, If you
know how to plant them? Can you do
anything about the house that Con Re-
gan can?
My dear boy, you SEQ Nora Mulligar
will have none of you. She wants a
higher type of true manhood. You ex-
pect to hire men to do all the mems
work about the house, but you want
your wife to do everything that any
woman Can do Believe me, my dear
son, nine-tepths Of the girls who play
the piano and sing so charmingly, who
you in your limited knowledge set
down as 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 ex
perienced housekneper, do your con.t-
ing in an intelligence office Butt you
want n wife marry the girl you love,
with dimpled hands and face like the
sunlight and her love will teach her all
the things, my boy, long before you
have learned one half of your own les
SON