The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-11
Courting Days.
By CLARA AUGUSTA.

Almost everybody has gone courtiuc,
or wanted to. Everybody has either
gone or seen some one else 20.
1t Is just as natural for young man TO
go cour'ing as it is for a dog to bark at
the moon, or duck 10 take to water.
The thing is born with him, and it is de.
veloping all the way along, until lie gets
to be sixteen, eighteen or twenty, and
then the climax is reached, and he
knows what is the matter with him-he
wants to pay attention" to somebody.
Scientific observers tell us that the
younger the fever called love is taken
the milder it runs and the less liable it
Is II not well handled to leave lasting.y
bad results behind it.
Therefore. !. is best To have it young.
When the young man falls in love, he
thinks nobody on earth knows anything
about it but himself, when the fact of it
is, everybody lie is acquainted with is
cognizant of it. 1t can't be concealed.
1t breaks out all over him, and every
body laughs at him, just as if the whole
world had not been through with the
same thing, and been going through with
it ever since Adam woke up to find his
girl ready made and courted, and no
ether !ella|, with more money, lying in
the background. The youth who is in
love roses his appetite. baked beans
and fried onions have no charms for him.
!rlpe can not tempt him; plum. pudding
does not touch the spot. lie is living
on her smiles, and feasting to his souls
content on the memory ofhow she press
ed his hand last night, while heartless pa
was volunteering the information that
hn a ltpn cI, l., n
o'clock.
He becomes absurdly particular about
his shirt bosoms and it seems incredible
what vast amount of agony twenty five
cents worth of linen done into plaits
can cause him His necktic is also a
source Of distress and if he manage to
get the right hitch on it in twenty times
trying he is lucky.
if he had thoughts of embarking in the
weather prophet business; and he studies
the stars, aud signs, with his hand on his
side, like school boy who has been eat
ing green apples; and he reads poetry Of
the Tennyson brand, and perhaps-poor
wretch takes to rhyming himself
When lie does this he is pretty badly
off. and he will not likely to get over it
till some hard headed and hard hearted
publisher, to whom lie offers it for print,
calls his affecting lines weak rs dish
water" and kindly advises him put his
head in soak"
lie feels that without her lie shall die.
Perish the universe and all in it, before
he forgets her The stars may fail, the
sun dissolves in blackness, the ocean
beat itself into dry land, but his lore
shall never die 1t is rs eternal as the
heavens, and considerably more sol
lie spends his money i'll sweet. meats,
and smells like candy-shop on two legs.
He is redolent of perfumery. I1is hair
is oiled to perfection, and so are his
mothers wallpaper and tides.
His moustache, if it be visible to the
naked eye, is sented, and he feels Of it
longingly, as if he depended on Il to
stand by him and help him on.
1t is amusing to see whay tenderness
develops itself in his heart for everything
about her home. He thinks her father
and mother paternal and maternal won
ders. Her Aunt Sally is charming. Her
mischievous little brother Tom he tole-
rates, even when the Thomas aforesaid
lets his new colt loose, and it cost him
S25 to put the buggy together again, and
pay for the old apple. woman and baby
carts he has smashed up.
The cat at her house is an interesting
animal, and the dog is prodigy, though
he can not help swearing when the Gu
nine in question amputates one leg of
his pantaloons while he is trying to sere-
made his darling by the help of rheu-
matte ACCORDION aud the silver light Of
the moon.
He loves the place Of her abiding.
The two story, green-shade house which
contains her is fairy palace, and he
doesn't notice how badly it needs shing-
ling. The from. yard. where there are
growing two lilac bushes and bunch Of
tansy, is enchanted ground. He leans
over the one hinged gate as if he adored
it, and is never so happy as when he sits
on the broken. springed hair sofa-that
always goes off with crash when you
sit down, as if it were frightened by her
side
He is in love, and the world is place
of glory, and everything in it isglorious.
He doesn't notice that she is treckled,
and he is mad as hen" when his en-
vious sister says she paints and has got a
turned-up nose! Turned. d.up.nose, in
deed Her ollactory organ is simply
perfect!
ne lives III tnlS hl6n-presSuTe cOndl-
tion for few weeks, and then he begins
to tone down. He gets cold going out
nights to look at the moon. He sees
other girls " = have feet and hands, and
eyebrows nearly as nice as hers. She
snubs him for her cousin from the city,
and he gets in tearing passion, and
throws the slipper and the watch case
she made for him in the crate, and she
rvity h~o 4, -, Al,
fat is all in the tire
Aud then both of them are ready to
60 through the same thing again with
somebody else.
But counting days are pleasant while
they last. No, young men Brace up
and 60 courting while you can for by
and by you will have to turn your atten-
tion toward raising family and running
for Congress and YOU haven't any time