Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-25
CAN'TAFFORDT TO- MARRY
BY l.. ., W,

II you mean MlluTeu osborne, never,
It's all very well to dance with such
girl, but no poor man would think of
marrying her"
why not, Ned? She's handsome,
accomplished in the best set, dresses
exquisitcly, and will have fortune
when Mr.. Osborne dies"
Look here, Grayson, do you think
] am a fool? ] can't afford to marry
Miss Osborne, and it is because she is
III the fas hionable set, dresses expen-
sively, and has expectations from her
succeed at the bar. 1t is long time,
as you konw from your experience as n
physician, before large income can
he earned i'll a profession. As yet
am not earning such an income. Mis-
Osborne has been brought up lux IL
riously. Her father keeps carriage,
goes TO Watering place every sum
mer, and entertains constantly when
at home. Mildrcd's very dresses, my
dear fellow, would cat up half y earn
ings."
Il think you are hard on her ANY
true woman, if she marlies the man
she loves, will cheerfully submit to
sacrifices for his sake"
SO it is said, and so, in justice to
the sex, most of them try to. But,
Grayson, old fellow, you and l know,
from our own experience, that habit is
stronger than good resolutions. A rich
mans daughter is not the girl for
poor mans wife, 1t isn't her fault; it's
her misfortune"
"But you lose sight of the fact that
Mildred will inherit 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 vet, and
not till he dies will his daughter get
one cent. At the end of twenty years,
yes, long before that, l should be
ruined, or else broken down in health
in Consequence of being in debt and
overworked."
well, perhaps you are right. See
what scrape Harry Leonard got
into"
"Yes, he married the daughter of q
man said to he worth n 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
a Young merchant, he realized very
little wealth. Jessie johnson was stv-
ish and fond Of making dash. Harry
took her to the Chaplin House, for he
had sense enough to know he could not
60 to housekeeping in the way Jessie
would want to go. In the summer they
went to Saratoga, for Jess would no t
hear of country boarding house
There she had her pony phae.on, and
dozen or more Paris dresses. In the
fall the hard times came, and Harry
failed. / understand he owes twice as
NIT, is an exceptional case; yet this is
the type of large class, and a class
that brighten 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
81 beg Your pardon. There are plenty
of them, but, of course, to find them I
fear YOU must go outside of the fash
iouable set, for it is only the daugh-
tors and wives of itch men who can
afford to be fashionable If YOU wish
a 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. ]
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
rs 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, / can
recall such families also; but they
don't go to public balls aud 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"
Il shall be curious, Ned to see your
wife"
"If YOU will come with me to-mor-
row evening | will introduce you to the
young lady who has promised to ill
that position. She is the daughter of
refined widow, and brought up like
the girls have been descril ing to Won
She does not 60 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 gossip"
Come, come, you are too severe; a
good many of them are brilliant talk
ers. at least [ find them so.
"Yes, the champagne foams for the
public; for you the stale wine only l.
left"
So the conversation ends. Ned
married the girl to whom he intro
duced his friend and Grayson, after a
few months, married her sister. They
ca:tainly are supremely happy in cosy,
modest homes of their own--haprier
than if either had married Miss Os.
borne or one of her class. We wonder,
sometimes, if mothers are not more to
blame than the daughters for the
frivolous, fashionable life. But we
will let them decide.
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