Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-02
COSTS TOO MUCH
Is the Reason Why so Few Mar
riages
Occur Among the Bellies and Beaux Of
Wheeling-BCth Sides Agree on
this All Important
Question.

q OAC BtNulAaiibN a''A AZ N''NS
Of Wheeling society that strikes our re.
porter as exceedingly strange, and that is
the comparatively few unions between the
bsaux and bellies of Wheeling in compari-
son with the number of those seeking part.
ners for life outside OF the Nail City. This
fact is rendered dOubly strange from the
pndeniable fact that Wheeling girls will
compare favorably with any town in the
United States for beauty and wit, in addl-
ton to which they Lave small hands and
feet-the last mentioned charms compris
Ing those which attract the attention Of
sU. Cuptible maSculines. Ere the reporter
sllIed the matter 10 the end be was fam TO
believe that it was the boys fault, and that
THET ALLrwEp STRANGERS TO CARRY AWAY
the fairest daughters of Wheeling simply
for the lack OF courage necessary 10 storm
and appropriate the fair Citadels to which
by birth they cen well lay the first claim.
Being 10th to believe that the above was
the true status Of affairs, our reporter in.
terviewed a prominent society belle and
also a representative Of the dude gender,
and elected the following information as
to the true state OF affairs. The lady's
views on the subject were this: The search.
ty of marriages between society beaux and
bellies was not owing TO any want OF cour.
age on the part of the former, but lack of
t~ractability on the part of the latter. I'VE
glris.' said the maiden, at east the major.
ity OfthOse in our set have kind indulgent
papas who willingly provide US with wuit.
yer we want, and as it has been always
the habit of our parents to live up To, or
over their incomes, it very rarely happens
that we are ever denied a new hat, dress.
or anything whatever that We wish in that
line. Now with some people, an abun-
dance Of this sort OF female paperhernalia
would be considered luxuries, but with us
accustomed as we have been to them, ever
since that indefinite time, ages ago, when
we first came out, they have become the
necessities Of our very existence and to
live without them would make our exist.
ence on earth
A cry HADES.
Now our beaux are as you well know COM
POSED of a copglomeratiOn of boys, young
mtn, and would.be youthful mashe.s, who
alas! despite their careful attention to their
personal appearance are beginning to show
the crow feet that proclaim them as al
ready in the sere and yellow leaf. The
boys might well be termed, as they were
several years ago at the sea shore, rs "trun'
die bed trash very convenient you know
10 take one TO the opera or hop but for all
practical purposes they are worse than
useless. The other two classes with per-
hapS a dozen exceptions, in ineligible that
few, very few are able TO do more than
support themselves, the majority Of their
salaries ranging anywhere from 5000 to
81 900 a year. That estimate is correct, be.
cause papa said so.
We'll, then, do you think that We girls
who have been raised in the lap Of luxury
so to spesk, would be willing 10 deny our
selves all these comforts merely for the
love Of a good looking but penniless suitor
whose slender purse could barely provide
the necessities OF life in the truest sense OF
the word? 1t is all very we'll to talk OF
love in cottage" but | think it is a freak
of insanity when any girl who has been
raised as we have been consents 10 throw
herself away on q penniless man. Do we
all expect 10 marry fortunes? Well, i
hardly think it is likely, as year after year
the antiques tare reinforced by q squad
from the different sets. Yet the lonely ex.
istence OF a sDinster, in my opinion, is q
much preferable existence to
DEGRSERATING INFO A HOUSEHOLD DRUDSK
for a man who can never appreciate the
extent OF the sacrifice you have made in
bis behalf. oh, I am not hard on them, |
only speak from what l lave seen myself.
At first OF course 1t will pain a man to see
his wife, who has never known what want
was prior to their marriage, shaving in the
kitchen, yet in a very short time he will
get used to il and take il as a matter of
course, and raise cain if anything should
bal pen TO be wrong. There is lots Of truth
in the old proverb that when poverty
looks in at the window love flies out at the
door.
'Of the eligible class, which is decidedly
small, the majority belosgs to the would
be young men who. although possessed of
an ample sufRciency 10 support a wife,
have generation after generation devoted
themselves to certain families, counting
first the society BELLE and after her mar.
riage with some other fellow, he wsnders
TO ome pastures new, ard after q lapse OF
many years returns and makes love 10 the
daughter Of bis former sweetheart. In
spite OF these numerous encounters the old
beau is never booked, always stopping just
short OF an engagement l tell you, il one
OF the girls ever hooked one Of these old
ti.h, she would find she hadn't snailed a
sucker ere be landed him"
II GENTLEMAN ~INTERvTEwED
expressed the following views on the sub.
ject: Perhaps yoD are aware that the
sversge ~ssisrirs paid to young men in THU
city s'e small IN comparison % .hoss paid