The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-10
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ON Sons aud Daughters-The Value of a
Nice Healthy Girl.

ON hons And Dhnghters-The taiue Oh
Nice Healthy Girl.
Bll arp Ia Atlanta COnatiutiOA
We went to another picnic the other do
and had q glorious time. 1t was on law
in beautiful grove close by big spring
and long table was spread and we feastet
on bright eyes and fried chicken and iell,
cake, and happy faces and ice cream, AM
sweet smiles and merry laughter and lemon
ade all mixed up together, and We stayeC
till most midnight and heard the Gallo
pean club 60 through their exercises O
music and reading and composition, AM
then drove home by moonlight, and l thinl
Mrs. Arp Is q little younger and prettie
than ever and renewing her youth in con
sequence. 1never saw the like. Our pee
pie are getting hilarious and are frolickin
more this spring than usual. This make
three neighborhood picnics in little while
and they are fixing up for another, and m.
wife is getting ready. We have got he
out OF the chimney corner, and il look
like we will never get her back again
Mr.. Gibbons says be to me did you eve
see such crop Of girls as we have got
growing in the country? Well says I,
reckon the boys are at home, at work. M
sir, says be, there amt hardly any boy
anywhere. I've counted EN- up in thi
neighborhood and there are about two girl
TO one boy and what is worse the girls ar
the smartest and have got the best educa
tion.
Well there Is a reason for everything ant
q cause for every effect, but l don't know
-whythere are more girls than boys, and
wish somebody would tell me. Some folk
say IT is sign Of peace. The girls are tht
smartest know, for they have the mos
education. Before the war the boys wert
put forward and the girls kept in the back
ground. but now the boys have to worE
and so the girls are sent to school and 4
college and the boys have to help pay fol
II. That Is the reason why the girls art
the smartest, and my fear Is that they are Q
little too smart and wont marry these
young fellows who can't quote little poe.
try and don't know whether Byron wrote
Shakespeare or Shakespeare wrote Byron.
But | reckon they will sooner or later
Mrs. Arp Gays that girls marry too soon
anyhow, and she don't want any OF herr
TO marry under 90 unless the offer is very
splendid one in all respects. reckon
that is the reason she went of at sweet 49,
but l think Mr.. Gibbons Is mistaken. The
The census shows about as many boy chill.
dren in Georgia as girl children We've
got six boys and four girls, and that Is
about right. There Is more anxiety about
the girls. They are sorter helpless and de-
pendent, and we have TO watch these
young fellers mighty close for fear OF trou'
ble, for the old saying still holds good:
Aeou Is son I'LL no marrles wife
A daughter Il daughter ali tho days Of her life.
1t is mighty sad 10 see girl come back
to her fathers house 10 live after she has
been married a year or two. Poor thing
She never knew what good home she had
until she left 1t, and byeand bye she comes
creeping back pale and cad, and the man
she trusted goes another way. That is the
wreck OF life. No more happiness for
her. No wonder that parents feel anxious
about there daughters, and the daughters
ought to think and ponder long time be-
fore they marry. A fathers house and a
mothers love are mighty hard to beat.
But then happy marriage is the highest
state Of happiness, and every girl ought to
look forward 10 it. There are lots OF clever
Young men in the land-young men Of
good principles, and who have been raised
by good parents. The girls ought to mate
with them, money or no money. Money
is good thing, but principle is better, and
II a young Teller has got both, and don't
drink nor gamble and is industrious and
healthy, why he is all right, and II 1 was 3
girl would put him on probation and say,
think you are very good man, but you
know am an angel, aud il =. Well il
he seemed to doubt my being an angel l
would Just tell him to 50 hence. II a
young man don't look upon his girl as an
angel before he msrries h9 never will after.
ward and i'll was girl l would be an
angel as long as could.
As general thing the girls show too
much anxiety to marry. They are too
sweet on the boys. They ought to stand
off and look reserved and precious, and
put on Jerusalem Girs, and cay young
man you don't know who you are fooling
with. I'p q treasure, am. l weigh 1l5
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 wait on the table while they
are eating, is Just worth about 1000 q
pound. 4,pt that 70 nothing compared
with what they will be worth. Why Mrs.
Arp has cut out and made at least two
thousand garments Of one sort and an:
other. She has sewed 5000 stitches. and
patched and darned, and washed faces and
ieet, and combed hair innumerable. She
has tied up Aye hundred sore toes and cut
fingers and burns and bruises, and kissed
away thousand tears. She has watched
Them By niEttap day, and keeps watching,
and right now whil0 ] amtwrltlng on my
piazza she is looking away,up the big road
and says: SI'm.afraid something will hap.
pen to themtboys, they are too little 70 20
str by themselves" There are two little
nep6ews here lust out Of sgheel, and they
and Carl have all got horse or polt
apiece and gone of on hscursion," and
call 'em the infantry cavalry and tell Mrs.
Arp 1t ia all right, but she ats here sewing
with her specks on and everand anon looks
up the road and says: "Those children have
oyerstayed their tine I'm afraid some.
thing has happened.n ! they don't come
back soon I know, that will have to start
alter EN-, for that 10 always the way. MIS-.
Arp is worth at least 5000 pound, and
she weighs right smart and keeps getting
heavier. am rich, am. l feel wealthy
whenever ] look at her. -
Imet an old friend the other day and
says he: II Just wish yoa coGld see. my
bow, Pm fixing him up fer college, and he
Ia lust the smartest boy In all this country.
Hs is a natural orator, He has got gifts,
he has. Bseaku now liEe Henry Clay. He
took the medal in defamation. ] wish
you could see him onthe stsgs. Heis iusl
splendid, he is. -, ,.g,S, :, ssi
cts sad, very sad. Ineyer knewa nat
ural orator to be any account, Twas nat
ural orator and it ruined me. I've never
been any account. TOOK pewter medA
when was young and l,yo never gotten
over 1t. II was for speaking aspeech. ]
thought then that ] had whipped the bat
lie Of life, and. there was mo more worlds
to conquer but I've had TO fight on ever
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