News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
WARNING TO OLD Low ERS.
AN ENGLISH PICTURE. WITH SOME
ADVICE THAT Is WORTH ATTEN-
TInN
How Old Men Become Infatuated with
Yonng Girls and Lose Their Better
Judgment.

The London World has the following
spicy communication, signei "Sweet
Sixteen -:
q wonder if you ever condescend
to accept the ideas of women on men.
[ will try and draw one picture for you
which strikes the feminine mind as alb
surdly amusing-the spectacle of re-
spectacle, elderly, steady going married
man making a fool of himself with a
young girl. Girls feel a happy freedom
with a man old enough to be their
father, and with daughters older
than they are themselves; and he on his
side, | am sorry to say, allows himself a
little too much freedom of manners in
return. The young girl puts on, as you
say, her pretty manners for him, be-
cause she is better brought up than her
brothers, and is taught to be civil to all
corners, and the elderly gentleman -
what of him? He forgets his gray and
probably bald head, his bulky proper
tons and general heavy fatherish ap-
pearance. He pulls himself together
and struts behind his young friend, feel
ing again the young and jHlnty beau of
days gone by. He becomes almost i'll
solent in his depreciation of women of
his own age, especially of his WIFE
Sometimes he is weak enough to imagine
that We're it not for that hard and fast
knot which ties him he might again
enter the lists with younger nell and
carry off his prize; his elderly and rather
rubicund face glows and shines with the
thought. Every look of the girl who is
the present object of his heavy atten-
tiOns Is transformed by his self-cOnceit
into token of admiration. He gives
her little presents, which are received
gushingly by the young lady, and after
ward shown by her to her friends, with
a laugh and the remark, What a dear
old thing he is You know he was an
old friend of papa when they were both
young. And the girls have a good
natured laugh at his expense; for he gets
up a correspondence with her, smiles
bIandIy when he sees a letter from her,
and If in the family circle he places it
on one side, turning the address inside,
lest his wife (who knows all about it,
and, If a sensible woman, only laughs to
HERSELF should see it. And when alone
he reads and re-reads the epistle, an
swers it at once and looks out for an
other with almost the eagerness of
young lover.
"Now, word of advice to my dear,
elderly, fifty-years-of-a married man.
Stick to your wife and your own daugh-
tiers or nieces. They appreciate you and
love you; they know you for what you
are and do not laugh at your gray hairs
and heavy civilities. Remember what
you are all, at your age, SO apt to forget
that, give you always ten years start,
you grow old just at the same rate as
women do; and your pride in yourself as
a man Is so great that you often take lit
tie pains to preserve any of those youth
full graces of manner or appearance
which helped you, when young, to
charm women and win your wife; there
fore your growing old is often not a
pleasant sight, and your lubberly tlirta-
tons with young girls make you the
laughing stock of your own sex, both
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one woman, and by your own account
twenty others were ready to succumb to
your charms had you gwen them the
chance. Therefore, you say, Why not
now as ever?' My dear friend, look Ill
the glass; then you will know. And
bear this in mind: We're you freed to-
morrow from the tie which binds you no
young girl who is what is called mice
marrles man older, perhaps, than her
father, except under strong pressure
from the authorities that be. Parents
may tell her that the proverbial 8 old
mans darling gets the best of hfe-her
heart does not respond, and, should her
feelings be OverbOrne, she may, and
Often does, get the best of it, but she
never does it of her own free will, and
she always retains more of the daughter
ly than of the wifely feeling for her
spouse. And, if Providence is kind and
removes the parental husband she rushes
into matnmony a second time, either
with her Old lover or with a man of her
own age, and they together enjoy the fat
jointure the doting old gentleman has
left her, and for which, if she be not
nice, but on the contrary a calculating
young lady who has voluntarily put her
neck under the yoke, she probably mar
ried him. Now will bid the dear, bald
headed, grizzly and stout elderly gentle
man good-by, and [ beg him in the
future to keep up his dignity. Let him
be polite, fatherly and kind to his young
lady friends, but trespass not on the
lover, and take no absurd liberties in
speech or look, for as sure as he does he
will get laughed at as an old silly behind
his back, if not to his face.