Year: 1871

young women who want husbands


Those who have made up their mint
to remain single, who wouldn't mar
~ the best men that ever lived can
there!-pass over this little article
as it is of no interest for them.
| About week ago a young woman
of twenty came to me about he


health, and after the professional
conversation was Over,we fell into :
pleasant chat.


She was delightfully."- frank, ant
said while we were discussing matri
mony:


II wish | was little


That is too bad; had been ad
miring your queenly proportions
ever since You came in,and'now yor
spoil it all by showing that you are
not grateful for such noble gifts"


Il can't help it; wish l didn't
weigh more than eighty pounds, land
wasn't more than four and a half feet
high"


"Well, l am shocked; do tell me
what makes you wish So


'sTo be frank with you, the reason
is just this: Men are so fond of say
ing, my little wife,"


laughed, of course, thinking it
was intended as bright speech
but her face assured me that instead,
she was speaking from the bottom
of her heart.


$50 on, j said; ''tell your
thoughts.


my thoughts are Just these, and
l believe are thoughts of all unmar-
riageble women, Ilong for nothing
as 1 do to bury all my uncertainties
and anxieties in the love of hus-
band. But / fear there is nothing
left for me but to be and old maid
all my life. So while l might other
wise be grateful for what you call
my queenly proportions, l can only
wish 1 was of the little women whom
men so fancy"


You are perpleXed and grieved
that so many of. us hold back, and
leave you to die old maids. Let me
whisper the secret: We are afraid
of you. And now / propose that
we let my friend Bob explain. He
is a splendid fellow, and dying to
have home of his own; but he
dare not venture. He declared in
my parlor, the other day, would pre-
fer ten years of happy married life
to fifty of this miserable nothing
nowhere. But said he:


II am a banker. My salary is
$4,000. 1 can't marry a scrub. 1
must marry 4 wife with manners.
My mother and sister would break
their hearts if my choice were be
low their style. Now tell me how,
with such a wife, / could get through
on $4,000 a year? why her dress
alone would cost half of it. Oh, no;
unless I first make up my mind to
rob the banks, l could not think
of matrimony. If l had $1,000 a
year would venture, but never with
$4,000.


"My lady friends think am so
much in love with the--club
that have no time for them; and
one of them said to me the other
day:


"Why, Bob, what you spend in
that miserable club would supporfa
wife easily


'It wouldn't pay for the bonnets,'
Ireplied.


Now, ladies', Bob is getting little
extravagant, and we'll let him retire
and will preach you little sermon
about an inch long.


You are perfect idiots to go on in
this way. Your bodies are the most
beautiful of Gods creation.


Now stand with me and see a lady
pass.


Look at her wasp waist,squeezing
her lungs, stomach, liver and other
vital organs into one-half their
natural size? How can any man of
sense, who knows that life is made
up of use, of service,of work-how
can he take such partner?


Your bad dress and lack of exer-
else leak to bad health, and wisely
fear that they would get an invalid
to take care of. This bad health in
lures the mind as well as body. YOu
have no power, no magnetism! You
are superficial, effected, silly; you
have no womanly strength and
warmth?


Why you become so childish and
weak minded, that you refuse to
wear decent names even, and insist
upon baby names. Instead of Helen,
Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect
Nettie, Maggie and Lizzie. When
your brothers were babies you call
ed them Bobby, ,Dickey and Johnny,
but when they grew up to manhood
no more of that silly trash, if you
please. But l know a woman of
twenty five years, and she is as big
as both my grandmothers put to
gether, who insisted upon being
called Kitty, and her real name is
Catherine, and although her brain
was big enough to conduct the af-
fairs of state, she does nothing but
giggle, cover up her face with her fan,
and exclaim once in four minute,
''you are real mean.'


How can man propose a life part
nership to such a silly goose? My
dear girls, you must, if you would
get husbands and good ones, dress
in plain, neat and becoming gar
ments,a and talk like sensible, earnest
sisters.


You say that the most sensible
men are crazy after those butterflies
of fashion. 1 beg your pardon it is
not so. Occasionally man of bril-
liant success may marry a silly, weak
woman, but to say, as l have heard
women say a hundred times, that
the most sensible men choose wo-
men without sense,is absurd. Nine
teen times in twenty sensible men
choose sensible women. l grant
you that in company they are very
likely to chat and toy with those
overdressed and forward creatures;
but they do not ask them to go to
the altar with them.


Among the young men in the
matrimonial market, only small