Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-27
CAN'T AFFORD TOMARRy
BY L. b. W.

man addressed, smoking cigar.
"If you mean Mildred Osborne. never
It's all very we'll to dance with such
girl, but no poor man would think of
marrying her" 'A "
why not, Ned? She's handsome
accomplished, in the best set. dresses
eyquisitely, and will have a fortune
when Mr.. Osborne dies"
Look here, Grayson. do Won th;nl
am fool? can't afford to marry
Miss Osborne, and it is because She :
in the fashionable set, dresses expen-
sively, and has expectations from her
father. / am only just beginning to
succeed at the bar. 1t is long time,
as you konw from your experience as q
physician, before large income can
be earned IN profession. As vet
am not earning such an income. Miss
Osborne has been brought in luxu-
riously. Her father keeps carriage.
goes to watering-place every sum
mer, and entertains constantly when
at home: Mildred's very dresses. nv
dear fellow, would eat up half my earn
ings.",
II think you are hard on her. Any
true woman, if she marries the man
she loves, will cheerfully submit to
sacrifices for his sake"
$50 it is said, and so. in iustice 70
Grayson, old fellow, you and I know,
from our own experience, that habit is
stronger than good resolutions. A rich
mans daughter is not the girl for a
poor mans wife. It isn't her fault; it's
her misfortune"
But you lose sight of the fact that
Mildred will inherit a large share of
her fathers property"
"Not at all. Mr.. Osborne is only
fifty, hale and hearty. He will prob
ably live for twenty years yet, and
not till he dies will his daughter get
one cent. At the end of twenty years,
yes, long before that, I should be
ruined, OF else broken down in health
in consequence of being in debt and
oyerworked."
well, perhaps you are right See
what scrape Harry Leonard got
into!"
eyes, he married the daughter of a
man said to be worth million. Old
Mr.. johnson did not give her penny.
She had her wedding outfit, but that
was all. On Harry's part there was
nothing to support her with, only what
he made out of his business, and, being
young merchant, he realized a very
little wealth. Jessie johnson was sty-
ish and fond of making DASH Harry
took her to the Chaplin House, for he
had sense enough to know he could not
go to housekeeping in the way Jessie
would want to go. In the summer they
went to Saratoga, for Jess would not
hear Of country boarding house.
There she had her pony phaeton, and
o dozen OF more Paris dresses In the
fall the hard times came, and Harry
failed. I understand he owes twice as
much as he can pay. Now this, adj
NIT, is an exceptional case; yet this is
the type of large class, and class
that frighten young men and keep them
from marrying"
"But what's to be done? We all
expect to marry some day, and there
are no girls except girls like Mildred
and Jess"
Il beg your pardon. There are plenty
of them, but, Of course, to find them I
fear you must go outside of the fash
ionable set, for it is only the daugh-
tiers and wives of rich men who can
afford to be fashionable. If you wish
wife you must look elsewhere for one,
unless you expect to be a millionaire"
where would you look?"
"There are plenty of families where
the daughters are well educated, and
yet are able to help themselves. I
know one daughter who makes all
their hats and bonnets: another is a
capital dressmaker. All attend to
household affairs, making cake, des-
serts and good bread. They are quite
as companionable as Mildred Osborne
or Jess Johnson. No man with the
right feeling wishes to make his wife a
drudge; but men have to work, and
why should not an able woman take
her share?"
well, since you speak of it, 1 can
recall such families also: but they
don't go to public balls and dance the
german"
"No. The daughters of such fam
lilies are taught that home virtues are
better than surface accomplishments.
Men want true women for wives, not
mere butterflies"
II shall be curious, Ned, to see your
wife"
eff you will come with me to-mor-
row evening I will introduce you to the
young lady who has promised to fill
that position. She is the daughter OF
refined widow, and brought up like
the girls have been describing toyon.
She does not go out in society much,
for she cannot afford it. As for her
real accomplishments, her knowledge
Of literature. music and art are as far
above Miss Osborne as heaven is above
the earth. With the fashionable girl
it's chatter, chatter, chatter, and moth
ing else; dance and gossipr'
"Come, come, you are TOO severe;
good many of them are brilliant talk
ers, at least I find them SO"
Eyes, the champagne foams for the
public; for you the stale wine only Is
left"
So the conversation ends. Ned
married the girl to whom ne intro
duced his friend, and Grayson, after Ite
fan Il Iofo