Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-13

don't feel like eating at all. Once upon a
time | knew a man very well, ieellng IN
This matter very much as | do, used habit
Iuallv NEGLECT taking his breakfasts ana
dinners: he was busy man ana always
apt To have something he preferred TO 40
rather than bother to go TO "a restaurant OF
his club and order from the bill OF fare.
The result was ne became effected with
Dainful and incurable disease, attacking
The lining membrane of his stomach, which
the physicians said they had never met be
fore save in the eye of very poor people
who had been compelled TO starve Tor long
periods. No-what / want is a home, ana
some day mean to have one
well, YOU don't find any difficulty IN
finding girl who will have you, suppose
said the reporter TO whom Toodles was
talking.
i don'tt think l would have much
trouble in persuading some girl TO acceept
me. " yawned Toodles, although am not
by any means of the opinion that can Jake
nv pick. Men are not, l believe, so con
ceited in that way as the women appear 10
suppose Young ladies are very apt 10
imagine that men in society go about WIN
the notion that they have only to throw the
handkerchief and that they are Delhg
eagerly tshed for on every hand. uoh
think that is so; on the contrary, men, un-
less they happen TO be consummate tops
are usually rather diffident in such affairs.
They may have a confidence more or less
justified in their success with particular
girl; but. as a rule. they are very far from
imagining that they can have any article IN
petticoats they want for asking. There are
Two or three girls in Washington who,
think. would marry me, and three or Tour
girls whom | admire very much but should
not al all feel sure of. Doubtless, should
ask one of them 10 be mine If II were not
that / am afraid
And why, pray:
"Simplv on account of the matrimonial
exneriences of nv fliends-formerly as
bachelors nv intimatcS-SOme OF Whlcn IN
various WAYS reached my knowledge The
trouble is that a man in society cannot pos
sibv. under ordinary circumstances, OBJ
tain any real acquaintance with the glrl ne
marlies until after the knot Is ted and he
is bound for life How can he secure any
real knowledge of her. He never sees her
save when she is on exhibition, IN the NJ
eral sense of the word. She IS always,
when in view, looking her best, dressed III
her best and assuming her best behavior.
If She has any faults. physical or moral,
they are carefully covered up. she IS III
the market and her best side Is turned up
permost. lust as is the case with an APP
ple on a fruiterer's stand which is ialr To
look upon until turned over The costumes
She is seen i'm are always lovely ana OecOn-
ing-they are part of the garnishing ne
cesarv to render her attractive. In short
the man who wOOs her knows not the real
girl at all, but only SOmethiag IN her out
ward likeness, which may be, and too re
quently is a counterfeit
But he can always learn from her
friends what she is like
Hardly Usually her friend and yours
we are supposing a case where they are
apt to be the same-are not actually aware
that Your intentions are serious until the
engagement has been announced and II 5
too late. But in no event, if they suppos-
cd YOU actually epris of the young woman,
would any of them be likely 10 come and
speak 10 YOU against her. II would seem
too like malice-of a sort apt to recoil upon
themselves. No. if you venture into any
thing of that sort, you must do 1t alone and
upon vour own responsibility; nobody is
going 10 help you. As for the girls family,
they will certainly not enhghten you. If
She is really Objectionable, they will be the
more anxious to represent her more favor
ably in order to get her off their hands
You NAV always expect them when you
are present to appear very fond of her. II
there are any unfortunate facts in the fam
ilv history particularly if there is an act
ual skeleton i'm the cloSet-you VIII not hear
of it from them, at any rate not until you
are safely married.
"Supposing that there is any little do
nestle disagreements, care is taken
that YOU shall not witness them. Every
thing is made as attractive as possible out
wardlv. You behold the young woman
surrounded by all sorts of Injuries which
cannot fail 10 crafty the senses; you see
her always lovely and sweety dressed she
is seemingly beloved on all sides. and you
fall the trap set and baited for You as IN
nocenty as young mouse mODles AT Il
piece of roasted cheese that will spring the
snare and shut him off from liberty for
ever. You propose. and no time Is lost by
your fancee in notifying as wide circle as
possible of her friends of the fact Of her en-
rarement. Then YOU are a hopeless cap
tive. even suppOsing that you desire 10 get
out of il. As an honorable man You can
not withdraw If YOU have made a mistake
YOU must abide by it, no matter what the
sacrifice 1t is likely. however, that your
delusi8n will be satisfactorily kept up
supposing that you have been deluded UNI
til the marriage Is accomplished. NOBODY
probably will come 10 YOU and say:
You have made great mistake. Have
Won never heard of the frightful temper
your fiancee haS-hOw she threw all the
inkstands within her reach at her school
teacher on one occasion. and how violently
she quarrels with her friends Do you not
know that she is rather fast and an invet-
crate gossip
NO one will be likely to bring you any
such information, and if they did you
would not believe it.. Everything you
find as charming as possible AT the home OF
your bride that is TO be. You are ca
ressed by the family. made much of and
rod lilo tho enoi1pI child Of
the household. Finally you are married.
All Your particularly those for
whom YOU have been buying more eXpen-
sive wedding presents than you could
afford duriug the last few yearS-send you
a more costly gift of a similar nature than
most of them can afford in return. The
wedding is fine one, reported at length in
the newspapers as an affair in high life.
the guests that attend it remark that the
bride looks rather too pale and not at all
her best, and the bridesmaids whisper to
each other that they are very sorry for
YOU"
And hey for the honeymoon
VERY enjoyable it is apt to be. When
YOU Get back and resume the ordinary cur
rent of life. things once more become rath-
er real You find, to begin with, that your
wife no longer finds il necessary to put on
any frills with you, so to speak When
company comes. she appears in best bib
and tucker. with the same air aud manner
that Originally made her so attractive to
YOU But when you see her alone she is
likely to be for the most of the time in a
slouchy wrapper, and in rather a bad
humor, not infreQuently. In the morning
she lies in the bed until noon, with her
hair done up in curl papers. and reads the
latest French novels, which you discover,
to your regret, are her only literary pas
sion. Instead Of partaking of the delight