BILL ARP ON GIRLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 5

BILL ARP ON GIRLS.

A nice, pretty, sweet girl can tell a man a long way off sometimes and make him sacrifice a power of time, and comfort, and money, and horseflesh, and when she does it all a purpose and then throws him off, I eball always think she hadn't orter. I never was in favour of a young girl turning up her nose at a clever fellow who was raistd in her neighbourhood and running off after an airy chap from away yonder ; but when he does come I think she ought to let him go back quick and cheap, or take him. I've always noticed that when young men go slipping away to parts unknown for a wife it's because tho&e girls he was raised -with know him too well and don't want him. I didn't go half a mile for my pard and that showed my good sense, and she didn't go further than I did, and that showed hern, and if I was a sensible young girl and was waiting for a husband, I would set my cap for somebody 1 had known a long time ; but if I was a young fool I wouldn't. The happiest maniages I know of are those where the folks know'd all about one another for a good while, and nary a one was fooled. Romance in love affairs is mighty pretty, and a solitary horseman getting thrown from the horse is just splendid, but all this plays out in a few months, and then comes the facts— the hard-pan. The earth is earthy, and the heavenly vanishes, and the baby has to be nursed of nights, and the sugar gets low, and the diamond wedding ring wont bring colour to the poor wife's cheeks, and she is away off from her mother and wants sympathy and love and kind attention ; and a good deal of it. As Mr. Longfellow said, — Life is real, life is earnest, And the baby wants a nurse.