Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-11

vi tttlISt b'i u Ia iI' i''''AAi'i' y ~ w
think of being engaged even. and that's
why I'm little afraid that you may
be planning to get married. But Il
twelve dollar clerk who owes So for
roses needs Il kcCacr more than wife,
I want to say riG,tt here that there al
ways comes II tilnr to the fellow who
blows So Mt lick on roses when he
thinks how many staple groceries he
could have bought with the money.
After all there's no fool like young
fool because in the nature of things
he's got lon.; time to live.
| suppose I'm tanning the air when |
ask you to be guided by my judgment
in this matter. because Will" II young
fellow will consult his father about
buying IL horse he's cocNSurc of HIM
self when it comes to picking wife.
Marria grS MAY he made III heaven, but
most engagements are made i'll the
back parlor. with Tie gas so low that
fellow doesn't really get a square look
Mt what he's talking. While Il man
doesn't see much Of Il girls family
when he's courtin= hes apt to see
good deal of it when hes houSekecp-
ing, and while lie doesn't marry his
wifc's father there's no;ll:" in the
marriage vow to prevent tie Old man
from borrowin" money from him. ana
YOU can bet if hes old lob DaShkam
he'll do Ii. \ man can't pick his own
mother bit he can pick his sons moth
or. and whcn h" chooses Il fathcr-ln-
law who plays the hucilctSii0pS he
needn't be surprised if his own son
plays the races.
Never marry Il poor girl who's h"cn
raised lk" Il rich one. Shes simply
traded the virtues Of the poor for the
vices of the rich without going long
on their good points. TO marry for
money or to marry without money is a
crime There's no real objection to
marrying Il woman with fortune" but
there is to marrying fortune with
woman.
While you ar" ut it, there's nothing
like picking out II good looking wife,
because even the handSomeSt woman
looks homcly sometimes, and so you
get little variety. But homely one
can only look worse than usual. Beau
ty is only skin deep, but that's deep
enough 10 satisfy ANY reasonable man.
q want to say right hero that to get
any sense out OF Il prOvrrb | usually
find that | have to turn II wrong side
out.D Then. too. if il fellows bound
to marry Il focl, and lot of men have
TO if they're going to hitch up into
we'll matched team. there's nothing
Ike picking II good looking one
believe in short engagements and
long marriages. don't see any sense
In Il fellows sitting around on the
mournors bench with the sinners
after he's really got religion. The
time to size up the other sides
strength is before the engagement.
Some fellows propose to girl be-
fore they know whether her front and
her back hair match and then holler
that they're stuck when they find that
she's got cork leg and a glass eye
as we'll
They start out on the principle that
married people have only one meal
day and that of fried oysters and tutti
frutt ice cream after the thcatcr. Nat
urally girls got her better nature
and her best complexion along under
those circumstances. But the really
valuable thing to know is how she ap-
prOacheS ham and eggs at I o'clock
q. III. and whether she brings her COM
pleXion with her to the breakfast ta-
BILE. And these fellows make IL girl be-
leve that they're going to spend all
the time between s and IL o'clock
p. M. for the rest of their lives holding
40 pounds. live weight, in their lap
and saying that 1t feels like n feather
The thing to find out Is whether, when
one of them gets up to holding ten
pound baby in his arms for five min
utes, he's going to carry on as If it
weighed Il ton.