The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29

well-considering. [ have jus
got through educating my daugh
ters and think now / can lay III
some money. They have cost mt
four Thousand dollars in the las
four years, and now I have got
but one aim in life and that is tC
marry them off to somebody
won'thsve to support" Tn afraid
he can't do that. His girls have
got style and manners, and know
right smart about music, rhetoric
botany, and the sun, moon, and
stars, but the trouble is they won't
have any body that will have
them. There are several reasons
why the nice, well-educated, we'll
behaved wealthy young men won't
have them, the first of which is,
there amt no such young men;
secondly, if there is, about one in
q Congressional district. he is apt
to be already married or mortg&g-
ee to some bankers daughter
whom he met off at the springs.
There's fifty nice, refined, we'll
educ atel poor girls waiting for
just such nice young man, and
forty-nine of them, at least, have
got to go to bed without him. The
trouble is, there is plenty just as
smart by nature and more industri-
Gus, but they haven't got the mon
ey nor the elegant manners. Then
there's another class who have got
the manners and the education,
but that's all they have got. They
are worthy young lawyers and
doctors who are trying to get a
start in the world, and they are
afraid to marry one OF these col
lege girls for fear they can't sup
port them according to expecta-
tions. Somshow, these things
don't fit up together now days
like thew used to, and Tn a-think
ing its because our people ere
overriding the thing in doing too
much for the girls, or, maybe, too
little for the boys. [ remember
when the boys wore sent off to
college and the daughters stayed
at home, but its on the extreme
now, Female colleges have sprung
up in almost every town. There
are about five times as many girls
at college as boys. There are
about five hundred now being ed
ucated at Rome, and Dalton, and
Marietta, but l don't believe there
are fifty boys at college from the
whole district. A thrifty farmer
or merchant thinks he can't spare
his boys from the field or store, or
if he can, he can't afford to send
them away off to college, at an ex-
pense Of four or FIVE hundred dol
lars a year; but he can spare the
girls, and there is college close
by, and so the daughters are get
ting all the refinement and polish,
and by the time they graduate,
feel little above the family, and
wouldn't marry her brothers best
friend unless he was rich and could
set her up like queen. She has
got new social position. l have
been trying to think who are going
to marry those girls swho have cost
their father four thousand dollars
in four years, but l don't spot
anybody they would have that
would them. Maybe they can 60
off and catch somebody at the
springs next summer, but going
to springs costs money and taxes
a power of fine clothes. When
girls get through a fashionable
college It's mighty hard for them
to sit down on the old family plat
form. Their fond fathers and
brothers have been living and
working on a strain to put them
through, AMI the consequence is
they come home elevated in SEN
timent and ambition.
New pastures have opened up for
ever TO Craze in, and the store clerk
OF the faruar's boy or the handsome
mechanic who used to squeaze hel
warm hand Oh the sly learns mighty
quick to keep al a respectful distance
[ know its all right for girls TO be
lucated. and to take ust as high I
position as they possibly can, bu
then if her father amt rich, and sh,
has no great expectations, she is in
bad way for matrilnony, unless eh