Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

MADE the residents OF SagaWam seem to hin,
unlike any people he had ever known be.
fore. Whether it be a dislike of the shoe
shop or of the onion farm that takes them
away, it is certainty that great numbers of
the young men emigrate from those dis
tricts to the cities, while most of the girls
stay at home. AS marriage is the theme
perpetually discussed by the village Cos
sips the maidens unconsciously absorb the
opinions of their elders, and bv the time
they are. old enough to wed they have ar
rived at settled conviction that matrimony
is the summum bonum of earthly existence.
Aunt Mandy Growers precepts and labors
had helped in bringing about such a state
of affairs in her neighborhood, no doubt
and she was proud of her success. Well
she might be, for in 80 years there had
scarcely been young married pair in the
village who had not named their first girl
baby Amanda.
When Edward became an inmate of her
brother-in-law's house this lady at once set
about the task of finding him mate. This
would not have been difficult, for Sagawam
was alive with female Barkises, had the
young man taken kindly to her views and
accepted her profered assistance But he
didn't. He was an Independent youth, who
had way of thinking and acting for him.
self. For once in her life Aunt Mandy
failed to bring about match on which she
had set her heart.
The cause other failure was explained by
Miss Grover herself, to one of her confden-
tia! friends in language about as follows:
Il don't know what to make o. that boy,.
He amt bit like Sagawam folks. Now
there was Jennie Perkins, jest as nice a girl
as the is in taown, an everybody knows she
neveh he'd beau. You know she's wuth
proputty, too. Her gran sire left her $10,-
600 In money an her grand uncle willed her.
hve acres of as fine onion land as the is
abaout heah. managed to introduce her
an Ned, and got them acquainted
an he took her to evenin' prayah
meetin' three Sundays Tunnin' an everyone
said 'twouId be a match. An when the
nelghbors begun to talk, as you know they
allus do, that chap Just deliberately quit
goin' with her, an when 1 asked him why
he done it, he sez to me, sez he:
Aunt Mandy, I have no present desire
to pay serious attention to any girl. NV
visits to Miss Jennie have excited so much
gossip that 1 have discontinued them to
save annoyance to her and myself. Why, it
seems to me fellow can't speak to a girl
but what the gossips will say they are en-
gagged. When want wife I'll find her
ship
''Jest think of him a sayin' that to me
An he said a lot moah-somethin' abaout
goin' fishin' and watin' fer fish to bite,
stead O. jumpin' inter the watch an chasin'
'em. was so put aout 1 Jest made up nv
mind not to hev nothin' noah to do with
him. An I let him alone afteh that Well.
he worked six months fer Dave, an left fer
home last week. I didn't even know of his
speakin' to a girl afteh he quit go1n' with
Jennie Perkins, an yet he'd been courtin'
one stiddy all the time"
''Yeou don't say!''
AS troo as I'm livin'. He wouldn't
look at Jennie, with her $4,000, and he's
gone an promised to merry girl 'thout a
cent to her name. Who is it? Why, one
o them Harris girls-Addie's her name
livin' on the Swampscott road, lust back ~
Dawes field. She's pretty, an smaht an
respectable, an her mother, Widder Harris.
is nice woman-but land! haow much
better off he'd a been if he'd taken Jen-
niel''
"Haow did it happen?"
well, you know the end o. Dawes onion
patch runs almost up to the widder's
doahyahd. When Ned was daown there
weedin' the onions, an that was most of his
work, he'd go naow an then to the wild
der's for drink O. water. She's En-
glish, an she makes a homemade beer
that is first rate. Ned went there
SO often, afteh a drink O. water or beer. an
was made so welcome that he actually GOT
better acquainted with Mis- Harris family
than with our own. Mis- Harris is one o
them women that makes fun of our ways
an says she don't believe in teachin' girls
to be in hurry about gettin' married Tf
she'd a. been the cleverest kind of a match |
maker she couldn't a succeeded betteh.
her girl captured Ned as easy as
could be, an they'll be married after he |
finishes his schoolin' an gets staht in life.
Well, if boy like him will shet his ewes
to han some proputty an a han some girl !
an merry agin' the wishes of his friends !
I'm sure he's nobody to blame fer it but
himself Dave he sez he's goin to split |
up that sign he made an put notice in |
The paper thet the Sagawam matrimonial |
agency has failed an gone aout O. business.
but he's allus talkin' nonsense"
ELIAKIM EASTMAN,