Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-03-23
GO SOUTH FOR Il WIFE.
Adrice to the Young Man Who Content
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piquant Marie jansen said to me the 9TH
er day $50 many good things bcgin
with G-;here's girls aud gum and
grace" | added TO this, "And there S
GIN" She said, There's goodness. =
And / responded, "There's gloves and
gravy ; After this brilliant combination
my brain succumbed. But went away
thinking about girls-l scorn gum and
gravy; the first is the attribute Of Mary
Anderson, that beautiful statue and bad
actress the second is seldom good, and
when it is you eat so much YOU get indi-
geslion. But the girls. the really, right
ly, truly girls, are bli>siul. You see
plenty of girls here in New York, but
they are not the kind | mean. They are
too awfully and intensely knowing, and
it is delight TO come across the real
sort of girls once in awhile.
| saw one the other day and watched
her for an hour. She was looking at a
play that had heartrending love DRY
in it, aud just enough Of Il laugh here aud
there to make life worth living. When
the sweetheart was telling his love, her
beautiful eyes looked full and soft, and
there was a little quiver about her mouth
that seemed TO say, Isn't that the most
exquisite thing III the world-that story
OF love?' And then when the comic man
came on and laughed with his partner,
she laughed too. Ii was little laugh
that sparkled from her eyes. that brought
out the dimpes i'll her cheeks, and then
there came musical sound that was
birdlike in its beauty. That gill saw
nothing but the play while it went on,
and with her face toward the stage, with
so much expression in it, living with the
actors, suffering and being merry with
them, she was the most charming being
in the whole iheater.
never ceased watching her; and then
said to somebody, "Where dooes that
girl come from? ?"
From Chicagol" said one. Look
what beautiful hair she has!'
"From Boston !" said another. "Look
at the intelligence in her facet"
And then l said Look at the ro-
nance in her eyes look at the grace of
her body as she gets upl' you remem.
ber what I have always told you, and
what | am always quoting: You can't
grow magnolias in Observation-Disclosures
girl is from the South" There were nu
merous bets made about this, and later
on it was discovered that, as usual chow
| did glory in this), / was right; for the
real girl, the pretty girl, came from
Louisville; and if Henry Watterson gets
into the White House, she will be one of
the pretliest and most graceful that ever
adorned that dreadful looking sepulcher.
Since that day have discussed girls
until have lost all kno ledge of men,
and the conclusion have come 10 is this /:
If my Oldest son ever reaches the aye
when he should marry, which is about
thirty, for before that no man knows how
to take care of a woman, | shall say 10
him. "My son, let us go down and visit
our people in the South, and then III
pray three times a day, and twice 10 III
crease my appetite for devotion, that
when the procession of sons and dogs
starts home, the Oldest son will be enga-
ged to be married to Southern girl
Aud will tell you why want him to
have her: First, she has perfect belief
in religion-and when one says religion,
one means in everything and every body
that belongs to her. She has been
taught to think no evil she believes to
have a sweetheart is the most delightful
thing in the world, and it does seem such
perfectly lovely compliment to the fav-
ored one to see her eyelids fall and her
cheeks cover themselves with a mantle Of
modesty when he approaches. She has
been taught that husbands and wives love
each other, and she hasn't had discussed
before her all the miserable, mean. low
talk of the divorce court. She can't i'm
agine ladies being loud voiced, dressed
loudly, or not respecting the gentlemen
of the family. Sometimes she sacrifices
herself on the altar of respect, but she
dies in q COED cause. She tell YOU how
nasty she thinks all those so called jokes
about mother.in-law are, because natur-
ally, if she should ever get married-and
when she says this she droOps her head
and smiles in way that tells you that
that's one of he certainiies of life-why
of course her husbands mother would
get her love just because she was his
mother, and, OF course, if she happened
to be little queer she would make the
best of it, because when people get old
they do sometimes get queer. She IS not