Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-11

fnuss oAY EVENING, SEPT, II. 1894


There are great many things which
. man finds difIicult Of control, and not
the least among them is daughter
when she wants to get married. The
feminine tendency to matrimony is
pronounced, and the parental tendency
to objection Is we'll established. Fathers
do not seem to want TO part with their
daughters, and II is standing complaint
with them, when they get rich, that they
have to work for their sons-in-law. They
would like to have their daughters
marry, IL they will marry, men Of sub
stance, or gumption, and very naturally
the daughters seem to take to men Of no
substance and no particular aptitude
outside that of making love. A good
looking fellow, of good address, can cap
ture almost any rich mans daughter if
he Ia given half a chance.
II does lot seem to be much of o
chance, to be in proximity to the sub
iect on the coachman's seat yet this
seems to be q place of much advantage
under some circumstances. A high
stepping governor of Connecticut not
long ago had daughter to marry his
coachman, and he never forgave her.
Mr.. Morosini has had a daughter of the
mature age of twenty to do likewise.
In this case rural rides, with the two
only in company, afforded the oppor-
tunity for loves kindled fire to burn.
The carriage in this summer time was
doubtless an open one, and mistress and
man could talk comfortably seated
dos o. dos. In the winter time probably
they conversed with ease through the
speaking tube Of the coach.
Rich mems daughters naturally take
different view OF the needs of matri-
mony from that of their experienced
papas, They do not know the value of
money rs a cOncomitant, because they
have never felt the lack of it. They
know the need of love, because they
feel it, and their novels tell them
of the nobility of the feeling
and Of the meanness of soiling il
with the thought of filthy lucre. Cash
Is too common with them to be an object
of great respect. If rich fathers would
keep their daughters on short allow
aDce of spending money. so that they
could not always crafty their wants at
sight, they would grow to have "A better
-annreciatinn of tie great convent.
ence OF the possession or nro..s.
But rich men are not always wise
men. and perhaps not often even.
IL is really surprising to see how
little the aptitude for making money
carries with 1t an aptitude for wise
walk in life. Mr.. Morosini who is our
present text, came to these shores penni
less. and by ths facility for acquisition
he displaye ed under the opportunities of
his connection with the chief money
maker Of the land, has become very
rlch. But Mr. Morosini could not con =
trJi his daughter and that is certainly q
sign OF weakness. 1t is a wise man 5
part to control his daughters. And Mr..
Morosini sent tie police after his
daughter of twenty i've when she went
OF with his coachman to be married. A
wise man would have known that his
daughter OF twenty i've years had "A
right TO marry his coachman, if he had
not Il wife already, and he would not
have raised hue and cry after her. IL
was Morosini's duty to see that she was
married, however, and If he limited his
instructions to the police to the ascer-
'a'nmsnt of that fact he was not SO tar
Mfeng Mough what the police have TO
do with marrsing daughters is not so
Clear. Their functions is to arrest for
crime, and the coachman and the
daughter did no crime in eloping and If
any had followed their elopemept. II
was not one for father to blaz,n ,o the
world. But Mr.. Morosini is an Italian
and consequently tempestuous. Mr..
Morosini's daughter is half an Italian
and seemingly tempestuous, too. Mr..
Morosini had better give her his blessing
AS chip of the old block and here
after II he wants to be called IA wisa
man, as he already is a rich one, we
advise him to change his attention from
money making 10 the education of his
two remaining daughters, that they
may not marry his coachmen.