Year: 1860

the nice girl; upon every condition, every
aspect, save one-that one Is the condition
Of matrimouy. When l hear that one OF
tls mice girls of my acquaintance is about
to be married-about to BE- monopolized by
some jealous beast with whiskers, and an ug-
" sister to be bridesmaid, come over faint
and sick at heart. Where nice girls dwell
It should be written as on gates of choice
gardens: DO not pick the Howers!' Oh, it
is horrid, horrid, to see that spruce gentle
man come and take her away into the cor.
ncr for the rest of the evening. may not
waits with her now; may not catch her at
blind mans buff; may not sit by her and
turn over the leaves Is she sings Aud
Robin Gray even though it were Christ
mas time; may not any more kiss her un-
der the mistletoe; may not even look At
her There Is that horrid spruce man with
whiskers glow ering upon me Is If he would
cat ma sigh, Is the remembrance comes
over me Of many nice girls who have thus
been torn, ruthlessly torn from me, by spruce
and am sure, stupid men in whiskers.-
Why, Why are there such things as spruce
men in whiskersl am sure we should
get on much better without them.


l cannot bear to think Of nice girl get.
ting married. I cannot contemplate with
patience what she is about to become She
is about to become the slave Of . man. In
less than year her figure will become eter-
nally spoiled. In less than year she will
wear sloppy dresses and wrappers of :
morning. She will leave of gsrtcrs and
her stockings will hang loose. She will lose
the bloom on her cheek and the merry twin.
klc in her eye. She viii have baby!
say cannot contemplate this spectacle with
patience. I once visited, year or two af
ter marriage, one who had been nice girl. ;
the figure which she presented shocked me.
| could have cried with vexation; and am
sure If her husband had come in should
have kicked him. I have resolved never to
60 through such an ordeal again. When a
nice girl marries now, l am done with her
forever.


You may wonder Why, since I am such
an ad,nirer Of nice girls have never made
one my own--why, in fact, l. have never
married one. have loved, admired and
adored them too much for that could no
more marry mice girl than could wilful.
ly trample down bed of flowers. / have
all my life considered it, and still consider
it crime little short of sacrilege to marry
nice girl Who but savage would de-.
face beautiful piece Of sculpture! Who
but wretch would stand with his back to
the fire and monopolize all the heat? To
the man who attempts to marry nice girl,
[ say, as Diogenes said to Alexander, Get
out Of my SUM-
Marry q nice girlr Neverl know what
it would be. No man is hero to his Gale,
dc ch .mbre, and no husband, am sure, i.
a nice fellow in his wife's eyes, after she has
mended his socks. On the other hand,
am certain there must be horrid disenchant
,nent about skirnp flannel petticoat aud ,
cotton night-cap with 'frills.' ......
No; let the nice girl alone. Let her be
the life and sunshine Of home forever. -
Let as many hearts pine away and die for
her IS will, am ready to pine away and
die with the rest. But, oh change not Miss
INTO Mrs.! Rob her not Of her girlishness
and simplicity; pollute not the gushing
fountain Of her love, which flows for an
and falls like dew upon the world. Let he,
be nice girl forever; for such as she nev.
er grow old, or lose the power to charm.-
II you must marry, marry the beauty-the
clever girl-the dashing girl-any kind OF
girl you likc-but leave me, oh leave me
the nice girl For her sake l will live q
bachelor to the end Of my days; and when
die, l desire nothing better than to have
such a one to watch over me and close my
ewes