Milford chronicle., 1883-07-20
BOYS AND GIRLS.
bill ARP'' DISCUSSES AN INTER-
ESTINC; TOPIC.
The Effect of Picnic on Old FoIIts-Vnlue
Of n Nice, Healthy Girl What Natural
Orators are Worth.
IFrom the Atlantic, CGa.1 Constitution.

gh ttfom the Atlantic (Ga.) Constitution
vas We went to another picnic the other
gh day and had glorious time. Itwas ON
it lawn in beautiful grove close by bic
on spring, and long table was spread and
he we feasted ON bright eyes and fried
ig. chicken and Jelly cake, and happy faces
as and ice-cream, and sweet smiles and
,e- merry laughter and lemonade all mixed
ee up together, and we staid till most mid
night and heard the Calliopean Club 90
nd through their exercises of music and
er reading and composition, and then drove
home by moonlight, and think Mrs.
le Arp is little younger and prettier than
~ ever and renewing her youth in conse-
le quence. l never saw the like. Our
" people are getting hilarious and are froI-
d licking more this spring than usual.
lie This makes three neighborhood picnics
e in little while and they are fixing up
t, for another, and my wife is getting
!. ready. We have got her ont Of the
o chimney corner and it looks like we will |
, never get her back again. Mr. Gibbons. |
!. says he to me, did you ever see such a
S crop of girls as we have got a growing
g in the country? Well, says 1, 1 reckon
the boys are at home, at work. No, sir,
says he, there amt hardly any boys any
where. I've counted 'em up in this
neighborhood and there are about two
girls to one boy, and, what is worse, the
girls are the smartest and have got the
best education.
Well, there is a reason for everything
and cause for every effect, but don't
know why there are more girls than
boys, and I wish somebody would tell
me. Some folks say it is sign of peace.
The girls are the smartest, l know. for
they have the most education. Before a
the war the boys were put forward and =
the girls kept in the background but u
now the boys have to work. and so the !"
girls are sent to school and college, and :;
the boys have to help pay for it. That =
is the reason why the girls are the smart
est, and my fear is that they are a little = =
too smart and won't marry these young :;
fellows who can't quote little poetry o
and don't know whether Byron wrote y
Shakespeare or Shakespeare wrote By -
ron. But reckon they will sooner or a.
later. &c
Mrs. Arp says that girls marry too 81
soon, anyhow, and she don't want any of -
ners to marry under twenty, unless the iUi !,
offer is a very splendid one in all re- eil'
'pects. reckon that is the reason she ioi
vent off at sweet sixteen, but I think ola
Mr.. Gibbons is mistaken. The census ~
hows about as many boy children in
Georgia as girl children. We've got ~
TX boys and fourgirls, and that is about nee
light. There is more anxiety about the %, u .
iris. They are sorter helpless and de- l'l
endent, and we have to watch these ''ii'
oung fellers mighty close for fear of ~ up
ood. ~ ~ WV '''' --s ''iii iiOi''S rigl
son is a son till he marries wife;
A daughter is daughter all the days of her
life" r
1t is mighty sad to see a girl come of
ack to her fathers house to live after ster
lie has been married a year or two. aneC
cor thing She never knew what then
,od home she had until she left it, and siste
7 and by she comes creeping back, pale need
ID sad, and the man she trusted goes Web
other way. That is the wreck of a 81
e. No more happiness for her. No Web
)nder that parents feel anxious about "l
cir daughters, and the daughters will
ght to think and ponder long time Th
fore they marry. A fathers house woul
d mothers love are mighty hard to 81
Mt. But then a happy marriage is on
, highest state Of happiness, and Will
sry girl ought to look forward to it. for
ere are lots of clever young men in get al
} land-yonng men of good principles Mr.
who have been raised by good all he
ents. The girls ought to mate with "I'
/, money or no money. Money is a said
ID thing, but principle is better, and TIL,
young feller has got both, and don't takin,
lk nor gamble, and is industrious &c,
healthy, why, he is all right; and if morni
vas a girl, would put him on proba- great
and say, L think you are very cal aa
d man, but you know I'm an angel, "Gc
if-Well, if he seemed to doubt nv the or
lg an angel, 1 would Just tell him to o'Wha
hence. If young man don't look ing. M
n his girl as an angel before he mar Mr..
he never will afterward, and, if 1 the tin
a girl, I would be an angel as long "a
could He wa
) a general thing the girls show too 1 thou
anxiety to marry. They are too thousa
It on the boys. They ought to stand for, I
nd look reserved and precious, and TheI
IN Jerusalem airs, and say, young much ]
you don't know who you are fool was on
with. I'm treasure, 1 am. 1 of MIR.
h lis pounds, and am worth 81 900 gold W,
und. " Well, they are. A good, Mr.. W
healthy girl, who can make her in each
dress and get up a good supper to which
'any, and is not ashamed to wait on depart,
able while they are eating is just ''Her
l about 81, 900 a pound But that dred. - /
hing compared with what they will ing whe
'rth. Why, Mrs. Arp has cut out ing him
made at least 1900 garments Of one his read
II another. She has sewed 500, 900 rupted
les, and patched and darned, and ther sta
ed faces and feet, and combed hair collectic
nerable She has tied up 500 sore signed
nd cut fingers and burns and bruises by DAM