The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-31
WARNING TO OLD LOVERS.
AN ENGLISH PICTURE, WITH SOME
ADVICE THAT ~ WORTH ATTEN.
TIOS.
How Old Men Become Infatuated with
Young Girls and Lose Their Better
Judgment.


Young Girls mud Lose Their Better
Judgment.
The London IVorid has the following
spicy communication, signel "Sweet
Sixteen ;"
81 wonder il you ever condesoend
10 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 n fool Of himself with
young girl. Girls feel a happy freedom
" IA man old enough to be their
faihcr, 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, az you
say, her pretty manners for him, be-
cause she is better brought up than her
broii crs, md Is taught to be civil to all
com ~, and the elderly gentleman
WRIT Of him? lie forgcts his gray and
probably bald head, his bulky proper.
tions and general heavy fathcrish ap-
poarairc. He pulls himself together
and s'lnls behind his Young friend, feel
ing again the young and iaunty beau Of
days gone by. He becomes almost in
solrnt ~ his depreciation Of women Of
his own age, especially Of his wife
| Sometimes he il weak enough to imagine
that were it not for that hard and fast
knot which ties him no might again
enter the lists with younger mel and
carry oA his prize; his elderly and rather
rnbic1nd face glOws and shines with the
thought. Every look of the girl who is
the present object Of his heavy atton-
ton, Is transformed by his self concct
into q token Of admiration. He gives
her Ellie presents, which are received
| gl-h,ugly by the young lady, and after
wars shown by her TO her friends, with
laugh and the remark, What dcag
old thing he is You know he was an
old friend Of papa when they were both
ymuG' And the girls have II good.
naturcd laugh nj his expense; for he gets
up y correspondence with her, smiles
blaudIy when he sees n letter fro II her,
| "Ilh ~ w NV lhIIlIf 'Il'l' ht I'IH''h u
ON one side, turning the address inside,
lest his wife (who knows all about it,
aud, if n sensible woman, only laughs to
hcrsclD should see it. And when alone
he reads and rc.rcnds the cpiste, an
bwcrs It nj once aud looks out for nm.
other with almost the eagcness Of u
young lover.
"Now, word Of advice to my dear,
elderly, iiity-ycarB.oi.NGo married man.
Stick 90 your WIFE aud your own dlngh.
tiers or nicccs. They appreciate you and
love You; they know You for what you
are and do not laugh at your gray hnirs
and heavy civiliiies Remember what
you are nll, Mt your age, 10 apt TO forget
that, give You always II ten years start,
You grow old Just Mt the namc ratio as
women do; and your pridcin yourself M
man is so great that you often take lit
tie pains TO preserve anyof those youth
iul traces Of manner or appearance
Which helped yon, when young, to
charm women and win your wife; there
fore your growing old is often not n
pleasant sight, and your lubberly flrta-
tioas with young girls make you the
laughing stock Of your own sex, both
young and old. You have captivated
one woman, and by yonr own account
twenty others were ready to succumb Ia
your charms had You gwen them the
chance. Therefore, you say, why not
now rs cvcrY My dear friend, look III
the glass; thcn You will know. And
bear this in mind Were you freed to.
morrow from the tie which binds Won ne
young girl who is what is called nice
mnrrlcs man older, perhaps, than her
father, except under strong prcssur,
from the authorities that he. Parents
may tell her that the prOvcrhal 'ol,
mans darling gets the best Of lifc-hc
heart does not respond, and, should hc
feelings he ovcrbornc, she may, an,
often does, get ;hc best Of il, but sh,
never does II Of her own free will, an,
she always retains more Of the daughter
" than Of the wlicly feeling for hcl
spouse. And, il Providence is kind nnt
removes the parental husband she rllshes
into mntrmony second time, eithcl
with her old lover or with man of hc
own agc and they together enjoy the ia
iointuro the doting old gentleman ha
left her. and for which. If she be no
/ nice, but on the contrary calculating
y young lady who has voluntarily put he
neck under the yoke, she probably mar
, ricd him. Now | will bid the dear, bald
= headed, grizzly aud stout elderly gentle
q, man good.hy, and ] beg him in tn
future TO keep up his dignity. Let hin
be polite, fthcrly and kind to his youui
lady friends, but trcspass not on TN
lover, and take 10 absurd liberties il
speech or look, for as sure MS he does h,
will get laughed at as an old silly behlnc
his back, if not to his face.