Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-28
THE MATRIMONIAL MINE.
An Old ProspectOr Gives His Son
Some Good =. oints."

The other night old Blinkins, seeing
his son getting ready to go to a ball,
proceeded to give him some whole
some advice on women.
"Tom, my boy" lac said, filling his
pipe, see You arc getting your fancy
togs on for ball. Now don't object to
balls, or any other kind OF natural
amusement; but ! want TO give you
a little advice, Tom; look out for the
women you will meet there. A man
who goes round after women is a good
deal like prospector hunting mine.
You see a woman at ball, and she's
all frizzled up and rigged out in silk
and painted wherever her skin shows
itself. These surface groupings look
pretty well, but if you locate on the
strength OF 'em youll get fooled every
time. 4 woman Of that kind is just
like a salted mine. Don't you take
any stock in her. She won't wash. Ii
YOU want to prospect such location a
little further, slide up and take an as
saw of her conversation. All, my
hoy Three per cent Of intelligence,
twenty-five Of fashionable etiquette,
and the rest frivolty, conceit, ignor-
ance and vanity mixed up in about
equal parts. Drop her right away.
Such rock won't pay to mill. Ii you
got a patent for the claim you'd never
see a dividend come out OF 1t as long
as YOU lived. The assessments to
keep the upper works in repair and
the lower works from Gavin in would
land YOU in the poorhouse on light
ming express, and some fine morning
you'd wake up TO find your claim re-
located by somebody else"
The old man shook the ashes out OF
his pipe and continued:
Sometimes you'll strike a plain
girl i'm a common sort of dress. She
won't be good looking, may be, and
won't have any aiGs. The surface IN
dications won't show much, but before
you've prospected long you're likely to
come to some good indications that
will pay to follow up. Rich stringers
OF conversational quartz and spurs OF
intelligence showing up finely the
deepeT YOU 90. Pretty soon you'll
strike a well-dciined vein OF solid prac-
tical sense. That's the sort OF a mine
TO freeze to. Locate it as soon as pos
sible, and get your patent papers, and
you1l have a regular bonanza TO TALL
back on for the rest OF your lie. II
YOU think the good claims are all taken
mn. YOU are badly fooled. This town
is full of 'em. I'm an old prospector,
and I've travelled round good deal.
II NV time wasn't taken up with my
own mine, | know where there are lots
OF prime locations only waiting Tor
some practical miner to come along
and deyelop. A woman's heart, Tom,
is a mighty curious thing. Take 1t IN
all its dips, spurs and angles, ramlil-
cations and sinuosit,es, and it's more
of "a puzzle and a mystery than the
whole Comstolk lode. Some fellows
try TO work it and by pure luck strike
it rich right off, in places where old,
experienced prospectors never sup
posed there was anything. Citing
the title to the property amt the only
thing; it's keeping up the develop
ments, and seeing that jumpers don
get in and encroach on your claim
Some of these domestic mines require
an awful lot OF money for machinery
and some of them can be run on about
nothing. Whenever you get one o
EN- and find you can't run It tc
advantage, the best thing TO do is tt
throw up your job as superintendent
and shnt down the works.-Virgini'