Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-13

l in 2 beautiful grove close by big spring, an l @ long table was spread and we feasted or bright eyes and fried chicken and jelly cake ] and happy faces and ice cream, and swee
 smiles and merry laughter and lemonade al i mixed up together, and we staid till mos | midnight and heard the Calliopean club gt l through their exercises of music and reading l and composition, and then drove home bJ moonlight, and think Mrs. Arp is littlt l younger and prettier than ever and renewing her youth in consequence. I never saw tht 1 like. Our people are getting hilarious and are frolieking more this spring than usual I This makes three neighborhood picnics in 6 l little while and they are fixing up for anoth l CT, and my wife is getting ready. We have l got her out of the chimney corner and il
 looks like we will never get her back again.
 MT. Gibbons says to me, did you ever see such crop of girls as we have got growing in the country2 We'll, says I, I reckon the boys are at home, at work. No, sir, says he, 1 there ain't hardly any boys anywhere. I've counted 'em up in this neighborhood and 1 there are about two girls to one boy, and, 1 what is worse, the girls are the smartest and \ have got the best education.
 l Well, there is reason for everything and ! a cause for every effect but I don't know l why there are more girls than boys, and ] | wish somebody would tell me. Some folks | say it is Q sign of peace.- The girls are the I smartest, know, for they have the most ed. l ucation. Before the war the boys were put | forward and the girls kept in the background,
 but now the boys have to work, and so the girls are sent to school and to college and the
 boys have to help pay for it. That is the reason why the girls are the smartest and my fear is that they are little too smart and won't marry these young fellows who cant quote little poetry and don't know whether Byron wrote Shakespeare or Shakespeare wrote Byron. But reckon they will sooner l or later. Mrs. Arp says that girls marry toe l soon, anyhow, and she don't want any o1 ! hers to marry under 20, unless the offer is a very splendid one in all respects. I reckon that Is the reason she went of at sweet 16, but think Mir. Gibbons is mistaken The
 census shows about as many boy children in Georgia as girl children. We've got six boys
 and four girls, and that is about right. There
 is moro anxiety about the girls. They are
 sorter helpless and dependent, and we have
 to watch these young fellers mighty close for
 fear of trouble, for the old saying still holds
 good:
 "A is a till he marries a wife,
 daughter is 8 daughter all the days of her life."
 It is mighty sad to see girl come back to
 her fathers house to live after she had been
 married year or two. Poor thing? She
 never knew what good home she had until
 she left it, and by and by she comes creeping
 back pale and sad, and the man she trusted
 goes another way. That is the wreck of 8
 life. No more happiness for her. No won-
 der that parents feel anxious about their
 daughters and tho daughters ought to think and ponder long time before they marry.
 fathers house and a mothers love arc
 mighty hard to beat. But then happy mar
 riage is the highest state of happiness, and
 every girl ought to look forward to 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 'em, money or no money. Money Is good thing but principle is bet ter, and if young feller has got both and don't drink nor gamble, and is industrious and healthy, why, he is all right and if I was girl l would put him on probation and say, 1 think you are very good man, but you know I'm an angel and if-well, if he seemed to doubt my being an angel, I would just tell him to go hence. If young man don't look upon his girl ss an angel be- fore he marries, he never will afteIward, and, if was girl, would be an angel as long as l could.
 As general thing the girls show too much anxiety to marry. They are too sweet on the boys. They ought to stand of and look re- served and precious, and put on Jerusalem airs, and say: Young man, you don't know who you are fooling with. I'm treasure, I am. I weigh 115 pounds, and am worth $1,- GOO pound. We'll, they are. A good nice, healthy girl, who can make her own dress and get up good supper to company, and is not ashamed to wait on the table while they are eating is just worth about $1 ,OOO pound. But that is nothing compared with what they will be worth. Why, Mrs. Arp has cut out and made at least 2, 900 garments of one sort or another. She has sewed 500, ,000 stitches and patched and darned, and washed faces and feet, and combed hair inriumerable. She has tied up 800 sore toes and cut fingers and burns and bruises, and kissed away a thou sand tears. She has watched lem by night and by day, and keeps on watching, and right now while am writing on my piazza she is looking away up the big road and says
 ''1'm afraid something will happen to them boys they are too little to go off by them selves" There are two little nephews here just out of school, and they and Carl have all got horse or colt apiece and gone of on a ''scursion," and call 'em the infantry cayal- ry and tell Mrs. Arp it is all right, but she sits here sewing with her specks on and ever and anon looks up the road and says: Those children have overstaid their t1me I'm afraid something has happened If they don't come back soon know that will have to start after lem, for that is always the way. Mrs. Arp is worth at least $5.O0O pound, and she weighs right smart and keeps get ing heavier. am rich, Ham. Ifeel wealthy whenever I look at her.
 I met an old friend the other day, and says he: q just wish you could see my boy I'm fixing him up for college and he is just the smartest boy in all this country. He is natural orator. He has got gifts, he has. i3 He speaks now like Henry Clay. He took the medal in Reclamation. I wish you could see him on the stage. He is just splendid, he is''
 looked at him mournfulIy, and says I: ''It's sad, very sad. never knew 8 natural orator to be any account. I was natural ora tor and it ruined me. I've never been any account. took pewter medal when was and T1uo for speaking a speech. I thought then that I had whipped the battle of life and there were no more worlds to conquer but I've had to fight on ever since, and my medal didn't | do me any good. I wish you would guard 1 your boy against medals and being natural | orator. There is but one remedy for nat ural orator, and that is to marry rich and set tie down and wait for invitations to make speeches at college commencements They are right useful that way. Sometimes they do right well, considering. knew natural orator to get elected to the Legislature and | a pretty girl in the gallery saw him as he was orating and fell in love with him, and he married her, and she was rich, and they are getting along first rate and now he gets call every other day to speak at some college, and he accepts em all and goes to none, but it's all the same to him, for he gets his name in the papers, and that's enough. But he is an exception for luck, and the boys who are natural orators needn't l presume on his good fortune"
 don't know but one place for boys, and that IS work. Put em to work and keep lem at 1t, for idleness is the parent of all vice. Don't map out any particular trade or calling, put keep em at work and will map ont itself Habits make up life. Life is @ bundle of habits, and if boy has habit of work he is all right.
 John Easterwood, aged 45 years, painter, fell fourteen feet at the asylum for the in- ,ane at Middletown Wednesday, and received injuries which resulted fatally. He left a wife and two children.
 O. A had it's annual reunion-its 11th- 1t Bloomfield Wednesday. Officers were ,hosen as fellows: President, V. B. Cham