Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-10-07
A Warning to Lovers.

ems, with your dainty heads so full of
unwisdom, how often are you to be
warned that it is not always the sweet
est thing in lovers that is the best
material to make good wearing hus-
band out Off "The lover signing like
a furnace" will not 60 on signing like
a furnace forever. The furnace will
go out. He will become the husband
"full of strange oaths, jealous in honor,
sudden and quick in QUARREL" and
grow "into the lean and slippered
pantaloon." How will he wear?
There will be no changing if he does
not suit, no sending him back to be
altered, no having him let out a bit
where he is too loose, no laying him
by when the cold comes to wrap your
self up in something warmer. AS he
is when you select him, go he will
have to last you all your life, through
all changes, through all seasons.
Yes, he looks very pretty now
handsome pattern, if the colors are
fast and do not fade-feels soft and
warm to the touch. How will he
stand the worlds rough weather :?
How will he stand life's wear and
tear?
He looks so manly and brave. His
hair curls 80 divinely. He dresses so
well. q wonder if the bills are paid }
He kisses your hand so peacefully.
He calls you such pretty names. His
arm feels so strong around you. His
fine eyes are so full Of tenderness as
they gaze down into yours.
Will he kiss your hand when it is
wrinkled and old !? Will he call you
pretty names when the baby is crying
in the night and you cannot keep it
quiet, or, better still, will he sit up
and take a turn with it? Will his
arm be strong around you in the days
of trouble Will his eyes shine
above you full of tenderness when
yours are growing dim Z
And you, boys, what materials for
wife do you think you will get out
of the empty-headed coquetts you are
raving and tearing your hair about
Oh, yes, she is very handsome, and
she dresses with exquisite taste, the
result of devoting the whole of her
heart, mind and soul to the subject
(and never allowing her thoughts to
be distracted from it by any other
mundane or celestial object whatso-
eyer,) and she is very agreeable and
entertaining and fascinating, and she
will go on looking handsome and
dressing exquisiteIy, and being agree
able and entertaining and fascinating,
just as much after you have married
her as before, more so, if anything.
But you will not get the benefit of
it. Husbands will be charmed and
fascinated by her in plenty, but you
will not be among them. You will
run the show, you will pay all the ex-
penses, do all the work. Your per-
forming lady will be most afable and
enchanting to the crowd. They will
stare at her and admire her and talk
to her and firt with her. And you
will be able to feel that you are quite
a benefactor to your fellow-men and
women-to your fellow-men especial
ly-in providing such delightful
amusement to them free. But you
will not get any of the fun yourself.
You will not get the handsome
looks. You will get the jaded face,
and the dull, lustreless eyes, and the
untidy hair with the dye showing on
it. You will not get the exquisite
dresses. You will get dirty, shabby
frocks and slommicking dressing
gowns, such as your cook would be
ashamed to wear. You will not get
the charm and fascination. You will
get the after headaches, the complain
ings and grumblings. the silence and
sulkiness. the WEAKNESS and lassitude
and ill-temper that come as such re.
lief after working hard all day at be.
ing pleasant.-AlbanyJ Journal.