Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-22
Ptve Thousand Dollars a Pound.

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In the Atlanta Consolidation "BiIl Arp" says:
As a rule, girls show too much anxiety to
marry. Tney are too sweet on the boys.
They ought to stand off and look reserved
and precious and put on Jerusalem airs and
say, Young man, you dom know who you
are fooling with. Pm a treasure, l am. 1
weigh lis pounds, and am worth $1,000 a
pound Well, they are. A good, nice,
healthy girl who Can make her own dress
and get up a good supper for company, and
is not ashamed to "aIt on the table while
they are eating, is just worth about $1,000 a
pound. But that is no hing compared with
what they will be worth. Why, Mrs. Arp
| las cut out and made at least 1000 garments
Of one sort and another. She has sewed $780,
coo stitches, and patched aud darned and
| washed faces ana t3et and combed hair in
nsmerable. She mas tied up 500 sore toes
and cut fingers and burns and bruises, and
kissed away a thousand tears. She has
watched 'em by night and by day, and keeps
on watching; and right now, while
l am writing on my piazza, she is
looking away up the big road, and says:
Pm afraid something will happen to them
boys; they are too little to go on by them
selves" There are two little nephews here,
just out OF school, and they and Carl have
all got a horse or a colt apiece, and have
gone off on a 'scursion," and 1 call 'em the
infantry cavalry, and tell Mrs. Arp it is all
right, but she sits here sewing, with her specs
on, and ever and anon looks up the road and
says: "Those children nave overstayed their
time. Pm afraid something has happened"
If they don't come back soon / know that I
will have to start after 'em, for that is al
ways the way. Mrs. Arp is worth at least
10000 a pound, and she weighs right smart
and keeps a-getting heavier. l am rich, /
am. I feel wealthy whenever 1 look at her.
r.rt. --
American Girls Marrying TITLES.
London correspondence Detroit Post: If |
felt free 10 mention names l could tell tales
to wiring the heart about American girie who
have married English noblemen. In almost
every instance it proves fatal to the brides
happiness. II isn't long since Lord Fly
iager married the heiress of an American
Ci9.us. There was a tremendous time about
it. She Was envied By all her msrrisgesble
cronies, and old erai III was congratulated
on the fine alliance. BE grinDed with self
complscency and handed over 81, SOC, 600 to
His Lordship Flyfoger on the spot. Fly.
finger took the wife and the money and
brought them 10 England, where he intro
duced her 10 a few acquaintance and then
left her 10 shift for herself while he travels
with relays of fast horses and mistresses,
races and hunts, CANDLES and lives q wild
life ON the $1,5O0,0O0 for which he sold the
shelter of his title 70 a bright, hopeful, am
bilious American girl.
Eve or BIZ years ago an American girl,
whose name was on all lips, married a rich
Engiishman who had the entree of high 30
| ciety in England. she was toasted, toasted,
snyied. But she has slept IN a SOCIAL cocoon
ever since, heartily wishing herself home,
not seeing for months sometimes the husband
Who loves to follow the hounds. An Ameri-
can gentleman living here, whose name
would be recegoized By toe resder if I we're
At liberty to mention it, told me yesterday:
Il h~ve been approached within q month by
an Eoglish lord, who may be a duke some
day, but whose fortune has become greatly
impaired by his dissipation. He hes fixed
his eve on sn American girl whom he has
q. Yer seen. She is comparaIively uneducated,
and not very bright, and fearfully plain.
Her nose il snub. Her mouth ia large. Her
eyes are ANAL INT watsry. Her father is
an Irishman. But he is worth at least $40,
| 000,0 600. This lord wants me to bring about
. match between himself and this girl. I'd
see him hanged fret, for I know what a sac
| riice of her it would be-"
/ One other case: There il Q young lady now
in high society in America, her native land,
whose husband lie an English lord and whose
fat~her.in-lsw il q duke. She is beautiful,
accomplished, interesting, and she might
have made q good match In New York. But
she wanted q lord, and she got him. BE in
herited gambling from his mother, the
duchess, and he CANDLES away all he can get.
| He 10 dissolute snd INSCRIPTIONS; she il
| neglected and Nretched. So she pays very
long waits to her relatives in America, where
she can plunge into society and forget her
pitiful European experiment.