The Irish standard., 1895-10-26
HOW TO GIT HUSBAND
Good Looks, aeod Clothes, Good man
& nsrs and Good Morals Have
Been Tried.
DEATH or HOPE BRINGING SORROW
Foolish Mothers Boggar Themselves
Trying to GET Ru 9 hands for
/. so Theirf Daughters.


on the effect of higher education on the
prospects of marriage among women.
She has discovered that less than S. per
cent OF female collegians get married; !;
whereas 80 per cent OF those not blessed
with college education find husbands.
We have no reason to doubt the correct
ness of those figures, but we must so out
of the female colleges for the explana-
tion.
Girls have been studying these thous-
sands of years how to get husbands and
they have not solved the problem vet.
Good looks, good clothes, good manners,
and good morals have been tried; but,
alas, in too many instances each and all
these have failed. The ranks Of old
maidenhood are filled who have been
beauties in their time and whose forms
in the days gone by have been decked
with the triumphs Of the loom and
adorned with jewels that princesses
might have worn. Men came, saw, and
went away unconquered. This early
death Of young girls hopes has brought
more sorrow to the female heart than all
the other evils Of life combined; and we
would like to suggest remedy. It they
would accept a word Of counsel from
pCCASiO1 We WILL SoASS SAASAAA eAAS sSOA ~ -
getting a husband.
Good looks and good clothes captivate
the eye. They are the bait; not the hook.
Good manners and spotless characters
challenge respect; but they repel, rather
than attract. They are sign to all men
to keep at respectful distance. We will
make the bold statement that neither
beauty nor fine raiment, nor politeness,
r4,1 M uot q husband
for their possessor. This will be a rev.
elation to girls who drive their father
into bankruptcy and spend their days
and nights learning how to act gracefully
and converse entertainingly. To win a
husband you must captivate his heart;
not his eye nor his reason. To captivate
his heart means to awaken his love. The
heart is a blind faculty; it. cannot see
fine clothes or jewels. It is a deaf facul-
ty; it cannot hear fine speeches or grace
full compliments. 1t feels. It must be
touched to be aroused. What touches the
heart? Love; only. love. The girl who
wins a mans heart must be loveable.
Amiability is the open sesame to mans
heart. 1t will open to nothing else Fool
ish mothers who beggar themselves in
efforts to provide husbands for their
daughters, could spare themselves much
time, money and worry, by studying the
truth. Let them teach their girls to be
amiable, and they will have suitors in
plenty, Girls who wear fine clothes are
apt to be vain Vanity is not loyeable.
Girls who are rich are apt to be naughty
Hauteur is not attractive to anybody.
Girls who have the advantages of a
higher education are apt to be conceited
Conceit never yet challenged love. Girls
can be anaiable III calico. They can be
amiable and speak a patois. They, can
be amia BILE and be very awkward in man.
ner and movement. The manners and
the garb are but society's stamp, the girl
is the gold, and she is priced as the bull
lion, though never minted in the colleges
and drawing rooms of the world. Girls
may know all they please, but they must
not be ''smart" They may be witty;
but they must not venture on sarcasm.
They may effect queenly grace, but they
must do it we'll, and not disclose the art
or the study. A man marries wife for
daily use, and a plain, honest, loving
heart, is the only steady diet love can
live on One reason great men have no
continuance is they abhor great women,
and marry amiable simpletons. II hand
some, intelligent, brainy girls want hus-
bands, they must on the peril of their fu-
ture, cultivate nlodesty. If you have
none of the gifts of nature or fortune,
don't dispair. Amiability will bring you
a husband If you have grace and charac-
ter and brains, still hope on: Modesty
will some day bring you a man blind
folded. That is one reason that convent
girls find so little difficulty in getting
husbands, and marry so young. They
are taught many things in the convent,
but before and all else they are taught
aniabilfty. Now we have told the girls
the secret and let them keep this copy Of
the paper for future reference.