The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-05
go SOUTH FOR YOUR WIFE.
Advice to Young Men Contemplating
Marriages.

Advice to Young Men Contemplating
Marriage
NEW YORK, April 28.-Bright and
piquant Marie Janson said to me the
other dsy: $50 many good things begin
with G-girls aud gum and gracep
She said, "There's goodness" And I re-
sponded, "There's gloves and gravy"
After this brilliant combination my brain
succumbed. But I went away thinking
about girls-I 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 indigestion. But
the girls, the really rightly, truly girls are
blissful. You see plenty of girls here in
New York, but they sre not the kind I
mean. They are too awfully and in
tensely knowing, and it Is delight to
come across the real sort of girls once in
awhile.
saw oae the other day and watched
her for an hour. She WAS looking at
Play that had heartrending love story
in it, and just enough of laugh here
and there to make life worth living.
When the sweetheart was telling his love
her beautiful eyes looked full and soft,
and there vas little quiver about her
mouth that seemed to say, "Isn'tthat the
most exquisite thing in the world-that
story of love7" And then when the
cumic man came on and laughed with his
partner, she laughed too. 1t was little
laugh that sparkled from her eyes, that
brought out the dimples in her cheeks,
| and then there came musical sound that
was bird-like in its beauty. The girl saw
nothing but the play while it went on,
and with her face toward the stage, with
80 much expression in it, living with the
actors, suffering and being merry with
chem, she was the most charming being
in the whole theatre.
I never ceased watching her; and then
I said to somebody, "Where does that
girl come from ?"
"From Chicagop said one. "Look
what beautiful hair she has p
"From Boston p said another. "Just
look at the intelligence in her lovely
face !"
And then I said: "Look at the romance
iu her eyes; look at the grace of her body
as she gets upl You remember what I
have always told you, and what am al
ways quoting: you can't grow maguolias
in Massachusetts that girl is from the
South" There were numerous bets made
about this, and later on it was discovered
that, as usual, (how I 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 heprettiest and most graceful one
that ever adorned that dreadful looking
eepulcher.
Siuce that day I have discussed girls
until have lost all knowledge of men,
and the conclusion I have come to is this:
If my oldest son ever reaches the age.
when be should marry, which is about
thirty; for before that no man knows how
to take care of woman I shall say to
him: "My son, let us 30 down and visit
our people in the South" and then I'll
pray three times day, aud twice to in
crease my appetite for devotion, that
when the procession Of SONS and dogs
starts home, the oldest son will be engag.
ed to be married to Southern girl. And
1 will tell you why I want him to have
her: First, she has perfect belief in re-
ligion-and when one says religion, one
means in everything and everybody that
belongs to her. She has been taught to
think no evil; she believes to have
sweetheart is the most delightful thing in
the world, and it does seem such a per-
fectly lovely compliment to the favored
one to see her eyelids fall and her cheeks
cover themselves with mantle of mod
esty when he approaches. shs has been
taught that husbands and wives love each
other, and she hasn' had discussed before
her all the mean, miserable, low talk OF
the divorce court. She can't imagine
ladies being loud-yoiced, dressed loud, or
not respecting the gentlemen Of the fami'
". Sometimes she sacrifices herself on
the altar O! respect, but she dies in a good
cause. She'll tell you how nasty she
thinks all those so-called jokes about
mothers-in.law are, beca use naturally, if
she should ever get married-aud when
she says this she droops her head and
smiles in away that tells you that is one
of the certainties of life-why of course
her husbands mother would get her love
lust because she was his mother, and, of
course, if she happened to be a little
queer she would make the best of it, be.
cause when people get old, they get queer
sometimes. She is not apt to be 80 large
that she beliAles man and make it i'm
possible for him to call her "dear little
woman" She is just the right height,
because she can look up in his face, and
eyes that are large and full, and which
tell their own stories of love or bate, are
most beautiful when raised. And then,
above everything else, she adores babies.
If they don't happen to have s. baby in
their home she borrows one from
neighbor, gains permission to wash and
dress it, and devotes an entire morning
to cuddling the small blossom and enjoy.
inu In nrospectiye. the delights of mater.