Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27

Ge.sip a.A Cemnens Of Va
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E& fleas Matters. IS
8 me time last fall. during period
when marrisges were scarce and NO engsge-
mept, reported. lady Who was familiar
with the market and the cultures" IL con-
tanned, made the following statement:
II am too young lady to be considered
en- O q maid, SO you understand In what
am going to say lido not include or refer
10 myself. Next year will be leap year and
there will be an unusual number OF en-
gsgements made. Don't imagine 1t will be
because the ladies will do the cou, Ting
That's nonsense, for none will avail them
selves of the leap year privilege, socalled,
but the fact Ia that more bachelors viii DC
actually caught than usual"
This was some time ago and SO lar ~
c uId be learned, the prediction has not
bee verified. Eligible bachelors are run
mig about IN numbers as great as ever aud
their faces that tells Of soul.union with
their affinity. The REGISTER social calen-
DIR has not yet recorded 9 single newly
announced engagement made within the
year. Was the lady mistaken?
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That there are numerous eligible bache-
lors in Wheeling, no one can doubt, who
isfsmiliar with our young men. Without
q moments wasted thought we can recall
dozens Of them in every walk and protes.
sion of life. No city of our size can tell OF
more good looking, substantial young men
with the means to support wives nicely,
who are still roaming helplessly about,
forlorn and detected bachelors. Something
must be the matter. There must be some
reason why they so persistently, turn
deaf ear TO the vhisperings OF the little
blind god. Ii cannot be that they are IN
able to fix their choice, for where are there
more sweet, lovable, manageable girls
than in Wheeling? Because that little
gcd is blind, is why those who remain in
maiden meditation fancy free, embrace
many of our choicest, sweetest OF girls
Oh those blind bachelors, they are binder
than the god himself:
The paragrsphists have picnic on leap
year. 1t is a harvest for them and they
make their fun at the expense of the dear
girls, and this think is quite wrong. Talk
about girl asking fellow to marry her!
My gracious! The idea is preposterous.
Now, can YOU for an instant suppose q man
would have any desire to marry the woman
that proposed to him? Oh, no, girls, espe-
cially pretty ones, know their power over
the male sex too well to allow that power
10 be reduced by such q break. So don't
you worry yourself about the girls.
So
Why" asked reader the other day,
will papers publish cock fights and things
ike that, that are not nicer" Some people
have queer ideas about newspaper. A
cock fight is a happening, an occasion,
piece of news, and when q paper under
takes to give the news, everything must be
included. A bloody murder is not mice"
vet a paper must publish It. Besides,
paper has a very diversified clientele, and
some people think chicken fighting is very
nice. Tastes differ, you see. There are
papers, and in Wheeling, too, who claim
TO nice" and yet they will be fou1d 10
contain matter that offends many AMI
might essily be omitted. Such papers are
P,cksniffs.
An otherwise estlmsble lady sends the
SUxDAY REGIsrER few uupretentious
verses" and asks space in our valuable
er." SIZE can't have it. Nursery poetry
Ike this is demoralizin
. A little boy went ont to skate,
Rut found he Couldn't swim;
The Ice was thin, he tumbled In,
And Joined the cherublm.
This is seasonaole, but not altogether
timely. The weather will not admit of thin
ice, and then the subject is too unworldly
Sunday school poetry, with q good moral
IS the kind Mabel should send in, If she
wants warm welcome.
IS
One Of the gas trustees said the other
dsy, speaking Of Ell Hszlett, the rising
talented secre tary: Ale is quick, bright
ard intelligent young man and will make
his mark some day." There used to be
good story on Ed, however, told in his
school days. He is always very particular
about his personal appearance and neat in
bis habits but he invariably forgot to pol
ish the back OF his shoes, though the toes
were bright Rs a mirror.
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Major J. ]. Foley, nSw known as free
thinker, has many YARN friends in the
South. One OF these, and lady too,
wrote an epic poem and the following pas
Ssge is description of the Major:
HHe was a man by partial nature formed
TO win all hearts, bold, manly, brave and
true,
Tsli, with o broad, high brow and thoughtful
eye,
On whose clean depths the light OF honor
ShOne.
Noble in form, yet gentle as a child,
With proud spirit, yet q tender heart,
Strong to protect and cherish what IL loved,
Deep toned his voice like those rich notes
which swell
From some grand organ In a silent church,
Yet IL could be as low and softly sweet
As the light whispers OF the summers
breeze