Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-08-09

again. Perhaps some day we will
follow their fortunes, and see who
they bloomed for. and whether they
bloomed well. But the happiest day
of all was when long letter came to
Peggy from Sister Helen, with many
messages in it from the sick people
whom she had lovingly remembered
in her new country home.
81 declare !" said Miss Dunning,
''my garden is worth tolling over.
Think of all those folks in Boston
being so pleased just to have the
leavings."
JOSH BILLINGS ON MARRIAGE.
History holds its tung as to who the
pair wus who first put on the silken
harness, and promised TO work it
kind thru thick and thin, up hill and
down, and on the level, swim, drown,
or float. But whatever tina wuz, tina
must hav made good thing of it, or
so many of their posterity would not
hav harnessed up since and drove
out.
There is great moral grip to mar
riges-it is the mortal that holds
| them together.
But there amt but darn phew
foaks who could sit down and give
good written opinyun why on arth
they come to did it.
| There is a great proof tnat it is
one of them natural kind of axidents
that must happen just as birds fly out
of the nest when they hav feathers
en1ff, without being able to tell why.
Sum marry for buty, and never
discover their mistake (; this is lucky.
Sum marry for money, and don't
see it.
Sum marry for pedigree, and feel
hle for six months, and very sensibly
come to the conclusion that pedigree
is no better than skim milk.
Sum marry bekaws tina hav been
histed sumwhere else this is cross
match, bay and sorrel; pride
may make it eHtlurable.
Sum marry for luv, without cent
in their pockets nor Il friend in the
world, nor II drop of pedigree. This
looks desperate: but IL 10 the strength
IF the game.
If marrying for luv amt success,
then matrimony is ded beet.
Sum marty bekaws tha think VIM
in will be scarce next year, and live
to wonder how the crop holds out.
Sum marry to get off themselves
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at and neither
win.
Sum marry the second time to get
even, and find it gambling game
the more they put down the less they
take up.
Sum marry to be happy, and miss
ing it, wonder where all the happi-
ness goes to when it dies.
Sum marry, they can't tell why,
and live they can't tell how.
Almost everybody gets married,
and it is good joke. Sum think it
over carefully first and then set down
and marry.
Sum marry rakes to convert them.
This is little risky, and it takes a
smart missionary to do it.
Sum marry coquettes. This is like
buying poor farm heavily nortgag-
ed, and working the balance of your
days to clear off the mortgage.
Married life has its chances, and
this is just what gives 1t flavor. Ev-
erybody loves to fool with chances
because everybody expects to win.
But am authorized TO state that ev-
erybody don't win.
But after all married life IS full as
certain as the dry goods business.
No man can tell exactly where he
|, will fetch up when he catches calico.
No man can tell just what calico
! has a mind to do.
: Calico don't always know herself.
Dry goods of all kinds is the child
4 of circumstances.
Sum never marry, but this is just
the same with another name to it.
!, The man who stands on the bank
! shivering is more apt to catch cold
+ than he who pitches headlong into
f the river.
Marry young is my motto.
! have tried it, and know what L
o am talking about.
a If anybody asks you why you got