A CAUTIOUS MOTHER'S ADVICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 689, 7 May 1879, Page 2

A CAUTIOUS MOTHER'S ADVICE.

1 — — J^. ~wr , "Eliza^' said a fond mother tectotly, as that daughter was aboutj^lfoing forth m tow of a young man who worships the very side- walk she walks upon, "go to the bread-box and eat a good big crust of bread before you go out." " Why, maw, " replied the blushing girl, " I don't feel the least bit nungry. Wh ' ye only just had. tea. "~ - '' JU4hk«^ ii r i«fc- v you wilL be hungry f before .you get " back ; and when Adblphus! taKea you into a restaurant you'll eat ice-cream and' sponge-cakes and ham sandwiches' and oysters enough to «oare him out of a year's growth. You silly girls don't think of thjs (but we r e&Ddriend women do. When he asks 'yoff to go/in and havd / Bdm€< oystd^s, ' dfen f "4f jfe«>6^; hungry, ddn"t: you W iio^approve* of girls wasting the- money of their future husbands «h A 'Mft&i x when it might be applied towards furnishing a house. This always takes thetydutig men; it sets them to thinking' ofi j&ouse* keeping and matrimony ; it riJtakes -th^m beilfeve thatyou are ; the 1 incaitofttiqn ; -of > edonomy, and would make Atf ekcelloat wife; and so they often n&y things wHich give you a'nold'over/tkeinyioi!': are effective before a jury. " Eliza treasured up these' s«gaci6irt » o6unßela, and acted upon them with such earnestness'and effect that wheuishq oatn^hprnc she was an engaged woman ! - ■ • -