Frostburg mining journal., 1883-07-28
FROsTBURG. MD, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2s. 1883.

for her. No wonder that parents feel
anxious about their daughters, and
the daughters ought to think and
ponder long time before they marry.
A fathers house and mothers love
are mighty hard to beat. But then a
happy marriage 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, snd who have
been raised by good parents. The
girls ought to meet with EN-, money
or no money. Money is good
thing, but principle is better, and if a
young feller has got both, and dom
drink nor gamble, and is industrious
and healthy, why, he is all righ'
and, if | was q girl, | would put him
on probation and say, I think you are
very good man, but you know I'm
an angel, and if. Well, if he seem
ed to doubt my being an angel
would just tell him TO 10 hence. II
young man don't look upon his girl as
an angel before he marries, he nevsr
will afterward, and If | was girl, |
would be an angel as long as l could.
AS general thing the girls chow
too much anxiety to marry. They
are too sweet on the boys. Thy
ought to stand eff ard look resery d
and precious, and put on Jerusalem
airs, and say, young nan, you don
know who you are iool:ng with. In
a treasure, I am. weigh l15 pounds
and am worth $1,000 pound. Well,
they are. A good, nice, healthy girl,
who can make ber own dress and set
up good supper to company, and is
not ashamed to wait on the table
while they are eating is just worth
about 81 900 "a pould. Bat that is
nothing compared with what they
will be worth. Why, Mrs, Arp has
cut out and made at leas. 1000 gar
ments of one sort or another. She
has sewed 100000 stitches, and patch
ed and darned, and wished faces and
feet, and ccmbed hair innumerable.
She has tied up 500 sore toes and cut
fingers and burns aud bruises, and
kissed away thousand tears. She
has watched EN- 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 say I'm afraid something will
happen to them boys; they are two
little to go off by themselves" There
are two little nephews here just out
of school, and they and Carl have all
got horse or colt apiece and gone
off on "scursion," and / call 'em The
infant cavalry 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: "rhose
children have overstaid their time.
I'm afraid something has happened"
If they don't come back soon | know
that | will start after EN-, for that
is always the way. Mrs. Arp is
worth at least $4,000 pound, and
she weighs right smart and keeps get
ting heavier. | am rich, | am. | feel
wealthy whenever ! look al her.
I met an old friend the ether day,
and says he: Il just wish you could
see my hoy I'm fixing him up for
college. and he is st tho emartest
boy in all this country. He is nat.
ural orator H- has got gifIr h. as
He 81 eaks now like Henry Clay. He
took the medal in defamation. /
wish you could see him on the stage.
He is just splendid, he is,
looked at him mournfully ard says
/: Its sad, very sad. | never
knew natural orator to he any ac-
count. | was natural orator and il
ruined me. I've never been any ac.
count. | took a pewter medal wien
l was young, and I've never gotten
over it. 1t was for speaking speech.
| thought then that / 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 media
didn't do me any good. | wish you
would guard your boy against medals
and being a natural orator. There is
but one remedy for natural orator,
and that is to marry rich and settle
down and wait for invitations To make