ADVICE TO MARRIAGEABLE LADIES.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1875, Page 7

ADVICE TO MARRIAGEABLE LADIES.

Don't many a rich man.. If he has made his own money, then he is stingy ; if he hasn't made it, then he is a spendthrift.- In either^ case he is sure to be intolerably conceited aad thoroughly spoiled.^ Don't marry a rich man unless you have got as much money as he has ; for the first time he quarrels with you. he v/ill throw his magnanimity in marrying you in your teeth, and never let it out of your sight again. Don't marry a popular man The' man - who knows everybody and is known by everybody, who calls all the your.gf ladies* " my dear child'," and all the young men ".my boys," and everyone in general " his dearest friend." The mail who" squeezes your hand tremendously the" first time he meets you, and tellsyou he feels an affinity for you. The man who adapts himself in all things to all men, interests himself in your smallest affairs, and draws out your confidence.... like a poultice. The man who geCs invitations to balls, and introductions to "swells" for every one. The man who arranges pie-nics. The man who. tells . comic anecdotes, sings comic songs, and gets up charades, round games, and impromtu dances; WhC * s tue c, -" i!r, ' e °f attraction where, ever hC g otH > !in d whom everybody culls a v .delightful person/ and an "invaluable a ;'qmsit ; on " Don't be tempted to try ana' hind tnJlt acquisition to your private char/ 06 wue «'s Depend upon it, after he has married you, lie will be everybody's slave, treasure, and joy-— except yours. Don't -.marry an economical man. The man VvJ U) turns up his trousers at the ankles when there is a spot of mud on the pavement, .and who will run a mile after an omnibus, if he is caught in a shower, rather than take a vehicle, or, if he does take one, haggles with' the driver about the fare, and presents him with one sou pour hoire. The man who wears goloshes; and gets his overcoats turned instead of giving- them to his valet. The man who spends an hour snipping the margin of his letters in order to avoid putting on an extra stamp, and who will spend another hour bidding a letter he has sealed and wants to re-open over the steam of a tea-kettle- rather than spoil the envelope hy splitting it,. If such a man, after infinite, deliberation and calculation of consequences arid additional expenses, makes up his mind to invite yoi to come and help him to pare his cheese and "breadcrumb" his dirty-white kids, refuse him, though you were on the wrong side of thirty, and never had an offer before. He would le quite capable of buying your drawing-room furniture second hand, and of putting a silver-gilt wpdding ring on your taper finger. If, however, you want to be good na Hired with him-, refuse him by letter, and under-.sta-mp- it. The aggravate. n he will, feel at having to pay over weight will' quite counterbalance nnd neutralise tlie pain your refusal might, otherwise have occasioned him. — Miss Parnell in the * American Register.' gmrlr iiinniiii ■■! iiwmwm n iih.ujjuj.jj