The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-29

asked of Echo t'other day,
Whose words are few and often funny,
What to question she would say
Of courtship. love and .natrmony.
Quoth Echo, plainly, Matter O money.
Whom should marry? Should it be
4 dash!ng damse! gay and pert,
4 pattern of consistency,
Or, selfish. lnercea&ry tlirt?
Quoth Echo. SHARPLY, Nary firt.
What il a-weary OF that strife
That long has lured the gay decirer,
She promised to amend her life
And sin no moroccan believe her?
Quoth Echo, with decision, '1Ieave her"
But if some maiden with a heart
On me should venture to beStow 1t.
Pray, should | act the wiser part
To take the treasure or forego 1t:
Quoth Echo, Very promptly, "Go it.
But what, If seemingly afraid
To bind her fate in Hymens fetter,
Size vows she means to die maid,
In answer to my loving letter?
Quoth Echo, very coo!ly, Let her.
What if, in spite of her disd&in,
I find my heart entwlned about
With Cupid's DEAR delicious chain
So closely that cau't get out
Quoth Echo, laughingly. Get out.
But if some maid with beauty blest,
As pure and fair as Heaven can make her,
VIII share NY labor and my rest
Till envious death shall overtake her?
Quoth Echo (sotto voce), "rake her.
IF YOU are determined to part company
with single misery the first thing ahso-
lutelv necessary is to select your girl. This
is very important step. \ mistake here
might lead to lifetime Of trouble. You
have many models before You to select
from. Take your time and move slowly.
Be sure to select one with 4 head on her
shoulders and shoulders large enough for
her head Whatever yon do, doa't pick out
of these little creatures-all frlliS and
founces-who, as our grandmothers would
say, can't stand two days washing and iron
ing, for it will require sound body and
sound mind to make you q support.
Now, after you have made your choice, by
all means don't fail to agree with the girls
father in politics and her mother IL re-
ligion. You may have to compromise your
principle, especially in politics, but 1t will
come out all right in the end, for the high
est accomplishment know in modern polit-
ical science is to DC able to artfully dodge
the main issue And, if you succeed in
dodcirg the old man.-who may prove to
be. the main issue between you and his
dauchter-the battle is more than half won.
T. W, y,,nl -VyNfY
woman think that she has
CONVERTED YOU TO HER PECULIAR VIEW
of religion, it will strengthen your position,
for then she will feel kind of motherly
pride in you as her spiritual son and q
proselvte to her faith. She would even
tremble at tie very thought of not taking
YOU into the family to become afterward
YOUR devoted ther-iu-law-spiritual and
secular adviser in al! things. 1t may DE that
you need a good govern esss, and If you will
be discreet and do as tell you, there is no
doubt but that YOU are in = fair way TO get
one.
II yor should happen to have rival
and YOU vii be very apt to have COM
petitor-keep an eye OF him he Will bear
watching. AS you watch him remember
that competition is the lille Of trade" ;"
Make him show his hand politically and
religiously. If he uses tobacco, saws
sourds when he sleeps, and thus causes his
neichbors to throw their boot-jacks at sup
posed cats on the yard fence, be sure TO
bring ont these facts At the most propltious
time. Il he is cursed with an urgovern-
able temper gny him n the presence OF the
family till he shows his hand. II be Is in
cincd to be tcoaomical-it he saves his
money by ali means keep that fact from
the old people bring it out in all its force
to the utmost satisfaction Of the young
lady, and the prize is yours.
But If your rival should happen to be a
wilower keep both eyes on him. He has
bad much mere experience in such matters
than YOU have Keep both eyes on him,
say. \ word to the wise is sufficient.
Whatever YOU do don't swear to the girl
that Won haYe no bad habits i IS safest to
stick to the truth. It viii! lie enough tor you
70 say that you never heard yo'rSe!t snore
in Your sleep; this is rs .;lr as YOU caa safely
AMI consistently 60 Now come to :; very
important charge. Lett sink deep into your
memory. Hear it. Don't put mnch sweet
staff on paper. If you do you will hear 1t
e.a aplati2 tones. when your good, patleut
wife has some especial pulPos: n iat!:ct-
I ing upon your rebellouS, lncorr!glb!e
Dature one OF the Severest pumiShments
known to the chcckcred career Of a mar
ried mana cnr;a:n lecture. Mark it :!
Don't put toe much sweet stuff or paper !:
if you do you will repent It. Let all the
sEtct things you have to say be born to
waste their sweetness in the mellow moon
Shine, and nil OF your a!tei-Ete WI lie the
sweeter because OF this p:ccaution. When
Won make a visit so home at Il reasonable
hour Don't wait fora hint Il you stay
till the girl has to throw her whole soul IN
to Il vawn that she can't cover with both
hands or till the old man turns over and
groans in his sleep, yon will be all the
more uuwe!can1e the next time. y very
| little indiscretioD Just here has often re-
suited in coolness at the Very beginning,
which has proved fatal 10 all hope. II. cu
the occasion of Your first call. the sirl upon
whom You have placed Your young affec-
tons looks like an iceberg and acts like Il
| cold wave take Your leave early and stay
away. Cultivate patience. Woman in her
hours OF freeze is uncertain. coy and hard
to please.
In cold weather fir .sh saying good night
! ia the house. DoIt stretch II all the way
F.; to The front door, and then stand there like
a hrngry dog wa ting for a bone, and thus
lay the foundation for future asthma. bron-
chitas, neuralgia and chronic catarrh to
help you worry the gir! to death after she
has married or thrown herself away on
you-as the case may be. Some Of you
may have heard of the wise and timely