The Dawson journal., 1883-05-10
Marriaye.
Rising Fawn (Ga) Gazette.

A'i"S Ho"h \OdA OdAetLe.
! The sparkers are looked upon by
parents generally as nuisance, and
often they are right. Ninetenths OF
the sparkling is done by boys who
have not got their growth, and they
look SO green that it is laughable for
the old folks to look at them. They
haven't generally second shirt, and
they are no more qualified to marry
than steer is to preach. And yet
marrying is about the first thing
they think of a green boy without
a dollar, present or prospective,
sparkling a girl regularly, and talk
ing about marrying, is a spectacle
for gods and men. He should be
reasoned with, and if he will not quit
1T till he is able to support d wife,
and to know whom he loves, and the
difference between love and passion
he shonld be qnarrantined or put in
convent erected on purpose for
such cases. Nine-tenths of the
unhappy marriages are the result of
green human calves being allowed to
run at large in the society pastures
without any yokes on them. They
marry and have children before they
do moustaches they are fathers of
twins before they are proprietors of
two pair of trousers, and the little
girls they marry are old women be-
fore they are twenty years old .Occa-
sionally one of these gcsling MARI.
ages turns out all right, but it is
clear case of luck. IF there was a
law against young galoots sparkling
and marrying before they have all
cut their teeth. we suppose the little
cusses would evade it in some way,
but there ought to be a sentiment
against it. 1t is time enough for
these bantams to think of finding a
pullet when they have raised money
enough to buy bundle of laths to
bnild hen house. But they see a
girl who looks cunning and they are
afraid there is not going to be girls
enough to go around, and then they
begin to get in their work real spry;
and before they are aware of the
sanctity of the marriage relation
they are hitched for life, and before
they own cook-stove or a bedstead
they have to get up in the night and
go after the doctor so frightened
that they run themselves out of
breath and abuse the doctor so
frightened That they run themselves
out of breath, and abuse the doctor
because he doesn't run too. It is
about this time that young man
learns that he is colossal fool, and
as he flies around to heat water and
bring in the bath-tRb, and goes
whooping after his mother or her
mother, he turns pale around the
gills, his hair turns red in single
night, and he calls high heaven to
witness that if he lives till morning
which he has doubts about, he will
turn over new leaf and never marry
again till he is older. And in the
morning the green-looking "father"
is around before a drug store is
open, with no collar on, his hair
stricking out all over, his eyes blood
shot, and his frame nervous, waiting
for the clerk to open the door so
that he can get some saffron to make
tea. Less than year ago he
thought he was the greatest man
that there ever was anywhere, but as
he sits there in the house that morn
ing with his wedding coat rusty and
shiny, and his trousers frayed at the
bottom, and his coat patched at the
elbow, and the nurse pats in his
arms a roll of flannel with baby
hid in it, he holds it as he would a
banana, and as he looks at his girl
wife he thinks there are not provis-
ions enough in the house to feed u
canary lump comes into his throat
and he says to himself that if he had
it to do over he would leave that
little girl at home to grow up with
her mother, and he would wait till
he had So to buy flannel and $40 to
pay a doctor.
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